Ivory soap made with sodium tallowate and sodium cocoate might be usable for shaving, but the next time you purchase it, the soap might be made of sodium palmate and sodium palm kernelate. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. Our simple soap is free of dyes and heavy perfumes, and is dermatologist tested to be gentle enough for the whole family 3yrs of age and up. I bought a three pack of the original white Ivory Clean bars and it arrived wrapped in a plastic wrapper and each bar was individually wrapped in a waxy kind of paper inside. Today we are testing out Ivory Soap which was first introduced in 1879 and still easily found in the United States today.

A classic Ivory soap bar contains sodium tallowate, sodium cocoate or sodium palm kernelate, water, sodium chloride, sodium silicate, magnesium sulfate, and fragrance. And ultimately the lather is thick enough that my razor isn't as close to my skin as I'd like, the blade isn't going under each whisker but is floating above them just a little. Unlike any other soap, Ivory Soap contains tiny air bubbles, making it float in the bath and puff up in the microwave! The 1916 version says to grate a bar of Ivory soap and mix with your favorite powder in a sachet to add to linen draws, clothes drawers, or anything like this. com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US.The soap machines were set to mix up a batch of soap much longer than the typical requirement, working so much air into the batter, it made the mixture lighter. All products are mixed, filled, capped, labelled, coded and packed under scrupulous quality control procedures and standards.

For now however, I have another plan for the Ivory soap I have left over but that post might not be out for a few months yet. Bar soaps can be so messy which I why I switched to body washes but I’m concerned about using any chemicals and artificial fragrances as more information has come out they are harmful to our endocrine system. I also heard of friends carving a bar into a boat shape for their toddlers to play with in the bathtub. When you are not using them it is really important to keep them out of water on a well drained surface so that it completely dries between uses.Still a good thing, because the soap is still as good as ever, but the bar being harder will cause it to last longer and still lather and clean just as well.

We even offer travel size soap so, whether you’re going on an exotic holiday or on a quick overnight work trip, you won’t have to be without your skin’s best friend.Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections—they may also appear in recommendations and other places. In recent times, there’s been an odd ‘soap hack’ where by putting a bar of Ivory soap into a microwave, it expands and puffs up to look like a cloud.

What’s more, our soaps are infused with aromatic, feel-good fragrances and are wrapped in beautifully decorated paper, providing a fabulous all-round sensory experience.Ivory claimed that the soap was pure, clean and could float on water to due it’s soft and unique formula. If your shaves take 2-3 minutes (actual razor to skin time) you can have the slickest lather known to man, but if you take a more princely 20 minutes, you need a thicker, airy lather to reduce the rate at which the lather on the skin drys out.