Soap, Silk and so much more
Most people over the age of 50 think of their teen years, and the softest knit sweater on the planet, made from the wool of cashmere sheep. Or they think of a scented soap that was wildly popular for a season because it smelled clean, …
The memories people share of making homemade soap years ago is perhaps far from the modern method of soap making and handcrafting cold process soap. We are pleased to say the process is efficient, and the product is vegan, with no animal products used.
Until the early 1980s almost every bathroom had a few bars of soap… commercially made, bought in bulk from the grocery store. TV commercials advocated virtues to using these bars of soap, and fed us a myth that if we used that soap we would develop special qualities…. beyond clean and fresh. It was the heyday of brands like Irish Spring, Dial, and Dove. Bar soap dominated the market, and we all used them. Then it happened – the advent of the liquid soap movement, and the antibacterial soap movement saw the ever expanding shelf displays of bottled liquid soap, of antibacterial soap. The media whipped a frenzy of thoughts about how much bacteria was out there, and how we need to sanitize, to bomb our skin with antibacterial soaps. And we did.
I eat breakfast with an old friend periodically, and in our conversation she looked into my eyes and said, how do you handle it all? You seem so organized and you seem to have every detail of your life in order. Inside my head, I …
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