I hope that you find my soaps as enjoyable to use as I do. Once your skin feels the REAL-ness of these vegetable-oil based soaps and you inhale the life-giving aromas of the herbal essential oils, the cheap, perfumed detergent "soaps" from the grocery just don't satisfy.
Do understand that different batches of soap may vary in color due to differences in the essential oils and/or herbs used. This soap is made at home, not in a factory.
My goal was to make my soaps totally natural, using only herbal colorants. However, due to the oxidative nature of chlorophyll, I had to resort to a green oxide for a brighter green in some of the soaps. Other than a couple oxide colorants (which are benign as far as I can tell), the soaps are about as natural as one can find. Most of the soaps derive their color from the essential oils or herbal additives. All are scented with herbal essential oils, with the exception of a vanilla fragrance oil in the Vanilla Butter.
"DOES THIS SOAP CONTAIN LYE?"
Yes! Soap is the happy outcome of the reaction of an alkali (sodium hydroxide - LYE) with water and fats or oils. It is impossible to make soap without lye.
Soap made with the correct ratio of lye to fats does not retain any free lye to possibly irritate the skin. I do however, add less lye than required to saponify my soap, resulting in a bar containing free fats for added moisturizing.
Soaps available at this time and ingredients are as follows.
(For the sake of space and time I will not list the water and sodium hydroxide content of the soaps. All are water based, with the exception of the goats milk and coconut milk soaps.)
Bergamot Grapefruit
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, mango butter, apricot kernel, and
castor oils - Pink grapefruit and bergamot essential oils - Kaolin clay -
Rose clay
Spearmint Patchouli
castor oils - Pink grapefruit and bergamot essential oils - Kaolin clay -
Rose clay
Anise Orange
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, almond, castor oils
and shea butter - Orange and anise essential oils -
Carrot powder - Activated charcoal
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils -
Eucalyptus essential oil - Spirulina powder - Indigo
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm. almond, castor oils and cocoa butter - Orange
and clove essential oils - Vanilla fragrance oil - Oatmeal - Clove spice
Saponified coconut oil - Goat's milk - Saponified sunflower, palm, apricot,
almond and castor oils - Orange and lavender essential oils
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, and castor oils - Spearmint and patchouli
essential oils - French green clay - Oatmeal
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, sweet almond, avocado and castor oils -
Sweet orange and spearmint essential oils -
French pink clay - Madder root
Lemongrass Goat's Milk
Saponified coconut oil - Goats milk -Saponified sunflower, palm, apricot kernel,
sweet almond and castor oils - Oatmeal - Lemongrass essential oil
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils - Palmarosa,
orange, and lavender essential oils - Powdered rosehips
Eucalyptus and lemongrass essential oils - French green clay - Australian olive green clay - Kaolin clay - Indigo
Saponified coconut oil - Goat's milk - Saponified sunflower, palm,
apricot, almond and castor oil - Nutmeg, clove, amyris
and cinnamon essential oils - Oatmeal
Activated Charcoal
Saponified coconut, sunflower and palm oils, aloe butter, avocado and castor oils -
Lavender, lemon and peppermint essential oils -
Activated charcoal - Titanium dioxide
Saponified coconut, sunflower, aloe butter, apricot kernel, castor oils, and shea butter -
Rosemary and lemon essential oils - Brazilian purple clay -
French green clay and Kaolin clay
Olive and Herb
Saponified coconut and olive oils infused with comfrey leaf and plantain leaf - Aloe vera juice - Saponified palm oil, castor oil and shea butter - Lemon and lavender essential oils
- Oatmeal - French green clay
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, castor and apricot oils and mango butter -
Lemon and litsea essential oils - Kaolin clay - Calendula petals - Honey
Lavender & Comfrey
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils - Lavender and rosemary
essential oils - Comfrey root powder
Sunny Day
Saponified sunflower, coconut, palm and castor oils - Orange and litsea essential oils -
Carrot juice powder - Calendula petals
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, almond, avocado and castor oils - Lavender,
eucalyptus and rosalina essential oils - Cambrian blue clay
Saponified coconut and sunflower oils, cocoa butter, palm and castor oils - Vanilla fragrance oil - Carob powder
Lavender Lady
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils - Lavender essential oil -
Kaolin clay - Lavender buds
Neem
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, sweet almond, castor and neem oils -
Coconut milk -
Peppermint, sweet orange and lemon essential oils -
Oatmeal - Vanilla fragrance - Honey
Saponified coconut, sunflower, rice bran, palm and castor oils -
Peppermint essential oil - French pink clay - Titanium dioxide
AND FINALLY my signature soap..........
Simply Soap
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils -
French yellow clay
Saponified coconut, palm, almond and castor oils and shea butter -
Frankincense essential oil - Cut rice - Activated charcoal -
Rolled Oats - Patchouli essential oil
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils - Orange, lemon and pink
grapefruit essential oils - Kaolin clay - Madder root
Spice Garden
Saponified coconut, olive, sweet almond, palm and castor oils - Clove, lemon, cinnamon,
rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils - Oatmeal - Clove spice
Frankincense
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, almond and castor oils -
Frankincense and bergamot essential oils - French yellow clay -
French pink clay - Kaolin clay - Titanium dioxide
Gardeners Essential Scrub
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils, shea butter and mango butter -
Lemon, peppermint and tea tree essential oils - Cut rice - Oatmeal -
French green clay - Australian olive green clay - poppyseed
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and apricot oils - South Mountain Creamery
heavy cream - Saponified castor oil - Lavender essential oil -
Kaolin clay - Lavender buds - Brazilian purple clay
Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and apricot oils - South Mountain Creamery heavy
cream - Saponified castor oil - Peppermint and spearmint essential oils -
Kaolin clay - Rose clay - Cranberry seeds
Spearmint Splash
Saponified coconut, sunflower, rice bran, palm and castor oils -
Spearmint essential oil - Titanium dioxide and green oxide
Soaps also available at : the Healthy Living Center at Jim's Farmer's Market : Fridays 8 - 6 and Sat. 8 - 2 in Chambersburg, PA
the Healthy Living Center at Belleville Market : Wednesdays 7 - 1 in Belleville, PA
Paul's Country Market in Waynesboro PA
Another Man's Treasure in Chambersburg, PA
OR
from my home in Marion, PA
To place an order or ask a question:
meadowmintsoaps@gmail.com
OR
from my home in Marion, PA
To place an order or ask a question:
meadowmintsoaps@gmail.com
Love your page layout :) Have fun blogging...
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Good job!
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ReplyDeleteHi, Janelle, It's time to order our soap again. We love using "real" soap. It washes off completely and doesn't leave residue on your skin. I love that clean feeling! Plus we love all the different scents and oils you put in. We always order many different kinds, so we can enjoy the fun of a new scent with each new bar.
ReplyDeleteI got some of your charcoal bar what I need is a soap for my face and I would like to see if you had any good for the face I have Rosacea and my nose aways is broke out .my email is ljm137@ yahoo.com thank you.
ReplyDeleteAre you still in business?
ReplyDeleteCan I order and have you ship soaps? I love them but picked them up when visiting a friend. I live 2.5 hours away
ReplyDeleteBergamot Grapefruit, ginger marmalade and spearmint patchouli - I would by 4 of each! And pay for shipping! Please contact me!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, I AM still in business....
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