The Bath Shop

Does store bought detergent "soap" leave you itching with dry, irritated skin? Our Old Fashioned soap is made the way Grandma did it generations ago, but with skin loving oils and rain water. Handmade with fine ingredients, all which are good and gentle for your skin by not drying your skin out. No harsh chemicals, petrolium, detergents, or preservatives are added.

Each bar is approx. 4oz and $4.50 each.

Be sure to read the soap facts below to learn how the large commercial
companies make fake "soap" vs. the natural soap makers, and the differences
between natural, saponified soap, and glycerin soap.
Label images on the soap may vary.

Look for a fun, alternative label for your soap? Check out Sassy Betty's for your laughing pleasure!

	Rise & Shine The fruity and citrus smell of this soap is delicious! Smelling sweetly of Orange, Apple, Grapefruit, Peach and Strawberry with just a hint of Loganberry. Love Spell A sweet bouquet of Mandarin, Bergamot, and Orange enhanced luscious hints of Peach and Berries with a hint of Musk. Cotton Blossom This light, fresh and airy scent smells as clean as fresh laundry. Sandalwood Vanilla A neutral scent, a favorite of both men and women. The Vanilla and Sandalwood blended together form a warm, rich, classic fragrance.
	Oatmeal, Milk & Honey Honey and ground Oats go hand in hand with large, moisturizing, creamy bubbles that sooth dry, irritated skin.
	Cool Mint A Cool and Refreshing pick-you-up Peppermint and Spearmint Essential Oils, along with crushed and ground Mint leaves, offer a cooling sensation on your skin. The mint gives you a real physical and mental energy boost and smells fantastic! Lemongrass Lemongrass is a favorite of both men and woman. It smells like a lemon with very slight earthy note. Lemongrass has a peripheral analgesic property to help dull aches. It is considered good for calming with sedative properties. Lemongrass is one of the ten most highly produced Essential Oils in the world! Moody Mabel's Menopausal Pauser Or Debbie Downer's PMS Pauser Loaded with Bulgarian Lavender and Rose Geranium Essential Oils, this soap bar with pause any menopauser in her tracks! Rose Geranium has a sweet and rosy smell with a mint overtone, and Bulgarian Lavender has a more full-bodied aroma similar to fresh lavender flowers, but with therapeutic effects. Both serve as an antidepressant, but Rose geranium oil has a balancing effect on the nervous system, relieves depression and anxiety, and lifts the spirits, making the world an easier place to live in. It has a balancing effect on the adrenal cortex and is great for relieving stress. ALSO excellent for PMS! We call the PMS bar Debbie Downer's PMS Pauser! Indicate your label choice at checkout.
	Luscious Lip Butter Made with oils of Coconut, Sunflower, Safflower, Apricot Kernal, Avacado, Jojoba, Beeswax, Emu oil, and Essential Oils. .15oz tube $2.50 Lip Balm Faq: Commercial lip balms are made out of petrolium, which actually chaps your lips more! We use wonderful oils that are helpful for aging skin and promote healing. Why Emu Oil?
	Glowing, clear, moisturized, dewy-looking skin, free of blackheads, pimples, cysts, and other imperfections! Pimples, cysts, zits, blackheads, whiteheads, etc. are a result of different factors including hormones, bacteria, dead skin cells, etc. The concept of our cleansing method is that the oil used to massage your skin will dissolve the oil that has hardened with impurities and found itself stuck in your pores. Don't be afraid of applying oil to your face, oil by itself will not cause blemishes. Your skin naturally produces oil because it needs it, it's there for the benefit of your skin. Your natural oils lubricate, heal, protect, and moisturize your skin so that it may function properly and properly functioning skin is beautiful, clear, glowing and YOUNG looking! Learning to work with your skin and not against it will benefit you beyond measure! Includes Tea Tree oil for its antimicrobial properties. 4oz bottle $6 Why the Oil Cleansing Method?

Our Soap Facts

We make our old fashioned soap the cold process way with quality ingredients like Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Castor Oil, and other skin loving oils. As much as possible we use natural rain water. Those ingredients mixed with sodium hydroxide creates the soap, or saponification process, where none of the glycerine is removed, unlike commercial soaps. Our quality soaps are hand made and cut in small batches and retain their natural appearance.

So what exactly is natural soap?? You'd be surprised what passes for natural. There are crafters calling their (commercially manufactured) glycerin soap natural, and good for your skin, because they melt and scent it themselves. This stuff isn't actually soap by definition, it was either manufactured from sodium salts, stray fatty acids and some surfactants, or it was manufactured from a soap-like product and treated with solvents like sorbitol and propylene glycol in order to get it crystal clear. White melt and pour has titanium dioxide in them to give them the white appearance, which can be colored by more unnatural products. In natural soap, glycerin is a naturally occuring by-product, but in the transparent glycerin soap, its an additive. Glycerin soaps are made using the following ingredients: Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Stearate, Propylene Glycol, Laurel Sulfate, Sorbitol, Deionized Water, Cocamidopropyl Hydroxysultaine, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Acetamide MEA. Some may even contain alcohol. Obviously, glycerin soap is not natural.

