4 oz. Horsemint Soap
Handmade olive oil natural soap. It smells good. It looks good.
It feels good on your skin!
Why use that fake toxic synthetic soap "stuff" when our real handmade soap feels so good? Literally bursting with freshness, ultra moisturizing and mild, scented with pure essential oils the way Mother Nature intended.
Ingredients: saponified cold pressed olive, coconut, organic palm, sunflower, and castor oils, distilled water, essential oils (spearmint, peppermint, tea tree, benzoin, thyme), french green clay, wild horsemint, wild chickweed, & sea salt
Care & Feeding of Natural Handmade Soap
Since our olive oil soap is in its pure and natural state, it doesn't contain any synthetic preservatives or artificial hardeners. It doesn't need to. With just a little care and feeding, you can prolong the life of your soap and it will serve you very well.
Don't let your soap drown in water.
Feed your soap plenty of fresh air between uses.
Always use a well drained soap dish to keep soap dry.
Use of a wash cloth or loofah will extend the life of your soap.
It's best to use your new soap within six months of purchase. It won't stay fresh forever!
Store unused soap in a dark, dry, relatively cool location such as a lingerie drawer or linen closet.
Why Natural Matters?
These handmade soaps are specially formulated to deliver the very best in skin care while using only safe, truly natural ingredients. Ingredients never used: solvent extracted pomace olive oil (even though it's much cheaper), harmful synthetic chemicals, preservatives, petroleum products, artificial dyes, or synthetic fragrance oils. Why? Because natural matters! With so many companies falsely claiming to be "all natural", A Wild Soap Bar is proud to say that their commitment to natural is real and we are very excited about that!
A Wild Soap Bar is handcraft using the slow cold process method, which means no external heat is used so the goodness of the natural ingredients are preserved for you. Each bar begins with a high percentage of skin-loving cold pressed olive oil to which is added: food grade coconut, organic palm and castor oils for a rich creamy lather that nourishes as it moisturizes. The next addition is responsibly wildcrafted and organic botanicals, vegetable butters, and cleansing earth clays for their exceptional skin care benefits. Finally, the fragrant olive oil soaps are scented with only pure essential oils extracted from plants . . .fresh clean scents, the way mother nature intended.
So how can you tell fake soap from real soap?
Fake synthetic soap stuff is defined as all those mostly synthetic, so called "soaps" that are full of harsh detergents and cancer causing chemicals . . . the ones that fill the shelves of many stores today. This includes those pretty "glycerin" soaps shown above (real handmade soap contains much more natural glycerin than those do), most of the commercial shower gels and liquid soaps on the market, many of the supposedly "natural" soaps found at your local health food store, the highly touted "hypoallergenic" soaps recommended by dermatologists (there's no such thing), and virtually all of those triple milled ooh-la-la French soaps. Check out the ingredients (if they bother to give you any) and you'll see just how many cheap oils or animal fats (also known as sodium tallowate) and synthetic petro-chemicals their so called "soaps" really contain. Don't buy into it!
You can't add a pinch of herbs and a natural sounding name and make fake synthetic soap real. Read labels carefully, ask questions, inform yourself. While it's true, some of you may have been using commercial soap for years now without noticing any terribly ill effects, after you read this page, you'll know just how much better and safer your bathing experience can be!
Armed with a little bit of knowledge, real handcrafted natural soap is fairly easy to spot. First, it should say "soap" on the label. By law, fake soaps can't use that term so they call it a "beauty bar" or a "moisturizing bar". Next, look for soaps with cold pressed or extra virgin olive oil as a main ingredient which is rich in antioxidants and skin nutrients. Most corporate soaps contain very little or none because it's quite expensive, and those who do often use pomace olive, an inferior grade of oil extracted with harmful chemical solvents. Is your skin worth only the finest? We think so!
In addition to cold pressed olive oil, we add coconut oil for a big bubbly lather, organic palm oil to increase the longevity of the soap, and a little castor oil for a creaminess second to none. We intentionally use certified organic palm oil because it doesn't deplete the rainforest like the conventional palm oil used in most soaps.
Try the microwave test to distinguish real soap from glycerine soap a.k.a. melt and pour soap. (You know, the little kits you can buy at the craft store for "making soap" with kids?) These soaps don't have nearly as much skin care value as real soap and many of them contain harmful ingredients. A melt & pour soap will begin to liquify with a minimum of 10 seconds in the microwave. A true cold process soap won't melt that easily.
Be especially wary of fragrance oils, perfume oils, potpourri oils, and nature identical oils which are all different words for synthetic fragrance oils. Avoid them. They're toxic, they pollute our environment, and they're one of the biggest causes of skin irritation and skin sensitivities in cosmetics and toiletries. Just because a fragrance (or product) has a botanical sounding name does NOT mean it came from a plant either. Cranberry, watermelon, peach, pear, apple, strawberry, fig, pomegranate, coconut and many others (the list is long) are all synthetic chemical scents. There are no natural counterparts.
The bottom line? If an oil doesn't have a latin botanical name, then it's not a true essential oil and it has no aromatherpeutic benefits. Ask the soapmaker. Go to the health food store and smell the real essential oils. After a while, your nose will know the difference. Look for soaps made with real essential oils which are extracted from botanicals and are safe and therapeutic when used properly. They're more expensive, but well worth it in terms of your health and the health of our planet. If the label just says "fragrance", "parfum", or "perfume", it's probably a fake synthetic scent.
Other harmful synthetic additives to avoid are FD&C colors, dyes, antibacterial triclosan & triclocarban, EDTA, TEA, DEA, sodium laureth and sodium lauryl sulfates, and other chemical sounding names you don't recognize or can't even pronounce. Avoid them all. They're not kind to your health or the environment.
Of course the real test will be when you use the soap. If it dries your skin out or makes it feel tight or itchy, question its origin. There's nothing like well made, glycerin rich, handcrafted natural olive oil soap to leave your skin feeling soft, smooth, and nourished. So if you're looking for skin loving soap, take the time to seek out natural handmade real soap. It may cost a little more, but your skin will thank you for it.
Antibacterial Soaps? Find out why they're a bad Idea!
IMPORTANT UPDATE ON TRICLOSAN: Triclosan, the antibacterial agent commonly found in antibacterial soaps, lotions, acne products, cosmetics and other personal care products is dangerous! It is classified as a pesticide by the EPA and as a drug by the FDA. The EPA considers it a major risk to human health and to the environment. "Chemically triclosan is almost the same as some of the most toxic chemicals on earth: dioxins, PCB's, and Agent Orange. Its manufacturing process may produce dioxin, a powerful hormone-disrupting chemical with toxic effects in the parts per trillion (one drop in 300 Olympic-sized swimming pools!)." If you use any products containing triclosan, my advice to you is to stop using them immediately and throw them away. It's that dangerous. - from Dr. Christine H. Farlow, author of Dying to Look Good.
The information presented here is for educational purposes only and is not meant to diagnose or treat any physical or emotional condition. While allergic reactions to our pure and natural ingredients are uncommon, we recommend you test our products first on a small patch of skin for 24 hours. In the unlikely event that redness or irritation develops, discontinue use.
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