Eco Soap
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Eco Soap for safe skin care
Most of my family has a mild sensitivity to some commercially manufactured soaps that can lead to dry skin and irritation but it was when Lizzie developed dreadful eczema at just over a year old, that I started to change the products we used.
These days our soap either comes from soap nuts or I buy natural, organic soap at our local market on a Saturday. However, I know that if the lovely natural, soaps were not easily available, there's plenty of alternatives for buying my ecosoap online.
Image: Natural Soap from Just Natural Skincare.com
Contents at a Glance
Buy Eco Soap from Just Natural
Organic skin care for men and women
Just Natural guarantees that their soaps are:
"Natural & Organic, No Chemicals, No Alcohol, No Artificial Fragrances, No Harsh Detergents"
Just Natural do not use:
Parabens
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate
Mineral Oil
Synthetic Dyes
Animal Fat
Just Natural do use:
Organic Herb Extracts
Organic Plant Oils
Antioxidants
Phyto-Nutrients
Active Botanical Butters
Typical soap ingredients include:
Organic Avocado Fruit Oil, Organic Shea Nut Butter,
Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Palm Oil,
Organic Sweet Almond Butter, Organic Palm Kernel Oil,
Organic Castor Bean Oil Saponified,
Titanium Dioxide, Natural Herbal Colorants and
Essential Oil Fragrance Blend
Do you use Eco Soap?
What soap do you use?
For the purposes of this Poll, I define ecosoap as a soap that has been made with natural ingredients and no artificially manufactured chemicals or additives.
Reasons to use Eco Soap
Use ecosoap to protect the environment from toxic chemicals
Chemicals that leach into our water systems
Most of us use soap several times a day, so literally millions of tonnes of soap is washed down the drain every year. So many soaps contain a variety of fragrances and chemicals that have the potential to harm the environment and some chemicals used in scenting soap have been proven to cause birth defects and liver damage in animals.
And we are rubbing this stuff into our skin? And that of our children and babies?
Over the past couple of years soap and cleaning product manufacturers have built up their sales with scare stories about bacteria in the kitchen and germs all over the house. They make us feel that we are endangering our children's health if we don't use their chemical laden products that will kill 99.9% of all household germs. So "Antibacterial" has become the latest buzz phrase.
Not only do we now have anti-bacterial kitchen cleaners, we have anti-bacterial bathroom cleaners, antibacterial laundry detergent but anti-bacterial soap as well.
Fact: Legally many beauty or cleansing bars
cannot be advertised as soaps
because they are detergents
What chemicals are used in anti-bacterial soap?
You may be shocked at the toxic chemicals we are putting on our skin
MIT (methylisothiazolinone)
An allergenic, which is also cytotoxic (something that is of or relating to substances that are toxic to cells) and linked to nerve cell death.
Triclosan
This chemical is registered with the UK's Environmental Protection Agency as being a pesticide. It is believed to devastate aquatic ecosystems.
Tricloban
While triclosan and tricloban do play an important role in professional health settings, such as hospitals and nursing homes, residue from these substances do continue killing bacteria once hands are washed, but at a low rate - which can play a role in making bacterial more resistant.
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Animal studies have also shown that triclosan interferes with thyroid hormones and testosterone. Longterm effects include behavioral changes, learning abnormalitiescan have an effect on reproductive health, including infertility.
These chemicals aren't what you would normally want to risk using on your body (or your children's) unless absolutely necessary, neither do we want them escape into and polluting our waterways.
Even if the potentially toxic chemicals are used in minute amounts on each bar of soap and may not necessarily accumulate on or in our bodies, they can build up in the environment with catastrophic consequences.
Why do soap manufacturers use chemicals
instead of natural ingredients?
It is all down to cost!
Lard and tallow are by products
of the food industry
and cheap to obtain
More reasons to use eco soap
Vegetarians should always use eco soap
Main ingredients in soap are:
Tallow or lard. Tallow comes from solid fat found in the bodies of sheep and horses
Sodium tallowate is usually found in a number of ingredients found in commercially processed animals butchered at a meat packing plant
So now you are convinced you
should make the switch to ecosoap,
where are you going to get it?
