Vegetable Oils
Almond Oil, Sweet – is used often as a massage oil. It is moisturizing, penetrating, and restructuring to skin. It is rich in protien and helps relieve itching, soreness, dryness, and infammation in skin.
Apricot Oil – High in vitamin A, C, & E. It is a very mild oil perfect for babies, those prone to acne, and wonderful for aging skin. Apricot Oil has skin softening properties and is known for its ability to penetrate the skin without leaving an oily feel. Helps reduce inflammation and irritation of eczema and dermatitis.
Avacado Oil – a deep penetrating oil, rich in vitamins A, D, E, lecithin, as well as potassium which keeps one looking young. It has a reputation for reducing age spots, and healing damage from sun and scars. It is extremely moisturizing and assist in the regeneration of skin. Helps reduce dryness and itching of psoriasis and eczema. Wonderful for hair creams as it adds shine and moisturizes hair.
Cocoa Butter – It has a natural chocolatety aroma and contains natural antioxidants. It provides a barrier that helps retain and restore moisture to skin.
Coconut Oil – It is highly moisturizing and produces a wonderful lather in soap. Great in hair cream products because it moisturized hair and scalp adding shine.
Castor Oil – It has properties similar to glycerin in drawing moisture to the skin. It makes lather in soap with think large bubbles and is used in many shampoo bars because of it’s lather. Castor oil is great in hair care products for adding shine, moisturizing, and decreasing frizz in hair.
Essential Oils – are a concentrated, hydrophobic liquids containing volatile aroma compounds from plants.They are also known as volatile or ethereal oils. The oil carries the distinctive scent of the plant. They are extracted usually by distillation. They are used in perfumes and cosmetics, for flavoring, incense , and cleaning products. They have properties that act on the cellular, physical, emotional, and intellectual level. Used in holistic medicine and aromatherapy.
Grape Seed Oil - a light weight anti-oxidant rich oil high in vitamins, especially Vitamin E, minerals, and polyunsaturated fatty acids. It easily penetrates skin and helps preserves the natural moisture in aging skin. Excellent for oily skin because it brings balance without drying skin. Works well for all skin types.
Hemp Seed Oil – High in anti-oxidants it is one of the dryest oils available, penetratig skin quickly. It is an excellent moisturizer particularly for dry, damaged skin such as in eczema, psoriasis, and mastaligia. It’s an excellent lubricant without being greasy. Contains more nutrients than almost all other oils with the riches source of amino acids containing all 8, 2 essential fatty acids (EFA’s) omega 3 & omega 6, 21 minerals, and 13 vitamins including very high levels of vitamin A & E. Rich in GLA’s & Linoleic acid which is beneficial to aging skin, acne prone skin, and sun damaged skin.
Jojoba Oil – High in Vitamin E it is not actually an oil but an array of wax esters. It acts as a moisturizer and emollient providing a barrier on skin to improve skin elasticity and suppleness. It helps inflamed skin, psoriasis, eczema, acne, and hair care. In shampoos it helps to deep clean the hair follicles.
Olive Oil - Pomace Olive Oil has been used for centuries as the oil of choice in soap making. It is rich in vitamins and high in anti-oxidants. It’s soothing, moisturizing, and great in hair care as well as cosmetics.
Palm Kernel Oil – High in Vitamin E, it makes a very hard, snow white bar of soap. It can replace coconut oil in producing a wonderful lather in soap. Palm Kernel is a better choice in products meant for use by people with nut allergies because it does not contain the proteins that cause reactions like many nut oils.
Palm Oil - High in Vitamin E, it adds hardness to soap and replaces the use of tallow in soap making. It is very moisturizing to skin and safe for use by those with nut allergies. Rich in vitamin E.
Red Palm Fruit Oil - is a combination of both Palm Oil and Palm Kernel Oil. It has higher levels of Vitamin A and E than any other oil available, explaining the bright reddish color. Palm Fruit Oil has about 15 times more carotenes than carrots and 300 times more than tomatoes. Carotenes have strong antioxidant properties – they remove damaging oxygen-free radicals, prevent certain forms of cancer and delay the aging process. Of all vegetables oils, red palm oil highest level of naturally occurring tocopherols and tocotrienols which are two forms of vitamin E.
Pumpkin Seed Oil - Pumpkin seed oil is high in vitamin E, as well as A, C, Selenium, & Zinc. It is one of the most nutritional oils available, and is an excellent source of essential fatty acids, antioxidants, vitamins, and sterols. It contains Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids. It also contains high levels of Vitamin E, as well as Vitamins A and C, Zinc, and other trace minerals and vitamins. Pumpkin Seed Oil is anti-inflammatory and can be used to help heal wounds and burn.
Shea Oil – is very lubricating and protects skin against the weather, sun, and aging. It promotes anti-inflammatory properties, assist dryness, dermatitis, dermatoses, eczema, and sun damage and burns.
