May 7th, 2012 |
Unmolded just in time for the Tower Grove Farmer’s Market opening weekend, the bright peppermint notes of this bar are complimented by refreshing Tea Tree, and lemony Naiouli essential oil.
Our First Peppermint Tea Tree Batch Just Out Of The Mold
One Butter Vine customer tried using a bar on his pet’s coat, because he thought the solid bar of soap would be easier to apply and work into the coat than liquid shampoo while his Golden Retriever was jumping around in the water. He found he was right! None of the soap went straight to the patio, and afterwards his dog’s coat was super soft and silky from the shea butter.
If your dog or cat would rather play, at best, than take a shower, this is the perfect bar to keep unwanted insects off their coats. Tea tree oil is well known as an effective natural repellant against insects, and the peppermint and naouli oils will leave your pet smelling fresh without harshly drying their skin.
Dried Flowers On The Face Of Peppermint Tea Tree
Try it, and let us know what you think! We value our customers’ opinions, and want to know how your using the soap and what works or doesn’t.
Filed Under: Available Soaps, Essential Oils, Ingredients | Posted By Butter Vine
December 5th, 2011 |
Handmade Ginger Grapefruit Soap
Ginger Grapefruit Hand and Body Soap
Soothing ginger, refreshing grapefruit! And a touch of clove to boost the antimicrobial cleansing of an already gentle soap. Excellent for all skin types, you may even notice you use less lotion with these soaps.
In addition to skin loving olive, almond and avocado oils, each bar has a generous portion of highly moisturizing shea butter.
Ingredients: castor oil, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, olive oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, shea butter, aloe vera juice, juniper berries, calendula petals, essential oil of clove, ginger, grapefruit, tea tree, and natural preservative vitamin e oil.
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December 5th, 2011 |
Handmade Licorice Soap
Handmade Licorice Hand and Body Soap
The scent of this bar is mostly licorice, but it also has naiouli, making it a great bar for shaving, and tea tree oil. Bamboo derived activated charcoal is an extra cleanser for acne. Excellent for all skin types, you may even notice you use less lotion with these soaps.
In addition to skin loving olive, almond and avocado oils, each bar has a generous portion of highly moisturizing shea butter.
Ingredients: castor oil, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, olive oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, shea butter, aloe vera juice, activated charcoal, essential oil of fennel, naiouli, tea tree, and natural preservative vitamin e oil.
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December 5th, 2011 |
Handmade Bergamot Geranium Soap
Handmade Bergamot Geranium Hand and Body Soap
Subtle Tangerine and the mysterious undertones of Ylang Ylang Essential Oil finish with just a twang of pepper and earthy shea butter. Excellent for all skin types, you may even notice you use less lotion with these soaps.
In addition to skin loving olive, almond and avocado oils, each bar has a generous portion of highly moisturizing shea butter.
Ingredients: castor oil, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, olive oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, shea butter, aloe vera juice, one rose bud, paprika, essential oil of tangerine and ylang ylang, and natural preservative vitamin e oil.
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December 5th, 2011 |
Handmade Peppermint Sandalwood Soap
Peppermint Sandalwood Hand and Body Soap
Excellent for all skin types, you may even notice you use less lotion with these soaps.
In addition to skin loving olive, almond and avocado oils, each bar has a generous portion of highly moisturizing shea butter.
Ingredients: castor oil, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, olive oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, shea butter, aloe vera juice, essential oil of sandalwood and nutmeg, and natural preservative vitamin e oil.
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December 5th, 2011 |
Handmade Lime Chamomile Soap
Lime Chamomile Hand and Body Soap
Excellent for all skin types, you may even notice you use less lotion with these soaps.
In addition to skin loving olive, almond and avocado oils, each bar has a generous portion of highly moisturizing shea butter.
Ingredients: castor oil, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, olive oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, shea butter, aloe vera juice, chamomile buds, essential oil of lime and bay, and natural preservative vitamin e oil.
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December 5th, 2011 |
Handmade Vanilla Oatmeal Soap
Vanilla Oatmeal Hand and Body Soap
Look forward to a dreamy bath with the rich caramel scent of vanilla and soothing oatmeal on your skin. Made with all natural plant oils, oatmeal gently exfoliates while moisturizing skin with the rich lather of unrefined shea butter and aloe vera juice.
