Liquid Organic Castile Soap

Product Description

A natural liquid soap base that simply requires the addition of fragrance and colour.

Product Benefits

• A true liquid soap.
• Contains no surfactants.
• Vegetable origin.
• Has a natural clear pale amber colour.
• Requires only the addition of fragrance and colour.

Why use a true liquid soap?

There are many skin cleansing preparations available and many are sold as 'Soap'. This may be misleading as true soap is the product derived from natural oil and fats. Some 'Soaps' are in fact synthetic detergents and may be derived from crude petroleum. Even detergents derived from 'natural' fatty alcohols are far from 'natural'. So called 'natural' fatty alcohols certainly use natural fatty oils or fats as starting materials but they are then heavily processed to convert them to alcohols. The alcohols are then further reacted chemically with things like ethylene oxide and sulphuric acid. The end products are far from natural and they certainly aren't soap!

Synthetic detergents have been around for about 80 years and have been used in personal care products for much less that that, about 50 years. Soaps have a slightly longer track record in personal care having been used for at least 2000 years. In this time there has been little or no evidence of adverse skin reaction to soap. Contrast this with the 50 year track record of synthetic detergents; adverse reactions such as eczema are well documented and not exactly uncommon.

So how is soap made? Fatty oils are heated with a neutralising alkali such as sodium hydroxide for solid soap or potassium hydroxide for liquid soap. A reaction takes place in which the alkali is neutralised by the oil to produce soap and glycerine is split off from the oil. In our organic liquid castille soap the glycerine is left in the soap where it is available to act as a moisturising humectant. and thats it; no further processing, no high energy chemical reactions, no toxic ethylene oxide, no corrosive sulphuric acid.