Crate 61 Organics

Sweet Almond Soap

This is a distinctly warm and pleasing aroma that smells exactly how you would imagine authentic Italian almond biscotti to smell! Our Almond Bar Soap is made exclusively with certified vegan and cruelty-free ingredients and packaged in a fully biodegradable paperboard box. Cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil and unrefined avocado oil lend a rich bubbly lather that will leave your skin super soft and moisturized.

Uploaded by: decembermagpie on 05/23/2020

Ingredients overview

Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, (Certified Sustainable Source) Palm Oil**, Avocado Oil, Poppy Seeds, Natural Flavor

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Highlights

Key Ingredients

Antioxidant: Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Avocado Oil

Other Ingredients

Emollient: Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, (Certified Sustainable Source) Palm Oil**, Avocado Oil

Perfuming: Coconut Oil

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Ingredient name	what-it-does	irr., com.	ID-Rating
Extra Virgin Olive Oil	antioxidant, emollient	0, 0-2	goodie
Coconut Oil	emollient, perfuming	0, 4	goodie
(Certified Sustainable Source) Palm Oil**	emollient
Avocado Oil	antioxidant, emollient	0, 0-3	goodie
Poppy Seeds
Natural Flavor

Crate 61 Organics Sweet Almond Soap
Ingredients explained

Extra Virgin Olive Oil - goodie

Also-called: Olive Fruit Oil;Olea Europaea Fruit Oil | What-it-does: antioxidant, emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0-2

You probably know olive oil from the kitchen as a great and healthy option for salad dressing but it's also a great and healthy option to moisturize and nourish the skin, especially if it's on the dry side.

Similar to other emollient plant oils, it's loaded with nourishing fatty acids: oleic is the main component (55-83%), and also contains linoleic (3.5-20%) and palmitic acids (7-20%). It also contains antioxidant polyphenols, tocopherols (types of vitamin E) and carotenoids and it's one of the best plant sources of skin-identical emollient, Squalene.

Overall, a great option for dry skin but less so for acne-prone or damaged skin.

Coconut Oil - goodie

Also-called: Cocos Nucifera Oil | What-it-does: emollient, perfuming | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 4

There is definitely some craze going on for coconut oil both in the healthy eating space (often claimed to be the healthiest oil to cook with but this is a topic for another site) and in the skin and hair care space.

We will talk here about the latter two and see why we might want to smear it all over ourselves. Chemically speaking, coconut oil has a unique fatty acid profile. Unlike many plant oils that mostly contain unsaturated fatty acids (fatty acids with double bonds and kinky structure such as linoleic or oleic), coconut oil is mostly saturated (fatty acids with single bonds only) and its most important fatty acid is Lauric Acid (about 50%). Saturated fatty acids have a linear structure that can stack nice and tight and hence they are normally solid at room temperature. Coconut oil melts around 25 °C so it is solid in the tub but melts on contact with the skin.

The saturated nature of coconut oil also means that it is a heavy-duty-oil ideal for dry skin types. A double-blind research confirmed that extra virgin coconut oil is as effective in treating xerosis (aka very dry skin) as mineral oil. Another study found that coconut oil is more effective than mineral oil in treating mild to moderate atopic dermatitis (aka eczema) in children.

So when it comes to dry skin, coconut oil is a goodie, no question there. The question is if it is good or bad for acne-prone skin. Its main fatty acid, Lauric Acid has some research showing that it is a promising ingredient against evil acne-causing bacteria, P. acnes but at the same time, both Lauric Acid and coconut oil have a very high comedogenic rating (4 out of 5). Though comedogenic ratings are not very reliable, anecdotal evidence (i.e. people commenting in forums) shows that people have mixed experiences. While some claim that it worked wonders on their acne others say that it gave them serious blackheads and zits. Try it at your own risk.

As for hair care, coconut oil has pretty solid research showing that it can penetrate into the hair very well (better than mineral oil and sunflower oil) and it can prevent hair protein loss as well as combing damage. If you have problems with damaged hair, split ends, coconut oil is worth trying as a pre- or/and post-wash treatment. Labmuffin has an awesome blogpost explaining in more detail why coconut oil is good for your hair.

A couple of other things worth mentioning: coconut oil might help with wound healing (promising animal study), it has some antifungal activity (against dermatophytes that cause the thing known as ringworm) and it also works as an insect repellent against black flies.

Overall, coconut oil is definitely a goodie for the hair and dry skin. If that warrants for the magic oil status it enjoys, we don't know.

(Certified Sustainable Source) Palm Oil**

What-it-does: emollient

We don't have description for this ingredient yet.

Avocado Oil - goodie

Also-called: Avocado Oil, Persea Americana Oil;Persea Gratissima Oil | What-it-does: antioxidant, emollient | Irritancy: 0 | Comedogenicity: 0-3

The oil coming from the pulp of one of the most nutritious fruits in the world, the avocado. It's loaded with the nourishing and moisturizing fatty acid, oleic (70%) and contains some others including palmitic (10%) and linoleic acid (8%). It also contains a bunch of minerals and vitamins A, E and D.

Avocado oil has extraordinary skin penetration abilities and can nourish different skin layers. It's a very rich, highly moisturizing emollient oil that makes the skin smooth and nourished. Thanks to its vitamin E content it also has some antioxidant properties. As a high-oleic plant oil, it is recommended for dry skin.

Poppy Seeds

This ingredient name is not according to the INCI-standard. :( What, why?!

Natural Flavor