Why not homemade soap? Why use homemade soap?
By bunbunrocks
@bunbunrocks (185)
United States
April 22, 2007 3:24pm CST
Ok, I have a website and made handmade soap from scratch. Some people, (not all, just some) have an aversion to homemade soap. I'm looking for reasons why someone wouldn't or would like it, and maybe dispell a few myths about it. Can't wait to hear what real people think! Thanks!
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@Galena (9110)
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14 May 07
it's a company that makes perfume oils. they're really really lovely. being oil based you only need to use a small amount at a time, and the scent lasts ages.
you can either get them in 5ml or 10ml essential oil style bottles, or "imps" which are small vials of oil.
www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com
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@bunbunrocks (185)
• United States
14 May 07
Oh wow.. For the prices of many of those you could purchase a few pounds of essential oils and blend to your hearts desire! Ouch!
@bunbunrocks (185)
• United States
14 May 07
Ok, I've never been to a Lush, but have popped over to the website every now and then. I've got to ask, what in the world are black phoenix alchemy lab oils???
@hezoid (2144)
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13 May 07
Maybe they are woprried that it's not been properly certified as safe to use? I know even home made soaps need the relevant certification so perhaps you need to make sure you have it and maybe have a link on the website to show it too? Personally i'm all for handmade soap, so long as it's safe to use and has been made with good wuality ingredients.I'd also want to knw what specific ingredients went into the soaps too. Do you have a link to the website?
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@bunbunrocks (185)
• United States
14 May 07
I sure do have a link to the website.. It's www.lpsohmy.com.
I appreciate your thoughts on the matter greatly!
@SouthernEssence (2)
• United States
27 Sep 07
No actually handmade soaps don't require any certification what so ever. I'm a soap maker (I own a company) and handcrafted soaps don't even have to be certified by the FDA even though store bought soaps do. Handcrafted soap is safer and milder than commercial bars. The FDA considers handmade soap "real soap" and not detergent bars such as store bought bars.
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
16 May 07
I am interested in making soap and all, and some soaps I use, isn't made from the regular, run of the mill companies; I choose soaps that I can get with and are good for me. which is why I am partial to Nubian Heritage, One With Nature, and from time to time, if I run into some, some good homemade soap from scratch.
@knowsitall (7)
• United States
19 May 07
I just had to pop up here and say, ive tried bun buns soap and it just rocks! I will NOT buy store soap again!!
@ironstruck (2298)
• Canada
22 Apr 07
That sure does no sound very exciting..
It would be more fun to spend that time making a home made pie or home made cookies.
Actually, home made anything you can eat.........Soap!! yuk!
@bunbunrocks (185)
• United States
22 Apr 07
But it is fun to make! But you're right, it does taste horrible. Even more horrible than store bought! Glad my mother didn't have this stuff around the house. I sure had to eat a lot of that growing up!
@hachimitsu (873)
• United States
13 May 07
Whoa, homemade soap. That reminds me of Fight Club D; It's made of pure fats/lipids, isn't it?
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@bunbunrocks (185)
• United States
14 May 07
Yes, soap is made with fats as in oils and butters, not human fat like fight club! Now that would be something I would think to be naaaaasty!!
@SouthernEssence (2)
• United States
27 Sep 07
I own a handcrafted soap business and find that a lot of people are still afraid of lye. Even though it is impossible to make soap without lye. The FDA even states that commercial soaps are mostly detergent bars and homemade soap is (in their words) "real soap". There's nothing to be afraid of when it comes to natural handmade soap.
@bunbunrocks (185)
• United States
19 Oct 07
Even commercial soap contains lye, they get around it though as listing the saponified values on the ingredient list. Sodium tallowate is beef fat, but saponified. (or palm kernelate etc). We can't get away with this though, as most of us don't have the chemists needed in order to find out how much of what oil/fat/butters are left in the finished product and to know the order of what needs to be on the label. So we label to what goes into the bar. So read your soap labels, you see "ate" and it's been reacted with lye.
(Thought that little tidbit might help you in explaining it to customers)
