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Last December I found the BEST soap made of soy and candles made of soy. AND they smell sooooooooooo good!!!

The Bath Bakery

Check out the Honey Blossom soap and Angel Food Cake candles, yum! [color:"purple"] [/color]

I'm really not a huge soy fan, but their products look as if they might be pretty good.

Justine <img src="/images/graemlins/rolling.gif" alt="" />

The truly best soaps, in my opinion, were made by Anastasia Crabtree of Anastasia's Ideas and Laura Obert Thorne of Maia's Bodyworks ~ both now defunct, to my dismay.

J

what makes certain soaps better than others? I like Dove just because it doesn't dry my skin out too much.

Oh, gosh, lots of things ~ base oils used, whether it's made with fragrance (synthetic) oils or plant essences (essential oil), additives, what mass manufactured soaps DON'T have (like glycerin), super fatting oils (shea butter, cocoa butter, hemp seed oil, macadamia, etc. . .), how the soap is made.

My favorite soap used to be Caress ~ I can't stand the stuff now, but back in the day, when it seemed expensive and luxurious to use, I'd buy up as much as I could when it went on sale. I loved the way it made my skin SMELL, but it did dry out my skin and I'd have to use lotion to fix the problem. A lot of mass manufactured soaps use beef tallow as the main base oil because it makes a nice, white, hard, long-lasting bar of soap and it's cheap to obtain, then they extract all the naturally occuring glycerin and put it into the lotions they make ~ they sort of get you twice here. They take out one of the important components in soap that makes it moisturizing, thereby drying out your skin, and put it into lotion that you buy to rehydrate your skin.

Anyway, there are lots of reasons why one soap is better than another. The best reason to choose a soap is because you like it best, regardless of what's in it.

J

woodspirits is a cool soap company and all thier stuff is naturel

At the moment my favourite soap is "Simple":

http://www.simpleskincare.com.au/simpleskincare/Home.aspx

I've used this soap on and off over the years. I usually just grab off the supermarket shelves whatever is the cheapest and least perfumed, not faithful to any one brand. But my mother now lives with me and we needed something that would suit both of our skins, as well as suiting the budget. We've been pleased with "Simple" soap - no fragrance and gentle on the skin. Oh, and not too costly either <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

We also tried Dove, mum liked it because it was creamy but I didn't like it because of the creaminess <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> I prefer to wash with soap and add handcream afterwards, not wash my hands with a moisturising soap.

Here are a couple of other companies that make great skincare and candle.
The Soap Garden Boutique
and Debra's Rhapsody
Great skincare ~ unique and special.

Justine

OMG!! i'm SO allergic to dove! it's so not fair! imagine, hives, head to toe, just from smelling it!

i was able to use the new product thay came out with with the pink swirls of extra moisturiser in it for about a week, before my skin decided it didnt like it any more.

*sigh*

I've learned, the hard way, that I'm allergic to almost any product with synthetic fragrance in them. My all-time, #1 favorite perfume and body lotion is Chanel No.19, but I cannot use either the perfume or lotion because I break out like mad. Soap I don't worry about since I use only handmade natural.

P