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What is the difference between handmade soap and milled soap?

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What is the difference between handmade soap and milled soap?

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They are created in very different ways. In milling, a process developed in Italy and correctly called “plodded”, soap starts not with whole vegetable and animal fats and oils, but with substances withdrawn from these fats and oils. These substances are called isolated fatty acids. The fatty acids are used to make milled soaps because they produce a harder soap that can withstand the process of milling and forming that is required to hold the designs and logos of modern soap. When the fatty acids are removed, most of the glycerin is left behind, in fact it is considered a separate product. Many soap manufacturers use the glycerin in the making of lotions that put back the moisture that their milled soaps have removed. Even though some of the glycerin floats to the top of our batches, we carefully stir it back into the suspension, so that it can remain in our soaps. The softness in Woodspirits soaps indicates its naturally high glycerin content. Glycerin is a humectant. A humectant pull

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