Organic Products

Crystal ORG

Vegetable based hot-pour soap base, Where 100% of the oils used are certified Organic. Used for manufacture of translucent soap bars

Product Benefits

• 100% of the oils are certified Organic.
• Contains no surfactants of MPG.
• Naturally has the light brown colour of the organic oils.
• Good moisturising from a high glycerine content which provides a pleasant skin feel.
• pH 8.0 - 9.0
• Neutral odour provides excellent fragrance lift.

Organic Palm and Coconut Oil Soap Bases

Crystal ORG is produced using 100% certified organic oils. These oils are certified by internationally recognised bodies such as the Soil Association. Soil Association certification ensures the integrity of the products in relation to the environmental impact of their farming and the long-term sustainability of the crops. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides are permitted in the growing of the crop. THe same stringent controls apply in the extraction and refining of the oils from the crop for example no bleaching or chemical distillation is permitted.

Crystal ORG contains the natural glycerine from the organic oil, something that is normally chemically removed as part of the refining and distillation process, this gives superb skin feel characteristics and removes the negatives associated with a chemically refined product. It not only protects the environment from intensive farming methods and chemical treatment of natural ingredients but also passes these benefits directly to your skin.

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Opal 516 & 517

Vegetable origin, opaque, glycerine, certified organic soap noodles, used for manufacture of organic extruded opaque soap bars.

Product Benefits

• Certified Organic soap base (OPAL516 SOIL ASSOCIATION, OPAL 517 SOIL ASSOCIATION and NOP certification)
• Allows for the production of a certified organic bar if the bar-making process has organic certification
• Has superior skin moisturising properties through high glycerine content
• Provides a pleasant skin feel
• Has excellent cleansing properties with a rich creamy lather.
• Has excellent processing characteristics
• Soap bars are less prone to damage due to high resistance against marking

Organic Palm and Coconut Oil Soap Bases

Opal 516 & Opal 517 (opaque no mar) are organic soap base which has been certified by SOIL ASSOCIATION and NOP both of whom ensure the integrity of the products in relation to the environmental impact of their farming and the long-term sustainability of the crops. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides are permitted in the growing of the crop. The same stringent controls apply in the extraction and refining of the oils from the crop for example no bleaching or chemical distillation is permitted.
Opal 516 & Opal 517 contain the natural glycerine from the organic oil (something that is normally chemically removed as part of the refining and distillation process), which gives superb skin feel characteristics. Opal 516 & 517 not only protect the environment from intensive farming methods and chemical treatment of natural ingredients but also passes these benefits directly to your skin.

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Liquid Organic Castile Soap

A natural liquid soap base that simply requires the addition of fragrance and colour.

Product Benefits

• A true liquid soap.
• Contains no surfactants.
• Vegetable origin.
• Has a natural clear pale amber colour.
• Requires only the addition of fragrance and colour.

Why use a true liquid soap?

There are many skin cleansing preparations available and many are sold as 'Soap'. This may be misleading as true soap is the product derived from natural oil and fats. Some 'Soaps' are in fact synthetic detergents and may be derived from crude petroleum. Even detergents derived from 'natural' fatty alcohols are far from 'natural'. So called 'natural' fatty alcohols certainly use natural fatty oils or fats as starting materials but they are then heavily processed to convert them to alcohols. The alcohols are then further reacted chemically with things like ethylene oxide and sulphuric acid. The end products are far from natural and they certainly aren't soap!

Synthetic detergents have been around for about 80 years and have been used in personal care products for much less that that, about 50 years. Soaps have a slightly longer track record in personal care having been used for at least 2000 years. In this time there has been little or no evidence of adverse skin reaction to soap. Contrast this with the 50 year track record of synthetic detergents; adverse reactions such as eczema are well documented and not exactly uncommon.

So how is soap made? Fatty oils are heated with a neutralising alkali such as sodium hydroxide for solid soap or potassium hydroxide for liquid soap. A reaction takes place in which the alkali is neutralised by the oil to produce soap and glycerine is split off from the oil. In our organic liquid castille soap the glycerine is left in the soap where it is available to act as a moisturising humectant. and thats it; no further processing, no high energy chemical reactions, no toxic ethylene oxide, no corrosive sulphuric acid.

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Body Wash Base

Contains a natural liquid soap base derived from organic oils, blended with
gentle surfactant & skin enhancing ingredients. Simply requires the addition
of fragrance and can readily be thickened by salt.

Product Benefits

• Allows production of an Organic certified* body wash, if the converter/filler have organic certification.
• Contains a true liquid soap derived from Certified Organic Sunflower and Coconut oils.
• Blended with gentle surfactants, that are approved by the Soil Association**, to provide masses of creamy lather.
• Contains Organic glycerine and a skin re-fatting ingredient derived from Palm Kernel, to provide a pleasant skin feel.
• Vegetable origin.
• Has a natural clear to translucent pale yellow colour.
• Fully formulated base that only requires the addition of fragrance or essential oils, or colour.
• Readily thickened, if required, by the addition of common salt (Sodium Chloride).To gain organic certification use salt tablets with no anti-caking agent.

Organic Certification

Body Wash base has organic certification by the Soil Association (UK)** that states it contains 81.98% Organic ingredients. Soil Association organic certification ensures the integrity of the products in relation to the environmental impact of their farming and the long-term sustainability of the crops. No chemical fertilizers or pesticides are permitted in the growing of the crop. The same stringent controls apply in the extraction and refining of the oils from the crop, for example no bleaching or chemical distillation is permitted.

The organic liquid soap base that is used, contains the natural glycerine from the organic oils, something that is often chemically removed as part of the refining and distillation process, and which provides good skin feel characteristics. The Organic Body Wash base not only helps protect the environment from intensive farming methods and chemical treatment of natural ingredients, but also passes these benefits directly to your skin.

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