Six Important Reasons Why You Should Pick Handmade Soap Over Mass Produced Soap 1. Handmade soap is actually soap Handmade soap is made through a chemical reaction (saponification) between lye (sodium hydroxide) and oils/fats. There are leftover oils (also called superfat) in the soap that will nurture your skin (amount and type of oils left …

Potential Health Benefits of Using All-Natural Soap Let’s explore the world of natural soap and see if the benefits it offers are worth the added cost. Modern science has proven what was already assumed through common sense: toxins from our environment are, in large part, absorbed through our skin. As the largest organ in the …

It seems soap was “invented” about 5,000 – 4,500 years ago, somewhere in what is now modern-day Iraq. Originally it was probably stumbled upon by accident when oil from meat being cooked fell into the ash of the wood cooking the meat, creating a soapy substance. Another theory is that ashy water was used to …

When I was much younger, I was an artist. Painting, drawing, creating. Art for arts sake. It’s easy, until life gets in the way. It gets harder and harder to find the time to do all those things when you’re paying bills, changing nappies and generally trying to make ends meet. Eventually I forgot about …