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Simple Treasures Soap a far cry from Grandma’s lye creations
Tue, Apr 5th, 2011
Posted in Stewartville Health & Wellness
Posted in Stewartville Health & Wellness
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We’ve seen dozens of commercials for the best name brand soaps in the business, but are these soaps really as good for the skin as companies say they are? According to Maxine VanDeWalker, owner of the Bank Gift House in Wykoff and creator of her personal line of soaps, they most certainly are not.
Maxine has been making her line of soaps for over 16 years, and her own kitchen and a climate-controlled bedroom have been home to roughly 60 different scents of homemade soap bars. She began making soaps when she realized her and her family still had dry skin after using many kinds of soaps. After four to six months of trying to find the right combination of ingredients, the “Simple Treasures Soap” collection was born.
Many of the liquid and bars soaps that are used today are more like detergents; they are great at cleaning up dirts and oils. But people have oils in the skin that are needed to keep skin fresh and moisturized. So really, we are getting rid of our body’s natural oils when we use most soaps! Maxine’s soaps, on the other hand, do not contain ingredients to get rid of oils. In fact, they are made of oils to nurture and sooth even the driest skin.
Unlike commercial soaps, Maxine does not use tallow, or animal fat. Instead, she uses natural oils. In every bar of soap is a mixture of olive, coconut, and palm oils, cocoa butter, and sweet almond oil. Depending on the scent and color, other natural ingredients are included. Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, is added to help give the soap its solid state. Lye also combines with the oils to concoct glycerine. Glycerine is a substance that most commercial soaps actually take out of their products, but it’s extremely good for the skin. A few of the soaps in the collection are imbued with oatmeal, cornmeal, or fine sand for more exfoliation. This is helpful to get rid of dry, flaky skin, but also to help the oils sink deeper for a more moisturizing experience. If dry scalp is a problem, these soaps make the perfect shampoo and conditioner. The soaps themselves are the perfect combination of gentle and sudsy, and are great for any skin type, sensitive or not.
Just because these soaps are good for the skin, doesn’t mean they’re not good for other things. There are soaps specially made for mechanics and gardeners to get rid of the dirts and oils commonly found in these activities. An anise oil soap .....
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Maxine has been making her line of soaps for over 16 years, and her own kitchen and a climate-controlled bedroom have been home to roughly 60 different scents of homemade soap bars. She began making soaps when she realized her and her family still had dry skin after using many kinds of soaps. After four to six months of trying to find the right combination of ingredients, the “Simple Treasures Soap” collection was born.
Many of the liquid and bars soaps that are used today are more like detergents; they are great at cleaning up dirts and oils. But people have oils in the skin that are needed to keep skin fresh and moisturized. So really, we are getting rid of our body’s natural oils when we use most soaps! Maxine’s soaps, on the other hand, do not contain ingredients to get rid of oils. In fact, they are made of oils to nurture and sooth even the driest skin.
Unlike commercial soaps, Maxine does not use tallow, or animal fat. Instead, she uses natural oils. In every bar of soap is a mixture of olive, coconut, and palm oils, cocoa butter, and sweet almond oil. Depending on the scent and color, other natural ingredients are included. Sodium hydroxide, also known as lye, is added to help give the soap its solid state. Lye also combines with the oils to concoct glycerine. Glycerine is a substance that most commercial soaps actually take out of their products, but it’s extremely good for the skin. A few of the soaps in the collection are imbued with oatmeal, cornmeal, or fine sand for more exfoliation. This is helpful to get rid of dry, flaky skin, but also to help the oils sink deeper for a more moisturizing experience. If dry scalp is a problem, these soaps make the perfect shampoo and conditioner. The soaps themselves are the perfect combination of gentle and sudsy, and are great for any skin type, sensitive or not.
Just because these soaps are good for the skin, doesn’t mean they’re not good for other things. There are soaps specially made for mechanics and gardeners to get rid of the dirts and oils commonly found in these activities. An anise oil soap .....
[Read the Rest]
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