Soap making is like meditation. Whether I am making soap, or body creme, I get in a zone. Runners get in a zone. Artists get in a zone. Writers get in a zone. It is so peaceful to get in that place. I think that is why I am so passionate about soap making. It gives me peace, and all other thoughts are pushed out of my brain. The zone is something that gives me peace, but the final outcome of my product is so rewarding.
Until I starting reading about soap making, I had no idea what ingredients were in the soap my family used. I read an article about a small soap making business run by two women on the east coast. This peaked my interest in soap making because they talked about the natural ingredients in their soap, and how their children helped them pick the petals off of flowers to include in their soap.
I then purchased some books about soap making, and other books about essential oils and their properties. Essential oils are the essences that are extracted from bark, leaves, petals, resins, rinds, roots, seeds, stalks and stems of aromatic plants through distillation or expression. It was amazing to me to learn about the benefits of essential oils.
For example, Lavender Essential Oil has calming properties. Lavender Essential Oil also has healing and antibacterial properties. Lavender Essential Oil calms and soothes the skin, but it also has emotional benefits. Lavender Essential Oil is said to clear thinking and strengthen the nervous system.
Tea Tree Essential Oil also has healing and antibacterial properties. Tea Tree Essential Oil is effective in the treatment of skin disorders such as acne. It cleanses and disinfects wounds and soothes and heals burns.
Eucalyptus Essential Oil eases nasal congestion and cold symptoms. It also has healing and antibacterial properties to hasten the healing of cold sores. Eucalyptus Essential oil can improve concentration and restore emotional balance.
Besides using these essential oils in soap or bath and body products, they can be used in conjunction with a room diffuser. Adding a few drops of a specific essential oil, or a blend of essential oils, to water in a room diffuser can disperse these properties throughout a room to cleanse the environment.
Those are my thoughts for today!
Coleen
www.sudsations.com
About Me
- Sudsations
- Lakewood, Colorado, United States
- Sudsations is a small home based business where all products are handmade. All soaps are made from scratch using the Cold Process soapmaking method. All of my soaps are made with 100% pure vegetable oils. Olive oil, coconut oil and palm oil are used in all of my soaps. Cocoa butter is added to the Cocoa Butter soap and shea butter and cocoa butter are added to the Baby Soap. Jojoba oil is added to my soaps as a nutrient oil for additional skin-care benefits. Botanicals are used for color and texture. Pure essential oils are used for fragrance. Fragrance oils, which are man made, are used when an essential oil is not available for a particular fragrance.
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