Description

Shea Butter Soap Loaf

Shea Butter Soap Loaf

Take a look at these hand-crafted Olive Oil Artisan soaps.

Shea butter contains Vitamin E, which may improve the elasticity of the skin and prevent dryness. It soothes the skin and its pleasing smell relaxes. It is also an excellent cell regenerator and may prevent skin ageing and wrinkles.

Olive Oil soaps, one of the first vegetable made soaps. They are hand-made using traditional cold process making method and are also SLS and parabens free.

The natural fat may help to provide protection, improve skin tone, softness and youth of skin through restructuring oil action.

Soap loaves, shrink-wrapped with an outer label containing product information and If in doubt about label requirements please consult your local Trading Standards department.

PLEASE NOTE: Our soaps are hand-made and the colour or design may slightly vary from the pictures shown.

Take a look also to our  Jojoba Olive Oil Artisan Soap Loaf.

History

Ancient Middle East

The earliest recorded evidence of the production of soap-like materials dates back to around 2800 BC in ancient Babylon.

A formula for soap consisting of:  water, alkali, and cassia oil.

It was written on a Babylonian clay tablet around 2200 BC.

The Ebers papyrus (Egypt, 1550 BC) indicates the ancient Egyptians bathed regularly and combined animal and vegetable oils with alkaline salts to create a soap-like substance.

Egyptian documents mention a similar substance used in the preparation of wool for weaving.

Box for Amigo del Obrero (Worker’s Friend) soap from the 20th century, a part of the Museo del Objeto collection

Ancient China

A detergent similar to soap manufactured in ancient China from the seeds of Gleditsia sinensis. In addition, another traditional detergent is a mixture of pig pancreas and plant ash called “Zhu yi zi”.

True soap, made of animal fat, did not appear in China until the modern era. After all, soap-like detergents were not as popular as ointments and creams.