These are words I had never really considered before starting the bad hippies, but these are important words to consider if you use handmade soap.
Whether if you use ours (of course you should use ours) or another soapers you should always use a well draining soap dish.
Whether if you use ours (of course you should use ours) or another soapers you should always use a well draining soap dish.
Why?
Handmade soap is oil based and doesn't contain all the other crap that commercial soap does to keep it hard and together (OH and you don't need all of this crap on your skin and son't need to send it down the drain)!
Just for fun I googled two popular face/body soaps to see the ingredient list...
Soap A: sodium tallowate, sodium cocoate or sodium palm kernelate, water,sodium chloride, sodium silicate, magnesium sulfate, and fragrance.
Soap B: Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate, Stearic Acid, Sodium Tallowate Or Sodium Palmitate, Lauric Acid, Sodium Isethionate, Water, Sodium Stearate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Cocoate Or Sodium Palm Kernelate, Fragrance, Sodium Chloride, Tetrasodium Edta, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891).
Do you even know what half of these ingredients are? Nope. Me neither. I do know what tallowate is and chances are if you are using a commercially made soap your contains tallowate too.
"Sodium tallowate is a common soap ingredient found in many kinds of skin cleansers. ... Sodium tallowateis a true soap made by combining the fatty tissue (or tallow) of animals, such as cattle and sheep, with lye, typically sodium hydroxide."
Sourced from, Soap A: sodium tallowate, sodium cocoate or sodium palm kernelate, water,sodium chloride, sodium silicate, magnesium sulfate, and fragrance.
Soap B: Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate, Stearic Acid, Sodium Tallowate Or Sodium Palmitate, Lauric Acid, Sodium Isethionate, Water, Sodium Stearate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Cocoate Or Sodium Palm Kernelate, Fragrance, Sodium Chloride, Tetrasodium Edta, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Titanium Dioxide (Ci 77891).
Do you even know what half of these ingredients are? Nope. Me neither. I do know what tallowate is and chances are if you are using a commercially made soap your contains tallowate too.
"Sodium tallowate is a common soap ingredient found in many kinds of skin cleansers. ... Sodium tallowateis a true soap made by combining the fatty tissue (or tallow) of animals, such as cattle and sheep, with lye, typically sodium hydroxide."
Sourced from, https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/cleansing/products/sodium-tallowate-in-cleansers.htm
You read that right most commercially produced soaps have a form of tallow made from animal by products.
Our soap is made with plant fats and is vegan.
So back to soap dishes.
Handmade soaps don't like to sit in water and if you have a soap dish that collects water you may find yourself with soap mush. No one wants soap mush.
Take care of your handmade soap by using a draining soap dish. They come in many forms and shapes and sizes and colors, but the most important aspect is that your soap dish allows water to drain away from the soap.
We have several options on our website (click <<< to jump right to our soap dishes) to choose from:
- suction cup animals
- petals
- molded silicone
- bamboo
- flowers
- turtles
Pictures below of some of our selections.
Of course you can find others that are to your liking, but keep you soap happy - keep it well drained.
Do you have a favorite soap dish? What is it?
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| Turtle comes in blue or green |
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| Petals: pink, green, blue, or yellow |
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| Light bamboo soap dish |
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| Silicone soap dish comes in: blue, pink, yellow, red, and green |
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| Flowers come in pink, blue, purple, or green |
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| Dark wood soap dish |
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| Critter suction cup soap dish choose from frog, cat, or bear |