SOAP vs "the others bars"

Recently commercials have been surfacing in regards to soap leaving scum behind on not just your showers but you're skin also.

We'd like to oppose the information provided.

In our opinions, we feel these companies are feeling the heat from the handmade industry. This is good for us because it actually creates more business since people want to see what all the hoopla is about and find out for themselves.

First off here are our ingredients:

Olive Oil
Coconut Oil
Palm Oil
Palm Kernel Oil
Cocoa Butter
Shea Butter
Castor Oil
Rice Bran Oil
Sunflower Oil
Avocado Oil


These are ingredients we use in each and every bar of soap we make, most soaps we make contain 7 of these ingredients with the exception of our super creamy soap which contains just Olive, Shea Butter, Palm Kernel and Castor oils.

We also from time to time add the following ingredients:

Goats Milk (local)
Coconut Milk
Oatmeal
Honey (locally harvested)

And from time we time we add other fresh ingredients such as cucumber and avocado.

We also use essential oils and fragrance oils, as well as soaps that contain neither for those with sensitive skin.

What you are feeling being left behind on your skin is not scum, but is from the saponified oils in the soap and the natural glycerin leaving a moisture barrier on your skin as well as cleansing the skin.

Handmade soaps retain the natural gylcerin that is created in the soapmaking process. Unlike other companies that make claims of adding lotions, our soaps contain natural ingredients that are natural moisturizers. Leaving your skin, clean and moisturized without the drying effect that these other bars leave behind.

They actually extract the glycerin produced.

Here is a listing of their ingredients:

sodium cocoyl isethionate,
stearic acid,
coconut acid,
sodium tallowate,
sodium isethionate,
water,
sodium stearate,
cocamidopropyl betaine,
sodium cocate or sodium palm kernelate,
fragrance,
sodium chloride,
tetrasodium EDTA,
tetrasodium etidronate,
BHT and titanium dioxide

For more information on these ingredients, you can read them here:

Other bars ingredients

Have you ever noticed how your skin feels after using one of the other bars? I myself can attest to the difference in these and handmade and I much prefer handmade. And this isn't coming because we make them. When I first stumbled upon handmade soaps I did not make them. I bought from other reputable companies for about a year and loved them. Until one day I wanted to make them myself. My hobby became my business.

Also there has been some information released over the internet in the last year or so about these other bars that manufacturer unscented or sensitive skin bars. Apparently in a written letter from one of these companies, they now use a masking fragrance in the bars. We do not use any masking ingredients in any of our unscented soaps. All of our handmade unscented soaps naturally produce a scent that is from the oils used or the milks used. We do not misrepresent anything we sell. All ingredients are always listed on our site and on our labels.


So, that's our response to the claims being made.