In addition to skin loving olive, almond and avocado oils, each bar has a generous portion of highly moisturizing shea butter. Excellent for all skin types, you may even notice you use less lotion with these soaps.
Ingredients:castor oil, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, olive oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, shea butter, aloe vera juice, oat flour, rose petals, vanilla beans, essential oil of geranium, and natural preservative vitamin e oil.
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December 5th, 2011 |
Handmade Lavender Soap
Lavender Hand and Body Soap
With all natural moisturizing oils, pure essential oils of lavender. Viola and larkspur blossoms lend traces of their delicate petals to this time honored favorite scent. Excellent for all skin types, you may even notice you use less lotion with these soaps.
In addition to skin loving olive, almond and avocado oils, each bar has a generous portion of highly moisturizing shea butter.
Ingredients: castor oil, coconut oil, palm oil, palm kernel oil, olive oil, safflower oil, sunflower oil, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, shea butter, aloe vera juice, one larkspur or viola flower, essential oil of lavender, and natural preservative vitamin e oil.
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May 3rd, 2010 |
We’ve patiently awaited the end of the curing process for our new soaps, and many of you with us! Take a look at our store buttervine.etsy.com to find most of your favorites, a few new scents, and some really big bars of soap!
As part of our new formula, we’re using unrefined shea butter, which is dramatically different than the shea butter of our earlier recipes. The heat process that naturally occurs as part of the chemical reaction taking place when the soap cures does affect the properties of the shea butter somewhat. But to maximize the benefits of the butter that carry over, we’ve used shea butter that hasn’t been refined to bleach and deodorize the raw shea butter product. The result is dramatically different from our earlier recipe, don’t be surprised if you notice right away how much more moisturized your skin feels.
Each of the new bars is well over 4.5 oz, some of them closer to 6. If you find them too bulky, a kitchen knife will cut the soap easily.
Filed Under: Ingredients, Safe Cosmetics | Posted By Butter Vine
March 19th, 2010 |
In addition to natural aromatic oils and botanical ingredients, each Butter Vine bar contains only plant oils such as palm, coconut, sunflower, rice bran, olive, castor, apricot and shea butter as well as plant extracts such as cucumber, oatmeal, corn flower and aloe vera juice to ensure the moisturizing quality of the bar. Plants oils also function as our soaps’ gentle but effective disinfectants, cleaning your skin with natural substances that refresh your senses, moisturize your skin and safely return to the earth’s environment.
Check the description of each bar in our Soap Selection to find out which moisturizers and exfoliants are present in each soap.
Pure Essential Oils
Our essential oils are distilled from plants without the addition of scent enhancing synthetic chemicals. We seek oils from meticulously conscientious distillers to ensure long lasting, refreshing aroma in every bar derived only from plants, trees and flowers.
In addition to their aromatheraputic benefits, the distillation process impacts the healing, disinfecting and antimicrobial properties of essential oils. If you don’t want to miss out on the important role natural scents can play in your health and happiness, include our soaps in your personal care for the best organic skin care!
Botanical Exfoliants
Although the stems, leaves, seeds and flowers in our soaps add to their aesthetic beauty, we also use them for a little extra scrub traction. Many botanicals we use add color or contribute to the aromatherapeutic quality of the bar. Chamomile buds and rose petals are two favorites, as well as henna, lavender buds, cedar wood and calendula petals.
No Artificial Colorants Or Dyes
All the colors you see in Butter Vine soaps are derived from the essential oils used to scent the soap, the moisturizing oils, natural herb and spices, or the botanicals added to the soap for exfoliation.
Natural Preservatives and Fragrance
Rosemary oil extract is a natural preservative derived from the rosemary bush that keeps the oils in our soaps fresh, and also helps to keep natural and artificial light from fading the color of the bar. We also use Vitamin E Perservative Oil, which has all the benefits of Vitamin E, and none of the dangerous effects of synthetic perservatives. The color may yet fade if your soap is kept in direct sunlight.
The botanicals in your Butter Vine bars are protected from the air and by Rosemary Preservative Oil or Vitamin E Preservative Oil, but like all plants they wilt and discolor when soaking in water, so don’t abandon your Butter Vine soap to soak under a lilly pad! After you’ve basked, bubbled and recalibrated your senses, do drain the water from the soap dish to make your soap last!
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