Soap Ingredients List
Castor Ol: high in ricinoleic acid, castor oil helps create a rich creamy lather that is both conditioning and moisturizing. It is also a humectant, meaning that it attracts moisture to your skin.
Coconut Oil: an all-natural excellent moisturizing oil used in many skin care products. Coconut oil is high in lauric and myristic acids that help product a firm bar with large bubbly lather, and great cleansing abilities.
Fragrance Oils/ Essential Oils: all fragrance or essential oils are 100% phthalate-free and comply with both the International Fragrance Association (IFRA) and the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials (RIFM) organizations for safe usage amounts.
Hydrogenated palm and soybean oil: This is the technical name for Crisco or vegetable shortening. It is a combination of palm oil and soybean oil that is high in palmitic and stearic acids contributing to the hardness, longevity, and stability of the lather.
Mica Powder: Mica is a naturally occurring mineral found in rocks. The flakes are shiny with iridescent colors that get ground down to powder which looks a little like fine glitter and comes in a wide variety of colors. It is often mixed with titanium dioxide and/or other natural ingredients to make even more shades of color. They are used for many cosmetics, including eye shadow!
Olive Oil: an all-natural oil high in oleic and linolenic acids that help give soap its moisturizing and conditioning properties.
Potassium hydroxide (KOH): One of the two types of lye used to make soap. Potassium hydroxide is a very alkaline product used to make soap. When properly mixed with water, milk, or other liquids and added to oils, a chemical reaction takes place called " saponification" in which the combined ingredients change into soap. It is most often used in liquid soap making or in combination with sodium hydroxide in cold processing soap making.
Shea Butter: an all-natural ingredient used due to its moisturizing properties. Shea butter is high in stearic acid that helps create a gentle bar of soap with creamy lather that is generally safe for all skin types.
Sodium hydroxide (NaOH): One of the two types of lye used to make soap. Sodium hydroxide is a very alkaline product used to make soap. When properly mixed with water, milk, or other liquids and added to oils, a chemical reaction takes place called " saponification" in which the combined ingredients change into soap
Sweet Almond Oil: A lightweight natural oil high in oleic and linoleic acids that is both moisturizing to the skin as well as helps create stable silky-soft lather.
Titanium Dioxide: A bright white pigment used in many food, drug, and cosmetic applications. It's even in a lot of our toothpaste brands!
Tussah Silk: Silk fibers are dissolved in a hot lye water solution and add a silky feeling to the resulting soap lather and helps give the soap a better "slip." This makes it wonderful to use as a shaving soap as well as a body soap.