Most of the soap bars that you can buy at the local shop, supermarket’s or anywhere commercially are not traditional soap as we know it, they are actually synthetic detergents that have been perfected over the years to give a great lather, but this is done in an artificial manner using detergent's and foamer's that will cause skin complaints and irritations. You will find that in shop bought soaps the glycerine is extracted and sold on to make various other products, handmade soaps will retain the glycerine as it is a natural humectant and provides and encourages moisture toward the skin. How soaps works is fairly simple, it acts as an emulsifying agent, the soap suspends the dirt/oil allowing it to be rinsed away easily.

Generally I would say that soap is probably one of the most taken for granted item’s that we have in our households, we use it to cleanse ourselves first thing in a morning and last thing at night and in between probably loose count of the number of time we wash our hands throughout the day. Normally probably not much thought is given to soaps, unless you are like me and suffer from sensitive skins and because of this I have had to do a little bit of research and find out in more depth what goes into our commercially bought soaps during my own quest to find suitable for sensitive skin soap. As you are aware the range of soaps that I initially started selling are suitable to being moulded into unusual and intricate shapes, I thought it would be nice not only to offer a soap suitable for sensitive skins, but also a soap that would be different to what we can normally purchase in the shops. These novelty soaps have proved very successful within the gift market as they are quite unique and can be tailored to the individual’s preferences. Now this range has been established it is time I started to think about introducing a cold process range , but first I thought I would give you some information as to how exactly that soap is made and a little bit of history behind it.