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Benefits of using Soaps with Organic Ingredients

03/11/2013 10:50

Most soaps we use today have chemicals in them that we never even hear of. And many of the natural ingredients come from places that uses pesticides, chemical fertilizers, and herbicides. If you want healthier alternatives for your skin, use soaps that uses organic ingredients. Using organic soaps, help reduces or avoids many skin conditions. Soaps with chemicals have a tendency to dry out your skin and irritate sensitive skin as well. Organic soaps leave the glycerin in the soap which is highly hygroscopic that draws moisture out of the air to your skin. It moisturizes the skin. Companies usually remove the glycerin when they make soap to be used in their more profitable creams and lotions. Common organic ingredients you may find in organic soap include the following:

  • Organic Aloe
  • Organic Oats
  • Organic Peppermint
  • Organic Prickly Pear Cactus

Common natural ingredients you may find in organic soap include the following:

  • Cinnamon
  • Olive Oil
  • Goats Milk
  • Wild Carrot
  • Sea Salt
  • Essential Oils
  • Sunflower Seeds
  • Sunflower Petals
  • Wild Horsemint
  • Wild Yucca Root
  • Moroccan Red Clay
  • Unrefined African Shea Butter

You are helping the environment by using organic soaps because they don't use chemicals or hormones when raising and harvesting plants. Organic ingredients are traditionally grown without the use of chemicals, including pesticides that pollute our air, run into our water supplies, and become embedded in our soil. Instead, organic ingredients are harvested in a way that is actually beneficial to our entire ecosystem. We have a line of soaps from Nubian Heritage that uses ingredients that are Organic Certified. Please check them out.