Olive Oil Based Soaps

What is castile soap for sensitive skin? It is a true soap made by saponifying plant oils, traditionally olive oil, with lye until only soap and glycerin remain. It is sold with no fragrance, no dye and a very short ingredient list. The logic is simple: fewer ingredients, fewer chances to react. The name comes … Read more

Some gifts get unwrapped, admired for eleven seconds, and exiled to a drawer. A good olive oil soap gift set doesn’t. It lands on a bathroom shelf, gets used every morning, and quietly reminds someone of you every time they wash up. That’s the pitch. Here’s the practical angle: an olive oil soap gift set … Read more

The top olive oil soap bars are solid cleansers made mainly from saponified olive oil, usually with little or no added fragrance, that clean without the squeaky, stripped feeling of many detergent-based bars. The best ones list sodium olivate near the top of the ingredients, last a long time, and suit sensitive skin. Here’s the … Read more