Handmade Lavender Soaps
At Beach Lane Lavender Farm, we hand-make our soaps from 100% vegetable oils of Olive, Sunflower, Palm, Coconut, Hemp, Jojoba, Sweet Almond, Avocado and Castor; butters of Cocoa and Shea; as well as herbal tea infusions and Goat's Milk. We add only 100% pure steam-distilled Essential Oils for their antiseptic, antibacterial properties, and their abilities to promote new cell growth and tone the skin. The raw materials we add are earthy botanicals (lavender buds, rose petals, green tea leaves, etc.), oatmeal and unbleached beeswax. We also super-fat our soaps for even milder cleansing and use only bio-oils rather than petroleum, animal fats or hydrogenated grain oils.
We add ground lavender buds and lavender essential oil to all our soaps. Lavender is a natural antiseptic cleanser that is soothing and healing to the skin. 100% natural oils is our trademark as we do not use any artificial or synthetic ingredients, fragrances and no animal fats.
Handmade soap differs from industrial soap in that, usually, an excess of fat is used in the soap to consume the alkali (super fatting), and the glycerin is NOT removed. Super-fatted soap, soap which contains excess fat, is more skin-friendly than industrial soap. In 1889, a viable way to separate the glycerin out of soap was finally implemented and today industrial manufacturers usually remove it and sell it as a by-product, which deprives the skin of the natural, moisturizing glycerin and generally leaves the skin dry. By definition these products are not "true soaps", but rather detergents as they use different chemical processes and ingredients to produce what they refer to as "soap". These soap-based products often contain the additive sodium laurel sulfate, to enhance foaming, which research has found to be harsh on skin. This product is also present in many non-soap cleaners for personal hygiene (shampoos, bath foams, toothpaste, etc.)
We add ground lavender buds and lavender essential oil to all our soaps. Lavender is a natural antiseptic cleanser that is soothing and healing to the skin. 100% natural oils is our trademark as we do not use any artificial or synthetic ingredients, fragrances and no animal fats.
Handmade soap differs from industrial soap in that, usually, an excess of fat is used in the soap to consume the alkali (super fatting), and the glycerin is NOT removed. Super-fatted soap, soap which contains excess fat, is more skin-friendly than industrial soap. In 1889, a viable way to separate the glycerin out of soap was finally implemented and today industrial manufacturers usually remove it and sell it as a by-product, which deprives the skin of the natural, moisturizing glycerin and generally leaves the skin dry. By definition these products are not "true soaps", but rather detergents as they use different chemical processes and ingredients to produce what they refer to as "soap". These soap-based products often contain the additive sodium laurel sulfate, to enhance foaming, which research has found to be harsh on skin. This product is also present in many non-soap cleaners for personal hygiene (shampoos, bath foams, toothpaste, etc.)
