Bath Bombs!
So it looks like we will also be launching a line of Bath Bombs in the next couple months! We have had so many requests for them that I have decided to move forward with them.
Our bath bombs will contains some of my favorite oils such as Organic Jojoba Oil, and Organic Shea Butter. The addition of these oils will make your skin so silky and you won’t ned to moisturize after getting out of the tub (be careful not to slip though!)
I will also be using a variety of essential oils for relaxing and a variety of our popular tropical scents to remind you of paradise! And our amazing Tropical Dead Sea Bath Salts will be incorporated into the bombs for the ultimate relaxation experience!
Stay Tuned, I’ll post 2 weeks before the actual launch!
I’ve just returned from my trip to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti! I was very inspired by the beauty, and had time to chat with a few people about skin care in those areas. I was was very inspired and will be launching a few new products in the next 2 months.
I am very excited to announce we will be doing a line of Bubble Baths that will be integrated with our amazing bath salts! This product will not be 100% natural, but will still be amazing!
I will also be launching a new scent of Loofah and Essential Oil Soap- Coconut/Lemon! It has been so popular with our Organic Sugar Scrubs that we’ve decided to make it into soaps too!
Stay tuned for when I announce the launch date!!
While most people love the loofah soap for an all over body scrub, I have to say that I swear by loofah soaps for my feet! Just give a good scrub like you would with a pumice stone and it exfoliates quite nicely. The oils and glycerin in our soaps leave your feet nice and smooth.
Being in Hawaii my feet would literally crack until they would bleed. After I started using the loofah soap to scrub my feet they stay nice and smooth. I do still like to occasionally use Organic Shea Butter on my feet too to keep them super soft.
The edge of the loofah (the uncut edge) works nicely as an exfoliant for your face too. So these little sponges from nature can provide total body exfoliation resulting in amazingly smooth skin, even reducing the appearance of cellulite!
Many people think that the loofah comes from the sea, however it actually grows on a vine, and is in the cucumber family. It is not edible though. There are a few varieties of loofahs ranging from a creamy color to a darker brown, and it is not uncommon to find a seed in your soap due to the fact it is very hard to remove all of the hundreds of seeds in a loofah.
We are very proud to say that we give back to our community by purchasing our dried loofahs from the special education department at McKinley High School here on Oahu. We then clean them (never bleached) and pour our wonderful soap around them. See all of our amazing loofah soap scents here.
Lavender Essential Oil is one of my all time favorite essential oils! In short… it’s good for just about everybody, and just about everything.
Not only does it have the ability to relieve stress just by inhalation, it relieves all kinds of skin conditions by using topically. It is also one of the few essential oils that is safe to be used on children. However, I do feel that no scent or essential oil should be used on babies under 6 months though.
Lavender is also one of the few essential oils that can be used undiluted on the skin. However, as with all essential oils, you should definitely use care when using it.
We use lavender essential oil in our Goat’s Milk Lavender Essential Oil Soap, which has a very creamy lather and is try relaxing.
We also have an Organic Coconut Oil that has French Lavender Essential Oil added, which makes for a great massage oil.
And we make an amazing Organic Shea Butter with Lavender Essential Oil which is great for soothing any skin irritations!
I’m often asked why I use Dead Sea Salts as opposed to Hawaiian Sea Salts. Well, quite simply, I feel that the salts I use from the Dead Sea are far superior. They come from a clean, unpolluted environment that and contain some amazing healing properties.
Our Dead Sea Salts are harvested from the Southern end of the Dead Sea where the water has its highest mineral content. Many salts have been so processed or bleached that most of their beneficial properties have been depleted. Our salts are certified authentic!
Dead Sea Salts have been clinically tested to relieve various skin conditions such as eczema or psoriasis with regular use, and are great at pulling out toxins from your body.
Just a few of the minerals contained in the Dead Sea Salts are, Magnesium which helps with quick healing of skin irritations, Bromide, which is very soothing and relaxing to the skin and body, Iodine which helps with the body’s metabolic rate, Sulphur, which is naturally disinfecting, Potassium, Calcium, Sodium and Zinc to name a few.
For a nice relaxing bath that soothes your skin we recommend using a couple handfuls of salt in your bath. For a more therapeutic bath to relieve skin conditions such as eczema or psoriasis, or for a detox, we recommend using a full 8 oz. bottle.
We do add tropical scents (which are Paraben FREE and Phthalate FREE), so you can get a fully relaxing experience!
If you’re a lip balm addict like myself, you need to have one of each of the Organic and Vegan Lip Balms from Honolulu Soap Company! 100% organic lip balms are hard to find, and vegan lip balms are even harder to find!
Most people use beeswax as a base for their lip balm, honey, petroleum and lanolin (derived from sheep’s wool). None of these are necessary for a great lip balm.
We use Mango Butter, Candelilla Wax, Coconut Oil, Apricot Kernel Oil, Avocado Oil, Kukui Nut Oil and vitamin E.
Not only do all of these oils absorb nicely and leave your lips so luscious, a lot of them have great healing properties to them! Click Here to try out our amazing lip balms!
Jojoba Oil is my absolute favorite moisturizer! Having so many different, amazing qualities like helping to clear acne, and reducing the appearance of wrinkles are just a couple reasons.
