High Quality
Ingredients …
Our soaps are made using cold process techniques … lye + fats = soap. We use all natural food grade oils that many people cook with and consume.
Our blend of Responsibly Sourced, Non GMO oils add many fantastic properties to our soap bars.
Palm oil: High in palmitic acid, which when reacted with lye, forms sodium palmitate, which makes for a hard bar with stable lather. It also is high in oleic acid, which is conditioning.
Coconut oil: High in lauric acid (sodium laurate after the lye reaction), which gives a hard bar with cleansing, fluffy lather.
Olive oil: This is a great oil to provide more conditioning. Adding Olive Oil to our recipe helps to add hardness and lather to the soap. Plus, Olive oil moisturizes the skin without clogging pores. Olive Oil is also hypoallergenic, so you are less likely to experience an allergic reaction when using it.
What is Lye Soap?
The work “Lye” can be scary for those who are not familiar with it. Many think that Lye is dangerous ... and in raw form it is! Lye is an ingredient in pure soap. It is caustic, but when combined with the right amounts of oil and water, makes the purest form of soap.
The finished product actually does not contain lye, but the soap making process uses lye to chemically transform fats into soap. The end result is a soap that cleans naturally, needing no synthetic cleansing agents.
A Lesson in Chemistry
Soap is the result of a chemical reaction called saponification that occurs between lye and a type of molecule called a triglyceride (a fat or oil), where both substances are chemically transformed, creating soap and natural glycerin. Neither of the original ingredients exists anymore. All the lye (sodium hydroxide) for bar soap is consumed in the reaction.