Why use handmade soap?

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The oils in each recipe are balanced to create a soap that is highly cleansing and conditioning with all natural ingredients. Each bar has luxurious, creamy lather – you have to try it to believe it!

Benefits of Essential oils and other natural additives:
      - Peppermint – Mood booster, increases concentration and helps with nausea
     - Lavender – Calms nervous system, has antibacterial properties and fights acne
     - Lemongrass – calming abilities and helps with mental fatigue
     - Tangerine – helps to reduce anxiety and stress
     - Grapefruit – reduces sugar cravings
     - Cedarwood – reduces tension
     - Vanilla – increases feelings of relaxation.
     - Litsea Cubeba - good for oily skin and acne, has antiseptic values
     - Rose – helps with poison ivy and scarring
     - Cassia – reduces the effects of colds and colic
     - Patchouli – insect repellant and improves a variety of skin issues
     - Coffee – firms the skin to mask cellulite, treats skin issues, acne, eczema and unclogs pores
     - Honey – anti-aging, antioxidant and high content of nutrients
     - Oatmeal – anti-inflammatory, exfoliation, soothes skin and helps skin to absorb moisture

Our recipes use various combinations of Natural Oils and Ingredients and are formed from a soap base that contain these butters and base oils.

     - Cocoa Butter – high in antioxidants and considered the ultimate moisturizer
     - Shea Butter – helps with blemishes, dry skin, wrinkles and can heal abrasions, skin allergies, eczema, dermatitis, insect bites and frostbite
     - Coconut Oil –improves and heals many skin diseases and fights virus and bacteria.
     - Palm Oil – benefits include its ability to helps to prevent premature aging and reduce fine lines and wrinkles - high in Vitamin E
     - Soybean Oil – nourishing base that is known for protecting cell membranes
     - Olive Oil – highly moisturizing oil that is very gentle to the skin.
     - Sunflower Oil – highly moisturizing and provide rich and creamy lather. It is very high in Vitamin E.
     - Castor Oil – creates a rich and creamy lather that is a humectant (pulls moisture to the skin).
     - Babassu Oil - Creates a fluffy lather that is highly cleansing.