_Soap Spot is handcrafted, homemade soap located in Hartwell, Georgia. We have an interesting variety of soaps available for your everyday use, or for giving as gifts for special occasions. Birthdays, Christmas, Hanukkah, Easter, Thank-you, weddings, anniversaries, Valentines Day, ANY day is a good day to give soap!
_ Your skin deserves the best care you can give it. After all, it is the largest organ of your body. Handcrafted soap is the best soap you can use on your skin. Period.
Ann Bramson, in her book Soap, says, “Where the hard pastel-colored bars sold at the drugstore are anonymous and indifferent, homemade soap has character. It charms…it smells good…feels good…is comforting in ways which manufactured soap can never be.”
She is so right! If you've never tried a bar of real natural hand made soap, you’re in for a real treat! Handcrafted soap contains glycerin, the natural by-product of a process known as soap saponification (a natural chemical reaction that was discovered in ancient days.)
Glycerin is wonderful at maintaining the skin’s natural moisture during cleansing. Despite this wonderful benefit, soap manufacturers remove glycerin from soaps because it is very valuable in the global economy. It is a vital component in a number of manufactured products including medications, ink, cosmetics, explosives, lubricants, etc. At the expense of our skin, soap manufacturers extract the glycerin from soaps we purchase from our local stores to make more expensive products. That is why store-bought soap is drying to the skin. Handcrafted soap, on the other hand, is very good for the skin because it retains the moisturizing glycerin. Good stuff!
Since handcrafted soap contains glycerin, it needs to be stored in a dry location such as a wire basket. If it sits in water, the glycerin will seep out. This will not affect the soap: you will just lose some of the wonderful glycerin.
Some of the cold processed soaps have to age (cure) a minimum of three weeks (some a minimum of four to six weeks), so all soaps may not be available at all times. If the kind of soap you want is not available immediately, it is only a matter of a few weeks until you can have the soap you want.
Hot processed soap, on the other hand, needs no curing time since the complete saponification process occurs as it is made.
Some soaps are made using a cold process/oven process, and curing time depend on the combination of ingredients in that particular soap.
Some soaps are better when made by a particular process; some soaps can be made either way.
Like us on Facebook/ Soap Spot - Handcrafted Soap and follow on Twitter @SherieRo
Ann Bramson, in her book Soap, says, “Where the hard pastel-colored bars sold at the drugstore are anonymous and indifferent, homemade soap has character. It charms…it smells good…feels good…is comforting in ways which manufactured soap can never be.”
She is so right! If you've never tried a bar of real natural hand made soap, you’re in for a real treat! Handcrafted soap contains glycerin, the natural by-product of a process known as soap saponification (a natural chemical reaction that was discovered in ancient days.)
Glycerin is wonderful at maintaining the skin’s natural moisture during cleansing. Despite this wonderful benefit, soap manufacturers remove glycerin from soaps because it is very valuable in the global economy. It is a vital component in a number of manufactured products including medications, ink, cosmetics, explosives, lubricants, etc. At the expense of our skin, soap manufacturers extract the glycerin from soaps we purchase from our local stores to make more expensive products. That is why store-bought soap is drying to the skin. Handcrafted soap, on the other hand, is very good for the skin because it retains the moisturizing glycerin. Good stuff!
Since handcrafted soap contains glycerin, it needs to be stored in a dry location such as a wire basket. If it sits in water, the glycerin will seep out. This will not affect the soap: you will just lose some of the wonderful glycerin.
Some of the cold processed soaps have to age (cure) a minimum of three weeks (some a minimum of four to six weeks), so all soaps may not be available at all times. If the kind of soap you want is not available immediately, it is only a matter of a few weeks until you can have the soap you want.
Hot processed soap, on the other hand, needs no curing time since the complete saponification process occurs as it is made.
Some soaps are made using a cold process/oven process, and curing time depend on the combination of ingredients in that particular soap.
Some soaps are better when made by a particular process; some soaps can be made either way.
Like us on Facebook/ Soap Spot - Handcrafted Soap and follow on Twitter @SherieRo