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Activated Charcoal
Activated Charcoal is a detoxifier that helps to cleanse away dirt, dust and toxins on the skin.
Apricot Oil
Apricot oil is said to help to improve skin tone, maintain softness and radiance of the skin. It also nourishes the skin and lowers the appearance of face wrinkles, fine lines, and blemishes. It's said that apricot oil can be applied for healing delicate under eye skin. It's said to aid in reducing dark circles, puffiness and helps to strengthen the skin around this area. With regular application of the oil, you may reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles around your eyes.
Avocado Oil
Using avocado oil for soap making will increase the conditioning properties of your finished product and add creaminess to the soap's lather. Avocado oil also has wonderful skin care advantages such as a high content of vitamin A, D and E.
Babassu Oil
Babassu Oil is rich in antioxidants and fatty acids that make it great for your skin. Babassu works well as a substitute for Coconut Oil in soap making with comparable results in hardness and lather. Babassu helps produce large, fluffy, bubbles, much like coconut oil, and is an excellent option when making coconut-free soap.
Beef Tallow
Tallow adds a wonderful hardness to soap bars. This makes soap last longer, since it won’t melt away in the shower or anytime it gets wet. Tallow adds a wonderful, creamy lather to soap bars, as well as wonderful skin benefits. It is also a sustainable soap making fat compared to other oils with similar benefits, like palm oil.
Beeswax
Beeswax is a renewable source for skin care and biodegradable, too, meaning it’s not harmful to the environment. Beeswax is highly moisturizing and great for sensitive skin types. In addition, it’s got mild anti-inflammatory properties, helping reduce redness and dry spots on the skin.
Another key benefit is that it protects the skin, forming a barrier when it’s applied.
Cane Sugar
Adding sugar to a soap recipe helps to add extra bubbles and lather.
Castor Oil
Castor Oil is used to create a stable lather that is low, dense, and creamy. In addition to the wonderful lather, Castor Oil has wonderful conditioning and moisturizing properties.
Citric Acid
Citric Acid in cold processed soap is a fantastic way to help prevent soap scum.
Cocoa Butter
Cocoa Butter adds firmness to bar soap as well as moisture. Cocoa Butter contains a blend of healthy fatty acids and antioxidants. These fatty acids are touted to hydrate and nourish the skin, while improving its elasticity.
Coconut Oil
Coconut Oil in soap is a cleanser. It is an ingredient that offers the ability to cleanse the skin of bacteria and dirt on it. Coconut is one of the few oils that create large bubbles. We use a lower percentage of Coconut Oil as to not over dry or dull the skin.
Coconut Milk
Coconut Milk adds a touch of creaminess to the lather and boosts the moisturizing properties of cold process soap. The lauric acid present in coconut milk is known to have excellent antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal properties.
Coffee Grounds and Coffee
Coffee grounds provide exfoliation, while the brewed coffee gives the soap a beautiful brown color.
Distilled Water
Distilled water is water that is created through a process called distillation. Distillation involves the removal of contaminants found in freshwater sources, such as rivers, lakes, rainwater, well water, and tap water. The contaminants in these waters include inorganic materials, minerals, metals, and more. Even though tap water may be safe to drink and use for bathing purposes, it can include contaminants that are not beneficial for soap making.
Grapeseed Oil
Grapeseed Oil in soap is both cleansing and moisturizing. It is high conditioning properties and creates a creamy lather. Grapeseed Oil leaves your skin feeling silky smooth. It has a lightweight and thin texture, and it's high in linoleic acid and antioxidants.
Greek Yogurt
Yogurt makes my soap luxuriously rich, moisturizing, and contains lactic acid, a natural exfoliator.
Heavy Cream Powder
Heavy Cream Powder added to cold process soap helps to create a rich creamy extra conditioning and moisturizing bar.
Kaolin Clay(s)
Kaolin clay acts as a gentle cleanser that absorbs excess oils produced from the skin's sebaceous glands, leaving behind smoother skin. It is also used to improve the texture of our soap bars, giving it that creamy slip feeling.
Olive Oil
Olive oil is a cleanser and skin softener, high in antioxidants and polyphenols that fight oxidation. Oxidation can produce free radicals and damage the cells, which contribute to premature aging. Olive oil has been said to restore smoothness by creating a protective skin barrier.
Safflower Oil
Safflower Oil is perfect for creating soap that is cleansing, and moisturizing. As a topical moisturizer, the linoleic acid in safflower oil is thought to help maintain the integrity of the outer layer of your skin by preventing flaking.
Saponified | Saponification
Saponification is at the heart of soap-making. It is the chemical reaction in which the building blocks of fats and oils (triglycerides) react with lye to form soap. Saponification means "turning into soap" from the root word, sapo, which is Latin for soap. The products of the saponification reaction are glycerin and soap. Chemically, soap is a fatty acid salt. https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/saponification-in-soap-making-517092
Sunflower Oil
Sunflower Oil adds higher conditioning properties to soap. It also adds a contributes to creamy, silky lather to your bar. Sunflower Oil is packed with essential fatty acids and vitamin E. It's perfect for dry skin because it's lightweight and absorbs slowly.
