Ida's Soap Box Blog

Your shampoo technique may be critical to ensuring success with a natural shampoo bar. If you are enjoying our natural shampoo bars please share your experiences with our Chagrin Valley community.

Don’t be fooled by pretty packaging and "natural" logos. Sadly, many companies are not selling "organic" or "natural" products, they are simply selling the WORDS "organic" and "natural."

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.

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?

Why we named our company  "Chagrin Valley Soap & Salve?" The majestic beauty of the nature that surrounds me in the Chagrin Valley was and continues to be, my inspiration for "all things natural."

Natural Fragrance oils, made in a laboratory by isolating single aromatic components from the complex scent of an essential oil, lack the aromatherapeutic effect of true essential oils.