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Value What Nature Provides

The quality of our ingredients is fundamental to what we do at You're Gorgeous Handmade Soap. The interest in the benefits that these ingredients can impart is why we became involved in the manufacture of natural handmade soap and bath products in the first place. The natural world has so much to offer and more and more amazing natural ingredients are being discovered and appreciated for their qualities all the time.
It's important to know what the products we use every day contain and we would like to inform our customers as to why we choose particular ingredients, and what their benefits are. Below you will find a list of our most used ingredients and their qualities.

Base Oils and Butters

Apricot Kernel Oil- Prunus Armeniaca - A lovely light oil which is easily absorbed by the skin. Extracted from the seeds of the Apricot fruit, it is rich in omega 9 fatty acids, making it a powerful emollient (moisturiser) Apricot Kernel oil is rich in vitamins A, B and E. Vitamin E is one of the most powerful natural antioxidants which helps to combat the formation of free radicals and prevent skin damage. 

(Sweet) Almond Oil 

Argan Oil

Avocado OIl

Carrot Root Oil

Castor Bean Oil

Cocoa Butter - Theobroma Cacao. A hard butter at room temperature, it's a vital ingredient in many of our products. Cocoa butter provides some UV protection, reduces premature ageing by reducing the skin's oxidative stress, and has a moisturising effect on the skin and hair. It adds hardness to our soaps and creaminess to our bath products.

Coconut Oil - Cocos nucifera. Coconut oil is great for soap making and we work it into our formulas for its profuse, quick, fluffy and stable lather. It adds hardness and helps to make our soap so long-lasting. Coconut oil in soap gives it super cleansing qualities and along with our other selected oils, helps to balance the skin's natural oils.

Grapeseed Oil

Hemp Seed Oil

Jojoba Oil

Neem Oil

Mango Butter

Olive Oil

Palm Oil - Elaeis guineensis. The Oil Palm tree is a highly productive tree, yielding at least 4 times the amount of oil than any other tree or plant. As such, it uses much less land area to produce oil. It's a highly useful oil and is used in all sorts of food and cosmetic products. This has led to massive devastation of forests and habitats as land is given over to its production. We believe the inclusion of palm oil makes absolutely the best soap and helps each bar to last a long time. For this reason we use only responsibly sourced RSPO certified oil, as recommended by the WWF. Read some more important information about palm oil in our Reading Room.

Poppy Seed Oil

Rosehip Seed Oil

Sesame Seed Oil

Shea Butter

Sunflower Oil

pure olive oil

Natural Ingredients

Bamboo Charcoal

We use activated bamboo charcoal, an amazing substance which adsorbs (rather than absorbs) toxins and impurities from the skin. It has a surface area to weight ratio of 1200:1 and can deep clean the skin, removing bacteria without leaving a residue, making it an excellent treatment for acne.

Bicarbonate of Soda

Black Peppercorns

Citric Acid

Cocoa powder

Coconut milk powder

Coffee

Cornflour or Cornstarch

Cucumber

Clay -

  Bentonite

  Kaolin Clay

  French Green Clay

  Pink Clay

  Rhassoul Clay

Dead Sea Mud

Dead Sea Salt

Goat Milk

Himalayan Salt

Honey

Oatmeal

Pumice

Sea Salt (sun dried)

Sugar

Whole Milk Powder

Vitamin E

Botanicals

Aloe Vera

Apricot stones (ground)

Almond stones (ground)

Bay Leaves

Black Walnut stones (ground)

Calendula

Chamomile

Comfrey Leaf and Root

Dill weed

Elder Flowers

Eucalyptus

Fennel Seed

Ginger Root

Green Tea

Hibiscus Flower

Jasmine Flowers

Juniper Berries

Lavender

Lemon Balm

Lemongrass

Lemon Peel

Mallow Flowers

Nettle Leaf

Orange Peel

Parsley

Peppermint

Rose buds and petals

Roships

Rosemary

Seaweed

Thyme

essential oils

Amyris

Bay West Indies

Bergamot

Cedar wood Atlas

Chamomile German Blue

Cinnamon Leaf

Citronella

Clary Sage

Clementine

Clove Bud

Coriander

Cypress

Eucalyptus Blue Gum

Eucalyptus Citriadora

Fennel Sweet

Frankincense

Geranium

Ginger

Grapefruit Pink

Juniperberry

Lavender

Lavandin

Lemongrass

Lime

Litsea Cubeba (May Chang)

Mandarin

Neroli Light

Orange Sweet

Orange Bitter

Palmarosa

Patchouli

Pepper Black

Peppermint

Petigrain

Pine Sylvestris

Rosemary

Spearmint

Tangerine

Tea Tree

Thyme

Vetiver

Ylang Ylang

Fragrance and Colour

To add more scope to our design and the types of products we can supply, we also offer products made with our all-natural ingredients, but with the addition of some gentle semi-synthetic and synthetic additives. We use mineral pigments for colour and some cosmetic dyes and glitters in very small quantities. We also have a wonderful range of amazing high quality fragrances and perfumes which we use in some of our special soaps and in our bath products. With these additions, our products are still over 95% natural. If you prefer 100% natural, just mention this to us and we will guide you to the relevant products.

A Note On Allergens

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