Shea Butter
Shea Butter is a moisturizing agent rich in vitamins and fatty acids such as linoleic, oleic, stearic, and palmitic acids. This makes Shea Butter an extremely nourishing additive for the skin. It's also a humectant, preserving moisture on the skin.
Sustainable Palm Oil
Palm Oil is cleanser, naturally high in vitamin E and K. These vitamins are said to have skin benefits that minimize the appearance of stretch marks, bruises, and other skin imperfections.
Steric Acid
Stearic acid is a type of long-chain saturated fatty acid with 18-carbon chain (which is why it’s also known as Octadecanoic Acid). You’ll find this naturally occurring fatty acid in both animal fats, lard and beef tallow as well as vegetable oils and butters.
The word stearic or stearate comes from the Greek work stéar, which means tallow. Steric acid creates a more stable creamier lather in cold and hot processed soap.
Sodium Hydroxide or Potassium Hydroxide
All real soap must be made with lye. The chemical reaction of making soap, called saponification, is complete, the lye and oil molecules have combined and chemically changed into soap and glycerin. The saponification process is what turns oil into soap. There is no lye present in the finished bars of soap or body wash.
Sorbitol' (Sugar)
Sorbitol, a sugar alcohol that is commonly used in cosmetics and baking. Sorbitol increases the rate of lather formation, holds the bubbles better, and is also a humectant.
Sodium Lactate
Sodium Lactate is used in cold process soap recipes to harden the soap, making for a harder, longer lasting bar of soap. Besides adding moisture and conditioning to soap. Sodium Lactate helps to increase lather and can even add mildness to the soap. Sodium Lactate is commonly derived by the fermentation of corn or beets, this natural body product additive has a smooth, clear appearance with almost no odor.
Tussah Silk/Mulberry Silk
Tussah or Mulberry silk fibers added to cold process soap creates a luxurious silky feel to the finished bar
Vegetable Oil
Vegetable Oils are used in cold process soap to create harder, long lasting, sudsy, and conditioning bars of soap
Mica
Micas are a powder colorant which usually contain a slight to intense shimmer. Extremely fine, micas are a great choice because they are easy to mix into a variety of mediums.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine:
Cocamidopropyl Betaine is a liquid amphoteric surfactant made from coconut oil. It is a great co-surfactant that makes the overall surfactant blend milder. It helps improve flash foam and stabilize lather and helps thicken some surfactant blends as it contains some sodium chloride. “It has a negative charge in alkaline products and a positive charge in acidic products like most personal cleansers. It is substantive when positively charged (in an acidic formulation), it acts as a skin and hair conditioner, leaving behind a moisturized feeling after rinsing with no feeling of tightness.
Decyl Glucoside
Decyl Glucoside is a mild non-ionic surfactant used in cosmetic formularies, including baby shampoo and in products for individuals with sensitive skin. Many natural personal care companies use this cleanser because it is plant-derived, biodegradable, and gentle for all hair types. Decyl Glucoside is made from coconut oil and sugar.
Glycerin
In cold process soap, glycerin is a naturally occurring by-product of the saponification process. We also add vegetable glycerin to our Cleansing Body Washes as well. Glycerin is a humectant, which means it can attract moisture in the air to the skin.
Sodium Coco Sulfate:
Sodium Coco Sulfate: a solid anionic surfactant of coconut origin. It is not the same thing as Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) and is accepted as a gentler alternative.
Broad Spectrum Preservatives: Used to prevent the growth of mold, bacteria, yeast and fungi in products that contain distilled water.
Liquid Germall™ plus preservative INCI: Propylene Glycol (and) Diazolidinyl Urea (and) Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate
liquid germall™ plus preservative is a patented synergistic combination of germall™ II preservative (diazolidinyl urea) and iodopropynyl butylcarbamate (IPBC) in propylene glycol. germall™ plus is a highly effective, broad-spectrum preservative for emulsions and aqueous formulations. It can be incorporated into a variety of leave-on and rinse-off cosmetic and personal care formulations for broad preservation.
Optiphen Plus is a broad-spectrum preservative that was developed as an alternative to parabens for cosmetic formulations. It is globally accepted, making it perfect for beauty brands planning to sell internationally. Broad spectrum preservatives blend both preservatives and chelators to offer the fullest possible coverage for your product.
Optiphen Plus contains Phenoxyethanol, Sorbic Acid, and Capryl Glycol. Phenoxyethanol is an ether alcohol used to preserve personal care products, while Sorbic Acid helps to lower pH and functions as a complementary preservative. Caprylyl Glycol is an emollient base, giving the final formula an exceptional feel.
We will not compromise the quality of a product. We will not sell a product that requires a preservative for stability and integrity of the product without one of the above-mentioned preservatives.