Hey everyone! My name is Dani Michelle and I am the owner of HS&EN! You may have read a little about me on our home page or our About Us page. My business is entirely natural from internal wellness to external wellness! From fresh herbs in the summer, to all natural body soaps, lotions, skin care, loose leaf teas, body scrubs and MORE, I don't sell anything I don't use myself.
My natural wellness journey began years ago when I finally had enough of hormonal medications disrupting my body. My skin, hair, nails, gut...it was ALL jacked up! So, naturally (no pun intended), I learned how to make natural products to help my body heal and now I am proud to share them all with you! One of my goals is to always remain transparent with ingredients used in our products and why we use them. Education and learning is never wasted.
One product I'd like to educate you on today is our home-made bar soaps! I love a good, moisturizing body bar. Using them, you use less plastic bottles from body wash and you reap the benefits of good oils that contain fatty acids and anti-oxidants your skin needs to replenish itself!
I started out making goats milk soap because we could use locally sourced goats milk to make them! Now, I am venturing out to olive oil soap which stole my heart years ago! Olive oil soap is wonderful in that once the saponification process is done in the bar, you have pure castile soap and a good, moisturizing and gentle bar that you can even use on babies! Our olive oil bars contain pure extra virgin olive oil and pure coconut oil. Coconut oil is another good fat that not only moisturizes the skin but also has antibacterial properties and can even help treat skin conditions like eczema, psoriasis and more. Both of them combined transform your natural skin's beauty without leaving a "squeaky clean" or dry feel. Something important for you all to know, anytime you combine natural oils, they have to undergo a saponification process that turns the oils into soap for them to cleanse your skin and for you to reap the full benefits of the product. This requires an ingredient called sodium hydroxide which is ultimately lye (a product of wood ashes and is completely natural) and distilled water. When these are combined with the oils, the bars set and cure for 4-6 weeks. Once the bar is fully cured, the lye is no longer in the bar, only the good oils that have a beautiful sud and soapy feel that cleanse your skin. Our bars are only scented with pure, therapeutic grade essential oils as well, so no phoney fragrance oils that make us sick.
Still NATURAL. Because that's what we do here at HS&EN! I hope this blog post helped you see into the heart of our business and also see how dedicated we are to our customers that choose to believe in our products!
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