Palm-Oil-Free Soaps

Let’s start with the bit nobody explains properly on the packaging. Palm oil free vegan soap is a bar cleanser made entirely from plant-derived ingredients — typically coconut, rapeseed, olive or shea-based saponified oils — with zero palm oil or palm kernel oil derivatives, and no animal fats, tallow or milk-based additives of any kind. … Read more

There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes with standing in the shower, watching a “gentle” bar of soap leave your forearms looking like you’ve been stung by nettles. If that’s you, you’ve probably already suspected the culprit isn’t soap in general — it’s what’s actually inside it. Palm oil free soap for sensitive skin … Read more

There’s a particular kind of guilt that creeps in halfway through a shower: you’re lathering up with a bar that smells like a spa day, but somewhere in the small print sits an ingredient tied to bulldozed rainforest. That’s the quiet problem with most soap on a British bathroom shelf. Sodium palmate — the unglamorous … Read more