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SoapFunction is a line of socially, economically and environmentally responsible
body bars and laundry sticks made from The Healthy Butcher's
Certified Organic Tallow. Artisanally made by Toronto’s Jenna Scott of
Sultry Suds, SoapFunction is an exclusive line of sustainable soaps made for the
express purpose of making Organic farming a viable business in our province.
When you buy a bar of SoapFunction you are strengthening the sustainable
agriculture framework in the province of Ontario by furnishing local farmers
with the market force to sell the entirety of their product. By
purchasing soap made from beef tallow, you as a consumer are providing local
Organic farmers with the financial support they need to make the responsible
choices, and you are furnishing The Healthy Butcher
with financial support we need to continue encouraging our farmers that the
Toronto market desires responsible and sustainable food.
If an Organic farmer can be paid for the entirety of his product, that farmer
can be competitive with subsidized industrial farming operations that are the
cause of polluted groundwater and unbalanced buying markets.
How do you function?
Teatree-Shea Butter Bar
Ingredients: *Tallow, *Olive Oil, *Coconut Oil, *Soybean Oil, Water, Sodium
Hydroxide, **Shea Butter, Australian Green Clay, Teatree Essential Oil
Lavender-Oatmeal Bar
Ingredients: *Tallow, *Olive Oil, *Coconut Oil, *Soybean Oil, Water, Sodium
Hydroxide, *Oatmeal, Australian Pink Clay, Lavender Essential Oil
Lemon-Rosemary Laundry Bar
Ingredients: *Tallow, *Coconut Oil, Water, Sodium Hydroxide, Lemon Oil, Rosemary
Oil
Directions: see attached file (Laundry Soap Instructions)
The Art of Soapmaking
Roman peasant women were the first to discover the base formula for soap
sometime around 1000 B.C. They noticed clay from the banks of the Tiber - that
was often embedded with sacrificial-animal tallow and ashes from the altars of
Mount Sapo - assisted in cleaning their wash. By applying a little of the “sapo”
clay, the women had inadvertently discovered the chemical process of making
soap, now termed saponification.
Today, sapo continues to be the root word for soap in many modern languages. In
modern times, Ash has been replaced with Sodium Hydroxide, a caustic alkali
which is made by processing salt water. The Sodium Hydroxide is mixed water,
then added to a blend of vegetable or animal oils. This mixture is blended until
it reaches the right consistency, then poured into moulds and incubated. Most of
the saponification, the chemical process that turns the raw ingredients into
soap, occurs during the incubation period. After 24 hours, the soap is taken out
of the moulds, cut and cured for up to a month.
Animal tallow (fat) has been used in soapmaking since soap was first discovered.
Organic tallow makes an excellent soapmaking oil, especially when blended with
skin nutritive vegetable oils such as coconut and olive oil. Tallow makes an
amazingly hard and long-lasting bar that lathers well and rinses clean.
Laundry Soap Directions
This soap can be used as a spot remover, laundry soap, as well as an
all-purpose cleaner. It is not meant for use on the body.
Instructions:
For household cleaning: Grate soap & add to boiling water to dissolve.
Alternately, leave a chunk of soap in water overnight and let dissolve. Use in a
spray bottle for all purpose cleaning, or with mop/cloth for floors and other
surfaces.
For laundry:
For stains, wet fabric and wash stained area by rubbing the bar directly on the
stain.
For washing, grate 1 inch of soap into a basin of hot water and allow to
dissolve.
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