Sodium Hydroxide!!??

The Truth of Sodium Hydroxide
At The Roxy Soap, we believe in full disclosure and long run business with every customer, you have the rights to know about how our soap are made.

To make soap, you need 3 main ingredient:

Oil (animal or vegetable oil)

Water

Sodium Hydroxide (we call this caustic agent)

Picture shown: Sodium Hydroxide Flakes/ Caustic Soda/ Caustic Alkali or a commen name Lye.

When a caustic is added to a fat, it creates heat, glycerin and soap in a process known as “saponification.”

Traditionally, the caustic used to make soap came from wood ashes (potassium carbonate) until the late 1700s when sodium hydroxide became the favored caustic of the soap-maker. Sodium hydroxide is commonly referred as ‘lye.’ An alternate caustic is potassium hydroxide (potash lye) – but potassium hydroxide doesn’t create a “hard” soap initially and the process is longer and more complicated. Potassium hydroxide is what castile soap is made with.(See What is are different between Commercial Soap and Handmade Soap? )

All caustics by themselves can irritate and burn the skin, causing allergic reactions and other nasty results. But during the saponification process, the caustic reacts with the beautiful organic vegetable oils, and after curing, is no longer harmful to the skin. A lot of soap manufacturers get around listing the caustic – sodium hydroxide or potassium hydroxide - on their labels by either saying “saponified oils of olive, coconut…” or even “sodium olivate or sodium cocoate”. This doesn’t mean that they aren’t using a caustic, like lye, they are just glossing over the fact.

Consider this analogy, if you were a baker you would add yeast to water, flour and sugar to make bread. During the baking process, the yeast is converted into “fermentable sugars” and is not found in the finished product. However, every good loaf of bread has yeast on their ingredient list, not fermentable sugars. Why should an ingredient list on a bar of soap be any different?

Which brings us to the next question, why don’t soap manufacturers list “sodium hydroxide” or “potassium hydroxide” on their labels? Who villafied lye? Sadly, that answer is Grandma – who made her own soap & didn’t have the sophisticated measuring devices most hand-crafted soap makers use to ensure they are adding just the right amount of lye! And, oh boy, did Grandma’s soap burn!

Simply put, unless you have a synthetic detergent bar soap, it was made with lye. A soap maker can get fancy and ‘superfat’ their bar soap, meaning they put extra oils in to make sure all the caustic is used up, yielding a safer, more moisturizing bar soap. We use vegetable oil and herbs adding value to our soap.

Why The Roxy Handmade Soap Good For Your Skin?

We leave all the moisturizing natural goodness of a soap- glycerin in, some soap maker precipitate the glycerin out and sell it on the industrial market like cosmetic maker. You can easily find supplier selling at USD1000/T to USD2000/T at Alibaba website. We can extract the glycerin out and make extra money from it, but we leave it in our soap. This is where our soap value is.


Seriously, This Is A Long Term Business.

We believe in full disclosure and long run business with every customer and dealer – you have the right to know what is in the products you use - and what is in the product you are selling! So you won’t find us lying about lye.We hope our customer using our product doubt free and dealer selling it more professional way.

We hope our product are at the best quality and that bring high profit for our dealer. And also a long term relationship with all our dealer who walk the path and grow with us.

No Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS)
No Petroleum Product
No Parabens And No To Breast Cancer

No Chemical Preservatives
No Animal Product
No Testing On Animal