Did you know that snails play an important role in your garden's health? Not only do they eat dead plant matter and "recycle" it to a useful form for living plants to use, but, also, when they die their shells are a valuable source of calcium for birds and such. And, they are cute!
Our little snail soaps are scented with a light but very pleasant blend of basil, sage, and mint fragrances.
These cold processed soaps are made with saponified olive, organic coconut, sustainable palm, almond, and castor oils; shea butter; coconut milk; kaolin clay; mulberry silk; and sugar, formulated to offer a rich, creamy lather with plentiful bubbles. Each bar weighs at least 3.86 ounces.
The other ingredients, not related to lather, bubble type, and skin feel, are skin safe micas, phthalate free fragrance oils, and sodium lactate (the salt component of lactic acid, used for hardening soap). Sodium hydroxide (lye) is added to oils early in the soap making process. Lye and oils combine in the saponification process, chemically transforming into soap and glycerin, leaving no remaining lye. Our soaps, along with many (most?) cold processed soaps, are "superfatted," which means that we add slightly more oils than are necessary to saponify the lye. This ensures that no lye will remain when saponification is complete, and the remaining oils contribute to producing an emollient bar of soap.
