🌿Natural Soap: Everything You Need to Know
- DSN
- 4 days ago
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Updated: 13 minutes ago
More people are switching to natural soap for many good reasons. It’s kinder to your skin, gentler on the planet, and made with real, nourishing natural ingredients. If you’ve ever wondered what’s in your bathroom products or experienced irritation from supermarket soaps, natural soap could be the simple solution you've been searching for.
Whether you're curious about the ingredients, the benefits, or where to shop for the best natural soap in the UK, this guide covers everything you need to know.
Natural soap is soap made using ingredients from nature—without synthetic chemicals, artificial fragrances, or harsh preservatives. Unlike mass-produced commercial soaps, which often contain detergents and fillers, natural soap is created using plant oils, clays, botanicals, and essential oils that nourish your skin rather than strip it.
At Dainty Soap Nest, we make handmade natural soap with a commitment to purity, simplicity, and sustainability.
❄️ How Is Natural Soap Made? Cold Process Explained
We use the traditional cold process method to make our natural soaps. This time-honoured technique involves mixing plant-based oils and butters with a lye solution (sodium hydroxide), which triggers saponification—the natural chemical reaction. This cold process consumes the lye (sodium hydroxide) to create soap and glycerin, leaving no lye (sodium hydroxide) in the finished soap bar.
Unlike factory-made bars, cold-process natural soap retains glycerine - an excellent natural moisturiser that keeps skin soft and hydrated by attracting and retaining moisture. Our soap bars are poured and cut all by hand, and cured for 4–6 weeks, resulting in long-lasting, skin-loving soap.
🌱 What’s in Our 100% Natural Soap Bars?
We take pride in using only 100% natural ingredients in our soap formulations. Here’s what you’ll typically find:
🧈 Plant-Based Oils and Butters
Every natural soap bar starts with a base of skin-nourishing oils:
Shea Butter: deeply moisturising and rich in vitamins
Coconut Oil: cleansing, antibacterial, and lathers beautifully
Castor Oil: adds silky softness and creaminess
🏺 Kaolin Clay
We use natural kaolin clay to gently exfoliate and detox the skin. It’s ideal for balancing oil without drying your face or body.
⚫ Activated Charcoal
This ingredient draws out impurities and helps control acne. Found in our best-selling charcoal natural soap, it’s a favourite for oily or problem-prone skin.
🌿 Botanical Ingredients
Nature offers countless ingredients that love your skin:
Turmeric: brightens and evens tone
Oatmeal: calms sensitive or itchy skin
Rice: gently exfoliates
Hibiscus: promotes collagen production
Pomegranate: packed with antioxidants
Coconut Milk: softens and hydrates
Aloe Vera: soothes irritation and redness
🌸 Naturally Scented Natural Soap Bars with Essential Oils
We never use artificial fragrance oils. Instead, each bar is delicately scented with pure essential oils for a soothing, therapeutic experience:
Relaxing and anti-inflammatory—perfect for evening routines.
Deep and earthy, ideal for dry skin and grounding energy.
🌲 Cedarwood Natural Soap
Warm, woody and naturally antimicrobial.
🍊 Bergamot Natural Soap
Uplifting citrus that’s gentle on sensitive skin.
🍬 Sweet Orange Natural Soap
Zesty, bright, and cheerful—like sunshine in a bar.
🍈 Grapefruit Natural Soap
Fresh and energising—great for morning showers.
🍋 Lemongrass Natural Soap
Naturally antiseptic and a favourite for oily skin types.
🌺 Ylang Ylang Natural Soap
Floral, sweet, and excellent for balancing combination skin.
🤍 Fragrance-Free Natural Soap for Sensitive Skin
If you suffer from eczema, psoriasis, or dry, irritated skin, our fragrance-free natural soap is the perfect choice. These bars are made with zero essential oils—just our pure base of plant oils and gentle clays to cleanse without causing flare-ups.
They’re also ideal for:
Babies and young children
Sensitive facial skin
Allergy-prone users
Learn more about the types of natural soap best for sensitive skin.
💧 Naturally Moisturising
Thanks to the glycerine naturally produced in the cold process, our natural soap helps your skin stay soft, supple, and moisturised—no lotion required.
🚫 No Harsh Chemicals
Our soaps are free from SLS, SLES, parabens, alcohol, synthetic colourants, and preservatives. Just pure natural soap your skin can trust.
🚫 No synthetic fragrance oils
We use only pure, premium essential oils to infuse our natural soap, allowing it to soothe your mind naturally.
♻️ Zero-Waste and Plastic-Free
We package our soaps plastic-free and use minimal materials that are recyclable and eco-friendly. Choose our natural soap bars that respect both your skin and the planet.
We are proud to be 100% palm-oil-free. Palm oil contributes to rainforest destruction and habitat loss. We’ve made the ethical choice—and so can you.
❤️ Support Local & Small-Batch
Every soap bar is made in small batches by hand in Bournemouth, UK. By choosing Dainty Soap Nest, you're supporting a local artisan business, not a faceless corporation.
🧼 Handmade Natural Soap from Bournemouth, UK
Our soaps are handmade in Bournemouth using carefully sourced, ethical ingredients. Each bar is lovingly poured, cut, and packaged by hand—because we believe skincare should be slow, thoughtful, and natural.
Whether you're shopping for your daily self-care routine or a thoughtful gift, you can count on Dainty Soap Nest for the best handmade natural soap in the UK.
🛍️ Shop Natural Soap & Eco-Friendly Gifts Online
Discover our full range of handmade natural soap bars, fragrance-free soaps for sensitive skin, and gift-ready soap sets on our website.
👉 Shop now at www.daintysoapnest.co.uk✨ 100% Natural | Handmade in the UK | Palm-Oil-Free | Plastic-Free
