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Handmade vegetable soap creates a natural barrier to the sun, cold, and dryness. The essential fatty acids in the vegetable oils help to regulate moisture, nourish, and restructure the skin. The general health of skin is directly related to its moisture content - how much water it is able to retain. Healthy skin "cleans house" under normal conditions, and can retain moisture. Heat, cold, pollution, ultraviolet rays, and synthetic cosmetics create an imbalance in our skin that causes dryness and aging. While animal fat can block the skins breathing system, a thin layer of vegetable oil will keep internal moisture from evaporating too quickly and allow the skin to release waste and absorb moisture from the air. Handmade soap not only lathers better to clean away dirt, but each and every vegetable oil imparts its unique properties to the skin.
Handmade soap is made on a stove in a kettle with pure vegetable oils or animal fat, sodium hydroxide, natural emollients, water, essential and/or fragrance oils. Once combined, the vegetable oils and sodium hydroxide react with one another and neutralize into soap. This process is called saponification.
In comparison, most commercial soaps are made from a tallow or animal fat base. Once the basic soap is made, a machine presses it between sets of rollers to flatten it paper thin and remove most of the natural glycerin for profit. The soap is shredded and subjected to an extrusion process that squeezes out a long bar of tightly compacted soap flakes which is then cut into bars.
