5 Reasons Handmade Soaps Renew Skin for Spring

Winter is on its way out. Hallelujah! Time to start digging out spring dresses, skirts and regular shoes—no more boots! But first, before the spring fashions take hold, you have to deal with the havoc that winter wreaked on your skin: dry and dull simply aren’t going to fly. So, where do you start?

Gain a Spring Glow

Nature renews itself every spring: Your skin can do the same. Dry air, artificial heat, and cold suck the moisture out of your skin during the winter. The crisp spring air helps skin find its healthy shine again, especially when you help it along with the right skin care products.

Handmade soaps create the foundation for this year’s spring skin care routine. Undoubtedly, the type of soap that you use on your skin impacts its appearance. Handmade soaps refresh skin—their moisturizing and nourishing properties bring tired skin back to life and go a long way toward restoring your natural glow.

Experience the 5 Benefits of Handmade Soaps

• Moisturizing Oils: Handmade soaps crafted with natural oils nourish skin and help it retain moisture. Natural oils create a sheer layer of protection that guards skin against dryness. Because handmade soaps use natural oils to clean, they pamper your dry and damaged winter skin gently without stripping the skin of its own natural moisture. The best part—your skin stays clear. Natural oils aren’t likely to clog pores. Handmade soaps allow skin to absorb just the right amount of moisture, which gives you a healthy—never greasy—glow.

• Gentle Cleansers: Instead of cascades of lather, handmade soaps produce gentle, subtle suds. The more understated suds are courtesy of a lack of sulfates in handmade soaps. The sulfates in commercial soaps result in squeaky clean surfaces and copious amounts of foam. But when your skin is in question, squeaky clean only means stripping skin of natural moisture. For skin trying to recover from this seemingly endless winter, removing moisture only prolongs the damage. Handmade soaps cleanse more gently by taking advantage of natural ingredients, like oils and exfoliants, which refresh skin without stripping away its own moisture.

• Anti-Aging Properties: The glycerin in handmade soap gives you a head start on laugh line management. Glycerin, produced during the soap-making process, helps skin retain moisture and elasticity, qualities of young, healthy skin. But commercial soap-makers syphon off the glycerin and sell it—to create lotions and moisturizers. In handmade soaps, the glycerin remains part of the soap itself, adding even more moisturizing and beauty benefits. Beyond the benefits of glycerin, natural anti-aging remedies, like lemon juice, may also be added to soaps. Lemon juice contains alpha hydroxyl acid: a staple in over the counter anti-aging products. This acid, which occurs naturally in lemon juice, sloughs off dead skin cells, reducing the appearance of age spots and leaving skin looking bright and renewed.

• Natural Ingredients: Commercial soap comes in a plethora of colors and fragrances—and loaded with an overwhelming amount of unnecessary chemicals. Natural ingredients do not dry and irritate skin like commercial soaps often do. Instead of harsh chemicals, handmade soaps use exfoliants like rice, sand, salt, sugar, and citrus. Exfoliants lift off dead skin cells to help rejuvenate and refresh skin. To clear up acne prone skin, natural soaps may use citrus or basil, instead of harsh, drying chemicals. Green tea, cucumber, mint and rosewater act as astringents, making pores not only appear smaller but actually shrinking them to keep contaminants out. Soaps with natural astringents achieve a deep clean and help restore balance to oily skin. The natural ingredients in handmade soaps respect your skin, which constantly absorbs whatever you put on it. Using natural ingredients is simply healthier for your body.

• Restorative Vitamins: Handmade soaps often contain vitamins, which heal damaged skin. Rough, wrinkled or spotted skin responds well to the anti-aging properties of Vitamin A, marketed as “retinol” in over the counter products. Vitamin A stimulates the growth of new skin cells, literally renewing skin. Vitamin C has antioxidant properties, which fight the effects of aging with ninja-like precision and encourage skin to repair itself. Vitamin E, the most common of the skin repair vitamins, prevents and combats dryness. Used in conjunction, these vitamins produce an anti-aging powerhouse to restore your skin just in time for spring.

Renew Your Skin This Spring

Caring for your body is a key to component to a healthy lifestyle. Eating organic. Grabbing a salad instead of a bag of chips. Exercising. Maintaining a healthy weight. You go to tremendous lengths to maintain your health. Now it is your skin’s time to shine. As spring blooms this year, choose skin care products that help your skin find its own healthy balance. Renew your skin—and your health--this spring by going natural.

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