Beautiful Lemongrass and Sage Olive Oil Soap from Batty's Bath
I recently made the mistake of taking a quick saunter down the beauty aisle of the grocery store. I have been pretty tight on time lately, and the soap situation in the shower was becoming situation critical. I was down to my last sliver.
Since both my skin and nose are super sensitive to artificial “natural” fragrance, soap and body wash purchases are a little tricky and I generally use all natural or handcrafted products. So to purchase via Stop & Shop meant that things were getting desperate.
I settled on something that I felt would be the least noxious, Ivory. 99 and 1/100ths or whatever pure! I used it when I was a baby! When Manly Man Husband saw it in the bag, he groaned and refused to use it.
About a week after using it, the skin on my upper arms started getting dry and flaky, and Manly Man Husband taunted me with a chorus of “I told you sos.”
Yup, Ivory was completely drying me out (and itchy too). Commercial soap is not soap. It’s detergent. And detergent and skin just aren’t friends.
Yesterday, I came across this excellent post by Jamie, who runs Batty’s Bath, a lovely handmade soap company that you can find on Etsy. Want to know how commercial soap is different from hand-crafted? Check out her post.
You will never look at Ivory the same again! 99 and whatever percent pure my ass.
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You said it girl!!!
Ha! My bf REFUSES to use anything but Ivory and it drives me nuts. I used to use it (like, in high school) because it was cheap and not overly scented, but I never liked how my skin felt and it disappeared instantly – the BF goes through a whole package in the time it takes me to get through a bar of my natural soap. If I have to choose a grocery-store brand I go with unscented Dove, that’s good stuff.
I LOVE soap, but honestly I usually buy it for the looks. Usually anything in a pretty wrapper or some fancy French name will end up in my decor, while my rugged hand crafted stuff pampers me in the shower. One of my all time fave’s is SimplySoap.com. It rocks my world!
Lydia, I am the SAME way with soap. I love the small ones in the pretty packages too. Just don’t open them!
Ginger, a friend on Facebook actually recommended the Dove too. I used it AGES ago, when I was a teen, and hated it. In the interest of blog research, I may have to revisit.
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