FAQ

FAQ

I really enjoyed your website and the soaps look marvelous! I have a question though regarding your ingredients. I noticed that some of your soaps contain vegetable matter such as pumpkin, avocado, honey, and nuts, but I didn't see any preservatives listed. I thought that soaps with such ingredients required an added preservative. How do you handle that? Is there some natural preservative effect? Does your soap have a limited shelf life?

Thanks for your question. We use the cold process method of making soap.
Which is adding sodium hydroxide to oils. When the two mix, they create
a chemical reaction. This is know as saponification. During this process,
heat is produced. Which not only cooks the natural product added. It also
kills any thing that would try to grow. A natural process of the soap curing
is that it looses h20. These two aspects naturally preserve the soap.
We have had our soap last two years with no problems. Over a period of
time soap made with natural products will loose its color and scent, but
the soap is in no way bad.

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