Hi, please list the ingredients and if there is any warnings for this item. I would like to add it to soap. Thanks.
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The ingredients are the coconut oil and fragrance. I have added this item to a base of coconut oil for daily use after showering. I have also placed it in water for a mist for the bedroom.
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http://www.cpsc.gov/Business--Manufacturing/Business-Education/Business-Guidance/FHSA-Requirements/
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I threw away bottle for ingredient list but never had issues as an essential oil
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I don't know the exact ingredients for this product, but here's something I found on a site: "Black soap is made from the ash of locally harvested plants and barks such a plantain, cocoa pods, palm tree leaves, and shea tree bark. First the leaves and bark are sun-dried and then roasted in a kettle or pot at an even, constant temperature, which is important to ensure color, texture and smell. Then water and various oils - palm oil, coconut oil, palm kernel oil (including shea butter and cocoa pod powder) - are added to the mixture and stirred for at least a day. After that, the "soap" is left to set for two weeks to cure."
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No, do not cook with it. I bought this when I first started making soap, but now that I know how it's made, I won't even use it for soap making.
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No don't use it in your laundry soap. I've tried everything and oils make spots on your clothes and don't contribute to the smell that much. Message me back if you want more advice. I have been doing laundry soap for years and I have a great recipe.
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Hey Susi, this bar is made by Cal Ben Pure Soap. I checked the bars themselves but the ingredients are not written on the packaging, so I called the company today. They emailed me the ingredients just now, they are: 20% Cocoa Butter (Extra Virgin Copra Cocoanut Oil), U.S.P. Grade. 80% Vegetable Fat (Highest Grade Tallow Oil), a few drops Pure Almond Essential Oil Extract for essence. That's it! This is the only soap I've used for years, and the only soap I will continue to use. I really love it and can't recommend it highly enough.
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I can't add much more than the other responses; however, I do want to give agreement to not using antibacterial soap and either using insecticidal or very mild and/or organic liquid soap.
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No idea - the ingredients list is in Chinese which I do not read! I do know that it was sold for years at Whole Foods so you could contact them!?!? I love this soap - it cleans wonderfully without drying out my skin and washes off completely without leaving a residue - just an amazing, natural scent!
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Hi John! I use the soap as a part of my homemade detergent and I also have an HE washer. It works just fine for me!
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I would not recommend using it in soap as it is irritating to the skin. As well, I would not recommend using it in candles as I tried putting it in with melted wax in a melting pot and the scent was weak.
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I'm a soap maker myself, so I will help you understand what is going on here. Soap is made by combining fats (in this case, olive oil) and an alkaline substance (lye, dissolved in water). When combined, the ingredients undergo a chemical reaction called saponification. In this case, when the olive oil undergoes saponification, it becomes Sodium Olivate: a salt, which is the soap itself (there is no lye left over after the process). Glycerine is a natural byproduct of the saponification process, so yes this contains naturally occurring glycerin. Sea salt is often added to the soap recipe to boost lather (plain olive oil soap produces very little lather on its own); it also contributes to the hardness of the bar. So soap can indeed only have three ingredients. In fact, the added salt was not a necessary ingredient, so really a soap can conceivably have just two ingredients and still be soap. I hope this answers your question!
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I don't use this product for soap making. I use it for curing Olives so I won't be any help with your soap making project. Sorry.
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Sodium Palimate and/or Sodium Tallosate, water, Sodium Kernelate and/or Sodium Cocoate, Glycerin, Fragrance (but not noticeable), Sodium Chloride, Tallow Acid, Coconut Acid, Tetrasodiumedta,Sodium Hydroxide.Hope that helps. Even though I have hard water, this soap lathers up quite well.
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I am very sorry that I cannot help you with this problem. I have only made soap once and it was only about five months ago. Sorry
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Don't tell anyone, especially the soap companies that are scamming us, but all soap is antibacterial. First let's take a look at how soap works on a chemical level. To make soap, you need to combine an acid and a base (or alkali). The acid is fat (fatty acids and triglycerides), and the base is sodium hydroxide (NaOH). The mixture causes the fatty acids to separate from the triglycerides and fuse with the hydroxide ions, forming a salt that we call "soap." Soap has two main functions: Decrease water's surface tension Bind to dirt, oil and bacteria
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I am sorry! I don't do soap making! When I use these oils it will be for making hair care products. Sorry I was not much help.
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It smells like regular honey. My wife, kids and I now prefer this type of honey over the "regular" filtered store bought stuff. The consistency is a but thicker, but ultimately w prefer it. As far as adding it to soap.....I'd say it's worth a try but it tastes so good it seems like a waste of fine honey ;)
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Sorry, can't help. But I love this soap... I can appreciate a worry about allergies, etc. Good luck.