Description

Unadulterated luxury soap filled with incredible botanicals.

Each soap is handcrafted and unique. They will never look exactly the same

Shea butter adds a rich and luxurious feel to this soap. Now also imagine the feeling of silk on your skin. Your luxury bar of soap creates a glorious silky glide on your skin. Great lather.

I chose Tussah silk over Bombyx Mori, commonly known as the domesticated, farmed mulberry silk-worm moth. Tussah is wild harvested mostly in India, and whilst no certificate was provided, my source is harvested after the moth has naturally vacated her cocoon and gone on to mate. In the mulberry silk industry, the entire cocoon with larvae/pupae inside are boiled. In my eyes, there is no justification for latter.

The blend of essential oils creates a nostalgic scent of the African bush. This is a large bar containing many extraordinary ingredients – a bounty of wild harvested botanicals including wild indigenous rosemary and the iconic sausage tree, which is scientifically proven and hailed as the most exciting breakthrough in skin care with a myriad of benefits.

Any soap with lard or tallow is incredibly gentle on skin.

Benefits of lard for the skin

• One of the reasons lard is such an extraordinary moisturizer lies in its cellular makeup, which shares a lot of similarities to human skin. Because of this similarity, lard absorbs effortlessly into the skin, softening and smoothing out skin tone, while reducing the appearance of age spots. The ph of lard is also similar to human skin. Lard contains both monounsaturated and saturated fats, but no transfat. It is rich in vitamins a, d, and e, and omega 3 fatty acids, all highly beneficial for the skin.
• Lard contains immune-boosting vitamin d. Vitamin d reduces inflammation

MYTHS, STORIES & INSPIRATION

This Soap is to honour Mama Hippo, who allowed me the once in a lifetime privilege of watching her give birth in the shallows of the Crocodile River on a recent visit to Kruger Park.

Hennie’s Rest is my favourite place along the Crocodile River. I love watching the day-to-day life and interaction between species, the nuances of which, I largely seldom experience when driving around. I’ve been very blessed to witness many incidents that are seldom seen by us humans.

Hippos on this stretch of river are a dime-a-dozen and it wasn’t until I saw, what I thought was a white plastic packet floating from Mama’s rear end, that I gave her more than a cursory glance. This all transpired right in front of the deck.

Well… the sweetest teeny little pinkish tot eventually emerged. She’d given birth on a sandbank in the shallows, so the little one was able to stand easily. One of the most tender moments was the love on Mum’s face as she bonded with her baby for the first time. After a brief rest, Mama took that baby very far from the site of afterbirth and blood in the water. It wasn’t long before the crocodiles were tussling over the latter remnants.

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