First and foremost, we will repeat the statement: every hand-made soap is healthier than any industrially produced soap. Of course, this statement does not refer to a completely inadequate idea, in which someone would come up with a crazy plan in order to contradict me and knowingly make a soap with harmful ingredients or an incorrect ratio of NaOH and oil.
Therefore, anyone who wants to provide themselves and their family with a healthier way of life as much as possible, should take a look at what is most often used in everyday life and is harmful to our health. Since we are dealing with cosmetics in these blogs, we will not be turning our attention to polluted air, water or food; we will stay within the scope of cosmetics.
What is certainly present in daily use, whether for women or men, is soap, toothpaste and deodorant sticks. If we take into account that younger children do not use deodorant sticks, and babies do not use toothpaste, then it is completely clear that soaps are the most present products in our everyday life, and besides, we use them several times a day. So, if you would replace industrially produced soaps with handmade soaps, you would take a step towards the health of yourself and your family, and if you were to remove all shampoos and shower gels from your family’s life and replace them with handmade soaps, then you would make a real revelation, a revival in the direction of a healthier way of life.
Many people still remember our grandmothers’ soaps, made from leftover pig fat, yellowed, dusty, from the attic, which were used for bathing, washing hair, washing clothes, and then with the advent of washing machines, they could be seen less and less. We would use them only when stains, filth, etc. could not be removed from an item of clothing. Today they are a complete rarity.
Present day’s handmade soaps are made from oils of plant origin, such as coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil, etc., as well as from macerate for when special soaps are made, such as children’s soaps and when we want to add chamomile or calendula oils to its composition.
For all the above reasons, the first recipes that Lavina Natural Cosmetics will share with you are soap recipes and a detailed description, method and safety measures for making them.
Up next… Soap Recipes