At SMC Holistics, we want you to nourish & love your skin with 100% beneficial ingredients given to us by nature. Handmade soaps are best when made using the old-fashioned cold process method. Our ingredients are carefully selected, as we want to ensure that you are only feeding your skin with high-quality ingredients. By using pure and moisturizing plant oils, butters, and botanicals as well as pure therapeutic essential oils this ensures the best soap for your skin as well as the healthiest soap for your skin too. SMC Holistics only uses essential oils to scent all the soaps, as well as the other skin care products. Your skin will be left feeling clean, moisturized and healthy.
Essential oils have been steam distilled from plants, flowers and trees, or cold-pressed from citrus fruits and have amazing benefits for your skin.
We ensure that there are absolutely NO synthetic fragrances in our products, such as fragrance oil or other lab-made perfumes. We are free of synthetic colors, such as dyes, micas, or iron oxides. You will also not find any sulphates in our products such as SLS – a widely known foaming agent and skin irritant. You will also not find any other chemical additives. Our products are as natural as it gets while still being beautifully colored with all-natural ingredients. Excellent for sensitive and irritated skin, as well as vegan friendly and free of palm oil and nut oils (with the exception of the Aging Radiance Serum which contains macadamia nut oil) to ensure that they can be enjoyed by everyone!
What is the difference between Essential Oils and Fragrance Oils?
By steam distilling flowers, plants, herbs and leaves, and cold pressing citrus fruit peel essential oils are made. Essential oils are highly vibrational healing oils found in nature and are used for aromatherapy. They help with emotional health, spiritual health, physical and emotional pain, skin conditions and much more. In addition to their healing properties, they are well known for having antibacterial and anti-fungal properties. Essential oils have countless benefits to your overall health.
Whereas, fragrance oils (also known as synthetic fragrances) are lab-made chemical cocktails made up of thousands of chemicals. Virtually every synthetic scent imaginable can be found in the fragrance oil. Fragrance oils are made through the combination of many different chemicals to produce a specific scent. Since fragrance oils are synthetic they do not have aromatherapy properties or any other health or skin benefits. Rather they tend to give people headaches and act as a skin irritant when applied topically. Don’t be deceived by the word “fragrance” or “parfume” on a label – that “one” ingredient actually consists of hundreds to thousands of toxic chemicals.
Why We Don’t Use Palm Oil
Palm oil is a widely used ingredient in handmade soaps for its soap hardening and creamy properties. So, now you’re wondering why have I chosen not to use it in my soap.
Although, palm oil is a safe ingredient I choose not to use it in my soap or products. With the increasing demand of palm oil from the food and cosmetic industries, our planet is experiencing a long-term negative impact. The rainforest is being taken over by palm oil plantations, resulting in a scary amount of deforestation. Not only is the rainforest being destroyed, but many animals have become critically endangered. Even if palm oil is said to be “sustainable”, I have chosen not to contribute to the deforestation issue.