Soap Bar - Meliora Cleaning Products
"Meliora Means Better."
Made with people- and planet-friendly ingredients, these bars are made from a mixture of organic coconut and sunflower oils. Each handmade bar is approximately 4oz.
**PALM OIL FREE**
**DYE-FREE**
**PRESERVATIVE-FREE**
**CRUELTY-FREE**
Check out our soap shelf and various soap dishes for easy storage and preservation!
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Unscented Full Ingredient List: Vegetable Soap [Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Sunflowerate, Glycerin, Water, Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Organic Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil]
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Lavender Full Ingredient List:Vegetable Soap [Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Sunflowerate, Glycerin, Water, Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Organic Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil], Organic Lavandula Hybrida Grosso (Lavender) Oil
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Peppermint Full Ingredient List: Vegetable Soap [Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Sunflowerate, Glycerin, Water, Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil, Organic Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil], Organic Mentha Piperita (Peppermint) Oil
From the Meliora Website:
Nerd Alert: More Detailed Info on Ingredients:
Our Unscented, Lavender, and Peppermint Bath & Body Bars use Coconut and Sunflower Seed Oils as the base vegetable oils for the soap. This combination gives us a beautiful, firm, bright bar that also lathers and cleans without drying your skin that's 100% Fragrance-Free.
Sourced from Century Sun Oil out of Pulaski, WI, our organic sunflower oil is a local alternative to the olive oil that we love using. It gives the bars a soft, full lather and a brighter, whiter color without any added dyes or additives.
Sodium Cocoate: This is the chemical name of saponified (that is, 'made into soap') coconut oil. It's the chemical that grabs onto both dirt and water to do the cleaning.
Sodium Sunflowerate: This is the chemical name of the saponified sunflower seed oil.
Glycerin: This substance is chemically a type of alcohol and is naturally created when the oil is converted into soap. Glycerin is known for skin-softening abilities and is an effective solvent, meaning it can dissolve substances such as stains and dirts.
Organic Cocos Nucifera (Coconut) Oil and Organic Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil : There is always some coconut and sunflower seed oils left in the soap after conversion to sodium cocoate and sodium sunflowerate. This is because we use sodium hydroxide, or lye, in the conversion process. Leaving these excess oil in the soap not only ensures there is no remaining lye in the finished product, it also gives the soap its lather and moisturizing feel. Some soapmakers refer to this as 'superfatting' and more oil remaining results in a softer, more moisturizing bar.
Water: Water is used in the soapmaking process as a substance that dissolves lye and then is a medium so the lye can reach all of the oil to react. After being useful in this process, the water is allowed to evaporate from the soap over a period of several weeks, and the resulting dried bar has very little water. There is only about 5% water remaining in the finished bars, thus making them more shelf stable than a liquid soap that would require a preservative due to the high (about 60%) water.