A Few Things About Organic Soap
Soap is one of the oldest cleansers used in today's world. Soap is made by a chemical reaction caused by a combination of oil, water, and lye. When creating soap, while lye is used, after the saponification process, all the lye is completely depleted. The oils and ingredients used in soap vary from recipe to recipe and can achieve different types of cleansing. Animal and plant oils are used for making soap, and every accomplishes a different soap feel and result. The factory made soap bought in stores today isn't what our ancestors would define as soap. Soap has natural moisturizing qualities that have been stripped from modern mill soaps. While soap is a "cleanser" mill soap is similar to a "detergent" and will dry and irritate your skin. The reason why mill soaps do this to your skin and handmade soaps don't is due to the components used in mass-produced soap. When companies make soap in bulk, they change ingredients so that they can