How are traditional soaps and synthetic detergents different? Did you know the FDA provides a definition for the word "Soap"? Did you also know that because the use of this word is not "regulated" in the skin care and cosmetics industries that many commercially produced cleaning bars you use in the shower are NOT IN FACT SOAP? They would be more aptly named "detergent"! Homestead Soaps by Laura only makes REAL, Cold Process Soap! "Ordinary soap is made by combining fats or oils and an alkali, such as lye. The fats and oils, which may be from animal, vegetable, or mineral sources, are degraded into free fatty acids, which then combine with the alkali to form crude soap. The lye reacts with the oils, turning what starts out as liquid into blocks of soap. When made properly, no lye remains in the finished product. In the past, people commonly made their own soap using animal fats and lye that had been extracted from wood ashes.  Today there are very few true soaps on the market. Most body cleansers, both liquid and solid, are actually synthetic detergent products. Detergent cleansers are popular because they make suds easily in water and don't form gummy deposits. Some of these detergent products are actually marketed as "soap" but are not true soap according to the regulatory definition of the word." https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetic-products/frequently-asked-questions-soap

Take a tin of Soap Flakes to the gym, the office and even send it with the kids to the camp shower. Throw a few flakes in a wet wash cloth, (or lather between wet hands), and you're good to go. No plastic bottles, no messy, wet bar to carry around.

Did you know you can clean a whole sink of dishes with a sprinkle of soap flakes?! 👏 Take them on your next camping trip and make easy packing of utensil cleanup!