Description
Soft, moisturized-feeling skin from a gentle bar that helps skin hold on to moisture.
- Gentle, never stripped. Cleans well and leaves skin feeling soft, not dry.
- With cholesterol. Cholesterol is one of the natural lipids in your skin’s outer layer.
- Rich butters. Cocoa butter, coconut oil, mango butter and sal butter for a creamy lather.
- Nothing you don’t need. No preservatives, parabens or added fragrance.
Why it fits low-toxin, bioenergetic living. The bar is built on stable saturated butters rather than a seed-oil base, plus cholesterol, with a short ingredient list and no synthetic fragrance.
Customers say: “First time I’ve tried this soap – my skin is super soft, no need for moisturizer!!” And: “Feels great going on and leaves a great feel of clean on your skin. Like no soapy residue!!!”
Ingredients: Saponified oils of cocoa butter (organic and fair trade), coconut oil (organic), mango butter (organic), sal (shorea) butter (wild harvested); cholesterol; distilled water.
Made by hand, in-house, by our family. For external use as a cosmetic cleanser. 60-day no hassle returns.
Weight: about 3.8 oz per bar. Each bar is handmade, so weights vary a little.
Cholesterol is one of the three main lipids in the skin's outer layer, alongside ceramides and fatty acids. Here is research on skin lipids, cleansers and moisture.
Lipids and the skin barrier
Feingold KR, Elias PM (2014). Role of lipids in the formation and maintenance of the cutaneous permeability barrier. Biochim Biophys Acta 1841(3):280-94. PMID 24262790.
Cholesterol in physiological lipid mixtures
Man MQ, Feingold KR, Thornfeldt CR, Elias PM (1996). Optimization of physiological lipid mixtures for barrier repair. J Invest Dermatol 106(5):1096-101. PMID 8618046. Mixtures of cholesterol, ceramides and fatty acids in the right ratio helped the skin's barrier recover faster.
Cleansers and the skin barrier
Ananthapadmanabhan KP, Moore DJ, Subramanyan K, et al. (2004). Cleansing without compromise: the impact of cleansers on the skin barrier and the technology of mild cleansing. Dermatol Ther 17 Suppl 1:16-25. PMID 14728695.
Moisturization and skin feel
Rawlings AV, Harding CR (2004). Moisturization and skin barrier function. Dermatol Ther 17 Suppl 1:43-8. PMID 14728698.
Soap, skin pH and moisture
Gfatter R, Hackl P, Braun F (1997). Effects of soap and detergents on skin surface pH, stratum corneum hydration and fat content in infants. Dermatology 195(3):258-62. PMID 9407174.
Bioenergetic & low-toxin perspective
Ray Peat wrote about cholesterol as a protective substance.
"Several experiments and observations have shown that cholesterol itself can protect against damaging oxidation of polyunsaturated fats, protecting DNA and other vital components of the cell." — Ray Peat, "Cholesterol, longevity, intelligence, and health" (https://raypeat.com/articles/articles/cholesterol-longevity.shtml)
A study Peat cited in that article:
Parasassi T, Giusti AM, Raimondi M, et al. (1995). Cholesterol protects the phospholipid bilayer from oxidative damage. Free Radic Biol Med 19(4):511-6. PMID 7590402.
Note: These studies are about skin lipids and cleansers in general, not this exact bar. For external cosmetic use. This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
Soft, moisturized-feeling skin from a handmade bar that customers say means "no need for moisturizer."
- Cholesterol plus rich butters, for a gentle, conditioning clean.
- Organic and wild-harvested ingredients, no preservatives, parabens or added fragrance.
- "Very high quality soap. No bad ingredients. Not too drying," one customer says.
- Long lasting, and a favorite gift.
- Made by hand, in-house, by our family for bioenergetic, low-toxin living.
- 60-day no hassle returns.
