Soap Ingredients Definitions - Hand Crafted Luffa Soap
Luffa Soap Ingredients and Definitions
To get the transparent look we want to show off our luffa, we use Stephenson's Olive Oil based Melt and Pour Soap. What exactly goes into our melt and pour soap and cosmetic bases? The process is deceptively simple: Melt and pour soap and cosmetic bases are created through combining a mixture of ingredients including various fatty acids, glycerin, and a few other ingredients that create a cleansing final product.
Some of these ingredients can be hard to pronounce, but they all serve important purposes and aren't so scary when you know what they do! We’ve put together a glossary of the ingredients in our Stephenson’s melt and pour soap and cosmetic bases to help demystify any unfamiliar terms.
Olive Oil Soap Base Ingredients
Olive Oil Stephenson Melt and Pour Soap Base (Crystal OV): This melt and pour soap base from Stephenson is top quality.
Product Characteristics:
- Vegetable based
- 20% Olive Oil content
- Fantastic transparency enables bright colors
- High natural glycerin content
- Excellent foaming
- Excellent moisturizing from a high glycerin content which provides a pleasant skin feel
- Superior color stability even if kept at a high temperature for extended periods
- Neutral odor provides excellent fragrance lift
Ingredient List:
Water, Glycerin, Sodium Stearate, Propylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Sodium Laurate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Olivate (Olive Oil), Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, Stearic Acid, Lauric Acid, Pentasodium Pentetate, Tetrasodium Etidronate
Definitions of Ingredients:
- Water: Typically used as a carrier for the lye and evaporates out completely by the end of the process.
- Glycerin: A natural plant-based, moisturizing humectant for soap that draws moisture from the air to your skin to help keep skin hydrated.
- Sodium Stearate: Neutralized fatty acid, derived from plants, used to make a hard bar of soap.
- Propylene Glycol: A synthetic humectant that helps pull moisture to the skin and helps skin absorb nourishing ingredients like glycerin and shea butter.
- Sorbitol: A humectant that adds moisturizing benefits to the soap and helps draw moisture from the air to your skin to help keep skin hydrated.
- Sodium Laurate: Neutralized, plant-derived fatty acid that adds to the lather ability of soap.
- Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES): Milder surfactant than SLS that helps create a nice lather and is better for those with sensitive skin.
- Sodium Olivate: The sodium salt of olive oil’s fatty acids and contains unsaponifiables known to soften all skin types. Furthermore, this non-ionic emulsifier serves as an effective cleansing agent.
- Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS): Surfactant that helps create big fluffy bubbles in the lather to help with cleansing.
- Sodium Chloride: Salt, used to increase hardness and lather.
- Stearic Acid: Fatty acid derived from vegetable oils, used to make a harder bar of soap.
- Lauric Acid: Fatty acid derived from coconut oil.
- Pentasodium Pentetate: A chelating agent that helps pick up free metal ions in water, improving the soap’s lather and preventing them from damaging your skin or soap.
- Tetrasodium Etidronate: A chelating agent that helps pick up free metal ions in water, improving the soap’s lather and preventing them from damaging your skin or soap.
Goat Milk Soap Base Ingredients
Goat Milk Stephenson Melt and Pour Soap Base: This melt and pour soap base from Stephenson is top quality.
Product Characteristics:
- Opaque
- Color: White
- Lather: Medium
- Free of parabens, preservatives, PEG
Ingredient List:
Water, Glycerin, Sodium Stearate, Propylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Sodium Laurate, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Sodium Chloride, Stearic Acid, Goat's Milk, Lauric Acid, Titanium Dioxide, Pentasodium Pentetate, Tetrasodium Etidronate.
Definitions of Ingredients:
In addition to the Definition of Ingredients listed above, the additional two ingredients are in Goat Milk Soap.
- Goat's Milk: Rich in fatty acids that can help support a healthy skin barrier to keep skin nourished and moisturized. Moreover, its high lactic acid content may help exfoliate the skin, which may benefit those with acne.
- Titanium Dioxide: Natural ingredient that makes the soap base white.
