Showing posts with label natural soaps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label natural soaps. Show all posts

Friday, January 9, 2026

Which Essential Oils Have Benefits in Natural Soap Bars

 Natural Handcrafted Soap Company uses a wide range of essential oils in its bars, especially citrus, floral, herbal, and resinous types that add natural scent and potential skin and aromatherapy benefits. These oils can support cleansing, clarify or soothe skin, and provide an aromatic experience without synthetic fragrance.

Which Essential Oils Have Benefits in Natural Soap Bars- Grandma’s Natural Handcrafted Soap Company

Essential oils this brand uses

From the company’s own ingredient listings, common essential oils in its natural soap bars include: Citrus: Tangerine, grapefruit, lemon, lime, orange

Meticulously crafted from a delightful blend of Florida’s tangerines, Valencia oranges, and Brazilian Orange-Lime.  Natural Handcrafted Soap

Florals: Jasmine, lavender, rose, lilac

Floral Luxurious Soap Scents
Indulge in the exquisite world of Floral Luxurious Soap Scents, where nature meets luxury in every lather. Immerse yourself in the delicate aromas of fresh flowers and botanicals, carefully curated to pamper your senses and elevate your bathing experience

Herbs & mints: Lemongrass, rosemary, spearmint, peppermint, tea tree

Bar with Organic Lemongrass Oil, Refreshing and Stimulating Scent
Experience the refreshing and stimulating scent of lemongrass with our Lemongrass Soap with Cocoa Butter. This handmade soap is perfect for all skin types, especially oily skin. Lemongrass, a grass in the same family as citronella, is known for its lemony scent and flavor, often used in delicious spicy hot Thai soups.

Earthy/resinous: Patchouli, vanilla

Handmade Soap Volcanic Ash and Patchouli for  Beautiful, Young, and Healthy Skin

Botanicals: chamomile, lavender flowers, rose petals, sea moss, clays, and sea salts for added texture and benefits.

Sea Kelp Moss Soap Natural with Chamomile and Organic Spirulina  
Experience the refreshing and invigorating scent of the ocean with our Sea Kelp Moss Soap.

General benefits in soap bars

In natural soap, essential oils typically:​

  • Add natural aroma for a pleasant, spa-like sensory experience and basic aromatherapy (calming, energizing, focusing).
  • Support the skin’s barrier by helping maintain normal pH and complementing moisturizing oils in the bar.
  • Provide functional properties such as antioxidant, mildly antimicrobial, or soothing activity depending on the oil (for example, tea tree or rosemary).

Examples of specific oils and uses

  • Lavender: Often used for normal to dry or sensitive skin and to promote a relaxing, calming scent before bed.​
  • Citrus (orange, lemon, grapefruit, lime, tangerine): Give a fresh, energizing scent; commonly marketed for brightening, anti-acne or anti-wrinkle positioning in citrus bars.​
  • Tea tree: Popular in face or body soaps intended for blemish‑prone areas because of its strong, clean and antimicrobial character.​
  • Peppermint and spearmint: Provide a cooling, refreshing feel and invigorating aroma, often used in morning or “wake‑up” bars.​
  • Patchouli and vanilla: Contribute deeper, warm, grounding aromas and are frequently paired with woods or citrus in more complex bars.​

Why choose essential-oil soaps

Compared with synthetic fragrances, essential-oil scented soaps:​

  • Keep the bar more naturally derived and aligned with “clean beauty” preferences.
  • Reduce reliance on artificial perfume while still giving a lasting scent in the shower.
  • Offer targeted mood effects (relaxing lavender, uplifting citrus, clarifying mint) alongside gentle cleansing.

If you share your skin type (dry, oily, sensitive, mature), a short list of bar types and essential oil combinations from this company can be suggested for you specifically.

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Christmas and Winter Gift Natural Soap

 

Shop our handmade Christmas and Winter gift soap products at GRANDMAS NATURAL HANDCRAFTED SOAP. We offer handmade soap gifts, holiday scents, and unscented soaps. From milk to peppermint, almond, and everything Holiday in between, we have a handmade soap gift for everyone on your Christmas list.

 This Christmas soap gift set is boxed, all in the 4 scents of fresh.

Four Beloved Winter Scents: Enjoy the refreshing winter-inspired fragrances of Fresh  Christmas.

This Christmas, indulge in the luxury of floral soap.

Our carefully curated collection of limited-edition fragrances, exquisite soaps, and gift sets is the perfect way to celebrate the season.

and more…

Buy 12 Bar for Stocking Stuffers – 12 Gift Set Soaps with individual wrap ideas vary in scent and colors for Christmas.

Shop our most popular stocking stuffers handmade here Find cool, unique handmade soaps perfect for stocking fillers for men, women, and kids.

Is soap a good Christmas gift?

Let’s face it, we all need to wash our bodies- and for this reason, soap makes an excellent practical gift. But while it’s certainly functional, soap can be luxurious too.

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What soap did they use in a Christmas story?

Santa Lucia Borba (Elise’s Grandmother) was a farmer’s daughter from Borba, born in Italy 1904. She moved to Brazil in 1917 from her home in Tuscany, Italy where she had to learn to (make soap from scratch) and essential oils from the plants out of necessity.  After years of making soap for her 13 children, her family finally convinced her to open a small soap shop in Sao Paulo Brazil where she made soaps with her family for 25 years, those soap recipes found their way to North Carolina, when I went back to Brazil for Christmas and asked grandmother for food recipes to bring back to North Carolina. While looking through boxes of recipes we came across all her old soap and essential oil recipes.

Find us here: NaturalHandcraftedSoap.com

Gift Basket – Holidays!