Good Clean Soap!

I found some good clean LOCALLY MADE soap from Austin Natural Soap! They are completely vegan and blended with ingredients like olive oil, palm oil, coconut oil, soybean, sunflower, jojoba oil, essential oils, vitamin E and the most interesting: ground dried loofah. While I initially thought loofah meant one of those fluffy scrubbing things you find at Walmart. This loofah actually refers to dried and ground up insides of a gourd! (Think squash.) Cool!

These are the two soaps I bought. The Padre Island Breeze reminds me of ocean and rain scented candles-but entirely natural. The Del Castillo soap is my favorite. Its aroma is very similar to the soap bars I use when in India. By the way, scents are wonderful memory triggers and are sometimes used for patients who have suffered from memory loss.

I also LOVE that the sale of this soap donates 10% of its proceeds to a local Austin band.

How Austin-y to add that the soaps are blended with peace and love... I love this hippie city. 

As I discussed in my last post, I considered making my own soap but the lye portion and pre-saponification of NaOH portions were just too toxic to make soap at home. These soaps were a great option instead. I loved the store also, it was a tiny little store near SOCO and the soap was made right there: Austin Natural Soap.  

Hope you too can find some locally made natural soap!

XOXO,

MissEcoChic