What ingredients do you use to make your soaps?
We use only rainwater, lye, and vegetable oils for our basic soaps. Herbs and essential oils will be added in herbal and scented soaps. Lye (sodium hydroxide) is the only inedible ingredient we have to add to complete the saponification process (a process that produces soap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saponification). Anyway, lye will not affect your skin because we keep our soaps with us for 4 weeks, until the saponification process has been completed and all the lye is converted into soap.
Do they smell good?
Yes, in a natural way they are. We do not add any fragrance that could make your skin dry and irritating. For some types of soap (Bamboo Grass Soap for example) we add some natural essential oils to make them smell better.
