Goat's Milk Soap is ready!

Goat's Milk Soap!

Many of Lora's best selling soaps are now made with Goat's Milk.

Goat's milk has several benefits for skin. It contains Alpha Hydroxy Acids which help in removing dead skin cells. These acids help break down the bonds that hold dead skin cells together leaving the smoother, younger looking skin cells.

Goat's milk is also high in Vitamin A, an essential vitamin for skin repair. Vitamin A has been linked to reducing the appearance of wrinkles, acne control, and providing relief for psoriasis.

Goat's milk is highly moisturizing. The milk itself is very creamy and therefore won't dry your skin out.

Now available in the online store: Honey Safflower soap made with goat's milk and Cocoa Butter Vanilla soap made with goat's milk. These bars are also larger than the regular Lora's Beauty bar.

Goat's Milk Soap

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December was pretty busy as usual, however with the New Year I have managed to start a couple batches of the long awaited Goat's Milk Soap. First up is the Cocoa Butter Vanilla Soap with Goat's Milk. Also curing is the Honey Safflower with Goat's Milk. Both these soaps are rebatched, meaning the Goat's milk is added after the cold process soap has cured. This means more benefits of the Goat's milk are retained and not damaged from the lye during the cold process stage.

Goat's milk has several benefits for skin. It contains Alpha Hydroxy Acids which help in removing dead skin cells. These acids help break down the bonds that hold dead skin cells together leaving the smoother, younger looking skin cells.

Goat's milk is also high in Vitamin A, an essential vitamin for skin repair. Vitamin A has been linked to reducing the appearance of wrinkles, acne control, and providing relief for psoriasis.

Goat's milk is highly moisturizing. The milk itself is very creamy and therefore won't dry your skin out.

Look for these Goat's Milk bars in the online store later this month!

Unhealthy Skin Care Ingredients

I've mentioned previously in my blog about the unhealthy skin care ingredients added to many personal care products you buy in the store. Today I ran across another article discussing this.

The fact that many personal care products are unregulated shouldn't be a surprise, however, many of the ingredients added to these products have been linked to health concerns including birth defects, asthma, and cancer. This is exacerbated by the fact that many women use up to 10 personal care products a day.

When you have the time, read this article.


Then check out Lora's Beauty for skin and hair care products that use only natural ingredients such as olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, kokum butter, and beeswax.

Look for Lora's Beauty @ the Bend Bike Show!

If you happen to be in Bend, Oregon at the Oregon Handmade Bike Show next weekend, look for Lora's Skin&Saddle Sore Salve at the Radfinishes bike booth! The salve will be for sale at the event. Made with sunflower oil, avocado oil, and vitamin E oil this a truly healing salve without sulfates. Perfect for any skin irritation from dry skin and chapped lips, to skin rashes and saddle sores.

Links for better skin, hair, and health

Changing to natural, organic, non-petroleum based products really do work...

For your hair:

http://www.m.webmd.com/healthy-beauty/features/how-often-wash-hair?src=RSS_PUBLIC

Lora's Beauty Beer Bar Shampoo is a great all-natural choice for cleaning your scalp and conditioning your hair however often you want. Only the finest organic vegetable oils and beer are used in creating it!

For your child's skin:

http://www.m.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/features/childrens-skin?src=RSS_PUBLIC

No harsh detergents are used in Lora's all-natural, moisturizing soaps. Great choices for a child's skin are the super-fatted Cocoa Butter Soap or the very mild Calendula Soap.

I also found a good link to a list of ingredients you should never find in your body or hair care products and are never found in any Lora's Beauty product:

http://indielee.com/learning-center/good-ingredients/

Technically not soap...

Soap dumped in Portland's Keller FountainPORTLAND -- Merrymakers dumped soap in downtown Portland's Keller Fountain overnight Tuesday

I'm guessing that what was dumped in the fountain wasn't technically soap, but detergent.

Pocket Washcloths Now Available

100% cotton washcloths contain a small opening to slip your favorite bar of Lora's Beauty soap in or the bits and pieces of bars not yet used up. Washcloths are a great way to exfoliate the skin, particularly the face. They remove dead skin cells and excess oil and are great in clearing up even the most stubborn acne. These washcloths are specially handmade for Lora's Beauty using a light weight cotton with a small loop to hang the washcloth to dry between uses. Machine washable.

September Special: Purchase 4 or more bars of Lora's Beauty soap and receive a free Pocket Washcloth! Order from the online store.