Ingredient Glossary

Why buy Handcrafted Soaps and Bath & Body Products? Simply put, SandPea Herbal Soaps bath and body creations are made with the highest quality vegetarian oils. We include the best ingredients available into our full line of handcrafted soap and body care products.

Being an intelligent consumer, you have an interest in "what's in this and why"...we believe you should have access to easily understood information regarding why we have chosen certain botanical and/or mineral combinations for our products, without having to page through endless volumes to get it!

Apricot Kernel Oil: High emolliency; wonderful in almost any cosmetic application.

Avocado Oil: Contains protein, vitamins A, D, and E, and some amino acids. Nourishing and conditioning for dry skin and hair.

Baking Soda: Skin soothing, softening. Helps relieve itching, deodorizes, softens bath water.

Beeswax: A wonder-ingredient if there ever was one! Beeswax is a natural emulsifier for lotions, creams, lip balms, and salves.

Borax: Softens water, weak antiseptic.

Calendula Petals: Healing properties derived from flower petals. Many cosmetic applications for irritated, chapped skin. Used to soothe inflammation of the skin.

Carrot Oil: Excellent for sensitive skin, and is reported to tone skin, stimulating elasticity. Rich in vitamin A.

Castor Oil: Acts as a humectant, wonderfully soothing and emollient. Boosts lather in handcrafted soaps. Excellent for sensitive skin, and is reported to tone skin, stimulating elasticity. Rich in vitamin A. Expressed from seeds of the castor been plant.

Chamomile Petals: Used in many bath and body applications, helps heal and cleanse impurities from the skin. Also used to freshen and soothe skin.

Citric Acid: Derived from citrus fruit sugars, used in several ways in cosmetic preparations; adjusts acid-alkali balance, astringent.

Cocoa Butter: Moisturizing, easily absorbed by skin. Softens and lubricates skin.

Coconut Oil: Emollient, melts at body tempature. A lathering and cleansing oil with wonderful skin care oil properties.

Epsom Salts: Soothes tired muscles and softens water while softening skin.

Hempseed Oil: Derived from the seed of the Cannabis Sativa plant. Cold pressing the seeds yields a wonderful oil, rich in essential fatty acids, vitamins, and enzymes that are easily absorbed by the skin, helping moisturize and heal dry skin and burns.

Honey: A mixture of plant nectar and bee enzymes containing carbohydrates, b-complex vitamins as well as vitamins C, D, and E, with some minerals. In bath and body care products, honey creates a clear protective film that helps skin retain its moisture without being greasy.

Jojoba Oil: Very similar to human sebum (the natural moisturizing oils secreted by the skin). Excellent conditioner for hair and a great skin lubricant.

Lavender Flower Petals: Stimulates the complexion, cleanses the skin. Aromatic too!

Lemongrass: Helps normalize overactive oil glands. High in vitamin A.

Loofah: A long vining plant that once dried and washed of rind and seeds, gives us a wonderful body scrub! Helps stimulate circulation as well as exfoliates dead skin cells away.

Nettle: Slightly astringent; improves circulation.

Oatmeal: In many skin applications, oatmeal is renowned for its soothing properties. In soap, it adds texture for gentle exfoliation.

Olive Oil: A natural, penetrating moisturizer.

Palm & Palm Kernel Oil: Used in handcrafted soapmaking to make a harder bar of soap.

Shea Butter: Extraordinary, premium emollient.

Mango Butter:

Sweet Almond Oil: Pressed from almonds, a fine skin emollient.

Purified Water: Sterile, to avoid contamination of the product.