Mimsical Soaps     FAQ

There  are  several reason why Homemade soap is  a great alternative  for your personal  washing needs, and  several reason why Mimsical Soaps  began

It started out with my own growing  awareness of the increase in skin issues, and  the ingredients in synthetic washing products,  allergies and so forth, my family has a god wholesone food intake, ensuring they are in peak condition on the inside, but what about the outside, and  what does our  skin absorb, and liver  process? The more  research I did  to maintain healthy living, the more astounded I was with how awful the ingredients  are. I received a gift of reasonably  cheap and  nasty shower  wash, with an equally  nasty  fragrance, and that  was the  straw that broke the camels  back. I was washing with a  chemical cocktail  that was so unnecessary.

There is a trend to move away from  harsh and drying  commercial soaps that use acid dipped processing,  and using Body washes instead. However these are a chemical cocktail which may ‘feel’ nicer than cheap mass produced soap but harsh on our environment with so much processing and  plastic bottle packaging not to mention added nasties (like parabens and SLES)  your skin will absorb, and your liver WON”T process. So it is not all that good really….

It is little wonder more and more people suffer from sensitive skin and  constantly lamenting about reactions of  beauty products on their skin. 

My baby soap developed for a real need, my baby neice has  peanut and food allergies, her skin is a mess  and she needs  nasty steroid creams  to stop her skin from bleeding. For those  families who  understand, you must take  a break from steroids  to save the skin for  a week every two weeks.  I developed calendula soap with simple  ingredients  made  mild as possible  so  she can be washed at all times, without  reaction especially  the week she is off the steroid cream My sister  was thrilled, I was thrilled, this product  will help and hence my  desire to spread  the opportunity to use something safe.

When my own baby was born, again I wanted to make all my baby things  so I knew and controlled  what went into it. Hence Mimsical Baby began!

Most people  identify regular soap as a product with harsh drying properties  and no good  for  washing with, as an irritant to eczema ravaged skin, face (yes  FACE), and genitals. So they use shower gels, and the amount of packaging, compared to  a bar of  soap from Mimsical is worth noting~!

 Mimsical soaps can be used all over your  body, with no itchiness and no drying of your most delicate areas!

 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.

The massive amount of plastics  and  synthesisation of  soap and shower  gel ingredients is HUGE. The  factories  spill out  so many greenhouse gases for all parts including the containers is comes in. Cheap cosmetics  made on a mass produced scale is on the rise. People  do not  like soap as much due to the  harshness and irritant factor, so they go shower  gel, all processed, all using machinery fuel and who knows  what else!

HOW IS SOAP MADE ~  WHAT IS LYE?

 I can't  tell you  here how synthetic store brought soap is made here, please email me for a  fact sheet (be warned it is  frightening the information inside!), but  I can explain  home made.

 It is a blend of  rich moisturising  plant oils (olive macadamia, coconut etc) and liquid  either  water, milks or herbal tea, and any other nice ingredients I can think of  and   set with a heat process using lye as a catalyst. It sounds a  bit complex, but if  done correctly makes the oils turn to lovely  creamy soap. Lye is  a  powerful cleaning agent,. However the  tiny amounts used are  carefully measured  to saponify the oils with at LEAST 5%  DISCOUNT (IE MINIMUM 5% OILS ARE FREE  AND NOT SAPONIFIED BUT FREE FLOWING  FOR EMOLLIANT PURPOSES) and  by the time the soap has cured.. the lye is  COMPLETELY NEUTRAL and no longer  exists  so to say. That’s the only thing in the soap. My soap has NO chemical Hardeners, No preservatives, NOT  soaked in acid after  NO SLES’s, No parabens which exist in All store brought creams lotions and gels and CLOG your liver, never to be excreted  and remains in your body, forever.

Each soap comes  with a  full list of  ingredients to  comply with Australian legislation and   so you can check for  personal requirements.Mimsical Soap is also registered  with NICNAS the current government regulatory body for the use of LYE in my soaps.

 WHERE DO YOU GET THE INGREDIENTS FROM?

Every effort is made to use local Australian ingredients   especially the  additions like  honey and herbs and milks. The oils  used are good quality and again all  effort is used  to  ensure Australian companies are sourced. Far North Tropical Queensland is a rich source of exciting produce, My favourite  pastime is  sourcing the local markets  for exciting fresh and innovative ingredients, and of course growing  my own herbs is an exciting part of the truly home made experience.  Picking and brewing  herbs from my garden for the liquid content is an aromatic part of the process, and now I collect freshly milked right before my eyes goatmilk from the local dairy, and  use Virgin Cold Pressed Olive oil grown and pressed less than an hour away in a Australian Olive grove Pukara Estate.

