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What is Cold Crafted Natural Soap?
The Cold Crafted method of creating luxury soap products is a time honoured traditional practice of soap crafting that takes fresh, specially chosen flower and plant oils, gently warmed to their natural melting points, and then slowly mixes them with an alkaline solution. As the mixture thickens and cools pure essential oils, flower extracts and other beneficial ingredients are added to produce a final product that is as magical in appearance and scent as it is gentle to the skin. Because no additional heat is applied once the oils have been melted this unique method of soap crafting is often called the ‘Cold Crafted’ process.
What ingredients are in RôKaí natural soaps?
Only the finest quality essential oils, organic herbs and flowers, therapeutic minerals, clays and food grade vegetable oils are used in Rôkaí products. When we say 100% natural, we mean 100% natural!
Most commercial soaps including many of the world’s most popular brands contain synthetic fragrance, colourants, preservatives, foaming boosters and animal products even to this day.
Why are RôKaí soaps so gentle and non-drying?
Our Cold Crafted soaps are unique in that they contain ZERO free alkali... unlike commercial soaps, which usually contain 0.1% to 1% - another reason why even the most expensive "French Milled" soaps are still drying to the skin. As a result our soaps have a PH range of 8 to 8.5 while most commercial soaps range from 9.5 to 11.5!
Why is "Cold Crafted" soap superior to commercial soap?
Commercially extruded and glycerine type soaps – even the most expensive ‘French Triple Milled’ soaps - are created by employing a production method that applies high temperatures, pressure and excessive amounts of alkaline solution to speed up the soap saponification reaction in order to make more soap faster. Unfortunately natural flower and plant essences are sensitive to heat, light and other factors and are damaged when subjected to this very harsh manufacturing process. The result is that the active beneficial components within each natural ingredient are destroyed, thereby losing the very properties and reason for choosing them in the first place.
It is also important to note that commercial soaps are usually made with ingredients that have been decolourised and deodorised to make them cosmetically neutral and more appealing. This very "refinement" neutralises their beneficial properties as well.
The ‘Cold Crafted’ method of making soap uses low temperatures for only a short period of time during the process in order to bring various oils to their natural melting points. Once this is achieved no further external heat is applied thereby allowing these natural essences to retain their skin nourishing and health related benefits. In addition, the ‘Cold Crafted’ process itself naturally creates within the soap a by-product called glycerine - a humectant - which helps draw moisture to the skin and contributes to the silky smooth feel of all our soaps. Commercial soap contains very little if any glycerine as it is often extracted and sold as a food / cosmetic additive because of its higher resale value.
Aren’t synthetic fragrance, preservatives and colourings generally regarded as safe by most government departments?
While this is true, consider the following scenario. You wake up in the morning and grab your favourite shampoo (full of synthetic fragrance, colourants, preservatives and foaming agents). Perhaps you also use a hair conditioner (again full of synthetic fragrance, preservatives, slip agents, colourants and foaming boosters). Do you use a shower gel to wash? More synthetics. Even your well-known brand of soap is likely to have at the very least synthetic fragrance and colourants. After showering your skin may feel a little dry so you open that jar of body and hand moisturiser - more synthetic fragrance and preservatives... that stay on your skin! Face moisturiser, more synthetics. Perfume, yes even these often contain a blend of synthetic fragrances. After subjecting your body to so many synthetic skin irritants on a daily basis it's perhaps not so surprising why most of the world's population suffers from some degree of skin allergy. And that’s not all! We haven't even mentioned what remains on your clothes after they've been washed with synthetic detergents.
If you haven't already indulged yourself in the soft creamy caress of RôKaí natural "Cold Process" soap then we invite you to experience the natural advantage for yourself. We're confident you'll agree... there really is a world of difference.
Do Cold Crafted soaps last longer than commercial soaps?
Yes, on average about twice as long as an equivalent sized bar of commercial soap.
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