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Why should you ditch shower gels for natural handmade soap bars
Since the late 1970's and early 1980’s liquid soaps and shower gels have gained massive traction in the skin care market. These are mostly made of cheap and nasty petroleum based chemicals, manmade fragrance oils and colours, these liquid soaps and shower gels are basically just detergents with skin conditioning additives added to prevent to immediate harshness of these detergent petro chemicals on your skin. Love Bobbie believes that a good handmade soap bar is far superior for your skin and our environment and home. Here are our reasons why we prefer solid soap bars and why we would never use...
Koalas - a few fun facts about Koalas
After over 35 years of watching the koalas here at the Love Bobbie Boutique soap we have found that koalas are very territorial and do have favourite trees to sleep in, stay in during wild storms and they have their favourite trees to eat and mate in.
Pollution and Liquid Soap
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Did you know Liquid soap requires five times more energy to produce and nearly 20 times more energy to package, and, we use about seven times more liquid soap than bar soap for each handwash? Even though we tend to use about 30 percent more heated water washing with bar soap, it is still the environmental winner.