Q: Are your soaps glycerin based?
A: The answer is ... There is not a simple yes or no answer. Soap is a complex subject. Glycerin is a clear liquid that is the consistency of honey. Where does glycerin come from? Glycerin is the by-product of making soap. When you combine fats (We use vegetable fats like coconut, olive and palm oils) with an alkali (Lye) there is a chemical reaction called saponification that also creates glycerin. Many large soap manufacturers add sodium to the fat and lye solution during saponification to cause the glycerin to separate from the soap and sell the glycerin as a separate commodity. What remains is a harsh white flaky substance that is then ran through a grated and sold to companies in the form of soap flakes to be used in laundry detergents and fragranced and compacted into (Milled Soaps). BLISS Soaps keeps all of the naturally occurring glycerin in every batch of our soap. So, our soap, All of them, contain glycerin. Even the soaps that are not clear (Opaque) contain glycerin. The clear soaps do contain a little more glycerin than the opaque soaps because there is extra glycerin used in the process of making the soaps clear.
Q: Do your soaps contain lye?
A: NO. Although soap is made with fat and lye, it contains neither. During the saponification process, the fats and lye are neutralized and form a different thing entirely called soap.
Q: Why do you not have an ingredient list on your soaps?
A: An actual ingredient list would be very misleading. We use vegetable fats and lye to create our soap. When the lye is mixed into the fats they create an entirely different substance called soap. An example ingredient list would look something like this;
Ingredients: Goats milk soap: Coconut oil, palm oil, castor bean oil, soybean oil, water, caustic soda (lye), stearic acid fresh goats milk, Ylang Ylang oil.
If a bar of our soap was taken to a lab to be analyzed, the True ingredient list would be as follows; Ingredients:
Goats milk soap: Soap, Goats milk & ylang ylang oil.
If you purchase a bar of soap from BLISS Soaps the label will be the entire ingredient list of that particular soap i.e Milk & Oatmeal Soap would contain soap, milk & oatmeal.
Q: Is BLISS Soaps affiliated with LUSH?
A: NO. BLISS Soaps co-owner Phil Wright is 3rd generation soap-maker. Dennis Lucienne Dupont and Juliette Georgette Dupont made soaps in the small town of Les Rosty, France in the late 1920's and passed the trade on to their daughter Denise Lucienne Georgette Dupont (Wright) who happens to also be the BLISS Soaps logo. Denise L.G. Dupont a French native moved to the United Stated in 1954 and passed on the trade to her son Phil Wright who has been making soap since 1977 at the age of 9.
Q: Some of BLISS Soaps scent combinations and names of products are very similar to Lush products and names, is BLISS Soaps trying to copy Lush?
A: Many of our scent combination come from customer requests. If you have a favorite soap or scent combination, we will do our best to make it for you. We also have customer name their creations. There are many BLISS Soaps customers that frequently ask us to match a favorite discontinued product that they used to purchase from different places. If after we have created the product and like it, it will have a permanent home with us. That is why we have close to 100 different soaps to choose from. We are often able to make our customers request at a much more affordable price than they we buying it previously and in almost all cases higher quality. Keep those request coming!
