Soap!  Do you know what you’re buying?

Do you know what’s really in the commercial bar “soap” that you have been using? Take a glance at the ingredients and you will find that it contains lots of things you can’t pronounce. These mysterious ingredients include things such as animal fats, detergents, petrochemicals, alcohol, and preservatives.

Most of what we consider to be soap isn’t actually soap at all. Real soap is a simple cleaning agent that is made in a single-step process.  Production creates no by-product waste and the use of real soap results in little environmental impact due to its biodegradable nature.

Commercial bars are actually synthetic detergents.  The synthetic manufacturing of most detergents generate unwanted waste.   Additionally, commercial bars do not biodegrade as quickly as real soap. Detergents are usually more aggressive cleaners than real soap. Ideally they are best used for house-hold and industrial cleaning applications. However, their use has become commonplace in many personal care products such as body wash, ‘liquid soap” and commercial bars.  In fact most commercial bars aren’t even called soap. They are labeled as detergent bars, beauty bars, or cleansing bars.

In addition to containing harsh ingredients, it is a common practice in the production of commercial bars for the manufacture to remove the naturally occurring glycerin.  In fact, glycerin is such an excellent moisturizer that they will often use it in other products or sell it to cosmetic manufactures. 

The following popular beauty bar is the “#1 dermatologist recommended cleanser” for sensitive skin, claiming to contain “¼ moisturizing lotion.”  It’s labeled as hypo-allergenic, fragrance-free, and for sensitive skin.  Oddly enough, this fragrance free soap still contains three essential oils, not quite what you’d expect when seeking an unscented product! 

For your convenience, we have listed the common names of ingredients in parentheses.

Ingredients:
Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate (synthetic detergent), Stearic Acid (fatty acid), Coconut Acid, Sodium Tallowate (animal fat), Water, Sodium Isethionate (synthetic detergent), Sodium Stearate (detergent), Cocamidopropyl Betaine (synthetic detergent), Sodium Cocoate (coconut oil) or Sodium Palm Kernelate (palm kernel oil), Sodium Chloride (salt), Sweet Almond Oil, Rosewood Oil (essential oil), Cedarwood Oil (essential oil), Rose Oil (essential oil), Tetrasodium EDTA (water softener), Trisodium Etidronate (preservative), Titanium Dioxide.

Rochelle Rose handmade soaps are REAL SOAP!!!

Not only do our soaps contain all of the natural glycerin, but we add lots of other wholesome ingredients that impart their own unique properties to the skin.  The final result is a luxurious moisturizing soap.

In comparison to your commercial bar, here are the ingredients in some of our soaps:

Rochelle Rose - Pure Olive & Shea Butter Soap:
Saponified olive oil, coconut oil, palm kernel oil and shea butter.

Rochelle Rose - Oatmeal & Honey Soap:
Saponified soybean oil, canola oil, coconut oil, palm oil, beeswax, castor oil, oatmeal, honey, fragrance.

We at Rochelle Rose encourage you to take a look at the ingredients on your current commercial bar/body wash and compare them to the ingredients that we use in Rochelle Rose handmade soaps.

The difference is clear!  What do you want to use on your skin?