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Showing posts with label Important Info. Show all posts
Important Info-diclaimer
My soaps and bath products are made using plant based oils and botanicals. They are also made in my home kitchen, so here is my disclaimer that they are produced in a facility that also uses nut products, wheat, dairy, eggs, and soy. However, I do use great care to not cross contaminate anything...my soap with my food and my food with my soap. One note of possible cross contamination is that I use my wheat grinder to grind my oats into flour. If you have issues with gluten, you may want to avoid my oatmeal soap and the Brown Vanilla Sugar scrub as oat flour is used as an exfoliant in each.
About the Essential oils and Fragrance Oils I use...
For most of my recipes, I use high quality, cosmetic grade essential oils and fragrances. This means they are safe to use in cosmetics or any other product to be used on the skin. This is what my supplier says about their fragrances: Many fragrance oils are blended from essential oils, but because they are not guaranteed to be 100% essential oil they are called fragrance oils. All of our fragrance oils are cosmetic grade.
For a few of my recipes, I use dōTERRA essential oils, which are certified pure, therapeutic grade oils. The majority of these oils are not only safe to use on the skin but also safe to use internally. Due to their higher therapeutic grade, they are also quite a bit more expensive. If I use dōTERRA oils in any given recipe, it will be labeled as such, and the price will be higher.
For a few of my recipes, I use dōTERRA essential oils, which are certified pure, therapeutic grade oils. The majority of these oils are not only safe to use on the skin but also safe to use internally. Due to their higher therapeutic grade, they are also quite a bit more expensive. If I use dōTERRA oils in any given recipe, it will be labeled as such, and the price will be higher.
About the Fixed or Carrier Oils I use...
Some of my soaps are made using coconut oil and others use soybean oil in addition to their other ingredients. In my extended family, there are some who are allergic to nuts including coconut, and others who have problems with soy. So, as soon as I use up my current supply of each of those oils, I will modify any recipes that used those oils to using other oils that are safe for those individuals. Rest assured, the quality of my soap and bath products will remain the same high quality we all expect.
Why should I buy handmade soaps?
My handmade soaps are pure and natural and do not contain any preservatives or man-made products.
I make my bar soaps using a cold-process method, so all of the natural glycerin (which comes from the original fats and oils... coconut, palm, olive, etc.) is still intact after the soapmaking process. The glycerin is the reason cold process soaps are so gentle and moisturizing to all skin types. It doesn't dry skin out and leaves a bit of emollient behind when you use it. It can often help clear skin conditions on people who have problems with commercial products.
Glycerin is a by-product of heat processed soap, and in commercial products, they usually draw most of it out. This is why commercial soaps are more drying to the skin than the natural handmade kind. The average bar of handmade soap is approximately 75% soap compound and 25% glycerin. Your skin won't feel tight and drawn after using handmade soap... just clean and nice.
Many "soaps" you buy over the counter are not truly soap at all, but detergent bars (synthetic detergents). Real soap will be made from fats and oils such as palm, coconut, olive, etc. and sodium hydroxide (lye). The chemical process that occurs when you mix oils with a sodium hydroxide/water solution is what ultimately makes soap. Lye + oils = soap + glycerin.
Lye is necessary to make soap because a catalyst is required to convert the oil molecules to soap molecules. This process is called saponification. During the saponification reaction, the lye (a base) is neutralized as it converts the oil molecules (fatty acids) to soap molecules and glycerin. Only lye is strong enough to cleave the oil molecules into soap molecules. Even melt and pour soap was originally made using lye, although now it is generally made with synthetic degergents plus glycerin. My soap recipes use less lye than is required to convert all of the oil molecules. This ensures that the lye is completely consumed by the oils at the end of the process, leaving a nice solid bar of soap that is gentle and cleansing.
I make my bar soaps using a cold-process method, so all of the natural glycerin (which comes from the original fats and oils... coconut, palm, olive, etc.) is still intact after the soapmaking process. The glycerin is the reason cold process soaps are so gentle and moisturizing to all skin types. It doesn't dry skin out and leaves a bit of emollient behind when you use it. It can often help clear skin conditions on people who have problems with commercial products.
Glycerin is a by-product of heat processed soap, and in commercial products, they usually draw most of it out. This is why commercial soaps are more drying to the skin than the natural handmade kind. The average bar of handmade soap is approximately 75% soap compound and 25% glycerin. Your skin won't feel tight and drawn after using handmade soap... just clean and nice.
Many "soaps" you buy over the counter are not truly soap at all, but detergent bars (synthetic detergents). Real soap will be made from fats and oils such as palm, coconut, olive, etc. and sodium hydroxide (lye). The chemical process that occurs when you mix oils with a sodium hydroxide/water solution is what ultimately makes soap. Lye + oils = soap + glycerin.
Lye is necessary to make soap because a catalyst is required to convert the oil molecules to soap molecules. This process is called saponification. During the saponification reaction, the lye (a base) is neutralized as it converts the oil molecules (fatty acids) to soap molecules and glycerin. Only lye is strong enough to cleave the oil molecules into soap molecules. Even melt and pour soap was originally made using lye, although now it is generally made with synthetic degergents plus glycerin. My soap recipes use less lye than is required to convert all of the oil molecules. This ensures that the lye is completely consumed by the oils at the end of the process, leaving a nice solid bar of soap that is gentle and cleansing.
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