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| Your Guide To (Avoid) Synthetic Ingredients |
| Monday, 06 April 2009 00:00 |
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This is a must-read for those who:
.This is a pretty long list of ingredients we often see in product labels. It is time we familiarize ourselves with them. Detergents & Boosters
ammonium lauryl sulfate
acetic acid
As you can imagine, there are an inconceivable amount of synthetic ingredients being used in cosmetics today, and this is just a partial list. Source: http://allnaturalbeauty.us/synthetic_ingredients.htm . I honestly had a difficult time reading the ingredients one by one, it's tongue twisting!. But I will definitely go back to this guide every time I encounter unfamiliar ingredients on a label. Another very helpful site to visit for reference is Skin Deep (cosmetic safety database). Simply type in the ingredients you'd like to review and the site will display all the different results. I hope this encourages you to become more conscious with the stuff you use and to lessen your purchases of chemical-laden skin care products. Consider this. Doing so won't only be good for you and your family, but it will also be good for our environment. Doing so can lessen water contamination of these toxic ingredients. How? Well, whenever we wash our face and our body, whatever is left on our skin goes down the drain, too. Better that they be natural than synthetic, right? Think about it. . |
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Does that mean that bynaturehandmad esoaps do not contain lye and any of the ingredients you listed above? I would really like to have some of your soaps!
now, let me explain a bit on what "saponification" is. i'll try to make it as simple as possible. saponification happens when fatty acids (the oils) and a strong alkaline solution (lye) react and form salts of fatty acids (soap) and glycerine. IF the formulation is done correctly, every fatty molecule and alkaline molecule will partner up with each other. this "partnership" changes the original composition of the two (2) molecules and becomes soap. so, again, IF done correctly, NONE of the lye is left behind.
with my handmade soaps, the reason they're 100% Natural is because what's left of them are all pure, natural, and safe ingredients for our skin. my variants which are not 100% Natural are the ones that contain fragrance oils, that's all.
so to answer your question, BY NATURE Handmade Soaps DO NOT contain lye once they're soaps and DO NOT contain any of the ingredients listed above. :) i hope that everything is clearer now. if you have further questions, you may e-mail me directly instead.