Unless labeling law has changed you can still use the simple name for an ingredient instead of simple and inci in the USbathgeek, since you sell, if you are labelling, you must follow the labelling laws/regulations for your area (my area too. ) on how you label your soaps, so you would need to find the INCI name for the oil used.
If confused about labelling, Marie Gale has and excellent book and blog about US guidelines to labelling.
http://www.mariegale.com/
When I see on a soap label listing extra virgin olive oil I feel 2 things:
1. the soaper is trying to make you feel that this soap has the best olive oil money can buy.
2. the soaper is trying to justify a higher price for said soap.
I say save your extra virgin olive oil for salad dressing. If it's no big deal for you to change your label to list your olive oil as xtra virgin I say go ahead.
I admit, I'm judgy, and when I see a soaper bragging about their product containing EVOO, I think they actually don't know much about soap. But it's also probably label appeal.
bathgeek, since you sell, if you are labelling, you must follow the labelling laws/regulations for your area (my area too. ) on how you label your soaps, so you would need to find the INCI name for the oil used.
If confused about labelling, Marie Gale has and excellent book and blog about US guidelines to labelling.
http://www.mariegale.com/
I have wondered about this since I started soaping - a number of sources say NOT to use extra virgin olive oil, but not WHY. Is there a difference in the oleic acid?
Bah. My recipes weren’t working out right even though Soapmaker (and Soapee) think that EVOO has the SAP of pure olive oil. However, EVOO is 1% or less fatty acids (says definition I read on internet), whereas most pure olive oil is between 1-2%. No wonder it’s taking FOREVER to harden...
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