Organic Olive Oil Castile Soap

You can literally make this recipe with just three ingredients if you choose water lye and olive oil.

Organic olive oil castile soap. This traditional soap formulation dates back to the 12th century where it was first produced from olive oil in the spanish city of castile. You can make your castile soap as colorful and as lovely scented as you d like. Our soap is handmade in small batches from an authentic castile soap formula. Just saponifed certified organic extra virgin olive oil and water.

Olive oil 12 6 oz. While a true castile soap is made with 100 olive oil in the us the word castile is often used to mean any soap made with olive oil or even just vegetable oil. Our cold saponified soaps are made from organic olive oil water and natural glycerin. For this soap i used 100 refined olive oil for my base oil to make what s called a castile soap.

Made with extra virgin olive oil and sunflower oil certified organic by oeffa a usda accredited organic certifying agent please note. The result is a rich thick soap that makes a great head to toe body wash. Our best selling unscented organic liquid soap is now available in quarts. The result is a naturally gentle and universal soap that is free from essential oils.

True castile soap is made from olive oil not a blend of less expensive oils like coconut and palm. And like our bar soap we only use certified organic extra virgin olive oil as the carrier oil not a blend. Marseilles soap is a hard bar of vegetable oil soap traditionally made in france that heavily incorporates olive oil. We don t add any other oils.

Most soap companies do not make a true castile soap because the feel and lather are quite different compared to soaps made with the addition of coconut or other lathering oils and customers often judge. The organic olive oil is the only vegetable oil used in the fatty base for our soap. Aleppo and nabulsi soaps are also regional versions of castile made in the middle east. Our 100 natural and 98 79 organic liquid castile soap is made from saponified coconut and sunflower seed oils.

I also added essential oils and kaolin clay. Penns hill organic castile olive oil soap base is handmade in small batches specifically for liquid soap. Customers tell us they use it as shampoo and shaving soap. We use the same 100 natural pure formula that has been used for centuries.

Many commercial soap companies call their soap castile. You will not find artificial coloring synthetic perfume or chemicals you cannot pronounce in our soap. Handmade castile liquid soap made from 100 certified organic extra virgin olive oil. Castile soap is a popular kind of soap that is derived from olive oil which has been manufactured in the mediterranean for centuries.