Anyone who knows me will agree that I'm a "germophobe". I don't touch door handles, I clean the grocery cart handle prior to using it and I am constantly washing my hands. Needless to say, my hands are forever dried out, or at least they were until I tried Terressentials Real Soap for Hands. It comes in four scents. I purchased three out of the four.
The Jammin Spice Tea Tree smells delicious, I swear I could eat this stuff. Made with organic aloe vera juice°, organic coconut oil° castile soap, essential oils of organic sweet orange°, organic cinnamon leaf°, organic tea tree° and organic clove bud°, organic extract° of organic calendula°. You can really smell the cinnamon and cloves, it's perfect for the Fall and the Holiday Season.
The Zingin Citrus with tea Tree Oil is made with organic aloe vera juice°, organic coconut oil° castile soap, essential oils of organic sweet orange°, organic lemon°, organic lime° and organic tea tree°, organic extract° of organic calendula°. It smells of a delicious cross between orange and lemon. The Chillin Mint Tea Tree smells just like Wrigley's Gum, sort of a cross between the Peppermint and Spearmint. It's made with organic aloe vera juice°, organic coconut oil° castile soap, essential oils of organic peppermint°, organic spearmint° and organic tea tree°, organic extract° of organic calendula°. Yummy!!
As far as performance...The pro's are 1. The scent, I could truly sit around all day and just smell myself, it's that good. 2. They are very moisturizing. My hands feel great right after I use it and to be honest, in the winter my hands are usually so dried and cracked, they bleed, but this year is different. I've been using this for about 6 weeks and my hands are almost a soft as a baby's bottom. No kidding, this stuff really moisturizes! 3. Cleans well, a little goes a long way.
There is one issue I have with this soap though. It is very loose and runny. If you've ever added water to an existing bottle of liquid soap, you know what I mean, it's just like that. It's hard to dispense without making a mess all over the counter & mirror and it often squirts all over me and my husband when we use it. If you are wearing nice clothes, be careful because it will more than likely squirt all over. If you have company you may want to warn them of this or switch soap until they leave, it's that bad. The dispenser seems to clog easily too. I emailed their customer service from the website to ask them about this annoyance and they responded within a couple of hours, so needless to say, I was thrilled to get such quick feedback. Here is the response:
Hi, Julie,Thank you so much for your interest and support. Have a terrific
When you craft a traditional soap from coconut oil, depending on how
you make it, you either have a very hard bar, or a liquid with the
consistency of our hand soaps, and nothing in between. There are
thickening agents of various kinds, both natural and synthetic, which
could be used. Of course, we would not use a synthetic thickener such
as carbomer or xanthan gum. As for why we do not add a natural type of
viscosity-modifier, it would increase the cost of the end product with
no increase in its cleansing properties.
If you'll take a look at the Left Coast Body Wash that you recently
purchased, you'll see that it is similar in its constituents to the
Zingin' Citrus Hand Soap, but it is thicker, due to the addition of a
special type of natural clay, and it is a bit more expensive. If you
wish, you can use it as a hand soap. A body wash requires a certain
amount of viscosity so that it will stay on your wash cloth or sponge
as you bathe. This is not really necessary for a liquid hand soap.
holiday!OK, this is a fair answer, and to be honest, it's annoying, but not enough to tell you I don't love the product because the pros outweigh the cons and I love everything else about it, so this one is a big thumbs up...just watch out for flying soap!
The Terressentials team
*Terressentials is a Compact for Safe Cosmetics signer, which means "The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics — of which EWG is a founding member — is a coalition of public health, educational, religious, labor, womens, environmental, and consumer groups working on the ground in communities, in the halls of lawmakers, and directly with cosmetic manufacturers to encourage reformulations and safer ingredients. Over 500 companies have voluntarily signed a pledge called the campaign's "Compact for Safe Cosmetics," a pledge to formulate products that do not use ingredients that are known or suspected to cause certain health harms within three years of signing. Read the Compact document or see a complete list of the signers. If you're a cosmetics company, find out how to get involved."
*All four scents of the soap are zero's on the Skin Deep/ EWG scale.
*The Terressentials website is: http://www.terressentials.com/. According to their website, all Terressential products are °USDA Certified Organic.
*Real Soap for Hands is well worth the $7.25 for 8 oz.
*As of Dec 2007, Terressentials products are available in stores in the following states: Arizona, California, Maryland, West Virginia and Wyoming. They are also available in Toronto, ON.
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