Goodbye Bugs
We’ve been busy here working on all kinds of new things and figuring out new ways to impress our customers. Okay, so we’re not changing the rules of soap, but we are trying to come up with practical and creative soaps that will enhance your life as well as make an enjoyable shower. After a bad batch of our lard soap, I guess organic veggie oils was really our true calling, we’ve mastered a new recipe that smells nice and has an added bonus for summer.
Introducing Eternal Sour Summer, our new lemon bar. Made from our signature base of organic olive, coconut, and palm oils, we added a good size dose of grated organic lemon peel and squeezed juice, lemon essential oil, and poppy seeds for a little texture. The best part is, we also added a good dose of citronella essential oil to keep all of those rude bugs away during those warm summer nights. The citronella works extremely well with the lemon creating a citrus aroma with a zing. I don’t think you can really define a zing, but I think something this packed with citrus has one in there for sure. Other benefits of this soap include a refreshing feel for those hot days and the extra cleaning power and natural germ fighting abilities that come with lemons.
This new soap will be available in mid-June, so check our website soon. If bugs are definitely not your best friend, be sure to look for other citronella products online. While some can be overwhelming, others might work out well if paired with the right ingredients.
Getting old school with Lard
Hey everyone. I just wanted to mention that after a good run with organics and veggies, we here at The London Soap Factory feel that we also need to get old school with a good lard based soap. While some people have issues with animal fats, and we respect, others may like the old school charm of a good lard soap. Lard soaps are as basic as they get and produce massive bubble action. We will have a lard soap in late May and we would like to hear your comments on it. Are you pro-lard, or not? Leave a comment and let us know.
We also want to thank another blog called “A Handmade Soap Blog” for writing a great review of us. You can check it out at handmadesoapblog.blogspot.com/index.html
Until next time, always be clean.
Fight Germs, dirt, and grime with these powerful agents
In out last entry we told you that we would be coming out with a list of great natural ingredients that can help you stay healthy and clean without using chemicals and antibacterial agents that commercial soaps use. Although I’m not a doctor, I feel that using antibacterial products such as dish soap and hand soaps that you find in the grocery store can help build up resistance in the many germs and bugs that are constantly trying to attack us. Here are some great natural grime fighting agents that you can find in some of our products or elsewhere.
1.Coffee – removes odors
2.Cucumber – adds cleansing power.
3.French Clay – draws dirt from the skin
4.Ginger – estringent, deordorizer
5.Lemon – antibacterial
6.Vitamin E oil – antioxident
7.Wheat germ oil – antioxident
8.White clay – astringent
Look for those ingredients to help maintain great skin, healthy skin, and well, nice smelling skin.
We’ll be back soon with more information soon. In the meantime you can view some of our soaps that have these great ingredients here.
Get the germs away from me
I’m a little OCD when it comes to germs, maybe that’s why I started a soap company, although I doubt it. I think we could all wash our hands more, keep things a litlte cleaner, and all work towards having a germ free environment. Unfortunately, we have more to do in this world then constantly clean things and ourselves. As I woke up today with a slight cough the first thing that jumped in my head was, “oh God, tell me it’s not the flu, or another cold, or anything!” A sickness puts you out of being productive for a good week if not more, and in this world where we are supposed to be on demand people, we really can’t have that.
I saw a little news blurb the other day that a desk has 400 times more germs on it than a toilet seat. I may be misquoting that a little, but that was basically the theme. It makes since. As disgusting as a toilet seat may seem, our butts really don’t touch nearly as much as our hands do, so it only makes since that high hand traffic places like a desk are covered in all kinds of germs that want to do us hard. Now on top of all that I live in New York City, germ spreading capital of the country. One trip on the subway is basically like getting into a illness factory. 200 people in a small car all coughing and touching those poles. UGH.
It is flu season and it is the winter, and as much as a cold sucks anytime of the year, and illness in the winter when it is already painful to go outside, just seems so much worse. So a reminder from The London Soap Factory is to wash your hands constantly, and carry some of the nice hand sanitizer with you, especially if you live in the city.
Some people are die hard believers in the antibacterial soaps, which I believe are pure evil. I do not buy them as I believe that contribute to making bacteria more immune to our antibiodics. There are plenty of natural washing agents out there that will do the job just fine. In our next article I will talk about some of the natural oils and ingredients you can look for in soaps that act as natual cleansing agents and antibacterials. Perhaps not as potent as these commerical soaps, these agents will do the job just fine if you continue to wash your hands constantly and keep a clean environment.
So stay healthy and look for our next article of natural germ killing ingredients come later this week.
