Natural soaps are made with natural ingredients. Natural soaps are usually made with rich oils that come from various plants.

Natural soaps are made with natural ingredients. Natural soaps are usually made with rich oils that come from various plants. These oils are rich in vitamins, nutrients, and antioxidants. Human skin, hair, and other parts of the body need these substances to grow and stay healthy.

Many natural soaps also have other beneficial ingredients added such as clay, salts, essential oils, and botanical extracts.
Handmade soaps take longer to make and usually use higher quality ingredients, hence the added cost, but they tend to be better for the skin.

Some consumers are put off by the cost of handmade soap. You’re probably looking at a bar of natural soap and wondering why it costs more.
Commercial soap companies don’t want natural oils in their soaps because they shorten the shelf life of the soaps. But without these oils, your skin isn’t properly moisturized. So, while a commercial soap may cost less, what happens to the cost once you add in the price of that cream and lotion, which are also full of chemicals, that you have to slather all over your dry skin.

Commercial soaps are mass-produced for efficiency, which means lots of units of the exact same size and composition. The focus is on profit, often at the expense of the health of the consumers who pay for them.     Where natural soaps differ, however, is in the lack of harmful ingredients and the abundance of beneficial ingredients contained in each bar. Natural handmade soaps, especially if they do not contain synthetic fragrances and dyes, are considered 100% natural products. The only chemical used in the production of natural soap is caustic soda, which is essential for the saponification process as it reacts with the fatty acids of vegetable oils and converts them into glycerin and soaps.

Another great advantage of natural soaps is that you can be sure that they do not harm any animals in the testing or production phase. The ingredients are almost always exclusively of plant origin, some soaps use animal fat or milk from an animal as an ingredient.

Natural soaps do not burden the environment with harmful ingredients or toxins.

The natural ingredients in most handmade soaps are biodegradable and do not harm the water cycle or the wildlife that share the water in our rivers, lakes, and oceans with us.

You will usually see that handmade soaps are packaged without plastic, while many commercial soaps come in single-use plastic bottles or plastic-lined boxes.

Buying natural soap from local businesses means supporting members of the community. Commercial soap companies often make their products in factories with machines, not people.