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.
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.
New Winter Soap helps your dry skin
While the winter started out like a nice Spring day, things have seemed pretty rough lately making up for those beautiful 60 degree December days. Well, while it was nice while it, lasted these we are dying in most of the country with negative 0 windchill, several feet of snow, and enough ice to go skating to work and back.
So by the demand of the dry skin of the world, we have tried to produce a soap that you would find soothing. Now, while I want to talk about all the great products that we have I don’t want to sound like a pure advertisement, because you don’t learn anything from that. I think we have found a great combination for dry skin, however. For our new soap “Tea With the Queen” we wanted something that was so moisturizing that it practically melted on your skin like a block of cleansing lotion. We think we did pretty well by beginning with a five oil combination. We threw in our typical organic blend of olive, coconut, and palm oil which is a great blend for average skin, but we really need more. So we took two of the most moisturizing oils and added them, being castor oil and jojoba. Even if you never buy our products, if you want moisuturizing soaps, try to find with ones with castor and jojoba oils in it. We also add a good amount of aloe vera, an also widely known soothing and moisturizing agent. With some lavender and rosemary and green tea, we add good early floral scent and texture.
This bar of soap was hard to create due it’s softness, but this soft bar feels great on dry cracked hands. You can view this product at http://www.londonsoapfactory.com/products/TWQ.html.
With winter lasting another good two months, dry skin is something we will all be dealing with for a while. Even inside, if you have radiators like I do, the air is going to be dry and dirty, another reason to get clean with a good moisturizing soap.
If you have any questions or comments or stories about soap, winter, and dry skin, feel free to leave comments.
