Handmade Soap
Like a good stew soap is not terribly hard to make, it’s the secret touches, the little tricks and the creative ideas that make something special though. There are also many well published benefits of using natural soaps. In fact many of the soaps you find in stores are no soaps at all! Some manufacturers are using petroleum based products to produce their soaps so strictly speaking these ‘soaps’ are actually detergents..
Like a good stew soap is not terribly hard to make, it’s the secret touches, the little tricks and the creative ideas that make something special though. There are also many well published benefits of using natural soaps. In fact many of the soaps you find in stores are no soaps at all! Some manufacturers are using petroleum based products to produce their soaps so strictly speaking these ‘soaps’ are actually detergents.
Natural Soap Ingredients
Natural soaps are made from much more environmentally friendly (and skin friendly) ingredients like Coconut Oil and Olive Oil. Natural soaps usually contain additional ingredients such as moisturisers, fragrances and other oils for the health benefits each provide. Lye is used during the manufacturing of natural soaps. Lye is used in all soaps because it is necessary for the chemical reactions required to produce all soaps.
You really should be using a natural soap!
You may have used a brand of soap which has left your skin feeling terribly dry (I bet you have), this is because soaps made from petroleum based products (detergents) tend to dry your skin. Natural soaps contain glycerin and other moisturizing oils which prevent your skin from loosing moisture. Natural soaps usually contain essential aromatic oils. Aromatherapy while you wash! While research is yet to prove exactly how aromatherapy helps us it the positive health and well being benefits have been proven by a number of studies.
Is it really worth paying a premium for natural soap?
Ok so natural soap is good for our skin. But is it really that important? Absolutely, if your skin is dry, has rashes and itches your day is not going to be spent feeling or looking terribly good. If your skin is moisturized, looks great, is healthy and radiant you’re going to improve the quality of your life and avoid serious health issues later on, not the mention the aging prevention benefits of keeping your skin moisturized and healthy. Find a good naturally aromatic soap and see how relaxed and rejuvenated and you feel every day while keeping your skin healthy.