All Natural, Palm-Free, Cold Process Soap
Hi there! Thanks for stopping by.
I make handmade all natural, palm oil free, cold process soap in small batches in my studio in Longmont, Colorado. All of my soaps are made completely from scratch using mainly olive oil and coconut oil. Since all my soaps are palm-oil free, I almost always include either cocoa butter or shea butter (or both) to harden my bars and add a lovely creaminess to the lather. My soaps don't always use the same ingredients, so you will find some that are tree-nut free (no shea butter or sweet almond oil) and others that are not. Most of my soaps are vegan, but I do make goat milk soaps and sometimes include honey or beeswax in my recipes. All of them are formulated to be very moisturizing and great for either the face or body.
I made the switch to all natural soaps after working with fragrance oils and synthetic colorants for over a year (you'll see that some of the soaps in my older reviews are not all natural). After a while, it became quite obvious that even though all my fragrance oils were phthalate-free, they were affecting me quite a lot in my soap studio, mainly giving me headaches or making me run out of the room from the strong scent! I slowly started switching all my scents over to essential oils and also decided to eliminate palm oil from all my soaps due to environmental concerns.
Every soap offered in my Etsy shop is 100% natural, meaning they are either unscented or scented with pure, high quality, essential oils and are either uncolored or colored with natural clay or plant-based colorants. I do not use fragrance oils, artificial colorants, micas, titanium dioxide, or any other synthetic ingredient. I have slowly removed all of these products from my soaps and have found that the simpler soaps are always my favorites.
My soaps are made from scratch with sodium hydroxide (lye), but contrary to what some people think, all soap is made with lye. You can't make soap without it! However, once the lye reacts completely with the oils, what you have is soap and naturally occurring glycerin. None of my soaps have any lye remaining in the final products.
Thanks and send me a convo or e-mail if you have any questions!
Simi
