Why Use Red Dirt Soap Products

Why Use Red Dirt Soap Products 

Our products are made from only the finest natural plant oils and butters. There is no petroleum, alcohols, chemicals, or manmade substances in our products. God created everything we could ever need and placed in here for us to use. We research daily to find the things that would help each and every type of problem with only using what God gave us. We strive for perfection and helping others overcome their skin problems naturally.  Our goal is to help you and your loved ones in healing and preventing skin problems without using chemicals that could cause greater problems later in life. Have you ever noticed the side effects of prescription skincare products? Most of them can cause serious problems to your body.  Such as liver damage, kidney damage, even leukemia and this is just a few of them. That is not what we want to happen. We want to help you with Gods gifts.  We are not trying to scare you into buying. We only want to give you a few facts. We encourage each and every one of you to do your own research. Check out your own prescriptions. See what could possible happen with using them. Now we understand some people are allergic to natural oils. We have found that most of that is usually either by ingestion or in large amounts such at using it straight without other oils involved. If you think you may be allergic to an ingredient in one of our products we will be more than happy to let you try some to see if it effect you. Or if you want to place an order online and would like a sample of something specific just let us know. We have found most customers that may be allergic to something used in our products do not have a problem. Maybe it is because it is combined with other ingredients, or maybe it's because their reaction is more from ingestion, or maybe it's really more of the chemicals that are usually added that they are allergic to, or maybe it's because God has hand in very product we make. We really don't know for sure.  You see, not all natural oils are truly natural. It also depends on how it was processed. It may have been chemically processed. If so then it will have chemicals in it. We only use naturally processed plant oils. All of our products are also handmade. There is not big factory that makes them, we do it all - from beginning to end.    

          

Red Dirt Soap Company

Rt 1 Box 159 Delaware, OK 74027 US

Phone: 918-559-9186 Website: http://www.reddirtsoap.net/

What others have that we don't!

Now first of we put all our ingredients in a form you can understand not some scientific name. So now the real question is Are you worth it? Lets discuss why our soap is so much better than the others. Now what ours Contain are: Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Soybean Oil, Sodium Hydroxide, Distilled Water, Aloe, Essential Oil(s), Herb(s). 
 Coconut Oil: Choose coconut oil to moisturize balanced skin, oily skin and hormone reactive skin. The light texture of apricot kernel oil makes it useful in face serums, or mixtures of oils used to moisturize the face. According to Close, apricot kernel oil is especially useful for oily complexions. Apricot kernel oil is light enough that it does not leave a greasy coat on your skin after use. Though coconut oil is most useful for oily complexions, it is gentle enough to use on any skin type. Apricot kernel oil will also help rehydrate dry skin. Choose coconut oil to moisturize balanced skin, oily skin and hormone reactive skin. The light texture of apricot kernel oil makes it useful in face serums, or mixtures of oils used to moisturize the face. According to Close, apricot kernel oil is especially useful for oily complexions. Coconut oil is light enough that it does not leave a greasy coat on your skin after use. Though coconut oil is most useful for oily complexions, it is gentle enough to use on any skin type. Coconut oil will also help rehydrate dry skin.
Olive Oil: Olive oil makes for a gentle moisturizer for dry skin, notes The Daily Green, a website for organic life solutions. You can apply it directly to the skin with a cotton ball or add a few drops to your favorite moisturizer to amp up its effectiveness. Olive oil has the same healthy fats as avocado, which plumps and moisturizes the skin with a combination of vitamin E and vitamin A. Dry, itchy and inflamed skin is usually the sign of skin irritations such as eczema and psoriasis. People with these conditions learn to live with their itchy and uncomfortable skin or they turn to prescription creams and home remedies. Olive oil can relieve some of the discomfort and irritation associated with these skin conditions. Free radicals, sun and pollution can all take a toll on your skin. A study performed by dermatologist Leslie Baumann that was published in a 2007 issue of "The Journal of Pathology" found that vitamin E was successful in fighting free radicals, photo aging and damage to maintain younger looking skin. Olive oil can be applied directly to aging and damaged skin to help maintain a youthful appearance and reduce the toll free radicals takes on your skin.
Soybean Oil: Soybean Oilis  considered most nutritious and  helps in improving our internal system including  hair and skin. Soyabean has incredible benefit which  improves the quality of the skin.Soybean is an incredible source of vitamins, minerals, proteins and when a protein rich emollient is produced from a product it is called as soybean oil. Because of air pollution, poor diet combined with harmful UV rays from sunlight most people find their skin dull by the mid 30′s .This is when soybean oil comes in.Soybean oil helps in restoring the luster and impart glow to the skin.It helps in healing the damage that is done to the skin by pollution or sun exposure. Soyabean oil contains specific antioxidants which helps in maintaining the skin health and gives the special glow to the face.Antioxidant such as vitamin E and Vitamin B complex prevents the development of appearance of wrinkles. Also, by eating soyabean based products one can protect the skin and maintain skin’s good health.Soybean oil helps in develop more glowing skin and brighter skin but even out the skin tone and improve skin texture as well.
Sodium Hydroxide: We only use natural food grade top quality Sodium Hydroxide and in low amounts. There has been studies done showing natural Sodium Hydroxide helps to slow aging. It also help to clean the skin but when it is put in at small amounts it is not drying to the skin. The biggest key factor here is the type you use.
Aloe: Aloe vera has a long history of use as a treatment for first- and second-degree burns and minor wounds. Aloe vera appears to increase the speed of wound healing and activate the immune cells responsible for fighting off infection, allowing a burn or wound to heal quickly and cleanly. It can also soothe the pain and irritation of a burn. Aloe vera is a natural moisturizer that is used to hydrate dry skin and smooth age-related wrinkles. When applied directly, it readily penetrates the skin and acts to increase the amount of oxygen brought to skin cells. Aloe contains a wealth of active constituents, including amino acids, fatty acids, zinc and vitamins C and E, which are important in the process of skin repair. Aloe contains salicylates, anti-inflammatory compounds which are the precursors of salicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin. Aloe is used for psoriasis and eczema, acting to calm inflammation and relieve pain and itching. Aloe vera may slow the skin effects of frostbite by bringing extra oxygen to damaged cells. According to the University of Maryland Medical Center, application of a 0.5 percent aloe vera cream may help improve the symptoms of genital herpes. Aloe can also be used to treat radiation burns from cancer treatment and soothe the itching of poison ivy and insect stings.
 
