Why handmade soap

Some items in your cart cannot be shipped outside the US. Taxes and Shipping calculated at checkout. How we treat our skin can have a major impact on our overall health.

Mountains of research show t hat toxic chemicals can be drawn through the skin and transferred into the bloodstream, causing concerning long-term damage. A big reason why we chose cold-processed, natural soap was to provide our customers with safer, more nourishing cleansing and body care options.

Each bar is artisan handmade and takes weeks to cure which maintains the integrity of the nutrients, essential oils and vitamins in our soap. She joined the team in , spurring Edens Garden into a leading source for aromatherapy education.

An industry expert, Bella has spent years training and learning in the aromatherapy field, which she continues annually.

Her passion is taking evidence-based aromatherapy and making it approachable for all. February 25, at am. These tips are full of insights and somehow these will gonna improve my body care routine. Firstly, every formula in the Kalabash Bodycare range has been safety assessed and certified by a Cosmetic Scientist to ensure compliance with stringent legislative regulations here in the UK and Europe. Remember I said soap making takes patience? Saponification continues after the soap is poured, set and cut.

Before the soap can be used the alkalinity from saponification needs to neutralise. During the curing process handmade soap continues saponify until all traces of lye and moisture evaporate. The bars from each batch are turned every few days so that they dry evenly and harden. Finally, the soap is PH tested, wrapped, packaged and stored ready for despatch. Natural ingredients are rarely used in commercially manufactured soap. The advantages of using natural and handmade soap bars is that they do not contain poor quality ingredients preservatives or additives.

No never. I do not use tallow or other animal products in our soaps not even honey or beeswax. The common animal products used in soap making are tallow, lanolin and goats milk. NB: Tallow can be found in many commercial soaps on the market and is usually listed as sodium tallowate. Yes you can. I do not use dyes in the making of our soaps.

We use clays, flowers such as lavender, roses and marigold petals, herbs including alkanet, and spices including turmeric and cinnamon for their individual therapeutic qualities and to provide texture and subtle colour. It pays homage to Caribbean Bay Rum, a warm, spicy, masculine fragrance. The Kalabash base formula is enriched with organic avocado oil which enhances the lather, and mineral-rich French Green Clay which adds both colour and slip for a perfect shave.

Generally speaking handmade soap has a very long shelf life years. Only natural botanical essential oils can cause various neurochemicals to be released in the brain which can affect the body, mind, and spirit. Synthetic fragrance oils may duplicate the smell of a flower or herb, but they have no aromatherapeutic value. How we treat our skin can have a major impact on our overall health as well as the look and feel of our skin.

I cannot count how many times customers have told us that our natural soap has not only helped improve their skin but has improved their lives by relieving itchiness, dryness, and easing skin conditions such as eczema, psoriasis, and acne. Some people with sensitive skin really do not have sensitive skin at all. Their skin is simply reacting to some chemical irritant in their soap or other skincare product. Simple natural soaps tend to be more soothing for many skin types.

Everyone wants healthy skin and your skin is not a fan of synthetic chemicals. If you struggle to find a soap that does not irritate your skin, switching to the daily use of a simple natural soap is an easy place to start. Your skin can tell the difference.

People absolutely love bubbly lather. Although we have come to associate the cleansing properties of our soap with the amount of lather it produces, this is a misconception.

Soap does not need to create a lot of lather to do its job. Since commercial brands make money by catering to customer demands, lots of foamy lather is an important property of any commercial cleansing personal care product. The foam, bubbles, and lather we know and love from commercial liquid and bar soaps are produced by surfactants--synthetic foam boosters, lathering agents, and detergents. These chemicals are often petroleum by-products like Sodium Lauryl Sulfate SLS and its cousins, are very inexpensive to add to body cleansing products, and are also quite drying for the skin.

A properly formulated and cured bar of natural soap needs no synthetic additives to create a lather or to clean because natural soap is a natural surfactant. So it not only makes great bubbles and lather, but it also helps clean oily dirt from your skin--naturally! The creamy silky lather from a natural soap is much richer than commercial soap.

Some consumers are put off by the cost of handmade soap. You probably look at a bar of natural soap and wonder why it costs more. I mean, soap is soap, right? Both bars clean your skin, right? While I may agree that both bars clean the skin, the similarity goes no further. Simply put, commercial soaps contain synthetic ingredients that are very cheap to produce in a lab.

Commercial soap companies do not want extra oils or glycerin in their soaps because they decrease shelf-life. Without these extra oils to moisturize your skin, you must reach for that bottle of lotion! So, although a bar of commercial soap may cost less, what happens to the cost once you add in the price of all of that cream and lotion which is also filled with chemicals that you need to slather all over your dry, itchy skin? Also, many of the synthetic ingredients needed to create lather, colors, scent, and years of shelf-life are known to be skin irritants.

If your soap is causing irritated skin conditions, the simple change to a natural soap may decrease a trip to the dermatologist or the prescription cream to help clear the irritation. If you use a liquid body wash the main ingredient is water.

You pay for water. A properly cured soap bar has very little water remaining, meaning you are getting exactly what you pay for. Natural handmade soaps may come with a higher price tag, but they provide a host of benefits when it comes to your skin. Natural soaps are made with higher quality ingredients:. Have a look at the labels on your favorite bar soaps in order to learn what you are actually paying for as well as what you are putting on your skin. I believe that old saying, "You get what you pay for," rings true when comparing a handmade bar of a natural soap to a commercial brand!

We want to be better. I find it odd that a product we use to keep our bodies clean is doing quite the opposite for our environment. As we take a bath or shower with commercial "soap" bars or washes, we coat our skin with synthetic compounds like fragrances, dyes, preservatives, and detergents.

All of these chemicals, many of which do not naturally break down, have to go somewhere. They wash down our drains into our septic fields or water treatment facilities. Studies have found that these chemicals often end up in our water systems and accumulate in our ecosystems. These chemicals affect wildlife--from fish to birds and natural foliage to flowers. Our soaps are made with organic ingredients. Organic ingredients mean organic farming and organic farming is better for the environment.

It improves the quality of our environment by protecting our land and groundwater from contamination and by promoting the use of sustainable resources and the conservation of soil and water. When it comes to the environment, there are other benefits when choosing a natural bar of soap. Natural soap companies like ours tend to use eco-friendly materials for packaging and shipping. Also, if you use a liquid body wash, how many plastic bottles and pumps do you dispose of in a single year?

Furthermore, because liquid body wash is mostly water, it is heavier to transport and therefore creates a larger carbon footprint. I make handmade natural soap. I did not invent anything new. But what I know is that our natural soap is made in small batches by people who have a passion as well as a mission for making natural products.