Christmas time and By the Sea Soap Shoppe "Candy Cane" soap goes together like candy canes and Christmas stockings!

    With Peppermint Essential oil, the soap smells just like a candy cane!

    It's also extra moisturizing and lathering due to the added castor oil and cocoa butter. So nice on your skin!

    Give everyone you know a Candy Cane soap this Christmas!  

    (If you'd like to look at the full size bars, you can see them here.)

Use this special discount code to get 4 mini bars for $10.00!
(mix or match)
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Ingredients

Coconut oil, Olive oil, Palm oil, Sunflower oil, Castor Oil, Cocoa Butter, Water, Lye (Sodium Hydroxide), Peppermint Essential Oil, Patchouli Essential Oil, Lemongrass Essential Oil, Titanium Dioxide powder, Red Iron Oxide Powder 

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

Benefits

Peppermint Essential Oil

• Just smelling peppermint has been shown to increase your energy levels - sleepy in the morning? Use our Peppermint soap in the shower!
• a "natural astringent" - it closes your skin pores and tightens your skin
• Opens up your air passages and sinuses, helping to clear up your breathing when congested
• A natural "Antioxidant", fighting free radicals and helps to keep your skin looking younger for longer

Lemongrass Essential Oil

• Fresh, lemony scent is light, refreshing and relaxing!  
• This oil is used in aromatherapy to calm, it helps to relive anxiety and irritability
• Lemongrass essential oil is an effective cleanser for all skin types, sterilizing your pores
• It's a natural toner, strengthening your skin tissues
• Lemongrass is calming, relieving anxiety and irritability

Patchouli Essential Oil

• Good for acne, eczema, inflammation, cracked, chapped and irritated skin
• Patchouli is used in many anti-aging skin care products and can reduce the appearance of scars or marks on your skin
• Antiseptic, so this soap is a good choice for cleaning out cuts or sores so they don't become infected 
• Also helps to reduce inflammation if you have skin infections and irritations
• Anti-fungal – useful in treating athlete’s foot
• Antibacterial, effectively combats any already existing infections

Cocoa Butter

• Moisturizing - the fatty acids in cocoa butter bring deep and moisturizing care for your skin
• Healing – heals chapped skin and relieves symptoms of skin ailments such as eczema and dermatitis
• Antioxidant – its high antioxidant content reduces signs of aging by fighting free radicals
• a natural inflammatory

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!

Sunflower Oil

• Antioxidant – vitamin E helps to prevent skin damage and may help prevent premature aging and sun damage
• Antifungal – useful in treating ailments caused by fungus such as athlete’s foot

 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

     Each bar is approximately 2  in. x 1 in. x 1/2 in. - or 5 cm. x 2.5 cm. x .5 cm. Weight is around 1 oz., or 28 grams. 

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

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 Iron Oxide is another metal oxide - it's a colour that is used a lot, including by the pharmaceutical industry, in cosmetics and in soap. 

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