Why switch to handmade soap?
Your skin is your largest organ. It's made to produce a conditioning oil called sebum. You need that. It's like your body's natural lotion. Think a bit about what are you rubbing, scrubbing, lathering, and massaging into your skin on a daily basis.
Most commercial soaps aren't really soaps at all. They are detergents, fillers, and fragrances with names you have a hard time sounding out, let alone reading and understanding. After doing a bit of research on the subject of skin, what it does, and what we put on it, you'll find that a lot of those ingredients are actually bi-products of the oil industry.
Petroleum products are made from crude oil. The environmental impact of petroleum products is astonishing. The poisonous effect that these chemicals have when using them daily, in several different products, and again to "wash off" those products ALSO cannot be ignored.
Liquid body washes and lotions are full of all kinds of nasty stuff, too. There's the sulfates, parabens, and artificial colors that wreak havoc in your body's world, and to cover the smell of all those chemicals, they add generous amounts of synthetic fragrances that present a whole new concoction into the mix.
There's an alternative...
Most commercial soaps aren't really soaps at all. They are detergents, fillers, and fragrances with names you have a hard time sounding out, let alone reading and understanding. After doing a bit of research on the subject of skin, what it does, and what we put on it, you'll find that a lot of those ingredients are actually bi-products of the oil industry.
Petroleum products are made from crude oil. The environmental impact of petroleum products is astonishing. The poisonous effect that these chemicals have when using them daily, in several different products, and again to "wash off" those products ALSO cannot be ignored.
Liquid body washes and lotions are full of all kinds of nasty stuff, too. There's the sulfates, parabens, and artificial colors that wreak havoc in your body's world, and to cover the smell of all those chemicals, they add generous amounts of synthetic fragrances that present a whole new concoction into the mix.
There's an alternative...