Ida's Soap Box

With the increasing concerns for healthy hair and a healthy environment, our natural shampoo bar sales have soared. As a result, we have been inundated with questions about how to successfully use a shampoo bar. If you are successfully using and enjoying our natural shampoo bars please share your experiences with our Chagrin Valley community.

Although we work hard to make products so that they are always available, despite our best efforts, there may be times when some items are out-of-stock. Since we often receive emails from customers asking us “why” items go out-of-stock, I thought it might be helpful to explain some of the more common reasons.

Essential oils are temperamental to work under any circumstance. While a natural essential oil scent blend may change a bit when combined with virgin oils in a cream, these blends are especially unpredictable when making cold processed natural soap. Why doesn't my new soap bar smell the same as the last one? After all my years of soapmaking in never ceases to amaze me just how much the actual soapmaking process changes the scent of an essential oil blend.

Somehow natural bar soap has come under fire as being a source of bacteria. Although sharing a bar of soap with your family may seem to be less hygienic than liquid soap, is that really true? As you place your soap bar under the faucet to create lather, you are actually cleaning the surface of the soap. How often do you clean the top of your liquid soap dispenser?