If you thought Soap Gifts were simply nice smelling, useful and fun gifts to give, well you would be right! Although Handmade Soap can do more than make the body smell wonderful.
Many essential oils that Soap Gift makers add to their Handmade Soaps are so much more than pretty fragrances, take Peppermint Handmade Soap for instance. Peppermint in all it's forms has been used as a way to cool and bring down the body temperature, it's often used in Tea in areas of the world that are constantly hot like North Africa.
In it's form as an essential oil as part of a Soap Gift, Peppermint can help cool the body when you use it in the shower or bath in hot, sticky weather. Our Peppermint Handmade Soap has an added ingredient that makes it great to use as an exfoliation soap as well as being cooling when used for  Soap Gifts.

Any essential oil can be used in your Soap Gift, but understanding the properties of all the essential oils is part of being a Soap Gift, or Handmade Soap maker.
One of the most overlooked essential oils is Lemon, which has wonderful properties and has been traditionally used for many years as a natural cleanser and an important soap ingredient.
Lemon essential oils have great antiseptic properties, ideal if you are creating soap for harder working hands that come into contact with fish or meat, or an obvious choice to use for anyone who loves gardening.
Just because the oil is antiseptic it doesn't mean the Soap Gift cannot be gentle too. The Soap Gift can have rich moisturising ingredients and create a fantastic Soap Gift that has moisturising lather and nurturing cream as well as being good to have around the kitchen.