Our By the Sea Soap Shoppe "Christmas Eve" soap has a scent with a wonderful abundance of festive fruits mixed with the warmth of cinnamon. When we ask you what it smells like, the most common answer is "like Christmas candy."

   It's the perfect soap to put under your tree or in the stockings. 

    This is another one of our soaps with Castor oil. It brings extra smoothness, moisturizing and lather; you will love the feel of this soap on your skin. 

     You'll also love the scent.  We've had people drop in at our store in the middle of summer saying, "Do you have any more of that Christmas Eve soap? We just ran out, and we love it!"

    So yes, we gave them Christmas in July lol. 

    If you'd like to check out the mini bars, you can find them here.

Use this special discount code to get 3 bars for $19.95!
(mix or match)
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Ingredients

Distilled water, Coconut oil, Olive oil, Palm oil, Lye, Titanium Dioxide, Castor Oil, Fragrance, Red Wine oxide powder, Green oxide powder

Vegan, all-natural ingredients
No parabens, phthalates, sulfates, petrochemicals, artificial colours or synthetic fragrances

Benefits

 Castor Oil

• High fatty acid content – deeply moisturizes, softens and soothes the skin
• Collagen – boosts elasticity in your skin, keeps you looking younger longer!
• Anti-inflammatory
• Anti-bacterial
• Anti-fungal
• And adds lots of lather!

Coconut Oil: 

• Easily absorbed into the outer layer of your skin (called the epidermis)
• Helps to protect the outside layer of your skin from infection
• Repairs your skin barrier
• Helps to regulate how much water you lose through your skin
• Keeps your skin hydrated 
• The above reasons are why coconut oil is so moisturizing!

Olive Essential Oil

• Nourishes your skin, contains lots of Vitamins A, D, E and K
• It's an excellent antioxidant, helping to prevent skin damage and possibly preventing premature skin damage

Palm Oil:

• Antioxidant - fighting free radicals that cause premature aging
• Nourishes your skin with carotenes, Vitamin E and other nutrients
• Contains lots of Vitamins A, D, E and K
• High Vitamin E content which helps with skin conditions such as eczema, acne and dermatitis
• Moisturizing

Size

          Because the bars are handmade, you can expect to see slight differences in the size and weight. After the soap is made, it needs to cure for at least one month. After it’s cured, some of the moisture in the bar continues to evaporate out. The bar shrinks a little; enough that the label we’ve wrapped around the bar becomes a bit loose and the weight decreases a little. The bar gets harder, and this is actually better. There is nothing lost from the soap, and it will not dissolve as quickly when it does get wet in a shower or bath.

          Each bar is approximately 2 ½ in. x 2 ½ in. x 1in. or 6 cm. x 6 cm. x 2 cm.   Weight is between 3.5 and 4 oz., or between 99 and 113 grams.

          Please note that because this soap is handmade, the appearance of the soap may not be exactly as shown. 

   Lye

     Some of you might be wondering, "Lye? Isn’t lye dangerous? Won’t it harm my skin?”

     First - all actual soap is made with lye. No lye, no soap. (A lot of "soap products" in the stores are actually detergent. If you look at the labels, they are not called "soap". They are called "hand wash" or "body cleanser" or some such thing.)

     This could become a chemistry lesson, but to make it short - soap is made from lye, fats and liquid. When the lye mixes with the fats and liquid, some kind of chemical reaction goes on, and the lye and fats change into soap and glycerin. In the process, the lye is all used up. Even though lye is used to make the soap, there is no lye left in the soap at all.

     This is why soap made with lye is not dangerous, and it definitely won’t hurt your skin.

     Let's talk about Titanium Dioxide - I mean, that sounds like some kind of weird chemical, doesn't it? 

     Titanium Dioxide is a type of metal oxide. Metal oxides make up most of the earth's crust and are formed with metals react with oxygen from the air or water. 

     It's a natural substance. And it also happens to make whiter soap.

     Red and Green oxides  are colours that are used a lot, they are "metal oxides" - just a result of Mother Nature; metals in the earth reacting with oxygen. They are used in pharmacology (the pretty colours on the outside of your capsules), cosmetics and of course, soap. 

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