Jojoba Oil has the same components as human sebum, which is why it is so great to fight acne. It is thought that it makes your skin think it is already producing oil (sebum), therefore your skin will actually produce less oil. It is wonderful for helping to to get rid of blackheads and reduce the size of your pores. You only need to wash your face with an all natural soap that has essential oils great for acne prone skin, then rub a few drops in a circular motion on your face. Make sure to rub the Jojoba Oil in very well. You should spend at least 15-20 seconds rubbing it in.
We do recommend using Jojoba Oil as a makeup remover as well as your daily moisturizer. It works quite nicely on eye make-up!
Jojoba Oil also is a very light oil, making it wonderful for a daily moisturizer. It absorbs quite nicely into the skin, however too much of anything is not a good thing! Too much will leave you shiny.
Studies have been done that show Jojoba Oil does actually reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
We love Jojoba Oil so much that we put it into our Organic Sugar Scrubs and our Organic Shea Butter! It provides a wonderful creamy texture in the shea butter, and leaves your body nice and silky in our sugar scrubs, with no need to moisturize after you scrub! Click here to try our Organic Jojoba Oil!
You can also use Jojoba Oil in your hair to help control frizz. It is very commonly found in high end hair products. To use on dry hair, just put a few drops in the palm of your hand and rub your hands together. Then rub your hands through your hair and smooth away your fly away hair! You can also mix a few drops into your conditioner and apply to wet hair, then rinse. Or use it as a hot oil treatment, wet your hair with hot water and towel dry. Then put several drops of Jojoba Oil into your hands and rub hands together. Smooth through your hair, and repeat last step as needed to make sure your hair is completely covered. Put your hair in a towel, and leave up for 30 minutes. Shampoo as usual afterward.
Cellulite, aka cottage cheese, is the bumpy appearance that occurs on your legs, thighs, and stomach. It is actually more common in women, and heavy set people, however even very skinny people can get it. There are ways to help reduce the appearance of cellulite though, and we do carry several products to help if used on a regular basis!
The two things that help reduce the appearance of cellulite the most is caffeine and exfoliation. Our most popular Organic Sugar Scrub for this is our Kona Coffee Plumeria Scrub. The caffeine in the coffee is a vasodilator. This causes the blood vessels under the skin to constrict and make the skin appear tighter. You should scrub the coffee in the desired areas for at least 30 to 60 seconds for best results. The scrubbing action with the sugar and coffee also cause the blood to circulate much better and produce smooth, vibrant skin. Another one of our products, the Loofah Soap, is a great way to get the circulation going in your skin, therefore helping to reduce cellulite and even reducing varicose veins.
Click here for our Organic Sugar Scrubs, or click here for our Loofah Soaps.
Click here to buy our amazing Organic Sugar Scrubs! Sugar Scrubs are a wonderful way to exfoliate and moisturize all at one time. The organic cane sugar that we use in our scrubs is much more gentle than a salt scrub, therefore can be used more frequently and can also be used on your face.
Sugar scrubs can be used on your feet, however we feel that our Loofah Soaps are much better choice for feet.
The Jojoba Oil & Shea Butter in the scrubs makes them an excellent choice for your face. The scrubs will actually help clear clogged pores, exfoliate dead skin cells and even out skin tones. Being that the Jojoba Oil is an anti-inflammatory, it will also aid in clearing out pores, as well as help to prevent acne breakouts. The Organic Shea Butter in the scrubs is great choice any skin irritations as well as helps reduce wrinkles.
Our Plumeria Sugar Scrub contains Kona Coffee. The coffee is an excellent vasodilator, meaning it will actually help to reduce the appearance of varicose veins. It is also proven to reduce the appearance of cellulite.
The Orange and Lemon Essential Oils in our other Sugar Scrubs are an excellent choice to help provide vibrant skin.
Click here to shop for Organic Shea Butter at our online Store
Derived from the nut of the Karite tree, Shea Butter Nuts grow on a tree native to the eastern and western central regions of Africa, and they can take between 30-50 years to mature. The butter actually comes from the kernel of the seed. Multiple processes are completed to turn it into the creamy silky substance known as SHEA BUTTER, and it can be unrefined or refined.
Unrefined, also known as raw, is in its most natural state and has the most beneficial qualities in it that gives the shea butter so many of its healing properties. Unrefined or raw shea butter is very thick and almost rock hard when it is cool, and depending on the region that it was grown is varying shades of yellow. Refined Shea Butter (or pure) is usually white, and during the refining process any impurities are removed from it, however, some of the beneficial properties may be depleted too.
Shea Butter has an extremely high content of non-saponifiable fatty acids (stearic and oleic acid) making it a superior oil to Cocoa Butter, and is an excellent source of vitamins A, E & F. It is because of these that Shea Butter has so many healing properties to it!
Below are a few of the healing properties of Unrefined SHEA BUTTER:
*great for burns or sunburn
*helps relieve eczema
*helps fade and prevent wrinkles & stretch marks
*helps prevent and treat dry hair and split ends
*great for dry, cracked heals
*use as a daily moisturizer!
SHEA BUTTER has been used in Africa for thousands of years. The benefits are truly amazing that its no wonder it is now becoming so popular all over the world.
Due to the very high moisture content, a little bit goes a long way!