More Information About Olive Oil Castile Soap

A 100% Olive Oil Soap is pure white and always softer than other soaps because it contains none of the other oils which contribute hardness to a bar of soap.The gentleness of olive oil and its ability to act as a humectant and draw moisture from the air to your skin makes Olive Oil soap wonderful to use. The bubbles are low and plentiful.

Olive Oil Soap is sometimes better known as Castile Soap, which has a luxurious reputation, not just because of its quality, but because of its history as well. Castile Soap was originally created in Castile, Spain, in the Mediterranean where Olive Oil has always been plentiful.

Castile Soap was originally made for the Queen of Spain in Castila, and Castile Soap is often still thought of as the Queen of Soap. It has sometimes been spelled Castille. A true Castile soap is always 100% Olive Oil, not 'mostly' Olive Oil. Olive Oil Soap has more frequently been made available as a liquid soap because it is difficult to make and sell in bar shape (it takes so long to harden enough to even cut or handle.)

And now, some more technical information about Olive Oil Soap from Dr. T.

Olive Oil is a single mono-unsaturated oil with a chemical structure allowing a greater gentleness than in multiple oil formulas. Olive Oil is hygroscopic, acting as a humectant, which means it pulls water vapor from the air and traps it gently against your skin, without there being a film or any real awareness that this natural effect is happening. It's like having a blanket of moisture nourishing and softening your skin all day long. Olive Oil Soap sounds wonderful, doesn't it? And it is!

It's interesting to note that if you simply leave a bar of olive oil soap on your soap dish during the day you will likely come back in the evening to droplets of water on the surface of the soap. What your soap has been doing all day is drawing moisture from the air to itself. Try that experiment on your own, and that will show you what an Olive Oil Castile soap can also do for your skin each day. If you like this soap, but prefer that it have a more serious name, don't fret. The exact same soap can be purchased as our Castile Soap, and will not have a cigar band label filled with waddling baby ducks as we have on the Baby's Bare Butt Soap label.