Tuesday, July 19, 2011


Welcome to Meadowmint Soaps!
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


Anise Orange

Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, almond, castor oils 
and shea butter - Orange and anise essential oils - 
Carrot powder - Activated charcoal


Just Eucalyptus

Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils - 
Eucalyptus essential oil - Spirulina powder - Indigo


  Sweet Spice

Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm. almond, castor oils and cocoa butter - Orange 
and clove essential oils - Vanilla fragrance oil - Oatmeal - Clove spice


Breezy Orange Goat's Milk

Saponified coconut oil - Goat's milk - Saponified sunflower, palm, apricot,
 almond and castor oils - Orange and lavender essential oils


                                                     Spearmint Patchouli

                 Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, and castor oils - Spearmint and patchouli
                                             essential oils - French green clay - Oatmeal


                                                                 Sorbet

           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


                                                            Evening Rose

                   Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils - Palmarosa, 
                         orange, and lavender essential oils - Powdered rosehips

                            
                                                    By The Sea

            Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, and castor oils, and mango butter - 
                   Eucalyptus and lemongrass essential oils - French green clay -                                                       Australian olive green clay - Kaolin clay - Indigo
 

                                                 Spice Goat's Milk

                     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 


  My Rosemary

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


Honey Lemonflower

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


Morning Mist

Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm, almond, avocado and castor oils - Lavender,
 eucalyptus and rosalina essential oils - Cambrian blue clay


                                                             Vanilla Butter

          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


Patchouli

Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils - 
Patchouli essential oil - Oatmeal


  Peppermint Surf

Saponified coconut, sunflower, rice bran, palm and castor oils - 
Peppermint essential oil - French pink clay - Titanium dioxide


 Simply Soap

 Saponified coconut, sunflower, palm and castor oils - 
French yellow clay


Mechanic Man

 Saponified coconut, palm, almond and castor oils and shea butter - 
Frankincense essential oil - Cut rice - Activated charcoal - 
Rolled Oats - Patchouli essential oil


Sherbet

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


Lavender Cream

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


  Mint Cream

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

   AND FINALLY my signature soap..........

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






9 comments:

  1. Love your page layout :) Have fun blogging...
    Jessica Dean

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  2. I love this new setup of the blog ;)

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  3. Hi, 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.

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  4. I 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.

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  5. Can I order and have you ship soaps? I love them but picked them up when visiting a friend. I live 2.5 hours away

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  6. Bergamot Grapefruit, ginger marmalade and spearmint patchouli - I would by 4 of each! And pay for shipping! Please contact me!

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    1. I'm sorry, I AM still in business....
      meadowmintsoaps@gmail.com

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