Here is an idea of what most of the others contain: Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate, Slearic Acid, Sodium Palmitate, Aqua Lauric Acid, Sodium Isethionate, Sodium Stearate, Cocamidopropyl Betaine, Sodium Palm Kernelate, Parfum, Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, Sodium Chloride, zinc Oxide, Citric Acid, Tetrasodium EDTA, Tetrasodium Etidronate, Alumina, Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone, Benzyl Alcohol, Butylphenyl Methylpropional, Citronellol, Coumarin, Hexyl Cinnamal, Limonene, Linalool.
 Now how about a little more in-depth of what this all is?
•Sodium Lauroyl Isethionate
Uses: According to DCI it is used as a detergent, wetting agent, and emulsifier
About This Ingredient: This is a synthetic detergent. It may dry the skin out because if it's degreasing properties. Depending on where you look, this detergent may be listed as a mild skin irritant.
How It's Made: This detergent is chemically synthesized in a lab.
Summary: This Dove soap ingredient does not appear to have any beneficial properties for your skin (aside from cleaning it), and may dry it out.
•Stearic Acid
Uses: Used as a hardener in soap. According to DCI, it also gives liquid soap a pearly appearance.
About This Ingredient: According to DCI and Cosmetics Info it is deemed safe by the FDA and CIR (Cosmetic Ingredient Review) expert panel. DCI states that it is a possible sensitizer for allergic people. Stearic acid is a constituent in some vegetable oils.
How It's Made: According to wikipedia, Stearic acid is prepared by treating animal fat with water at a high pressure and temperature, leading to the hydrolysis of triglycerides.
Summary: This Dove ingredient does not appear to have any beneficial properties for your skin, and may sensitize you to allergens.
•Sodium Tallowate
Uses: Used for cleansing.
About This Ingredient: Sodium tallowate is a salt of Tallow (according to Cosmetic Cop's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients it is a substance extracted from the fatty deposits of animals, especially from suet (the fat of cattle and sheep). Tallow is often used to make soap and candles. In soap, because of its fat content, it can be a problem for breakouts). According to The Soapmakers Companion (Susan Miller Cavitch) "Quite a bit of controversy surrounds the use of tallow in soap making. It is thought to clog pores, cause blackheads, and increase the incidence of eczema for individuals with sensitive skin."
How It's Made: Sodium tallowate is made my mixing Tallow with Lye (a solution containing water and an alkali).
Summary: This inexpensive and readily available Dove soap ingredient cleanses and moisturizes your skin, but may worsen or cause acne.
•Sodium Palmitate
Uses: Used for cleansing and creating lather.
About This Ingredient: Sodium Palmitate is a salt of Palmitic Acid (according to Cosmetic Cop's Dictionary of Cosmetic Ingredients. Palmitic Acid can be drying to the skin).
How It's Made: Sodium Palmitate is made my mixing Palmitic Acid with Lye (a solution containing water and an alkali).
Summary: This Dove soap ingredient cleanses your skin, but may dry it out.
•Lauric Acid
Uses: According to Cosmetic Info it is a surfactant and cleansing agent.
About This Ingredient: Lauric Acid occurs naturally in some vegetable oils like palm oil. It can be irritating to super-sensitive individuals at high concentrations.
How It's Made: Occurs naturally.
Summary: This ingredient cleanses your skin. It may irritate very sensitive skin.
•Sodium Isethionate
Uses: It's generally used as a surfactant.
bout This Ingredient: This ingredient is a type of detergent surfactant. It's pretty mild and produces a lot of dense lather. Sodium isethionate works equally well in soft or hard water.
How It's Made: This ingredient is normally chemically synthesized in a lab.
