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14oz bottle of body wash
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Sulfate free
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Our natural soap in a body wash
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COMES WITH 1/2 BAR OFOUR NATURAL SOAP
Since our first year, 1999, we've had thousands of requests for a true natural body wash. My answer was always the same: until we can make one as good or better than our natural soap, why bother? I pretty much gave up for years. Every time we tried the results were ok, but not good enough.
In October I attended a 'natural' products work shop. They did a body wash there that wasn't bad. It used a so called natural soap as a base. Decyl glucoside. That has a nice warm sound to it, doesn't it? Decyl glucoside is a supposedly naturally derived liquid soap base, that is sulfate free. Problem was it still smelled like the artificial soaps I just can't stand. I decided to try again using our natural soap as a base.
5 pound test batches.
We use a spread sheet when working on new products. We just keep making 5 pound test batches until they are right. Then we make larger and larger test batches constantly adjusting ingredients until we are up to production volume. So for almost 3 months we have been making 5 pound batches of the body wash. Somewhere between 25 and 50 batches we began to realize this wasn't going to be easy. Just tiny percentages of certain ingredients made huge differences. And what worked at 5 pounds didn't work for bigger batches. We almost gave up a few times. But I'm glad we didn't. This is indeed as good as our natural soap. Perhaps even bit better.
So if you like our natural soap, should you get this?
Maybe. You won't save any money over just using our natural soap. But if you love the convenience of a liquid soap, chances are you will love this. I believe it is more moisturizing. Personally I never thought I would say this, but I like it better.
Can I indeed use this all over?
Yes some of our test subjects even used it for a shampoo and loved it.
Ingredients in order of prominence.
Reverse Osmosis purified water: virtually all skin care products 'say' they use purified water. But the real deal is reverse osmosis purified water. This mean ZERO contaminants which means the starting point is pure. It's expensive to do (goes through 5 filters, which have to be changed often), but it is the only water we use. We use the waste water from this purifying process to water our flowers and landscaping. So there is no waste. Don't some products use distilled water? Yes but distilled water is expensive to make (heat is used to boil the dirty water and stream is collected). But the real problem we have with distilled water is it has a lower pH due to the extra ions added during the process. We prefer to work with pH neutral water. To me there is no more perfect water than R-O water. I remember the 1st time we made soap with it. As we poured the soap it was so creamy! It looked like home made ice cream right before it gets solid. It's one of our special secrets to how good our products are.
We had to make the soap that goes into this, two different ways. The process is much more complex than our bar soap.
Our natural soap is made with:
Coconut oil, Olive oil, Rice bran oil, and Soybean oil. What made this so difficult is the percentage of oils varied from our bar soap.
Apricot Kernal oil is used as a skin softener and isn't converted to soap. We use a lot of it. In this particular application we found it to be the best skin conditioner.
Xanthan Gum: This is a vegetable derived thickener to make the body wash a bit thicker. True natural liquid soaps tend to be very thin. Not pleasing. A tiny amount goes a long way.
Natural Essential oils. No artificial smells here.
Glycerin (vegetable). What skin care product doesn't benefit from Glycerin? Problem is most store bought and even high end moisturizers use animal derived Glycerin. You don't even want to know how they make this glycerin. Unless the label specifically says vegetable it is almost always animal derived. Yuck!
99.6% of this product is natural. But we have to use a preservative.
Germall Plus (4/10’s of 1%) (diazolidinyl Urea, 3-Iodo-2-propylbutylcarbarmate) (a vegetable derived preservative to keep our product fresh) only needs 4/10's of one percent to keep our product safe. Look before you ask, no totally natural preservative really protects products from bacteria. We don't like using Parabens. and since we pH balance our moisturizers we are limited in our choice of preservatives. What's great about this one is so little is needed to afford protection.
Best if used within one year of receipt. I'll bet no skin care product you have bought from a store was made within the last year. Most of the products were made years ago. We find we can better control our quality if we make products as they are used. Fresh just makes for better skin care products. Our families all use our products. We only sell what we would use.
No animal ingredients or testing EVER! We also get assurances from our suppliers that all of our raw ingredients are not animal derived or any animal testing done there either.
Most skin care products you buy to use today, were made in large factories years ago and have been in storage. Everything we ship was made in small batches within a few weeks of shipping. Fresh matters! Quality ingredients matter!
Most of our ingredients are as close to natural as possible. We avoid overly processed ingredients. Processing means heat and that destroys the goodness in these precious ingredients we use.
