Can I use Vermont Soap products during pregnancy?

I would like to use your bar soap during pregnancy. I understand there is some question about the safety of using aromatherapy oils during pregnancy. Are the fragrances in the soaps diluted enough so I can use them during pregnancy?

A you know essential oils are powerful plant concentrates that contain hundreds of molecules that the plant produces to fight fungus, viral, bacteria and cancer and as an attractant or repellent. There is ample evidence that ingesting large amounts of essential oils during pregnancy is a really, really bad idea.

It stretches the imagination to consider that a highly diluted wash off product containing essential oils, which have to travel through 4 layers of skin to be absorbed would have any effects on your baby. And in fact, like pet shampoo warnings on the internet, there as absolutely no valid evidence available to back up the claim that wash off products containing this range of essential oils has any deleterious effect on mammals of any kind; in utero or not. Clearly I consider this use of essential oils safe and nontoxic to humans.

But why use scented soap anyway? We make two beautiful bar soaps, the Butter Bar and Unscented. They work great. I use the Butter Bar as my main skin and hair product every day. Use essential oils for specific skin type issues and then return to the unscented products after. Avoid regular use of essential oils on babies the first six months of life as it is possible to sensitize your kid to the oils. To this day my oldest daughter cannot use lavender oil (and a few other oils) on her skin.

Hope this answers your question. All the Best!

Soapman