Natural Rice Soap From Korea

44 days ago

Yes, even I buy cool stuff from Korea. Seriously, this bar of soap came all the way from Korea.  And it is an all-natural soap which means that this soap doesn’t have all the harsh chemicals the commercial soaps have. For your information, it is not so well known that most soaps we buy from the supermarkets are actually not soaps, as in they do not contain glycerin. Glycerin is made from lye and oil and is what people in the past use as soap. Now I guess they are made from different types of chemicals. One reason is cost. It is much more expensive and time consuming to make natural soap than it is to mix a few chemicals together. Note that soap making requires you to “dry” the soap, which can take up to a month or so.

I bought this from eBay. It has become my favourite place to get all this kind of stuff. Price wise it is pretty reasonable. If I remember correctly this is about S$5 (plus shipping) or so. Nowadays even commercial soaps can cost more than that.

Comes with “protection”. Thank you for purchasing our products. Have a nice day. Hahaha.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. That is the sellers nick if you are interested.

One bar of soap. About 80g or so.

Check out the website if you are interested. It is in Korean though. The ingredient are Coconut Oil, Palm Oil,  Glycerine, Sodium Hydroxide, Sorbitol, Vegetable Oil and Rice Extract. What I don’t understand is why they need to add Glycerine back to the soap? The oils and Sodium Hydroxide (lye) will combine and convert to Glycerine right? I honestly have no idea. The smell is pretty good though. But it does not smell like rice extract – smells more like sweet molasses with a hint of honey or something like that. Anyway, I only just started to use this soap but it does feel pretty gentle on my skin. And unlike the olive soap I had been using, it does not get soft when exposed to the air. Weird.

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