A Brief History of Natural Soap
Soap has been valued for millennia for its ability to clean the body, clothing and households. Soap is a craft which is often neglected in history whether it be a discussion of Ancient history,19th century skills or of the colonial era.
Soap was made at the time of it's inception til the first half of the19th century with very basic ingredients that underwent a natural chemical change called saponification. Oils (vegetable or fats), water or soft water and potash (pearlash) blended with the proper technique will yield soap, and it may be scented with oils and herbs.Using Only Natural Whole Ingredients gives You a Skin Healing Cold Processed Soap.
It is recorded that the Babylonians were making soap
around 2800 B.C. and that it was known to the Phoenicians around 600 B.C. These early references to soap and soap making that has been found were for the use of soap in the cleaning of textile fibers such as wool and cotton in preparation for weaving into cloth.
The oils used to make soap varied according to the region in which the soap was being produced.
Through the 19th century potash [pearlash] was obtained by filtering water through wood ashes in an ash hopper until the solution was strong enough to float an egg.
Potash is the residue left after the water has been evaporated from the solution described above. Pearlash is the final product when that residue is baked to remove impurities.
THE SOAP BUCKET INC.
The Soap Bucket Inc. soapmakers of Ancient Recipe Natural Soaps, we use only the finest ingredients as the Professional Soapers of the Ancients Period .
All soap bars are handmade with care using a soft water and pearlash [filtered woodash] solution with beeswax and selections of organic and or extra virgin butters and oils.
Whole, powdered or cut and sifted dried flowers and herbs organic or wild crafted . Using Only Natural Ingredients gives You a Skin Healing Cold Processed Natural Soap.
BE AWARE YOUR SKIN IS YOUR BODIES LARGEST ORGAN
Be Aware of Modern Soaps, there are ingredients that can make you sick.
If you are having skin problems it could be your soap. Check your soaps labels, soap bars ingredients such as sodium hydroxide which is slack lime and sodium carbonate .Slack lime is used to cure cement. This is one of the reasons why your skin may feel dry and itchy after bathing.
The other reason maybe the removal of your soaps glycerin. Glycerin is made when your soap ingredients are combined and it is the moisturizer of the soap.
Glycerin soaps are regular soap with the addition of alcohol and sugar to the ingredients. Alcohol and sugar combination freezes the water molecules of the soap thus making it clear.
Other products, which call themselves natural soap, contain ingredients found in nature; but these ingredients have been radically changed by high energy processes. The resulting soap bares little similarity to the soap made historically down thru the ages.