Ingredients: Olive oil, water, sodium hydroxide, essential oil (if scented)
-The most gentle for skin
-Good for dry and normal skin
The first soap I made in my life was this 100% olive oil soap.
I think this is the most famous and commonly used recipe in Japan.
It is like a pure white bride – it only contains olive oil = very pure! Since this soap is very simple, you can’t fake anything and all its beauty comes out from the inside effortlessly. It’s really like a beautiful bride, isn’t it? :) Haha
I made quite a few olive oil soaps. I didn’t, however, really pay attention to the soap before.
I liked more complicated ones like the ones I mentioned in my other posts. It was actually after I came to the states, that I realized the power of this soap.
When I flew to the states, I brought some of my soaps with me.
My husband was using a mass made commercial soap when I arrived here so I used the soap also. I was even happy that he was not using chemical liquid body soap.
I kept using the soap. And one day… I realized my skin was very rough and had quite a few pimples!
I consulted a pharmacist when we went to a nearby H-E-B and he asked me if I changed any cleaning supplies recently, like detergent, shampoo, soaps etc. because they directly touch my skin.
I thought ‘AH, that was why!!!’ So soon after that, I made our own cleaning soap for clothing from all-natural ingredients, and changed my soaps. It was when this ‘pure white bride’ took to the stage!
When I used that first time under our shower here, I felt the extreme gentleness from the humble bubbles this soap makes. (This soap doesn’t create lots of bubbles as it doesn’t have much fatty acid that creates bubbles) It was like being cuddled by the softness and warmness in the shower with the bubbles.
This soap is especially good to cleanse your face as it is a gentle makeup remover also. My facial skin recognized the difference immediately and it was like my skin kept being happy even long after showering. I couldn’t help but touch my face (and body) frequently. I should have looked very strange! haha
My skin tends to be relatively drier so the membrane this soap leaves works very well on my skin but those who have more oily skin might feel too oily.
I often made this soap with my little brother when I was in Hiroshima waiting for my visa to get issued. (It took a year…)
It makes me think of those happy family times back in Hiroshima a lot.
My brother liked the smell of orange sweet so mine has this nice orange scent also. It’s a smell of my hometown. We have an ocean and mountains; we have all good stuff there.
This time I made the soap with my husband, my new family. These uneven soaps in the picture were actually cut by my clumsy husband. I love them as they are so homie and cute. Haha I even feel like I can hear these little ones. :)
For me this soap is forever family soap and like a pure white bride, it is always the most beautiful, the homiest, and the sweetest, full of hope for the new life ahead!
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