Enjoy our By the Sea Soap Shoppe "Island Summer" all year around, with memories of ocean and sand, wind and waves...

     The colours portray the sand, sea and sky, and the scent takes you back.

     This soap is also - I feel like I'm always repeating myself! - but it is what it is - this soap is, as our other soaps are, cleansing and moisturizing and healing with the continuing magic of coconut, olive and palm oils.

     No magic potions! Just the goodness of nature.

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Ingredients

Olive oil, Distilled water, Palm oil, Coconut oil, Lye, Fragrance, Colour (mica, iron oxide).
Vegan, all-natural ingredients
No parabens, sulfates, petrochemicals, artificial colours or synthetic fragrances

Benefits

 Coconut Oil: 

• Easily absorbed into the outer layer of your skin (called the epidermis)
• Helps to protect the outside layer of your skin from infection
• Repairs your skin barrier
• Helps to regulate how much water you lose through your skin
• Keeps your skin hydrated 

Olive Essential Oil

• Nourishes your skin, contains lots of Vitamins A, D, E and K
• It's an excellent antioxidant, helping to prevent skin damage and possibly preventing premature skin damage

Palm Oil:

• Antioxidant - fighting free radicals that cause premature aging
• Nourishes your skin with carotenes, Vitamin E and other nutrients
• Contains lots of Vitamins A, D, E and K
• High Vitamin E content which helps with skin conditions such as eczema, acne and dermatitis
• Moisturizing

    Size

     Because the bars are handmade, you can expect to see slight differences in the size and weight. After the soap is made, it needs to cure for at least one month. However, after it's cured, some of the moisture in the bar continues to evaporate out. The bar shrinks a little; enough that the label we've wrapped around the bar becomes a bit loose and the weight decreases a little. The bar gets harder, and this is actually better. There is nothing lost from the soap, and it will not dissolve as quickly when it does get wet in a shower or bath. 

     Each bar is approximately 2 1/2 in. x 2 1/2 in. x 1 in. - or 6 cm. x 6 cm. x 2 cm. Weight is between 3.5 and 4 oz., or between 99 and 113 grams. 

     Please note that because this soap is handmade, the appearance of the soap may not be exactly as pictured. 

   Lye

     Some of you might be wondering, "Lye? Isn’t lye dangerous? Won’t it harm my skin?”

     First - all actual soap is made with lye. No lye, no soap. (A lot of "soap products" in the stores are actually detergent. If you look at the labels, they are not called "soap". They are called "hand wash" or "body cleanser" or some such thing.)

     This could become a chemistry lesson, but to make it short - soap is made from lye, fats and liquid. When the lye mixes with the fats and liquid, some kind of chemical reaction goes on, and the lye and fats change into soap and glycerin. In the process, the lye is all used up. Even though lye is used to make the soap, there is no lye left in the soap at all.

     This is why soap made with lye is not dangerous, and it definitely won’t hurt your skin.

     Let's talk about  Oxide Powders - they sound like some kind of weird chemicals, doesn't they? 

     Oxide powders are made from types of metal oxides which make up most of the earth's crust.

     So they ARE natural! 

     They are formed with metals react with oxygen from the air or water. It's what turns iron red, and copper rooves green etc. There are many colours of oxides; they are used widely from paints to ink, or colorants for rubber and paper, cosmetics and even soap.  

    Soap is never naturally white. Titanium dioxide helps to make soap white; another natural oxide. 

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