Thanks to its super moisturizing powers, superfatted soap could well become your skin's new favorite. Find out why you should adopt it!
Tightness, irritation, redness... are you dreaming of supple and hydrated skin? Then superfatted soap is made for you. Thanks to its fatty components, it gently cleanses your skin. Its (big) plus: it provides an extra dose of hydration and nourishes your skin day after day. Thus, superfatted solid soap also relieves sensitive and atopic skin. Enough to make it the new ally of your beauty routine! What is superfatted soap ? What are its benefits for the skin? How to choose it? Discover our answers.
🧼 Superfatted soap: what is it?
Superfatted soap is a soap enriched with superfatting nutritive agents, such as vegetable oils : sweet almond oil, coconut oil, argan oil, etc. It is obtained through a cold saponification process, that is to say a chemical reaction at room temperature, between a fatty substance (vegetable oils) and a caustic soda base. These mixed ingredients will cause a solidification of the materials.
To create a superfatted soap, less soda is used so that a portion of unsaponified oils remains in the final mixture. The advantage of cold saponification is that it allows all the properties of the oils used to be preserved.
🫧 Superfatted soap is the ally of dry and sensitive skin
The soap enriched with superfatting active ingredients is suitable for all skin types, especially the driest and most sensitive. Thanks to its moisturizing properties, it helps maintain the hydrolipidic film and therefore protects the epidermis from feelings of discomfort, tightness, but also from bacteria and microbes.
Suitable for the face and body, it is also suitable for atopic skin for daily use. In fact, it is ideal for relieving skin problems such as eczema, keratosis pilaris or psoriasis that cause itching and irritation.
🧼 The superfatted cleanser has moisturizing and nourishing properties
Hydration and suppleness : this is what will define your skin if you use a superfatted soap to wash your face and body! Our skin has a protective film that prevents water from evaporating and thus keeps the epidermis hydrated. However, our lifestyle and hygiene habits (water that is too hot and hard, use of chemical liquid shower gels, pollution, poor diet, etc.) can alter this natural barrier. Result: crocodile skin and tightness. Fortunately, superfatted soap is there to nourish and protect your skin without altering its hydrolipidic film.
🫧 The superfatted soap bar protects your skin
The superfatted soap bar gently cleanses your skin and protects it from external aggressions. Its natural barrier is kept intact, and even strengthened over the course of washing. This is even more the case with solid soaps composed of natural ingredients. Enriched with vegetable oils, they bring many benefits to your skin, without requiring chemical agents.
🧼 Superfatted soap respects your skin and your health
It is important to emphasize that we wash our body and face every day. Some of us, especially athletes, soap ourselves in the shower more frequently. Using a good superfatted soap free of toxic substances is therefore crucial to avoid weakening your skin or your health. Indeed, certain unsavory chemical components can disrupt our body in the long term.
🫧 Which superfatted soap should I choose?
It's decided, you're going to add superfatted soap to your beauty routine! Here are our tips for choosing the right one.
An organic superfatted soap: an ally for the skin and for the planet
This type of daily cleanser is full of benefits for your skin. However, we advise you to opt for an organic superfatted soap . Yes, it is good to be wary of “classic” treatments sometimes filled with preservatives and controversial components. With ingredients from organic farming, organic superfatted soaps do not leave toxic traces in nature. A big plus for the environment! And then, they respect your skin, by cleaning it gently .
At On Behalf, we make organic, creamy and deliciously scented superfatted soaps . Enriched with 100% natural vegetable oils and butters, they pamper all skin types, even the most sensitive.
A two-in-one cleanser for face and body
Thanks to its ultra-gentle formula, the soap enriched with fatty acids can be used from head to toe, without fear of damaging your skin or drying it out. You can even choose a soap made with specific oils depending on the needs of your skin, whether it is oily, dry or sensitive. In addition, some soaps are even more practical, since they are 3 in 1 ! Yes, you read that right. They can be used to wash your body, face, and even hair . Children and teenagers will be happy!
