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What do you know about soap?
I'm Karen, co owner of Peters Gate Herbs and my husband Geoff and I make a lot of soap. We like to use olive and coconut oils, essential oils or fragrances and hemp seed oil or charcoal for our specialist ranges. Types of soap can be confusing to even the most discerning consumers. The transparent glycerine soap, the kind everybody believes to be the purest, actually has many more additives than cold pressed soap. Cream bars, like Dove, are Syndets, synthetic detergent bars,

Kirsten Makin
Jun 71 min read
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