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Benefits of Handmade Lye Soap
What Is Soap?
Created by a chemical reaction
between oils, water and lye soap is the oldest cleanser around.
Although lye is used to make soap there is no lye left after
saponification process is complete. All soaps are created with lye.
Mel's Smells uses only VEGETABLE oils-no animal fats!
Better
than Grandma's!
Sure you've heard of lye soap
that grandma used to make, but in golden times it was hard to
determine how much lye to use according to their recipes Most of
grandma's soap recipes made created a product that was very harsh.
We've come a long way BABY. The nice thing about technology is that we
can better determine the qualities of our recipes by computer
programs, leaving us with a skin beneficial non-harsh bar of soap.
Store
Brand Soap
Most soaps available in the store
today are not really soaps at all, but detergents. Detergents are a
petroleum based product, like gasoline and kerosene. Detergents tend
to leave your skin feeling dry, itchy and tight. Certain ingredients
in mass-marketed soap have been proven harmful to human health and can
cause severe skin irritations in some people. The most common
ingredient in store bought bar soaps is sodium tallowate. It is the
combination tallow, or beef fat, with lye.
Benefits
of Handmade Soap
Those who suffer from skin
conditions, as well as people that have sensitive skin or are
hypoallergenic mostly find immediate relief by switching to a handmade
soap. Compared to a store brand bar of soap, handmade soap is very
mild. Mel's Smells soaps are made from vegetable-based oils, such as
olive, coconut, palm and soy and do not contain the potentially
harmful chemicals found in store bought soap.
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