Pumpkin Oil Properties

Pumpkin seed oil and pumpkin pulp are absolutely packed full of properties thought to be useful for skin regeneration and rejuvenating, rich in vitamins A, C, and E essential fatty acids, and antioxidants. Pumpkin seed oil and Pumpkin pulp are traditionally both known to be especially well suited for their ability to soothe inflamed skin, skin sores, eczema and psoriasis.

The viscous oil is light green to dark red in colour depending on the thickness of the sample. Used together with yoghurt, the colour turns to bright green and is sometimes referred to as "green-gold".

Pumpkin seed oil has an intense nutty taste and is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. Brown oil has a bitter taste. Pumpkin seed oil serves as a salad dressing when combined with honey or olive oil. The typical Styrian dressing consists of pumpkin seed oil and cider vinegar. But the oil is also used for desserts, giving ordinary vanilla ice cream an exquisite nutty taste. Using it as a cooking oil, however, destroys its essential fatty acids.

Wonderful Shea Butter

Preparing the skin for the harshness of the months ahead is important. Prevention is always easier than trying to cure, so there's no point in waiting until dry skin reaches a critical point - keeping skin soft now will make the cold winter months more comfortable. Shea butter is a wonderful way to help with this.

Unrefined shea butter is very versatile, and has excellent soothing, moisturizing and anti-aging properties. It also has a characteristic "nutty" scent to it, that disappears after about twenty minutes on the skin. Shea butter has been used for dry skin by African healers centuries. It is high in non-saponifiables and has a unique fatty acid profile. Together, this makes for an incredible ability to moisturize and retain the skin's elasticity.

It also helps to protect the skin against damage done by the sun. It repairs degenerated cells, and its vitamin A content makes it a true friend to excema, dermatitis, and skin blemishes.

The unrefined butter is thick, and easily melts when rubbed between the palms. A little goes a long long way. Then almost as fast as it melted between your hands it's gone, leaving behind a soft silkiness of protection that soothes cracks and eases dryness.

Sunflower Power

It is believed that around 5,000 years ago (3,000 B.C.), in what is present day New Mexico and Arizona, the sunflower was domesticated into a single headed plant with varying seed colors including black, white, red and the familiar black and white striped.

Sunflower oil is utilized widely today in cooking, but also as a carrier oil for massage. It is chemically stable and therefore excellent as a base for natural balms, lotions and creams. It is easily absorbed and contains skin-adoring vitamins A and D, and more vitamin E than any other vegetable oil. It also has calcium, iron, zinc and phosphorous, minerals which help nourish and revitalize, while the oil moisturizes, softens, heals and protects.

Milk Chocolate Soap

Are the dark chocolate bars too rich and powdery? Try this milk chocolate version with just a hint of chocolate cocoa topping and loaded with real cocoa butter.

Sea Salt and Charcoal Detox bar

Our Salt and Sea Detox bar is packed with sea salt, clay and charcoal to help balance the skins moisture and complexion, and to help draw out toxins. Loaded with Olive Oil it is naturally rich in vitamin E. This is a luxury spa experience wrapped into a bar of soap.

Lush Lavender

This classic bar is rich with olive oil and natural Vitamin E & glycerin. Creamy smooth with shea butter, this silky bar is topped with real dried lavender flowers to enhance this aromatherapy inspired bar.

Olive Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Water, Coconut Oil, Shea Butter, Sodium Hydroxide, Lavender Essential Oil, Lavender Flowers.

4 Your Paws Only

A creamy blend for your 4 legged friend. With Tea Tree Oil, Vitamin E, extra vegetable glycerin, Olive oil, coconut oil. Leaves your pet's coat soft and silky with a nice fresh outdoorsy smell.

Chocolate Bubble Bar

Floating inside a real cocoa powder olive bar are pink and green bubbles for your skin to play with. The cocoa powder gently exfoliates and polishes your skin while the olive oil conditions.

Skin Care with Handmade Natural Soap

1. Cleanse
The first step in great skin care is the cleansing of skin with all natural ingredients of handmade soap that work with your skins natural oils to enhance skin rejuvenation.

2. Exfoliant
Use a soap with an exfoliant that gently scrubs away old dead skin an allows newer skin to come forward. Oatmeal, popppyseed and ground almonds are typical natural exfoliants.

3. Moisturize
The natural glycerin that remains in handmade soap is the best natural moisturizer available to your skin when cleansing. Remember, commercial soap has all of the natural glycerin removed as part of their soapmaking processes. You can then buy it back in their moisturizers.

4. Nourish
Your skin is nourished from the natural oils, minerals and nutrients that are available only in natural soaps. These ingredients remain in handmade soap as they are not removed during the harsh chemical processes of commercial soap making. Olive oil, shea butter, coconut oil and soy are typical ingredients that retain all of their natural properties in handmade soap.

5.Protection
The natural oils your skin produces are an effective protection for your skin against all the pollutants, weather, air conditioning/heating that attack our skin every day. When using commercial soap these natural oils that our own bodies produce are stripped away, leaving our skin especially susceptible to our modern day stress and environment.

Oatmeal and Lemon bars

Finely ground oatmeal gently polishes your skin without harsh scrubbing. Olive and grapeseed oils gently moisturize. The fragrance of Lemongrass adds some zing to your shower and the hint of patchouli mellows you out.

Olive Oil, Water, Coconut Oil, Grapeseed Oil, Palm Kernel Oil, Sodium Hydroxide, Oatmeal, Lemon Zest, Lemongrass Essential Oil, Patchouli Essential Oil.

Do You Use Natural Soap?

Remember fourth grade science class where we learned that our skin is our largest organ. How do you treat your skin? Do you go down to the local superstore and buy whatever soap is on sale? Would you bathe in petroleum products or eat sugary crispy sawdust cereal just because it was on sale? This is how most Americans treat their skin. If I could only give one piece of advice to the average soap consumer, please try a natural handmade soap. They are more expensive but usually last much longer than commercial bars. Don’t just try mine, try someone else’s. I am so convinced you will notice a tremendous difference in the feel and appearance of your skin you will never want go back to mass produced bars again.