Green Soap – What Is It All About

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The term “green soap” has been slightly skewed in meaning with several products as of late, due to the earth friendly, or “go green” marketing themes that proliferate our consumer market. For the most part green soap today means that it is made of ingredients that will not harm ground water, or when soap makes its way into storm drains which will eventually end up in rivers, and streams that will empty into our oceans. This being said, these products are marketed at much higher price than normal bath, and cleaning supply soaps that we have been using for almost a hundred years in the United States. The truth is that they actually cost less to make than their older counter parts.

Green tea soap is a product that has come on to the market in the last ten years or so, and its claim to fame is that it has the healing properties and antioxidants from green tea as the active ingredients, along with the other properties that make up a hand or body cleanser. It is generally sold in high scale bath and body stores, holistic retailers, and in the natural or organic sections of local grocery stores. There is another product that is a cousin to this product and it is called white tea soap, and it is very expensive as it only can be harvested every so many years.

One soap product that seems to baffle most end users of cleaning supplies is tincture of green soap, as this is not a mainstay in the regular household, or bathroom markets. Its original intent as a cleaning solution was for the use on surgical and other implements used in the human and animal medical fields. It consists primarily of glycerin and isopropyl alcohol then mixed with a percentage of filtered or sterilized water. It is usually a mix of thirty percent glycerin, and coconut oil, and seventy percent alcohol.

People generally do not question what the ingredients are in organic soap, as they believe that is all naturally made. For those of you who have pondered this question in the past it is a very simple answer. Most natural soaps are made of ingredients like oatmeal or citrus, and will be accompanied by olive, coconut, or palm oil. The fragrances are made of other naturally derived oils like sweet orange, nutmeg, lavender, and peppermint to name a few. Some companies that take the quality of their ingredients up a notch will use hibiscus, plumeria or rose as well.

The current or latest advance in natural soaps is the green clay soap variety, and it is essentially the same as all of the above mentioned products, but it adds a special French clay that actually pulls unwanted body oils, and toxins from the skin when used as a daily face or body washing soap. The combination of green clay and green tea ingredients in one cleanser makes for a very healthy method of extracting unwanted chemicals, and impurities from our skin due to unhealthy diets, and caustic working conditions that we expose our bodies to on a daily basis.

One green type of soap that needs mentioning is the natural version of orange goop, and it is used for cleaning heavy-duty car grease off a persons hands. This product claims to be a gentler, and more agreeable cleaning system that will not have the usual toxic chemicals that industrial hand cleaners will include in their recipes. It too will biodegrade and go down the drains without the fear of further damaging our water supplies for drinking and bathing. In the past this type of hand and arm cleanser contained compounds that would actually burn the skin on people who were allergic to these ingredients.

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