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Home > FAQ & Information > General Soap Terms and FAQ's > Natural Soap
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What is Natural Soap?
Natural Soap is defined many ways by many different companies/individuals. We differentiate our soaps as "all natural" when they contain no synthetic (man-made) materials or materials that cannot be found in nature. Example: most soaps contain "fragrance" which is a synthetic/man-made chemical. However, Essential Oils are the "natural" version of fragrance, in that, they are highly aromatic fluids taken from nature (plant leaf, flower petals, tree bark, etc.). We try to stay "as natural as possible" even when synthetic fragrances are used. Fragrance in some cases, is a "necessary evil", but that doesn't mean that we throw in a bunch of preservatives and dyes. We still try to use herbs/clays first, and if we cannot achieve a satisfactory color with these, we use water based pigments.
We recognize that there isn't really such a thing as "natural soap", technically speaking, since soap does not grow on trees or from the ground. Sure, we take elements from nature and mix them together to make something new, and yes we only minimally process these elements. However, we are creating a chemical reaction (saponification) to occur by mixing these elements, which some would therefore call a "chemical" and technically they are correct. With this technicality one might also suggest a loaf of bread is a "chemical" as well, since different elements are combined with a heat source to make something new. If someone goes to the supermarket, they might go to the bread aisle and look for the loaf of bread with less dough conditioners, preservatives etc. and look for high quality (more natural/less processed) ingredients. They may, in short, call the bread "natural", to encapsulate this idea. This may hold true for soap as well and perhaps this is why the FDA doesn't bother creating a definition of "natural" for products, leaving this up to the consumers to decide for themselves.
In the end one soap may be a bit more or less natural than another soap, and for each person it may be more the question of the larger (or smaller) ingredients and especially the processing (soap making method) that is real "teller" of the naturalness.
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