About Cottage Hill Soaps

Cottage Hill Soaps

Handcrafted soaps retain all the wonderful properties of glycerine, which is removed from most commercial soaps.

Our soaps are made in small quality controlled batches, using only the finest wholesome ingredients carefully chosen to produce wonderful, attractive and fragrant long lasting soaps. They lather abundantly, rinse cleanly and leave the skin feeling softer.

Our soaps are made with extra moisturizing ingredients and are environmentally friendly. They contain no artificial fillers or hardeners and are NOT animal tested.

U. S. Food and Drug Administration
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
Office of Cosmetics and Colors Fact Sheet
February 3, 1995

SOAP

Ordinary soap is solely made up of fats and an alkali. In the past, people made their own soap from animal fats and wood ashes. Today there are very few true soaps in the traditional sense on the market. You might recognize these soaps as products marketed with characteristics such as "pure". "True" soaps are regulated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, not FDA, and do not require ingredient labeling. Most body cleansers on the market today are actually synthetic detergent products and come under the jurisdiction of FDA. These detergent cleansers are popular because they make suds easily in water and don't form gummy deposits. Some of these detergent products are actually marketed as "soap" but are not true soap in the common and legal definition of the word.