Soap

How soap is made
Thru a chemical process called saponification, a soap is produced. Soap can be said as organic salt, because it is derived from mixing soda(alkaline) and fatty acids (acid). Soap is one of the oldest and most simplest cleanser. In the old day, the basic raw materials of soap are animal fat (tallow) and/or unrefined vegetable oil. Unrefined vegetable oil (depending on the type of vegetable oil used), has it own natural goodness, it contain complex fatty acids, glycerin and vitamins, that was why in the old day, soap was used from head to toe and has multi purposes usage.

Now what is found in mass market of soap, the main ingredient contain only one to two types of fatty acid, namely palmitate and stearate acids. Some even contain carriers like calcium powder to make up the weight.

At Beluga Well Sdn Bhd, we believe the nature works it best, so we use unrefined vegetable oil, namely palm kernel oil - which is one of the main primary product in Malaysia. The beneficial of palm kernel oil is it contains variety of fatty acids, vitamin E and carotenoid. In addition, it also provides optimal lather.

The production of soap we made is a hot-mix process, it commonly known as glycerin soap. It could be transparent, translucent or opaque, depending on the ingredients being mixed. Cosmetically, glycerin soap has more goodness than other cold-mix soap. The most obvious one is the moisturising effect because of it higher glycerin content.

Characteristics of soap
1) pH
All natural derived soap has high pH, the reading usually around 10. There is some advantage and disadvantage of this high pH. Soap at this pH helps to remove oil on our body easily, and at the same time neutralize our body's acidity caused by microbe. Some individual's skin has little acid tolerant, a slightly more acidic will cause rashes and itchiness, and it needs soap's pH to balance it acidity. In fact natural soap provide more deep-cleansing power than synthetic soap. Unfortunate for some dry skin individual, ordinary soap clean too deeply, and glycerin soap helps to reduce the dryness caused by ordinary soap.

2) Negative charge
Soap is instinctively negative charge. Negative charge helps to balance the positive charge particles like dead skin and dirt. And the water help to carry away dead skin and dirt during rinsing.

3) Aid in healing and rejuvenate skin
From our value customers feedback, after prolong usage, it help them to reduce skin problem such as aczema, rashes, skin dryness. Though no solid scientific prove, I believe soap as an organic salt, so might have salt's characters, which benefit to the skin.

Like people has skin problem usually dip their body in extreme high salt solution or sea water to improve their skin. Some people use salt to get rid of mouth ulcer, which of course I would not recommend to use my soap to do that!!

Another benefit I can see from our soap is it high pH help to neutralise choline which is high in our tap water. Choline is a high oxidiser.

Soap produced by Beluga Well Sdn Bhd
Beluga Well Sdn Bhd only produce natural glycerin soap, our glycerin soap has a few following features:

1. 100% plant base (No animal content)
2. No alcohol
3. Very little "sweat"
4. Will not shrink thru time
5. No preservative and commonly known germicides like TCC or trichlosan
6. Variety to choose. From aromatic (heavily scent), herbal (rosemary, teatree, anise, clove, citronella and ginger) , functional (whitening, acne and slimming) and clay soap