Does It Really Lather????

I get this question and others all the time about my handmade soaps, especially at shows. I’m not sure why people think it doesn’t lather. In fact, depending on the oils used, some of them really make a lot of suds.

Does your soap contain lye? Yes. You cannot achieve real soap without it. Oil (fatty acids) and water do not mix, so you need an alkali (lye) to achieve this. Soapmaking is a chemical reaction.
When made properly, no lye remains in the finished product.

Not all handmade soaps are created equal, though. The percentages of oils used are extremely important to produce a mild and gentle soap so as not to be too harsh on the skin. Once someone has tried handmade soap, there's no going back to that other stuff.

Why does handmade natural soap cost so much?
Well, the ingredients used to produce our handmade soaps are quality ingredients. Making natural soap can be very labor intensive, especially when making and designing soaps such as Bourne In Style soaps.

Secondly, what are you comparing our handmade soap to? Our soaps are priced very competitively with other natural soaps. It's more expensive than commercial soaps but most commercial soaps extract many of the most useful ingredients in their soap while producing thousands of pounds of soap at the same time. For instance, glycerin, which is important for moisturizing your skin, is extracted from commercial soaps and sold to other manufacturers to put in their lotions and creams to treat the conditions commercial soaps can cause in the first place. So if you use commerical soap which creates a skin condition, then buy a product to treat that condition, you've generally spent more than you would have had you bought our handmade soap in the first place.

So, yes, it does lather, it's made with lye, but it's cheaper in the long run and much better for your skin.

So lather up, "in style"!