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Our Basic Scents soaps: Neem Nut Soap for skin problems
- Citrus Kiss Shaving Soap - Pumpkin Harvest Soap
- Castile Soap - Calendula Fine Skin Soap

Calendula Fine Skin Soap
A gentle bar rich in extra virgin olive oil, slow infused with herbal calendula. Calendula is a wonderful skin soothing herb and is used in many baby products as a result. The lovely yellow petals make this a beautiful bar to look at, the gentle scent of lavender and geranium make it a delight to use.

$3.75
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calandula bar soap

Size
Full Bar is 110g/3.8oz
Base Ingredients
Vegetable Oils (Olive, Coconut, Sweet Almond, Palm Kernel, Palm, Jojoba, Canola, Castor), Water, Sodium Hydroxide, Calendula Extract, Essential Oils (lavender, geranium), Calendula Petals.

All About our Basic Scents Natural Soaps

All our soaps are made by hand in our soap kitchens from high quality natural ingredients. Each batch of a recipe will vary slightly in scent and colour and each bar in a batch will have slight variations in colour and shape. This is both normal and expected.

Each soap has various herbs, essential oils, speciality or exotic oils and naturally derived colour components added to it that make it a unique bathing experience. You will not find any synthetic fragrances or colouring agents listed here.

How Our Soap is Soap and not Detergent
True soap is made by mixing fatty acids (the fat molecules in oils) and an alkali (lye). When the saponification reaction is finished, one molecule of fatty acid (triglyceride) will end up as three molecules of soap and one molecule of glycerin. Much like baking a cake, the starting ingredients may be unpalatable individually, but when finished with it's reaction (baking), the result is highly desirable. We start with fat and lye and after the cooking is done, we end up with gentle, moisturizing soap.

Basic Scents soaps contain a little extra oil that remains unsaponified at the end of the cooking process. This makes for a soap that is non-drying, hydrating and very kind to skin. If you've never tried homemade soap, or only remember Granny's lye soap, then you are in for a rare treat.

Commercial beauty bars and deoderant bars are made synthetically from chemicals and are actually detergents, not soap. The few making real soap often strip out the natural glycerin to use in other products. This is why commercial soaps are so drying compared to real soap.

Caring for your Soap
Herbal soaps will last as long or longer that commercial soaps if they are taken care of. It is important to keep them on a good draining soap dish between uses so that they dry. If they are left to sit in a puddle of water, they will 'melt' away very quickly. These are soaps that are best used and not left sitting around. As these are scented with essential oils, their fragrance will eventually fade. The essential oils serve a purpose other than scent. Many of them are beneficial to the skin, so don't leave these soaps to the terrible fate of a "guest soap". Leave the other stuff for the guests - this is for you!