One of the many joys of a fast growing business is stock management and particularly in our case, figuring out how to scale an usual product line. Many of you have mentioned that our stock has been light lately and that we have been out of stock of a lot of crowd favourites, in particular, deodorants and bodywash bars. Well, never fear, that will soon be a thing of the past! We have been putting some serious muscle behind our manufacturing and come October, our stock issues should have smoothed out. First up is our bodywash bars. We are releasing six new bodywash bars. You’ll note they are smoother, harder, squarer yet weigh slightly less than our previous bars. They also last longer, lather more and smell incredible yet don’t leave your skin dry. In short, they are an awesome improvement on the original bodywash bars and I am very confident you will love them. There are three new flavours; Matcha, Lime & Lemongrass, which, frankly, smells like heaven- sweet, citrusy with a hint of bite and is coloured with Matcha tea. Sweet Orange & Vanilla for those of you who want a bodywash bar with lather, yet love the smell of our crème bodywash. And for the sensitive skinned, we’ve swapped out Calendula & Oatmeal for Charcoal, Oatmeal and Kaolin. Unscented and gentle with some cleansing power added with the charcoal and clay. Old favourites Lavender & Peppermint, Pumice, Teatree & Spearmint and Lime & Ginger round out the range. So what is the difference? Our original bars were cold process soap; which means we mixed oils (such as rice bran and coconut) with sodium hydroxide to produce soap. Whilst this is deemed the old fashioned way, it’s not scalable and we have well and truly reached the point where we needed to change our method. Now they are milled, which means the soap is made in exactly the same way (oils and sodium hydroxide), then it’s cooked, chopped and ground into soap noodles. These soap noodles are then mixed with our ingredients (like matcha powder and kaolin) and shaped into bars. We also stamp with with our leaf emblem, which is my favourite part about them! They are very much still a gourmet bodywash; as they are palm free (of course), heavy on the olive oil (which means a creamy, non-drying soap) and are scented out by essential oils, never synthetic fragrance. Please let us know what you think! What is in them? Sodium Olivate, Sodium Cocoate and Sodium Stearate are ‘soap’, these are what occurs when you mix olive oil, coconut oil and stearic acid (from olive oil) respectively, with sodium hydroxide. Water (this one is easy). Glycerine is a humectant that can come from a variety of animal or vegetable sources. The one in our bodywash comes from coconut oil. Sodium Chloride otherwise known as table salt, this makes a hard bar. Tetrasodium Glutamate Diacetate has a scary sounding name for a perfectly harmless, biodegradable, vegetable derived (palm free) ingredient. It's a chelating agent, which means it prevents ions in the water from reacting with our bodywash bars and causing soap scum (among other things). It has an EWG score of 1 and it's even accepted at wholefoods stores, so you know it's perfectly safe.