WHY USE NATURAL SOAPS?

I want to tell you a little about handmade soap, and the Cold process method ...

First let's talk about the common soaps:

The commercial soaps you find in supermarkets are made for three aspects:
> Cheap cost;
> Preservation of the product on retail shelves;
> Offer the consumer a longer lasting product;

So commercial soap is full of chemicals and preservatives, and they shouldn't even be called soap or soaps anymore, because in fact they are synthetic detergents.
The vast majority of commercial soaps use animal fat (beef tallow or swine) as fat. See in the composition of your soap if it says "Tallow" or "Adeps Bovis"; that means they were made with tallow.

Saponification:

All soap is produced through a chemical reaction between a fat and an alkali (alkaline material), a process called SAPONIFICATION.

The alkali used in ALL solid soaps is sodium hydroxide, better known as "caustic soda". (In liquid soaps, it's potassium hydroxide - "potash"). It is mixed with distilled water to form the bleach, which will be responsible for the saponification of vegetable oils.
The use of sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) or potassium hydroxide (potash) or any other alkaline base is indispensable for the production of any soap. Therefore, ALL bar soaps / soaps, without exception, are produced with sodium hydroxide. However, after the saponification process, it will no longer be present as it will be neutralized.

The result of this Saponification process is: SOAP + GLYCERIN.
In industrialized soaps, glycerin formed is removed from soap to be marketed in other industry sectors (further proof that for industries, profit is more important than quality), i.e most commercial soaps ( except glycerin) are lacking in glycerin, which is precisely one of the main humectants to prevent skin dryness.
This is the main difference between commercial soaps and handcrafted soaps. For in addition to containing the fatty acids of vegetable oils, natural handmade soaps have their glycerin intact, glycerine, which was produced from the saponification process itself, thus generating a 100% pure vegetable glycerin.

Don't worry about caustic soda!

In an "analogy," hydrogen is a highly flammable fuel, but when coupled with oxygen, it forms water; And you don't even get burns or explode when you drink water ... so you can't evaluate a component in isolation, but in the whole chemical process it is involved with.

So you don't have to worry about the "soda" that was used to saponify fats, but about other chemicals like BHT, BHA, PEG's, EDTA, contained in industrial soaps, as these will be harmful to your health. "

The Cold Process:

Cold process, as its name implies, is a cold process, so you don't have to prepare it on fire; 
Cold Process soaps have abundant foam, deeply cleanses and moisturizes the skin, keeping it soft and healthy.

The quality of the soap produced by Cold process depends on the total saponification, and also on the care to obtain an alkali-free product. Therefore, a soap is considered neutral, not because it has a neutral pH, but because of the absence of alkalis or free acids from the saponification reaction; This is the reason why soaps undergo a cure time of 20 to 30 days during this process. For if the neutralization process is incomplete, they can irritate the skin.

With the Cold process, we can also produce soaps with therapeutic properties through the use of natural medicinal raw materials such as vegetable oils, essential oils, extracts, clays, and a multitude of healthy and beneficial skin additives.  

As for the natural aroma, imagine taking a bath with a patchouli soap with lavender? Or with an orange and cinnamon?

There are endless GOOD health possibilities !!

And all 100% natural, free from the chemistry of industrialized soaps ... because you already know that most supermarket soaps are made from animal tallow, as well as harmful chemical components.

But Attention! 

All cold process soaps are handmade, but not all handmade soaps are natural , as there are handmade soaps that contain synthetic components, and harmful preservatives like BHT, and even sulfates.
So, is the tip, for those who enjoy handmade soap ... how about a natural, healthy, and beautiful soap?  

Your family thanks you!