Vermont Soap
It is safe, free, fun and easy to dry your own herbs for those long winter nights to come. All you need is a ball of string and sturdy scissors or small pruners. Here’s how to do it: Start with clean green fresh healthy plants grown away from pesticide and herbicide spraying. Discard yellowed, dead, moldy or insect ridden parts or plants. Cut stems near the ground leaving a 2” handle to tie your string to for hanging them. Harvest plants in bright sunlight while they are still photosynthesizing. Try to time things so you are harvesting on a sunny…
Here at Vermont Soap, we make a delectable variety of scented hand soaps. Don’t tell the bars, but the foaming stuff is our favorite. Here’s why: It feels like a mini trip to the spa. Let’s face it – washing your hands sometimes feels like a chore. In bathrooms, you’ll often find yourself squirting some pink mystery goo into your hands and desperately hope that its slimy texture leaves no residue. It takes forever to work into a lather and the scent is increasingly over-powering. Not so with Vermont Soap’s foaming hand soap! This stuff comes pre-lathered right out of…
I cook a lot of raw meets and eggs. I just purchased your Liquid Sunshine, would that kill salmonella and other bacteria on the countertops from raw food?? Soap and water are recognized as effective agents for cleaning Salmonella and other common bacteria from hands. The primary mechanism for hand washing is to physically remove the germs and flush them down the drain. Certainly, this mechanism is at play when using a soap and water-based cleaner like Liquid Sunshine. However, the effectiveness of a soapy spray and wipe in germ killing is hard to quantify in all situations. I suggest…
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I have a longtime friend who identifies himself as a scientist. One of his favorite sayings goes like this: “Most people that think science is a body of facts. It’s not. Science is in reality a method of inquiry.” And he is absolutely correct. Generally speaking, scientific method consists first of observation and measurement. This information is then used to formulate a hypothesis or “a good working guess based on the current available data”. The scientific community specializing in that particular field of inquiry then takes pot shots at the hypothesis in an attempt to blow holes in it through…
I would like to know what difference between Shower Gels, Castile Liquid Soaps and Baby Wash are. I saw Organic Guar Gum in Shower Gels and baby wash, Is this ingredient safe? I am looking for something gentle. I tried other Castile Soap and it dried my skin. Not sure if I need to add more water or not. Which one is the mildest between all 3? Organic guar gum is a food ingredient used to thicken certain products. It is completely safe. Soap is made of soap crystals. The size and shape of the crystals are one of several…
How can you verify a product or company’s organic certification? By following these four steps: First, look for the USDA Organic Seal OR a “Made with Organic” statement on the front panel (coupled with a certifier statement below the company contact information). This might sound obvious, but there are many products out there (especially on Amazon) that claim to be organic but are not. The first step to ensuring something is truly organic is to look for the actual USDA seal. Without the seal, it’s not the real deal. Second, look for the third-party certifier. Every packaged USDA certified organic…
HARDWICK, VT May 2017 (For Immediate Release) The Vermont Soap Company, Hardwick residents and local nonprofits will attempt to break the World Record for the number of people simultaneously hand washing dishes this month on May 27’th. Everyone is welcome to come and be part of putting Hardwick, VT and Vermont Soap on the world record map. Downtown Hardwick, at Atkins Field; on Granite Street. Contest starts at 2:30 p.m. Vermont Soap is teaming up with the Center for an Agricultural Economy (CAE), the Hardwick Kiwanis Club, the Central Vermont Solid Waste Management District (CVSWMD) and the Heart of Vermont…
Vermont Soap is a longtime advocate of a simple, natural and clean lifestyle which includes eating nutritious nontoxic food and using nontoxic, nonpetroleum based topical and cleaning products. For many reasons, we object to the continued spread of chemical agriculture and genetically modified organisms; and instead encourage the use of modern organic agricultural techniques to build soil, sequester carbon, and reduce the chemical load upon our people and our planet. Using organic soap is a small step. But it takes a lot of small steps to make the journey to a safe and sustainable lifestyle for our children and grandchildren.…
Everybody wants to be Green. But what does it mean? For some, natural is about atoms and molecules. Where did those atoms come from? What was their last incarnation? Carbon for example is an element and as such lasts basically forever, endlessly changing form. Do you support plant based carbon (“new” carbon) or petrochemical (“old” carbon). Either way those carbon molecules have existed since the solar system was formed 4.6 billion years ago. I am a plant based carbon man myself but everyone is entitled to an opinion as to where they get their atoms come from. For others Green…
