Our bars of soap
I thought I would start off with Red Dirt Soap bars of soap since that was the beginning of Red Dirt Soap Company. Our soaps are made from 100% natural food grade oils and herbs. We do not use any dyes or additives like many of our competitors that you may find to make it look pretty or to make it lather more. Ours look beautiful, smell wonderful, and lather great with just our special formulation of natural goodness. Our soaps that have color, it comes from the essential oils we add, and we have no control over it. That is why we can’t control what color they may be and why one time may look different than the next. Every single bar takes 30 days to make. And they go through our hands at least 5 times before it reaches yours. We do all the work ourselves, everything from the making of the soap to the wrapping of the soap. Each bar of soap also has its own personal beneficial properties from the different essential oils we add. They are all packed full of moisturizing properties. Our soaps are made with the cold process to insure no loss of beneficial properties of the oils. Below you will find bullet to further explain the steps it takes to make our soap.
1) We begin with putting our soap boxes together
2) With careful measuring of the oils and lye that makes the base soap
3) Measuring out the proper amounts of essential oils to insure the best fragrance and benefits
4) Careful measuring of the lye and water mixture (with proper safety equipment)
5) We heat our oils a little so they will mix with the lye properly (stove)
6) We they carefully poor the oil into the bucket for mixing with the lye
7) Adding the lye can be very tricky and dangerous if not done properly
8) Once the lye is added we use a drill with a mixing stick to blend the oils and lye
9) At this time we add the essential oils and herbs (when needed) and mix
10) Waiting for the proper time when the soap is ready we poor it into the soap boxes
11) After pouring into the soap boxes we incubate the soap for 72 hours to insure the temperature of the soap doesn’t lower to quickly and separate each other
12) After the 72 hours we break the boxes down and place the soap blocks on wax paper for another 24-48 hours depending on how quickly it gets firm enough to handle
13) At this point we take the large soap block (weighs about 50 lbs) to the cutter. This machine was made by the OSU collage for us and is operated my 1 tiny motor to insure the soap is pushed thru the wires evenly. This is the only machine used.
14) Now the soap go’s on a drying rack for about 25 days until it cures
15) Tags are printed, cut, folded and hole punched ready for wrapping of the soap
16) At this point every bar is inspected to insure quality and size
17) The wrap for the soap is cut from a large roll of recycled light weight cardboard
18) Once cured every bar of soap is shaved and wrapped with a ribbon and tag
19) At this point the soap is ready to sale and you to enjoy.
Be careful with some of the companies that call their stuff natural. Many of them have alcohol, preservatives, and additives that aren’t needed to make soap.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