Castille soaps have at least 50% Olive Oil, which has natural healing properties by attracting moisture (humectant) and holding it close to the skin. Goat Milk is soothing, especially for dry or sensitive skin, and creates a rich and creamy lather that nourishes your skin. It also is good for aging skin with its natural alpha hydroxies. Both bars are wonderful for skin conditions like eczema, sensitive skin, babies, and work well with all skin types. Ground Oats are skin soothing and smoothing. Honey acts as a humectant on your skin, drawing in moisture and holding it there. Herbally infused bars with essential oils have an aromatheraputic effect. Many of our bars utilize the moisturinzing properties of those ingredients.

All our bars may contain one or more of the following: Olive Oil (Olea Europaea Fruit Oil), Goat Milk (Caprae Lac), Coconut Oil (Cocos Nucifera), Castor Oil (Ricinus Communis Seed Oil), Oatmeal, Honey, Fragrance or Essential Oil, Rain Water or Filtered Water, Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH), Other Botanicals. (Oil Properties below)

ALL soap is made with Sodium Hydroxide! After the chemical reaction (saponification) between the fats and lye, all that is left is soap, and there is no lye, or oil, left in any bars after they've cured. If someone tells you their soap is not made with lye, then its not soap! The chemical reaction is just not possible without a caustic material.

Commercial Soap Facts

Commercial Soap is really made of detergents, or petroleum distillates, instead of skin healthy fats and oils. The combination of detergents, lye, and water, is a process known as saponification. After saponificiation, the glycerine is removed and is sold separately. Because manufacturers dump cheap detergents into their bars, they can mass produce more, increase their profits, and the "soap" strips your skin of natural, healthy oils, moisture, and may cause itching, rash, and hives. They then produce and sell lotions, loaded with preservatives, mineral oil, and petrolium based products to put moisture back into your skin. Those ingredients are worse for the skin, not better! Its is a vicious cycle.

Our Handmade soaps clean without damaging your skin! Our skin absorbs whatever we put on it, into our bloodstream, and shows damage on the outside. That damage is not always visible immdiately and can sometimes take years to appear. Bad ingredients also store in our organs! We often change our diets for health. We should also take good care of the only skin we'll ever be in and the largest organ on our body!

Some things to ponder.....

Dove White Beauty Bar^(TM) ingredient list:

Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate (detergent)
Stearic Acid (stiffener)
Sodium Tallowate (beef tallow soap)
Water
Sodium Isethionate (antistatic agent)
Coconut Acid
Sodium Stearate (stearic acid soap)
Cocamidopropyl Betaine (detergent)
Sodium Cocoate or Sodium Palm Kernelate (coconut oil soap or palm kernel oil soap)
Fragrance
Sodium Chloride (table salt)
Titanium Dioxide (white oxide)
Tetrasodium EDTA (stabilizer, water softener, skin irritant)
Trisodium Etidronate (preservative, prevents erosion)
BHT (preservative, common skin irritant)
Sodium Dodecylbenzenesulfonate (detergent)

Ivory Soap^(TM) (Moisture Care Skin Conditioning Bath Bar -Unscented) ingredient list:

sodium cocoyl isethionate (detergent)
paraffin (petroleum wax)
sodium cocogylceryl ether (detergent)
glycerin (humectant -- attracts water)
water
magnesium stearate (colorant)
stearic acid (stiffener)
magnesium carbonate (absorbent)
coconut acid
sodium isethionate (antistatic agent)
sodium sulfate (prevents dripping)
sodium chloride (salt)
magnesium laurate (detergent)
lauric acid (prevents erosion)
sodium laurate (detergent)
trisodium etidronate (preservative, prevents erosion)
masking fragrance (this soap says it is unscented!)
PEG-90M (binder/emulsion stabilizer)
titanium dioxide (whitener)

99-44/100% Pure -- DECODED!

Proctor & Gamble determined that in order soap to be 100% pure, the constituents would have to be only fatty acids and alkali. It was determined that the 56/100 of the ingredients of Ivory soap did not fall in the pure soap category. In 1882, an Ivory advertisement appeared that stated the slogan "99-44/100% Pure". This calculation was created by Proctor in which 56 was subtracted from 100 to account for a result of 44. The 56 consisted of the following impurities: uncombined alkali, 11%; carbonates, 28%; and mineral matter, 17%.

This is simply a game with numbers to deceive the public. Ivory soap by their own admission, is only 44% pure.

Oil Properties

Castor Oil A natural source oil from the Castor bean plant, similiar to glycerin as it attracts moisture from the air and draws it to the skin. A hard, shiny, thick oil that acts as a barrier agent and protective medium against harsh conditions and extremes. Soothing to the skin. Used extensively for hair conditioner because of it's ability to heal dry, damaged or brittle hair.

Coconut Oil Expeller pressed from the "meat" or "flesh" of coconut. It comes refined, unscented and is cosmetic grade only.This is a great oil for general moisturizing and serves as a protective layer, helping to retain the moisture in your skin. It also acts as a more mild, gentle oil suitable for those with inflamed and irritated skin, and especially those with skin sensitivities. Coconut oil is without a doubt, the number one lather-producing agent used in soaps. And is the first choice for most people in the cosmetics and soap industry.

Olive Oil Great for skin care, especially dry skin. Conditions hair and nails. Contains fatty acids, linolenic acid, and is famed for taming inflamed or dehydrated skin. Used for an arthritis remedy when rubbed on affected parts. Has a great conditioning effect in body care recipes and can be used in almost all applications.