Previous “Ingredient of the Month” columns have focused on topical ingredients to avoid, generally petrochemical based materials and specific preservatives like Triclosan ™ and Butyl Parabens. Let’s talk some GOOD ingredients to look for, like plant-based vegetable oils. Remember; “Good … Continued
Author Archives: Vermont Soap
Vermont Soap Reduces Carbon Footprint – Video
Vermont Soap switches to corrugated cardboard packing material to replace bubble wrap. We’ve had it with bubble wrap! Vermont Soap was spending over $2,000/yr on single use, petroluem based bubble wrap and it was driving us crazy! One day we … Continued
Vermont Soap on Vermont Public Television – Video
What do goats and organic soap have in common? Vermont Public Television explores some of the great natural products made in Vermont. Like our stuff!.
These Are Great Seal of Approval
Our organic foaming soap was awarded the These Are Great Seal of Approval! The combination in this foaming organic soap makes your skin soft and best of all, you are not using anything toxic! You clean all of the germs away … Continued
Everything made from petroleum!
And today’s secret ingredient is….Everything made from petroleum! Oils are mostly carbon and chemists know that carbon is carbon is carbon- wherever it comes from. So why is that if I rub vegetable oil on my skin for 20 years … Continued
Teaching Scientific Soapmaking in Liberia – Video
Larry goes to Liberia, West Africa to teach scientific soapmaking. This is a really cool video. We start out driving through Monrovia with the radio blasting and pull into one of the largest handmade soap factories in the country. Real people … Continued
DEA (Diethanolamine) and You
Take a look at the ingredients in your shampoo right now, even those touted as “natural”. Chances are the of those ingredients is DEA or Diethanolamine. This foaming chemical is found in combination with fatty acids (bits of oil molecules) … Continued
Pthalates
And this month’s ingredient of the month is…pthalates! Pthalates, (pronounced thalates) is a large family of molecules used in a variety of industries. Pthalates are used to flavor cheap whiskey, and they are what makes plastics flexible. The rule of … Continued
Healing Power of Essential Oils
Robert Tisserand, essential oils and aromatherapy expert, speaks with Larry Plesent, founder of Vermont Soapworks, at the 2011 Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild convention in Miami, FL. Larry tells a true story about how an essential oil blend saved a man’s life … Continued
The Role of Surfactants
The Role of Saponified Systems as a Substitute for Ethoxylated and Sulfonated Surfactants and the Assembling of Safe and Sustainable Molecules in the Green Formulator’s Kit “Above all else, do no harm”, wrote Hippocrates 2400 years ago. This, more than … Continued
