Undoubtedly any market, festival or show I go to I get asked the same questions. Is (or why isn’t) your soap organic? What is natural? & Is this “Lye” soap? Is Lye natural? How can you call your soap natural?

So let’s look at these questions. I’ll answer the lye question first. True soap is made from combining Lye and some form of Fat (animal or vegetable). So all true soap is made with lye. However the soap is actually a salt, and in properly made soap there is no lye remaining.
Let’s see how the FDA defines soap

the bulk of the nonvolatile matter in the product consists of an alkali salt of fatty acids and the product’s detergent properties are due to the alkali-fatty acid compounds, and

the product is labeled, sold, and represented solely as soap  Continue reading Is your soap Organic, Natural? What about Lye?