Summary: This ingredient is mild on the skin and non-drying.
•Water
Uses: Typically used in soap as a solvent for dissolving the oxidizer.
About This Ingredient: A solvent is always needed to dissolve the oxidizer. It can be water, milk, or any other liquid containing water.
How It's Made: Occurs naturally.
Summary: Water is used as a means of dissolving the oxidizer (the thing that combines with the oils to make soap).
•Sodium Stearate
Uses: The Stearate salts are generally used for their lubricating properties. They also help to keep emulsions from separating into their oil and liquid components, according to Cosmetic Info.
About This Ingredient: According to DCI, this ingredient is about 98% Stearic Acid, and carries the same risks.
How It's Made: Made by reacting sodium with stearic acid to create the salt, sodium stearate, according to wikipedia.
Summary: This Dove soap ingredient does not appear to have any beneficial properties for your skin.
•Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Uses: Used as a surfactant, according to Cosmetic Info.
About This Ingredient: This is generally regarded as one of the more gentle surfactants, although some studies indicate it may be an allergen, according to wikipedia.
How It's Made: I wasn't able to pin this down definitively, but I gather that it is synthesized in a lab.
Summary: This ingredient cleanses your skin. It may also be an allergen.
•Sodium Cocoate
Uses: Used as a surfactant.
About This Ingredient: This is a gentle surfactant.
How It's Made: Sodium cocoate is produced by hydrolysis of the ester linkages in coconut oil with sodium hydroxide (same as Sodium Isethionate), a strong base, according to wikipedia.
Summary: This ingredient cleanses your skin.
•Sodium Palm Kernelate
Uses: Used as a surfactant.
About This Ingredient: This is a gentle surfactant.
How It's Made: Sodium Palm Kernelate is formed by combining Palm Kernel oil with an oxidizer (such as Sodium Hydroxide).
Summary: This ingredient cleanses your skin.
•Sodium Chloride
Uses: Used as a thickening agent.
About This Ingredient: Sodium Chloride is the same as ordinary table salt.
How It's Made: Occurs naturally. Can be mined or taken from seawater by evaporating it.
Summary: This ingredient does not appear to have any beneficial properties for your skin.
•Tetrasodium EDTA
Uses: Used as a preservative and chelating agent, according to wikipedia.
About This Ingredient: No known toxicity to the skin.
How It's Made: Synthesized in a lab.
Summary: This ingredient does not appear to have any beneficial properties for your skin.
•Tetrasodium Etidronate
Uses: Used as a preservative and chelating agent (DCI lists this as a synonym for Tetrasodium EDTA, I'm not sure why Dove lists this twice).
About This Ingredient: No known toxicity to the skin.
How It's Made: Synthesized in a lab.
Summary: This ingredient does not appear to have any beneficial properties for your skin.
•Maltol
Uses: Used as a flavoring agent, according to wikipedia.
About This Ingredient: I wasn't able to find any information on the use of Maltol in soap. It occurs naturally in some types of plants. It does have a fragrance.
How It's Made: I can't say definitively, but I would propose that it is probably harvested from plant material.
Summary: This ingredient does not appear to have any beneficial properties for your skin. It might be used as a fragrance, but maybe not considering Dove claims this bar to be unscented.
•Titanium Dioxide
Uses: Used as a whitening agent.
About This Ingredient: Titanium Dioxide is thought to have no negative side effects when used externally. However, I have read that people can be sensitive to it.
How It's Made: Crude titanium dioxide is purified via titanium tetrachloride in the chloride process, according to wikipedia.
Summary: This ingredient does not appear to have any beneficial properties for your skin. It may cause skin irritation.

