Soaps, Handmade or Store Bought?

OK hears the deal on SOAP, everybody uses it, from liquid hand soap, body wash to bars. Most people purchase their soap from a grocery store, I used to before I got into making my own. Have you ever read the packaging on your soap? Yeah I know, I have to remember to read the packaging on everything else I purchase, do I really need to read the information on my box of soap?? The answer to that seemingly foolish question is YES! Most of what is in these products are chemicals meant to prolong the shelf life. Listed below are the ingredients in Dove Soap (bar)...

Dove Soap ingredients: Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Stearic Acid, sodium Tallowate, Water, sodium Isethonate, Coconut Acid, Sodium Stearate, Cocamidopropyl Bethane, Sodium Cocoate or sodium Palm Kernelate, sodium Chloride, Titanium Dioxide, Sweet Almond Oil, Rosewood Oil, Tetrasodium EDTA, Trisodium Etidronate, BHT, Cedarwood Oil and Rose Oil. It may also contain Disodium Cocamido Mea Suflosuccinate, Cetyl alcohol, and Tocopheryl Acetate.

Just a little more info: Sodium tallowate: basically lye, steam and Animal Fat.

Why would you use all of these chemicals on your body's largest organ??? Yes, that is what your skin is, the largest organ of your body. Your skin is put through enough during the course of a day, it filters all the yucky stuff in the air for a start and when you perspire (ladies do not sweat or so my Gram used to tell me) your skin gets rid of lots of internal toxins. So start using a quality handmade soap (of course I am going to say like I make here on Bryas Specialty Gift Baskets) here is a list of ingredients you will find in my Vegan (absolutely no animal products used), (No Parabens, sodium lauryl sulfate (or similar), no petroleum products or unnatural preservatives) hand made soaps...

Brya's Basket's Handmade Scented Soap ingredients: saponified (meaning heated to mix and bond together lye water and oils) vegetable oils (olive, rice bran, coconut, organic palm and shea butter) fragrance, color (turmeric, iron oxide and/or red clay as in our Cherry Almond soap), rosemary extract (acts as a preservative) and/or natural vitamin E.

Please check out my website for a wonderful selection of handmade, cold processed scented soaps or for those with sensitive skin try my Super Shea soap the only scent this soap has is of the oils used.

Support Independent Soap Makers and wean yourself away from the chemical based soaps


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Free Product Samples Available

Here at Bryas Specialty Gift Baskets we are committed to excellence,especially in my hand made bath soap! For the balance of February I am offering a free soap sample or a free bath salt sample for you to try and enjoy. We have several new batches of soap ranging from a yummy scented Almond Biscotti, a pretty Creme Brulee (very light yellow and smells just like the desert), the green Kiwi soap also smells like a ripe Kiwi as well as our 2 best sellers Orange Hibiscus and Burnt Orange Patchouli.

The soap samples available are Key Lime Pie, Mango Papaya, Ocean Breezes, Rosewood, Cranberry Peach Vanilla and our Unscented Super Shea.

The bath salt samples are enough for 1 luxurious bath and the fragrances available are Goddess Baby Phat type (smells like the perfume), Chocolate Raspberry Truffle, Tahitian Gardenia, Birthday Cake (great for Tweens, Cherry Almond and Lavender

Simply send me an email with your address and whether you would like a soap or salt sample. Fragrance choice will be chosen at random.

Since your skin is the largest organ that your body has, let's all make the break from grocery store soaps that are filled with unpronounceable chemicals. Start treating your body the way it deserves with hand made, cold processed soaps that are both beautiful visually and well as fragranced. Keep in mind that some soaps do not make the thick lather that everyone associates with a good soap. The oils used in producing handmade soaps normally determine if the soap will make tons of frothy, bubbly lather.


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