Soaps of the present and past - nature vs. industry
Submitted by Beauty Secrets Blog
How Green Is Your Soap?
This should be a real concern, since the skin is the bodies largest organ and what you put on your skin goes into the blood stream. Soap Industry Manufacturing made a wrong turn in the mid 1800’s with the introduction of Slack lime and Sodium Carbonate as the alkali for soap bars. Slack lime which is lime water a mineral used to make and cure cement. Ergo the dry film on the skin after using these hard, cured soap bars, long term use can cause premature skin aging and possible damage. This likelihood increases with the removal of the moisturizing byproduct ingredient called glycerin, this is the ingredient used in today’s body lotion and skin cream manufacturing.
Prior to the 1850’s and since its inception, soap was made using a filtered wood ash and water blend making a mild alkali, this produced a soft soap with the consistency of fudge that is gentle, moisturizing and nourishing. This soap called swabu which means to clean, swabu has been made using the same alkali with different blends of oils (vegetable and or fats) in every country all over the world with the advent of contact and trade since the time on the Pharaohs. Eber’s papyrus dates back to 1550 B.C. and the soap recipe contained therein could date back to 3000 B.C. The Soap Bucket are makers of ancient soaps, they can be found at: www.thesoapbucket.com
