You don't press down on CP soap--we were talking about rebatched soap.
Most commercial detergent bars that you buy in the store DO contain lard, it just isn't labeled as "lard." Ivory soap contains animal fats, for example. Look for an ingredient such as "sodium tallowate." In other words, saponified animal fat. I don't think there's anything wrong with animal-fat soaps, per se, but MP is right in that for most people reading an ingredients label, there is an "ick factor" there.
You actually don't have to list ingredients on the label as long as you don't make any claims about your soap other than that it cleans. True SOAP is exempt from FDA regulation . HOWEVER-- Once you refer to it as "moisturizing" or "exfoliating" or anything else, you've moved into the realm of cosmetics, with much stricter labeling laws. Most makers of handmade soaps DO list their ingredients, simply because people who buy handmade do so because of what they're made of.
The reason that "soap" (like Ivory, Lever, etc.) you buy at the store has an ingredients label is that it does NOT fit the FDA definition of "soap." (See above link.) The "soap" on the shelf at Wal*Mart is actually "detergent."
Most commercial detergent bars that you buy in the store DO contain lard, it just isn't labeled as "lard." Ivory soap contains animal fats, for example. Look for an ingredient such as "sodium tallowate." In other words, saponified animal fat. I don't think there's anything wrong with animal-fat soaps, per se, but MP is right in that for most people reading an ingredients label, there is an "ick factor" there.
You actually don't have to list ingredients on the label as long as you don't make any claims about your soap other than that it cleans. True SOAP is exempt from FDA regulation . HOWEVER-- Once you refer to it as "moisturizing" or "exfoliating" or anything else, you've moved into the realm of cosmetics, with much stricter labeling laws. Most makers of handmade soaps DO list their ingredients, simply because people who buy handmade do so because of what they're made of.
The reason that "soap" (like Ivory, Lever, etc.) you buy at the store has an ingredients label is that it does NOT fit the FDA definition of "soap." (See above link.) The "soap" on the shelf at Wal*Mart is actually "detergent."
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