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What is the difference
between handmade soap and commercial soap?
Commercial soaps are
made with synthetic chemicals and are usually much harsher than natural soap. In fact, companies should call their soap "detergent"
because that is what you're actually buying. Next time you are at the store pick up the soap and read the back of the label.
Most of the ingredients you can’t even pronounce. If you don’t believe me you can go to the environmental working group. The website allows consumers to evaluate the ingredients in their products. Simply go to
the website search by product, brand name or even ingredients. Our handmade soaps are made with vegetable–base oils, such as olive,
coconut, castor, sunflower, and palm. None of these ingredients contain the harmful chemicals found in conventional bar
soaps. Natural soaps keep the glycerin versus the commercial soaps takes the glycerin out. Glycerin helps lock in moisture.
Is there
lye in your soap?
Some
may ask why lye is not listed as an ingredient. I simply say, that the lye is no longer in the soap. Saponification
is a process that takes place when oil, water and lye are mixed at a temperature of 110 degrees. Once these ingredients are
mixed you have created soap...whoever said oil and water don't mix?!
How should I care for
my handmade soap to make it last?
Utilize our soap savers,organic
Hemp cloth (see right) or a well-draining wooden soap tray will prolong the shelf life of your soap. Make sure you don't
leave your soap in the shower under the faucet or any place that water can leak on your natural soap. Natural soaps needs
to breath and thus leaving it near water will cause your soap to melt.
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