You have a choice:
you can make homemade soap,
either using your own recipes
or soap making kits
or you can buy it
Eco soap for all the family
Formulated with organic plant oils and butters
Testimonial from the Just Naturals website:
I really love this natural soap. Normally I can't use bar soap because it dries out my skin so much, but this natural soap leaves my skin feeling clean and refreshed without drying it out. It's my new favorite soap in the shower. I've even stopped using shower gel. This is a great soap, I would highly recommend it!
Citrus Fresh - lightly scented and ideal for the whole family
Testimonial from the Just Naturals website:
This is great soap! If you have winter dry skin or have a tendency toward excema, you'll be very pleased with this product. It rinses clean, which I did not expect the first time I tried this natural soap, but it is absolutely non-drying and moisurizing.
Gaiana - No scent and hypoallergenic
Testimonial from the Just Naturals website:
Tired of soap drying out your skin? This natural one won't. Out-of-town guests couldn't stop raving about how "creamy and moisturizing" they found it. Worth twice the price.
La Femme - smells very natural
Testimonial from the Just Naturals website:
This is truly an outstanding soap. No soap has ever been so refreshing, and this one does it in a very remarkable way. It's hard to explain - buy one and see yourself.
Paradise - Rich tangy citrus fragrance with sweet fruit aromas
Testimonial from the Just Naturals website:
This natural soap is fantastic! It lathers very well, lasts a long time, cleans well, and smells great. I've used it on my face as well as my body. It is a true scent, smells very natural - because it is. I absolutely LOVE IT.
Thai Lemongrass - refresh your senses with the light lemon-scent
Testimonial from the Just Naturals website:
I am a 38 year old African American Woman, with what I thought was dry skin. That was until I started using this natural soap. I have been using the soap for 4 weeks now. This soap left my skin soft, clean and moisturized! The soap smells fresh and clean. I will continue to buy and use JustNatural soap love it!
How to make homemade soap: Part 1
Ingredients for homemade soap
Homemade soap kit
Make your own homemade soap
Basic Soap Making: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (How To Basics)
Amazon Price: $11.60 (as of 02/15/2012)
Amazon Product Description:
This book features hundreds of step-by-step, full-color photographs that illustrate exactly how to make cold-process soap. It contains instructions on molding soap, cutting bars, creating original recipes, packaging gifts, and more.
It includes a chapter on constructing a soap mold, liner, and cutter at home. Readers will learn the basic four-oil soap recipe, which can then be enhanced with additives such as oatmeal, fragrance oils, colored swirls, two-tone nuggets, and moisturizing butters.
Homemade soap molds
Cute shapes for your homemade soap
Soap Nuts
Use Soap Nuts to make home made soap
Thispage tells you how to make soap nut liquid, which can then be used as an eco friendly hand soap and also as an eco cleaner for various cleaning jobs around the home.
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- Facts about soap, and how our soap compares to that of store bought soap.
- Soap and the environment
- Much of what goes down our drains winds up in the environment and potentially nasty chemicals from common soap residue are no different. There are greener ways to stay clean!
- How to Make Natural Homemade Soap - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com
- How to make natural homemade soap
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What eco soap do you use?
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Graceonline
Jan 19, 2012 @ 3:30 pm | delete
- I do not plan to add soap making to my skills, but I do buy eco soaps. At first, when I decided to give up the plastic-bottled shower gel I loved, I found it difficult to find a soap that did not dry my skin, but I can attest that the Just Naturals you advertise here are easy on sensitive skin and non-drying. Excellent page. Blessed.
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River_Rose
Jan 13, 2012 @ 1:21 am | delete
- I use eco soap.
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howtocurecancer
Mar 23, 2011 @ 2:08 pm | delete
- i love your lens. I use eco soap.
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Tipi
Oct 23, 2010 @ 11:00 am | delete
- You have time to make your own soap! "Always Juggleling" does suit you for sure. Let's go natural! No wonder our environment is suffering, all the poison we send down our drains has to go somewhere. Anti-bacterial has never made sense to me and it does tur our to be over-kill! Another excellent Squidoo lens my dear, glad I stopped over ~ maybe a cup of tea would be nice next time, lol!
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jmsp206
Sep 22, 2010 @ 9:25 pm | delete
- Wonderful lens! I love all these beautiful soaps and I too like to use an eco soap.One day I'd like to make my own it looks quite easy.
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