These bars are discounted because the design didn't come out quite as I'd imagined, but they are scented with Black Raspberry Vanilla, which is one of those "can't go wrong" scents, so ... still pretty amazing!
These cold processed bars are made with saponified olive, organic coconut, sustainable palm, almond, and castor oils; shea butter; coconut milk; kaolin clay; mulberry silk; and sugar, and are formulated to offer a rich, creamy lather with plentiful bubbles. Each bar weighs a minimum of 4.5 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.
