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Top Benefits of Natural Handmade Soaps

How well do you know about what the commercial soaps you use day-to-day contain? What happens most often is that the ingredients in those products have unfamiliar and lengthy names hidden in almost unreadable fine print on a small label. The unfortunate case is that many commercial soaps contain ingredients that are harsh and negatively impact your skin and the environment.

As such, considering that these soaps are rubbed all over our skin, it’s best that we foster more concern for what we expose our skin to. And one way to eliminate our exposure to potentially harmful chemicals is to start incorporating organic, natural handmade soaps in your bathing routine!

Without further ado, let’s get into the article and break down some top benefits of natural handmade soaps and why natural soap is better and will always win in the natural soap vs commercial soap debate.

What is Natural Soap?

Natural handmade soaps contain natural ingredients. Their concoction is usually rich in nutrients, vitamins, and antioxidants. Many natural soaps normally consist of essential oils, blended butter, clays, and botanical extracts. Natural handmade soaps take longer time to produce than commercial soaps but they have much higher quality ingredients, and the utmost care that goes into them and the affinity that sensitive skin has for them make the added cost worth it. We suggest that you try out a variety of natural soaps to discover the one that will be ideal for your skin type and preferences.

Benefits of Natural Soap

Wondering if natural soap is better for your skin compared to commercial soap? You’re on the right train of thought because it sure is! Read on further to find out why.

Natural Soap is highly moisturizing

A major benefit of using natural soaps is that one of the by-products of the production process is glycerine. Glycerine is an incredible natural skin moisturizer because it attracts moisture from the air to itself in and around the skin. Natural soaps contain glycerine, so they do an excellent job of cleaning as well as hydrating the skin, whereas many commercial soaps tend to strip your skin dry, leaving an artificial feeling of squeaky clean.

Why is it so, you ask? It’s because commercial soaps usually undergo a process designed to remove the glycerine. Soaps that don’t contain glycerine can cause dryness and itchiness in skin, leaving your skin looking far from its best. Natural soaps, on the other hand, are made to retain glycerine and will leave your skin feeling moisturized and healthy-looking.

Why not try our bestseller natural soap: Rose Petals Goat Milk Soap?

Natural soap provides aromatherapy

Natural handmade soaps that are scented and made with pure essential oils offer aromatherapeutic benefits. With essential oils, their benefits go beyond just scent. You’ll know this once you start incorporating natural soaps in your bathing routine. Aromatherapy has various benefits from easing certain types of pain to reducing stress and improving sleep and relaxation.

The chemical composition that essential oils naturally have cannot be recreated in a laboratory. This is what we mean when we say that the benefits of essential oils are not just about scent. Sure, fragrance oils also smell great, but they’re artificially created, and even the ones that are derived from natural components, don’t provide the therapeutic benefits that essential oils do. As such, synthetic fragrance oils may imitate the scent of say, a flower, but they offer no aromatherapeutic value. Only natural essential oils contained in natural soaps are able to encourage certain neurochemicals to be released in the brain that positively impact the mind, body, and spirit.

Natural soap creates rich lather without synthetic foam boosters

We all love a rich bubbly lather. It’s no secret. But the problem is that our brains have been wired to associate how good a soap is with the amount of lather it produces. Well, we’re here to bust that myth and tell you that it’s a misconception. A very common misconception. The truth is that soap does not need to create a lot of lather for it to be a good soap. The instant lathering, foam and bubbles we’ve become familiar with are all because of surfactants- synthetic foam boosters, detergents, and lathering agents. The most prominent and common among these is Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS), which you’ll also usually find in toothpaste and shampoo products. They’re inexpensive ingredients to add to body cleansing products, hence why many commercial brands use them, but they’re very drying for the skin.

A properly formulated and carefully handcrafted bar of natural soap needs no additional synthetic foam boosters to create lather or clean effectively because natural soap is already a natural surfactant. As such, natural soap not only creates foamy lather and bubbles, but it does a great job of cleaning dirt, excess oil and other impurities from your skin- naturally! Natural ingredients such as coconut oil, castor oil as well as glycerine help a great deal in creating a silky, creamy lather that is so much richer than commercial soap.

Natural soap is rich in antioxidants

Because the ingredients used in natural handmade soaps include many that are natural antioxidants, and also because the process doesn’t extract these beneficial properties, natural soaps are great for repairing the skin. They do this by reducing any irritation or inflammation, maintaining skin hydration, and helping you achieve healthier and youthful looking skin. Natural soaps also have gentler pH levels, usually between 9 and 10, which greatly helps care for your skin in the long term.

With natural soap, you’ll be supporting a small business

If you’re here on our site reading this blog, you must already be somewhat aware of how important shopping from small businesses is. Your purchase really makes a difference. When you invest in natural handmade soaps, what you’re doing is supporting a small business that really cares about and has faith in the products they create. Small businesses are run by a humble team of real people- not by stockholders or boards and we deeply care about investing our best in our products so we can deliver optimal results to our customers.

Before concluding, we would like to add another reason to the question of “Why use natural handmade soaps”. Our simple final answer is, why not?

Why Choose The Herbal Blend?

If you’re looking for natural handmade soap brands in India, we’re here for you! At The Herbal Blend, we take utmost care to keep our process simple and minimal. We create small batch natural handmade soaps so that we can better oversee the entire process to ensure maximum authenticity, freshness, and consistency and deliver some of the best natural handmade soaps in India. Think of our soaps as pure nutritious goodness for your skin! Our skin-nourishing ingredients are naturally sourced, sustainably produced and cruelty free, whereas most commercial soaps are more like synthetic detergents that provide no natural benefits for skin.

We make our natural handmade soaps in small batches with naturally sourced materials such as pure plant-based oils, goat milk, etc. The result of our meticulous and carefully crafted soap-making process is a gentle, rich and moisturizing soap that offers creamy, silky lather, and leaves your skin feeling clean, soft, and healthy.

Here is a brief curated list of our best natural handmade soaps for your shopping pleasure: