 Internal Cleansing Systems
Pure-Castile Soap contains both Aloe & Aloe
essential oils to create a soothing and harmonizing
bathing experience for the body and mind. Supermild Castile has outstanding
water softening and cleansing powers, preferable to
harsh soap & defattening synthetics. It does not
cut dirt, but dissolves it. It is the mildest, most
pleasant soap you have ever used.
Soap is made by saponifying a fat or
oil with a strong alkali. A fat or oil is a
triglyceride, which means that three fatty acids of
various carbon lengths are attached to a glycerine
backbone. The strong alkali is either sodium (for
bars) or potassium (for liquids) hydroxide. The
saponification process is a simple one-step reaction
with no waste generated: the glycerine is split off
from the fatty acids, and the fatty acids combine with
the sodium or potassium to form soap, while the
hydroxide forms water. The result is soap, glycerin
and water (no alkali remains).
Quality soap-making consists in
great part in choosing the right proportions of the
right oils with their different fatty acids. Most
commercial soaps skimp on quality because of cost, and
use lots of tallow from beef fat with a little bit of
coconut or palm kernel oil. Our unsurpassed soaps use
olive, hemp, and palm oils instead of tallow, and use
three to four times more coconut oil than commercial
soaps. Saponified coconut oil generates high-lather
cleansing even in hard water because it has
shorter-chain saturated fatty acids. Hemp, olive, and
palm based soaps make a mild, smooth, creamy lather,
because these oils contain longer chain unsaturated
and polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Internal Cleansing Systems makes a
higher quality soap in other ways as well. Unlike most
commercial soapmakers who distill the glycerin out of
their soaps to sell, we retain it in our soap for its
superb moisturizing qualities. We also superfat our
soap with olive fatty acid, which both ensures that
there is no free alkali, and lowers the pH, making a
milder, smoother lather. We use rosemary extract and
plant-derived vitamin antioxidants to protect
freshness (the rosemary is effective at 0.005%, so it
contributes absolutely no scent). We do not add any
chelating agents, dyes, whiteners, or synthetic
fragrances.
We use only 100% pure high quality
essential oils. Our liquid soaps are so concentrated
that they are only a few percent away from being a
solid, which ecologically saves on packaging
materials. They are a superb value, costing less than
less-concentrated inferior detergent body-wash "liquid
soaps." |
