Commercial Soap Lacks Glycerine
With all of the work commercial soap manufacturers put into adding “things” to their product, you wouldn’t think they would spend time extracting from it… but they do. Glycerin is a naturally occurring byproduct of the saponification process (that’s the chemical reaction that we call soap making). Glycerine is a humectant—meaning it draws moisture from the air to your skin—leaving your skin soft and moisturized.
Commercial soap manufacturers typically remove the glycerin from their soap, and sell it separately, or use it in a second product—moisturizer. Yup, they take one good bar of soap, extract the moisturizer, and then sell it to us as a second product (both of which may contain harmful chemicals).
Commercial Soaps Contain More Than Just Soap
Many commercial soaps contain chemical-based colorants, dyes, fragrances, lathering agents, preservatives, and other “things” we can’t pronounce. These are some of the common ingredients can be found in commercial soap:
sodium cocoyl isethionate (synthetic detergent)
stearic acid (hardener)
sodium tallowate (sodium salt of cow fat)
water sodium isethionate (detergent/emulsifying agent)
coconut acid (the sodium salt of coconut oil)
sodium stearate (emulsifier, also used as a cheap stabilizer in plastics)
sodium dodecylbenzonesulfonate (synthetic detergent)
sodium laureth sulfate (surfactant to create lather)
fragrance/parfum (synthetic scent)
sodium chloride (table salt)
titanium dioxide (whitener)
trisodium EDTA (stabilizer, used in industrial cleaning products to decrease hard water)
trisodium etidronate (preservative, a chemical that is used in soaps to prevent soap scum)
BHT (preservative)
What Differences do Our Organic Natural Soap Make?
We only use plant based, organic oils and/or butter and together with some traditional herb to relieve itchiness which would especially sooth the skin suffering from eczema, psoriasis and atopic dermatitis. None of the chemical mentioned above would be present in our products, you are safe with us!
As we are making products specially for dry and sensitive skin, no fragrance and no colouring is used in our products too.
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