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.
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.
