What's Really in Your Soap? A Guide to Natural Ingredients
Skin deserves better, since 1980 What's actually in your bar of soap A short, honest guide to reading a soap label — what real soap is made of, which ingredients to look for, and which to avoid. Shop natural soaps → 01 — the basics How soap is actually made Real soap is made through saponification — mixing fats or oils with an alkali (lye) to create a salt compound we call soap. The lye is fully consumed in the reaction, so none remains in the finished bar. The oils used determine the soap's hardness, lather, and skin feel. Many commercial "soaps" are actually synthetic detergent bars (syndets) — cheaper to produce, but missing the glycerin naturally created during saponification,...