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Why you should choose natural soap?
What is natural soap;
Natural soaps are made with natural ingredients. Natural soaps are usually made of rich oils derived from various plants. These oils are rich in vitamins, nutrients and antioxidants. Human skin, hair and other parts of the body need these substances to grow and stay healthy.
Many natural soaps have plenty beneficial ingredients added such as clay, salts, essential oils and botanical extracts.
Handmade soaps need some time to produce and usually are used higher quality ingredients hence the added cost, but tend to be better for the skin.
It is important to try a variety of natural soaps to find the one that is ideal for your skin type and preferences.
Let's take a look at some of the reasons why natural soaps are the best choice for you:
🧼 Natural soaps helps you save more money.
Some consumers don't buy natural soaps due to the cost of those products. You're probably looking at a bar of natural soap and wondering why it costs more than the regural one.
I mean, soap is soap, right? Both bars cleanse your skin, right? So why is the natural bar more expensive?
While I agree that both bars clean the skin you are comparing two completely different products (based on their quality characteristics).
Simply put, commercial soaps contain synthetic ingredients that are very cheap to produce in a lab. Commercial soap companies don't want natural oils in their soaps because they shorten the shelf life. But without these oils, you are not moisturizing your skin properly. So even though a commercial soap may cost less, what happens to the cost once you add in the final cost the cream and the body lotion (which are also full of chemicals)? Also, many of the synthetic ingredients required to create foam, colors, fragrance and shelf life are known to be skin irritants. If your soap causes irritated skin, change to a natural soap that can reduce your visits to the dermatologist. On the other hand if you use liquid body soap the main ingredient is water. So you are spending your money for water.
🧼 Choosing a real soap.
Many products are advertised or marketed using terms such as "cleanser", "body bar", "body wash", "beauty bar", "skin care bar" and even "deodorant soap" are actually products based on some cleansing substances and not in real soap.
🧼Usage of quality ingredients.
When a company makes hundreds of thousands or even million bars of soap daily, part of the profits they make come from mass production and part from using the cheapest raw materials. Many believe that synthetic products can sometimes be harmful to the endocrine, reproductive, respiratory and immune systems. Commercial soaps are known to contain Parabens, Sulphates and Triclosan, which are believed to cause allergies, affect hormone levels and possibly increase the risk of certain cancers.
🧼 Unique - Handmade Product.
Mass-produced commercial soaps are made for the efficiency of production which means too many units of the exact same size and composition. Often the focus is on profit at the expense of the health of the consumers who pay for them. Natural bars differ from commercial ones because are slight differences from bar to bar, just as the natural ingredients vary slightly depending on the manufacturing materials.
🧼 Cruelty-Free and Animal-Friendly.
Another great advantage of natural soaps is that you can be sure that no animals are harmed. The ingredients usually are plant-based (some soaps use animal fat or milk from some animal as an ingredient), are organic and their productions dont require large-scale factories that cause extensive environmental damage. The producers of natural products tend to have small places to work but also they rely on herbs and extracts to achieve their final product. Very importantly, animal testing is not necessary for these products as they are pesticide-free and chemical-free.
🧼 Better for the Environment.
Natural soaps do not contaminate the environment with harmful ingredients or toxins.
The natural ingredients in handmade soaps are biodegradable and do not harm the water cycle or the wildlife that share the water in our rivers, lakes and oceans with us.
As we bathe or shower with commercial soaps we wash our skin with synthetic compounds such as perfumes, dyes, preservatives and detergents.
Now imagine the millions of people who use commercial soap every day. All these chemicals, many of which do not decompose naturally, have to end up somewhere. So they end up in our drains and then in water treatment facilities. Studies have shown that these chemicals often end up in our water systems and accumulate in our ecosystems. These chemicals affect wildlife from fish to birds and from trees to flowers.Our soaps are made with natural ingredients. By using natural ingredients we help improve the quality of our environment by protecting our land and groundwater from contamination.
🧼 Their packaging is often sustainable.
Handmade soaps are usually packaged without plastics, while many commercial soaps usually can be found in single-use plastic packagings or plasticized boxes.
🧼 They produced by small businesses
Buying natural soap from local businesses means that you are supporting community members. Commercial soap companies often make their products in factories with machines rather than people.