Natural seems to be a loosely defined word alot of manufactures of soaps and toiletry products tend to toss around. When people became health concious and concerned about alot of the additives and chemicals being added into their soaps and such, they stopped using products that related to the ingredients. And rightfully so. I know I don't use products that contain certian ingredients.

We live in a world where nothing is natural anymore. It is pumped full of preservatives, alternatives, synthetics, chemicals and agents to create something more cost efficient. Soap for example. I can go on about this all day long. Unless you have sensative skin that these chemicals effect alot, it may not bother you much. But when you've watched your mother suffer from miagrances because of specific perfumes and fragrances, and your family suffers from psoriasis and eczema or get a rash from something you used that you thought was mild or safe, it most likely won't bother you, or may not even think about it. But once you have used a bar of soap that has given you a rash from head to toe or a hair gel that makes your sons ears swell then you start to wonder " WHAT IS IN THIS STUFF!?"

Alot of manufactures use the term "natural" so people who are more concious of these problems and are sensitive to additives will continue to sell their products. But when you get to looking into the labels, there are still a handful of ingredients that are Chemicals and preservatives. Like SLS for example. On a natural label they may define it as being Naturally derived from coconuts. SO? It is not coconut in the soap is it? It is an extract from the coconut they remove to make the chemical. What is SLS? As I've mentione before it is a foaming agent. Coconut OIL is natural and pure from coconuts, and guess what, when sopanified in soap it is a NATURAL foaming agent. No chemical needed just the coconut oil.

Which brings along the question I've been asked... " If you make soap with lye, how is that natural?" Well, that is a wonderful question. Lye or Sodium Hydroxide was accidently discovered when water and wood ash met up. And later it was discovered when you mix the water from the wood ash with fat it makes a soap. If you use the right natural oils you will NOT need chemicals or foaming agents to get a wonderfully natural and lathering bar or soap. Pure coconut oil does this. it is a true NATURAL SURFACTANT. It is a bit more expensive to make, but your skin loves you for it.

Using Lye to make soap is a key element, you cannot make true soap without. You start using alternatives to get away from lye and you get SLS, Paraben, and other ingredients that make a detergent not soap. By the time the oils are completely sopanified, the bar of soap has NO LYE remaining. SO truthfully, there is no lye in the soap, and when it is tested on a PH strip, it comes out to a 7, which is the mildest soap you will find. There are no preservatives for a long shelf life, because making soap cold process requires no heat to sopanify the oils, therefore they do not turn rancid. We also use vitamin E in our soap, which is considered a natural preservative for just in case.

Case in point is, it is not natural if it has a bunch of junk added to it. It is natural if it is allowed to go through a natural process of making soap without anything extra to foam better, last longer, be harder etc.

Our soaps are truly natural and we share ALL of the ingredients in it. Sopanified Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Cocoa Butter, Shea Butter, Mango Butter, Sunflower Oil, Safflower Oil, Cotton Seed Oil, Pine Tar.... etc. all of which are 100% pure and natural , unrefined!