Sunflower Oil – is high in Vitamin E. It is easily absorbed by skin. It provides a stable lather in soap. Wonderful oil in all skin products especially baby products. Improve epidermal barrier function having properties that protect skin from bacterial infections, especially in third world countries when used on premature infants. Sunflower Oil also has cancer fighting properties and can be used to treat psoriasis and bruises.
Vitamin E - is an anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory agent. Directly protects skin against ultraviolet radiation. It is soothing to burns, reduces inflammation, and may help scarring.
Wheat Germ Oil - naturally contain anti-oxidants including Vitamin E and beta carotene. It is good for ezcema, psoriasis, and prematurely aged skin.
Animal related Ingredients
Lanolin Oil – is obtained from the shorn wool of sheep without animal cruelty. It is less greasy than natural lanolin and reduces greasiness in formulations. It is outstanding in skin softening and moisturizing. If someone is allergic to wool they will likely not tolerate lanolin. It makes a nice hard bar of soap.
Honey – contains many minerals, vitamin B, and has anti-oxidant and anti-bacterial properties. It attracts moisture and retains moisture , is soothing to rashes, helps acne and ezcema. It temporarily tightens skin acting as a cleanser and toner.
Milk - contains vitamin A and D. It is soothing and nourishing to skin. It moisturizes and calms red irritated skin. It is soothing to dry, itchy skin and can take the itch out of burns and rashes.
Other Ingredients
Lye (Sodium Hydroxide, NaOH, caustic soda, sodium hydrate, soda lye, etc.) – All soap is made with lye though the end resulting soap if properly made does not contain lye. Homemade soap made with lye is milder than commercial or even so-called glycerin soap. The reason being that homemade soap is super fatted or excess fat is used that not only consumes all of the lye but leave excess oils to moisturized and protect skin. Commercial soap and commercially made glycerin soap used in melt and pour recipes do not contain this excess fat. These soaps are a little harsh on skin not to mention all the extra chemicals that they contain. Actually commercial soaps are detergents and not even called soap. You won’t see soap on the label.
Water - We use purified spring water in our soaps.
Tea Tree Oil - It is anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, anti-viral, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and an immuno-stimulant. It cleans wounds without damage to tissue and repairs skin byencouraging formation of new scar tissue. It has a low potential of skin irritation. It reduces redness, swelling, itching, and pain of insect bites and rashes. It can be helpful to dandruff if added to shampoo.
Witch Hazel – is a soothing, mildly astringent lotion. It is non-drying and hypo-allergenic. It helps insect bites, acne, cuts, and abrasions.
Herbs & Extracts -We use many herbs and extracts to increase the nutritive or healing value of the soap for various skin conditions. Our herbs and extracts are all cosmetic grade from reliable companies. Many herbs that we use are infused into the oils used to made the soap.
Calendula Flower Heads – helps heal skin wounds and prevent infection. Helps acne, sunburns, and chapped skin. May cause a reaction in someone allergic to pollen.
Chamomile Flower Heads – add a slightly astringent quality to soap and is anti-inflammatory, helps infections, rashes, and burns. May cause a reaction in someone allergic to pollen.
Comfrey leaves – should no be used for open wounds for safety purposes but is very effective in relieving pain and swelling of joints, back muscles, ankle sprains, shoulder tendonitis, and knee injuries.
Lavender Buds – Adds a nice scent to soap and has many healing properties. It soothes skin, heals insect bites, wards off insects, and treats burns and inflammatory conditions.
Honey Suckle Flower Extract – Has anti-bacterial and anti-viral qualities. It helps clear acne, boils, and skin erruptions.
Stinging Nettle – High in vitamins and minerals, used to treat irritated skin conditions and as an anti-dandruff treatment.
Kelp – High in vitamins and minerals and gives soap skin and hair softening qualities.
Olive Leaf Powder – has anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal properties. It is high in anti-oxidants.
Olive Leaf Extract – kills viruses, bacteria, fungus’, parasites. High in anti-oxidants.
Grape Seed Extract – is rich in anti-oxidants and helps portect cells from free radical damage. It is 20 time more potent than vitamin C and 50 times stronger than vitamin E. It has anti-bacterial, anti-viral, and anti-inflammatory properties.
Oatmeal – is soothing and relieves itching of irritated skin, mildly exfoliating and smoothing to rough skin.
Fruits & Vegetables – We do not use artificial or natural colors in our soaps. We only use fruits and vegetables that can add nutritive or textural value to our soap and not for color only.
Carrot – a vegetable high in vitamin A and other vitamins and produces a dark yellow or orange soap.
Blueberries – a fruit high in anti-oxidants and produces a burgundy colored soap. Blueberry seeds act as a mild exfoliant.
