Our Ingredients

Soap or is it a detergent?

Lu Lu's Ingredients:

  • Olive Oil
  • Shea Butter
  • Palm Kernel
  • Palm & Castor
  • Coconut
  • Fragrance or Essential Oil
  • Goat Milk, Lye

Ingredients you will not find in our soap!

Commercial Detergent (Soap) Ingredients:

  1. Propylene glycol (to replace the hydrating effect of natural glycerin), a petroleum-based product that is dangerous when inhaled, an irritant, and a metabolic disruptor.
  2. Polyethylene glycol (to keep soap looking nice), apetroleum-based product used in antifreeze,
    dehydrates and ages skin, leaves it vulnerable to bacteria.
  3. Sodium lauryl sulfate (a foaming agent), a serious irritant, hormone disruptor, drying, and it denatures the skin proteins, leaving your lower layers vulnerable.
  4. Butylated hydroxytoluene (a preservative), absorbed through skin, long-term and repeated exposure caused renal and hepatic damage in rats, mild irritant, tumor promoter, deemed safe for cosmetic use.
  5. Pentasodium pentatate (a type of acid used to soften water and create better foaming), an eye irritant
    and should not be used on broken skin or infants.
  6. Titanium dioxide (to whiten the bar), dangerous if inhaled, safety on skin unknown.
  7. Sodium isethionate (for dense lather and suds), currently being researched.