Miners soap?

[AshleyR]

I live in an area where almost everyone in town works at the gold mines. Many of them work underground and they get very, very dirty, dusty and greasy (like BLACK OIL greasy!)

What kind of soap would you recommend for them? My father in law and all of my uncles work in the mine so I thought I'd make some soap for them!

Ideas???

 

[Lindy]

Hey Ashley,

I would think anything with some scrubbies in it would help. I really like my coffee soap with its coffee grounds in to get off tough dirt when I`ve been out in the garden..(yes we are already doing some gardening out here). I really can`t say if it would actually cut through grease though...

I wonder if you could use something like orange juice instead of water since orange juice is so good at cutting grease?

Cheers
Lindy

 

[Tabitha]

Corn meal is a good scrubby too.

 

[carebear]

pumice I think as a scrubby.
orange juice? no that would actually decrease the cleansing of the soap a bit (acid would counter some of the lye). an orange EO might work but only really in HP after the cook and even then I don't think it would do much.

I think I'd go with a high cleansing soap with pumice.

 

[Lindy]

Carebear I hadn't even thought of that - I haven't investigated citrus juice in soap because I'm deadly allergic - so I was just thinking out loud....

 

[AshleyR]

Great ideas! Pumice and citrus.... I will keep it in mind! Thanks!

 

[carebear]

you may well need some sort of solvent, thus the EOs, but i"m not sure how they'll hold up.

pumice is good cause it's so fine and might help get the oil and dirt out of smaller cracks and such.

I didn't know there were gold mines up north!

 

[AshleyR]

I didn't know there were gold mines up north!

Oh yeah, that's all there is up here! LOL... in my area anyway. Everyone in my town works at the mines!

 

[Maria]

In my green tea soap, I open 1 tea bag per pound of oils and add after the soap is done cooking. The tea is an exfolliant.
The soap looks good, pale green with various specks of the tea. I sell it as a kitchen soap and mark not for sensitive skin. People are using it for a bath soap and really like it, particularly the men. Personally, I do not care for any exfolliant in my own soap and was surprised. Just a thought.

 

[heartsong]

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may i suggest a high coconut oil content for some aggressive cleaning, and 10-15% castor oil for a rich creamy lather-maqybe an 8-10% lye discount for emolliency, so the coconut oil isn't drying.

i have heard-but not tried using .5 oz ppo of kerosene or turpentine at trace as a grease cutter.

 

[rszuba]

what about some activated charcoal to get rid of some of the toxins.

 

[Healinya]

I live in an area where almost everyone in town works at the gold mines. Many of them work underground and they get very, very dirty, dusty and greasy (like BLACK OIL greasy!)
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:shock: I must live under a rock - there are REAL gold mines out there??