 

 
Red Dirt Soap Company
Rt 1 Box 159 Delaware, OK 74027 US
Phone: 918-559-9186 Website: http://www.reddirtsoap.net/

 

More about our products

Red Dirt Soap products are made from only the finest natural plant oils and butters in our skin care products. There is no petroleum, no alcohols, no chemicals in our products. God created everything we could ever need and placed it here for us to use. We research daily to find the things that would help each and every type of problem with only using what God gave us. We strive for perfection in helping others overcome their skin problems naturally, and have quality skin care.  Our goal is to help you and your loved ones in healing and preventing skin problems with natural skincare treatments without using chemicals that could cause greater problems later in life. Have you ever noticed the side effects of prescription skin care products? Most of them can cause serious problems to your body.  Such as liver damage, kidney damage, even leukemia and this is just a few of them. We want to help you with Gods gifts. We encourage each and every one of you to do your own research. Check out your own prescriptions. See what could possible happen with using them. Now we understand some people are allergic to natural oils and essential oils. We have found that most of that is usually either by ingestion or in large amounts such at using it straight without other oils involved. If you think you may be allergic to an ingredient in one of our products we will be more than happy to let you try some to see if it effect you. Or if you want to place an order online and would like a sample of something specific just let us know. We have found most customers that may be allergic to something used in our products do not have a problem. It may be because it is specially blended with other oils/ butters. It may be because the other ingredients (chemicals) is what accelerates the problem. You see, not all natural oils or essential oils are truly natural. It also depends on how it was processed. It may have been chemically processed. If so, then it will have chemicals in it. We only use naturally processed plant oils and essential oils in our skin care products.

 

 

 

Red Dirt Soap Company

Rt 1 Box 159 Delaware, OK 74027 US

Phone: 918-559-9186 Website: http://www.reddirtsoap.net/

Our Bars of Soap

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.

Many company claims to be natural, but are they really???

I am starting this blog because of all the fake natural skin care products out there. Many of us think if the bottle says "natural" then it has to be natural because that would be false advertisement. We it must not be because many companies are doing it. NOW on my blog my “plan” is to take one of our products at a time and focus on it. Break it down, compare to others, and explain why ours are good for you, etc.

Now please keep in mind I am NOT a journalist or a grammar major, I am an old fashion country girl from Oklahoma that wants what she pays for. NOT to be lied to my consumers. SO with that in mind if you read a little “slang” in my blogs that would be because I type the way I talk. If I say something you don’t quite understand please, please ask.

Also, if you have any questions at all about our products please ask. That is the biggest reason for this blog, is to help people. That is the biggest reason for our products as well. We want you to know all the benefits of all our products not just a few of them. And it is hard to post everything on the website.

To give you a little more insight on us, my wonderful husband and I married in July of 2010. With this I brought 5 wonderful boys into the marriage ages (now) 21, 19, 15, 12, and 9. My husband brought in 3 wonderful boys and 2 beautiful girls ages (now) 22, 21, 19, 18, 17. And we are now in the process of adopting my 29 year old (might as well be son). Yes, that is 11, but wait that’s not all, we also have 2 beautiful grandbabies ages boy 1 year and girl 1 month. Now I won’t count all the dogs, cats, geese, ducks, and horses, I will be nice.

Now as we go through the products one by one you will find out that most of them are developed because of our kids/grandkids.

Happy Trails until next time!!