Handmade soaps are made with the finest natural ingredients such as olive oils, palm oil, coconut oil, carrot oil and other vegetable oils so that your skin is moisturized instead of drying like store-bought bars of soap. Handmade soaps can also include some natural additives that have healing properties. Many of these natural additives will help heal the damage from store purchased bars of soap. You don't realize that the source of soap to purchase in the supermarkets can actually harm your skin.
Handmade soaps start with 100% lye and when the water is added a soapafication process begins in which the lye to turns into glycerin. Many manufacturers take the glycerin out of their bars of soap because it is more profitable to sell the glycerin to cosmetic companies and pharmaceutical companies than it is to leave the glycerin in the soap. You want glycerin in your soap because this is what helps to moisturize your skin, glycerin draws water from the air helping to moisturize your skin. Once the soapafication process has begun there is no lye left in the soap and nothing is harmful to your skin with handmade soap.
Many of the additives in handmade soaps have healing properties for your skin. Natural additives such as grapefruit seed extract can cure a whole host of skin irritants from cold sores to warts and jock itch to athlete’s foot. Grapefruit seed extract can cure bacterial or viral and skin infections as well as just about any topical skin ailment.
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