 Mimsical is all bout  also supporting our Aussie  farmers  and businesses.

 Mimsical Proudly uses  the best quality  ingredients  and Never  Uses cheap petroleum based fillers.

 WHY IS MY  SOAP GETTING SOFTER  AND DARKER?

One  of the things about homemade anything is that it is  entirely different  to store brought, The texture and feels will be more obvious from cooking to needlework. There is a  quality and  for  those accustomed  to store brought everything, home made  can be a little  unusual. Because  there is No Nasties   the soap will be softer, particularly if it is a soap high in olive oil or 100% veggie.

 It is  extremely important to  ensure  your soap  dries  out completely between uses, not to be left under a dripping shower head or in a pile of water. I use scotch brite (the green pads) to sit my soaps on. You can hunt your local  markets  and might find a nice little  raised  dish  with  good drainage to use.

However  your  essential oils  and honeys and wonderful ingredients  will  remain and be renewed  at every  wash you will enjoy the fragrance  and qualities to the  very end. If you do drown your soaps there may be a  slightly  gooey  effect which will  dry out and still  does  it’s  job.. to clean your  skin beautifully

DO I NEED TO MOISTURISE??

You will notice  that  after using Mimsical Soaps, you will not need to grab a paraben laced petrolum based chemical cocktail to rub on  after.

But  you may want to glow a  little or nourish your skin and heres how.

Natural  Plant oils. Macadamia nut oil is  the perfect  skin moisturiser, it contains unique beneficial naturally  occurring palmitolic acid that is good  for your  elasticity and retaining softeners. Rose Hip oil is  alsoa perfect tonic  for your skin renowned  for its  properties  on scar tissue and aging skin. You can see here at this site.   http://www.macadamiaoils.com Your face will love pure macadmia oil. Or  for a special softening effect try some of Mimsical Whipped Body Butters, incorporting generous amounts of  softening coco butter, or  moisture sealing shea butter  and  Skin safe fragrances especially sourced for my strict guidlines.

 NOTHING WASTED

 Here at  Mimsical Soaps,  recycling is Big, from packaging to wrapping, if the option is  available we will use it.  Packaging foam is actually  a Bio degradable recycled  Puffed Rice that will dissolve in your compost, and introducing Green compostable bubble wrap.ALL effort is made to use container  that can be resued  and currently Sourcing recyced PET jars  for bath salts  and butters. By Choosing Mimsical you are Choosing quality you can count on, Honesty, Ethics and the Very Best that can be put in my Soap and Other Products. No shortcuts, no cheaper  fillers  and no fibbing on the labels.

 I SEE NATURAL SOAP SOLD  EVERYWHERE.  WHAT MAKES 'MIMSCAL' SOAP DIFFERENT ?

In Australia the word natural is  loosely thrown around and a  product with only a  small portion of  natural ingredient can be claimed  as  natural. Read the ingredients, smell and look at the  soap.  Is it brightly coloured, smells  amazingly  like   a strawberry or vanilla? Then it has artificial colour and scents.  If it  is  from the supermarket and says natural it is very well a synthetic product with a minimum of 5% of a  natural ingredient totally lost in their machinery processed  product. My colours  remain as   natural clays, spices plants  and minerals, with the exception of our Scented Range.. a  select group of scented soaps,these are available after increased requests, so we have the Vanilla, Berry Blush, Rose and occasional floral. Clearly labelled as scented.

Then the Aromas  range.. delicatly  laced with Pure essential oils.

‘You might notice the aroma  not that strong. Well  essential oils are powerful, it is more  about the quantity to be safe and effective rather than overpowering and  not  so good on delicate skin. Sandalwood for example, dwindling tree supplies are a concern.. I prefer to use Australian  cedar wood which has renewable forests. See the difference?

Also many citrus does appear to fade, but  you will notice the smell is back as you lather it up!

Then there is  your base for  soap.. usually palm oil or tallow  and  coconut oil. Unless  you have a  year long aged castille  soap (pure olive oil) nearly all  soap use those  base oils.  In fact when you buy  a lot of so called natural or  100% pure  veggie oil soaps  thats  all they have  is Base oils of Palm and palm kernal. A sligtly harsher oil that is fast becoming unpopular due to excessive deforestation, and community damage in poorer countries like Maylasia. Shop brought  "natural soaps" are missing  what Mimsical has,Shea Butter, Coco butter, Sweet alomnd, or Hemp, or Macadamia nut oil and certainly no Olive oil or  fresh  garden  ingredients! This is what makes Mimsical Soaps  a better  quality choice!

 Unlike many other  soap makers, Mimsical has Complete ACCOUNTABILITY with NICNAS  and your gaurantee of safe legal soap.

Please contact me for Any Questions not covered here.

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