Old-Fashioned Handcrafted Soap

The quest to fashion my own bar of Old-Fashioned Handcrafted Soap is what set me on my journey, which eventually led to A Rare Treasure.com. The technical definition of true soap is "the result of a chemical reaction (saponification) between a fatty acid and an alkali solution”. My soap is the result of the saponification process of the vegetable oils and butters I choose to use and a lye/water solution. In the finished product there is no free lye - it is all combined into the resulting soap. I also design my formulas in a way that not all of the oils saponify but are left to act as moisturizers for the skin. Correctly made and cured homemade soap is milder than anything you can buy commercially. I mostly use synthetic fragrance oils to scent my soap but do create some using essential oils which creates a 100% “natural” bar of soap. Patchouli is one of my best sellers and I use essential oil to create it. I also choose my oils and butters by considering the properties they bring to the finished product. I strive to create a bar of soap that will lather well, clean and moisturize the skin, and leave you feeling pampered.
The majority of the cleaning products on the market today are actually detergents of some type. Even commercial bar soaps commonly contain all or part detergents.
I have been enraptured by watching the saponification process from the very first batch of soap I made. I see a noticeable difference in my skin since I started using my first bar. While I create many different products now, my Old-Fashioned Handcrafted Soap is my “first love” in this business.
You can check out our current offering of Old-Fashioned Handcrafted Soap here: http://araretreasure.com/catalog.php?category=21. While you might find many Out of Stock, rest assured that the New Year will find me feverishly renewing my stock.
Until next time,
Cindy