What does “Saponified” or “Saponification” mean?
Saponified means “converted into soap,” speaking of a fat being converted, and is the only way to make real soap. A caustic (lye, a base, with an extremely high ph) is used to do this, breaking the fatty acid into three parts pure soap and one part pure glycerine. In listing my ingredients, using the term “saponified oils” is actually the most accurate. Were the individual oils and lye to be listed, it would be inaccurate due to the fact that there is not any lye left at all, and very little (unsaponified) oils left. I do always figure for just a small bit of extra oils to be left – maybe 5% – both as a safety factor to make sure all the lye is used up and as an additional moisturizer. Why do you put Goatmilk, Oatmeal, and Honey in some of your soaps? These natural additives add to the already beneficial properties of pure, natural soap in ways that many people enjoy. Goatmilk adds to the skin conditioning and softening properties of natural soap in a distinct way that you have to expe
