What is natural soap?

Handmade soap uses a completely different method to the mass-produced soap.
Founded on the centuries old craft improved with recent research, our soap is made by cold-processing natural oils with sodium hydroxide and botanical combinations.
Before packing, the soap is stored for 6 to 8 weeks to allow the saponification process to complete in a natural way, removing excess water and achieving a long lasting, glycerine-rich bar of soap.
In our cold-processed soaps, essential oils, herbs and herbal teas, spices, grains, honey, beeswax, milks and butters are used for their skin beneficial properties and as scenting, scrubbing and texturising agents. Together with excess fatty acids, which ensure a mild and conditioning cleansing action, our soaps retain all the vegetable glycerine that forms as a by-product of the natural saponification reaction.
Since no preservatives are used, we recommend that our natural handmade soaps are protected from direct sunlight and, when not in use, kept in a dry cool place.

How is soap made?

Both industrial soap manufacturers and handmade soapmakers employ fatty acids and an alkali to produce the final water-dispersible salt, commonly known as "soap".
Similarities end here!
In the commercial process, natural fats and oils are split into "pure" fatty acids and glycerine, by means of hot water and pressure in the presence of a catalyst, zinc soap. Glycerine is withdrawn, purified and concentrated as the fatty acid is being produced, and subsequently packaged for separate sale. Finishing steps of the industrial soap manufacturing process involve treating with synthetic perfumes and colours; susding, sequestering or chelating agents, or superfatting agents. After vacuum drying, cooling and solidifying, the soap mass is milled or crushed in stages and, with the addition of synthetic lubricants, extruded into bars and pressed into its final shape.

  Britannica Online used to have a couple of very interesting articles about how commercial soap is made. I am sorry to say they are no longer available - be it because of the current "you get what you pay for" Internet trend, or because some big guns decided we better *not* know too much... the end result is, no public info is available, and consumers lose!

Our soaps are cold processed to maximize the benefits of the natural "live" qualities of essential oils, herbs, base oils, botanical and natural enrichers. They are hand mixed in small batches, hand poured, hand cut and hand packaged. Every batch is individually tested for quality and results.
All the ingredients of our natural handcrafted pure soaps are carefully selected to give you highly moisturizing qualities and maximize the benefits to your skin.
No synthetic agents or heavy metals are used to artificially change the appearance of the soap or its lathering, cleansing and moisturizing qualities.

  An interesting article about the importance of choosing the right skin care products, as emerged during the American Academy of Dermatology's summer scientific meeting in Anaheim, comes from PRNewswire and has been recently published on Excite News.

 Next time you buy a cake of soap or any other beauty products, read the list of ingredients, which is compulsory in Australia and in Europe. Natural soap is made of common oils and sodium hydroxide. If the label lists any words you cannot pronounce, or you wouldn't expect to find in your kitchen pantry, we suggest you compare these words with our list of common additives in commercial body care products.

Our soaps contain none of those synthetic agents, and we think this is why they are so good for your skin.