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What Makes Soakest Soap the Best Natural Soap?
Ingredients.
A Complete Approach.
We start with the best oils for soapmaking, not limiting our soaps to just vegan ingredients. Many natural soaps exclude traditional oils like lard and tallow, but they can’t replace them. We intentionally include them, balancing them with coconut, olive, and castor oils to create a better product.
“We’re a data driven soap company, driven to find the best all natural, daily soap.”
Many popular commercial soaps include detergents in their ingredient lists. Those are for clothes. God made real, natural soap to both clean and condition your skin, not to strip it. Most natural soaps today are limited to vegan ingredients, not because that makes the best soap, but because to some, it sounds nice and the recipes are readily available.
Our soaps are different. We spent a long time testing and retesting combinations of the best known soap making ingredients going back generations, and what we found now makes up the base of every bar of soap we create.
Balancing the Blend.
Behind each bar of soap is some important chemistry. As oils are converted to soap they bring with them different attributes because the ingredients chosen impact, among other things, the overall ratios of fatty acids, which in turn impact a soap’s lather, conditioning, cleanliness, and longevity.
A good soapmaker has to make choices when balancing those fatty acids. Ingredients like coconut, which is higher in lauric and myristic elements, works best when balanced with oils like lard and tallow that are higher in palmitic, stearic, and oleic aspects. Even then, oils like olive oil and lard, which are both high in oleic fatty acid (an attribute that adds a luxurious conditioning effect to a soap), can still vary in how they actually condition your skin because soaps made from animal oils moisturize skin differently than those from plant oils. Both are important.
From our perspective, the best natural soaps are those that are not one dimensional. They are soaps that carefully blend and balance both plant and animal oils to effectively condition and clean your skin.
On a more personal note, we believe God hid a lot of fascinating complexity in a lot of places, and we have the opportunity in this life to unlock some of it if we’ll diligently look. Whether it’s a sommelier with wine, a savant with music, or a soapmaker with oils and lye, there is a depth to this world that is just waiting to be discovered.
As the proverb says, “It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, but the glory of kings to search things out.”
“Most natural soaps limit themselves to only vegan ingredients, and those are fine. They’re just not the best. We believe the best soaps require the best ingredients, ingredients made to make great soap.”
Using Lard & Tallow to Make Soap Makes Soap Special
When making soap, the underlying oils used bring different characteristics to the final product. There are certain animal oils like lard and tallow that can’t be replicated or replaced by plant oils. Lard and tallow are unique, and the conditioning they bring is unique. Any soaps made without them are being made without some of the best soap making oils. We use lard and tallow in every bar we make.
Natural Soap Made Using the Cold Process
Using the cold process method to make soap refers to the cooler temperature level maintained when the oils and lye are mixed, sometimes even carefully regulating that temperature, as when making goat’s milk soap, to ensure the best outcome. While the soap takes longer to cure, this method helps to create a smoother soap full of natural glycerin that conditions the skin. By way of contrast, other soaps will often have to add glycerin or lotions to their ingredients lists to try to compensate. (Note: if an ingredient list contains glycerin it was often made using a melt & pour or other process.)
Data Driven.
In addition to our tests, we utilized available surveys of nearly 100 seasoned soapmakers to identify the very best characteristics and balance for a natural soap.
Better than Vegan.
Vegan soaps are good. Castile soaps have been around for ages. Pure lard or pure tallow soaps are also good. But when blended in the right way a soap can be great.
Freedom Minded.
We believe in individual liberty and justice for all. But why does that matter for soap? Becasue when you purchase a product from us, you are supporting a company that supports freedom.
Our Story
Soakest was founded by Jeff and Lindsey Patty. Jeff & Lindsey were married in 2004 and have since had three beautiful children. They love the Lord, America, and freedom, and it has long been one of their dreams to build a family business by which they can bless others.
They started soap making as a serious hobby years ago. With the economy shaky and with supply chains showing signs of uncertainty, quality soap was one of the things on their list that they didn’t want anyone to be without. So they began creating their own, and Soakest was born.
After lots of research and many tests and trials with some of the best soap making ingredients, the proprietary formula for Soakest began to evolve into what it is now—a really great bar of soap. From the start, we at Soakest had a desire to use natural ingredients because it was immediately clear it produced a better soap, but from our testing, we discovered a combination of natural ingredients better than what you can find on most retail shelves today.
Most natural soaps share a commonality in their ingredients. They are vegan. Vegan soaps are fine, especially compared to soaps made with detergents, but by leaving out a few key ingredients in order to be vegan, those soaps leave out what can make soap really special. This is why Soakest soaps contain a combination of plant and animal oils that are saponified (converted to soap). There is some complex chemistry underlying all of this that dictates the lather, conditioning, cleanliness, and longevity of every bar of soap you use, but bottom-line, by blending the right plant and animal oils at the right amount, we are able to maximize each of those benefits. Lard and tallow in particular help to create a more refreshing, nourishing, and luxurious bar of soap than what plant oils can create alone, but oils like olive, coconut, and castor also bring to the table elements that lard and tallow cannot. It is the combination that makes it special.
You will notice the difference.
Depending on the bar, our soaps also use other great ingredients, including kaolin clay, pure essential oils, rosemary oleoresin extract, goat’s milk, activated charcoal, and others. Each ingredient used is carefully formulated to make a great soap that is great for your skin.
For the Pattys, one of their deepest desires in running a family business has always been to create a product that would truly bless others. It is their hope and ours that you will enjoy using our soaps regularly and that it will nourish and bless your skin on a daily basis.
Thank you for choosing Soakest!