I have a question!! I am from Canada. I make soap as gifts and keep my family well supplied. I have made lots of soap, and have done lots of research on soap and soap making laws in Canada (I would like to open my own soap business next year) I happened upon a soap company a few weeks ago. Their slogan is ''As pure as nature intended'' They are a small company. I had heard complaint about their ingredients from another soap company last year (I chalked it up to a competitive type issue). I am always buying soap at craft fairs and such as I love to support local. Forget about the labelling not being compliant to Canadian law, I am truly suspicious about their ingredients. Their bars are aprox 4 oz each, and some of them contain 'Cranberry Essential Oil' and 'Plumeria Essential Oil'. Is there such a thing?? I think there is a cranberry carrier oil, but not essential. Also, they sell their bars for $4 each (note the approximate size) and many of the bars 'contain' Coffee EO, Vanilla EO, Sandalwood EO, Jasmine EO. Aren't these too expensive to use in a $4 bar of soap??
An example.. this is their Cranberry Fig soap (sundried cranberries and fragrant figs come together etc....):
Ingredients: Organic Olive Oil, Water, Sodium Hydroxide, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Palm Oil, Organic Soy Oil, Organic Sunflower Oil, Organic Shea Butter, Cranberry Essential Oil, Kaolin Clay, Iron Oxide
This doesn't sound right to me. Where are the 'fragrant figs'?
I am not naming names, but this gives all small soap companies a bad name. This kind of marketing is confusing and deceitful. Or maybe I am just being ridiculous, or maybe I am just plain wrong. I need some of your more professional opinions please.
An example.. this is their Cranberry Fig soap (sundried cranberries and fragrant figs come together etc....):
Ingredients: Organic Olive Oil, Water, Sodium Hydroxide, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Palm Oil, Organic Soy Oil, Organic Sunflower Oil, Organic Shea Butter, Cranberry Essential Oil, Kaolin Clay, Iron Oxide
This doesn't sound right to me. Where are the 'fragrant figs'?
I am not naming names, but this gives all small soap companies a bad name. This kind of marketing is confusing and deceitful. Or maybe I am just being ridiculous, or maybe I am just plain wrong. I need some of your more professional opinions please.