What is soap made of?

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The definition of soap:

1. A cleansing and/ or a lubricating agent, made from a mix of fats, oils, and salts, creating bars and liquids.

2. A slippery way of getting something accomplished, through bribery, manipulation, or oratory methods.

Going with soap as a cleansing agent, all natural soap is made from a mixture of oils and / or fats in an alkali solution. When done in the right conditions, this mixture will saponify, creating soap through a series of reactions. Saponification is the name of the organic chemistry.

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All natural hand soap, body soap, shampoo, facial soap, beard soap a variety of household soaps, and other cleaning soap are not created equally.

Ingredients, ingredient quality, techniques, skill and recipes all play a part in whether your natural hand soap experience will be a pleasant or painful one.

All natural soap essentially comes in a few forms:

  • bar soap
  • flakes, noodles, or powder
  • liquid soap

Different types of soaps are made using different formulations, ratios, and ingredients. The goal is to create a variety of sudsy, slippery, cleaning agents that will clean anything and everything.

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How to Use All Natural Hand Soap 

Bar Soap

Liquid Soap

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Natural Ingredients in skin care



Save money when using Ithaca Soap bars. Get up to 84 showers from 1 bar
Instant Liquid Soap. Dilute in the bag and pour into your bottle. This versatile Castile soap is sudsy, gentle on you while being a powerful cleaner.
Instant Liquid Soap makes an excellent fruit and vegetable wash

Ithaca Soap and LiXTiK Beeswax Lip Balm are made in an old fashioned style. We add 100% pure water processed, natural essential oils, creating pleasing delicate aromas to our scented soaps and lip balms. Everything in our product line also comes in unscented.

For a full product line ingredient list click here.


You've no doubt heard that your skin is your largest organ.  It's your 1st line of defense in a world full of pollutants and disease. If you take good car of it, it takes good care of you. 

Clean hands feel good

Complete hand washing feels good and there's a reason for that. Lather from real soap also kills germs

Peppermint bees wax lip balm

Moisturize, hydrate, and nourish your lips with wonderfully luxurious

LiXTiK Beeswax Lip Balms.

Leave your lips moist and smooth for many hours. Soothes severely chapped lips.

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Choose from 8 LiXTiK Beeswax flavors/scents. Ingredients: Organic coconut and sunflower oils, premium beeswax, 100% pure essential oils
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Good, all natural bar soap is an essential as a whole body soap wash. It's economical, luxurious, and effective. When selecting a bar of soap, look for simple ingredients with pleasing essential oil aromas and lots of sudsy lather. Sudsing all the way down to a sliver, over 3-4 months of daily use, is key in good bar soap. Try Ithaca Soap   


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ILS Story Board fullMake Liquid Soap at home. Save your hands from harmful dish washing soaps and liquids. Get some here.

Instant Liquid Soap is liquid soap, sold in a paper bag.  The soap is sold dry. The end user adds water to turn it into true liquid Castile soap. This saves ship weight, space, and the environment. Water stays where it belongs.

This creation is patented and available for private label and license. Let's work together.

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