Chamomile, Chickweed & Cocoa Butter Soap

Intention: a luscious, creamy body soap that will soothe your dry itchy skin! 

Ingredients: Olive Oil, Water, Coconut Oil, Tallow, Sodium Hydroxide, Rice Bran Oil, Cocoa Butter, Castor Oil, Chamomile, Chickweed

Why We Used These Ingredients:

• Olive Oil - antioxidants, oleic acids and polyphenols, moisturizing & creamy lather
• Coconut Oil - cleansing, high in vitamin C, high in lauric acid and antimicrobial
• Rice Bran Oil - antioxidants; emollient;  improves skin moisture
  
• Tallow - traditional fat used in soap making that is rendered from healthy pasture-raised cows from rural WNY; high oleic, palmitic and stearic acids; is very similar to our skin sebum/fat

• Sodium Hydroxide (Lye) - a caustic/alkaline reagent that, when mixed with fats and water,  will react (saponify) to create soap. Once cured, a properly made bar of soap will have no lye left in it when finished: it has been converted into soap.

• Cocoa Butter - moisturizing creamy lather and adds hardness to soap
• Castor Oil - high in ricinoleic acid; boosts bubbles; healing and anti-inflammatory
• Chamomile - anti-inflammatory and healing
• Chickweed - healing and emollient (soothes and softens external tissues)

Use:  Use as a full body soap; great for dry skin