# Bamboo Charcoal Soap

> Activated bamboo charcoal, cold-processed and cured six weeks.

- URL: https://bikli.in/product/bamboo-charcoal-soap
- Price: ₹199, GST included (MRP ₹249)
- Formulas: Niacinamide ₹199; Tea Tree ₹199
- Availability: in stock
- Department: Bathing Bars
- Plastic: no plastic in the product
- Materials: Coconut oil, rice bran oil, activated bamboo charcoal, sodium hydroxide
- Net quantity: 100 g
- Shelf life: 2 years
- Country of origin: India
- Manufacturer: Bikli Naturals, Bengaluru, Karnataka

## Key features

- GREY ALL THE WAY THROUGH — the charcoal is milled into the batch while it is still fluid, not swirled on the outside. Cut the bar in half and it looks the same in the middle.
- CURED SIX WEEKS, NOT SIX DAYS — a cured bar is a harder bar, and a harder bar lasts. This is the single biggest difference between a handmade soap that disappears in a fortnight and one that does not.
- COLD-PROCESSED — no heat forced through it, so the glycerine the saponification makes stays in the bar instead of being drawn off.
- FOUR INGREDIENTS — coconut oil, rice bran oil, activated bamboo charcoal, sodium hydroxide. Nothing for colour, nothing for shelf life.
- WRAPPED IN PAPER — no film, no box, no plastic window.

## Description

Bamboo charcoal is milled into the batch while it is still fluid, which is why the bar is grey all the way through rather than swirled on the outside.

Cold-processed, then racked and left for six weeks. A cured bar is a harder bar, and a harder bar lasts.

## Questions

### How do I make a handmade soap bar last longer?

Keep it out of standing water. A bar left in a flat dish that holds an inch of water will soften and go through three times faster than the same bar on a draining dish or a wooden rack. Use it with a loofah rather than straight on the skin and it goes further again — the fibre works up a lather from very little.

### Is handmade cold-processed soap better for skin?

It keeps its glycerine, which most mass-produced bars have had removed and sold separately, and it has no synthetic detergent in it — the lather comes from saponified coconut oil rather than from SLS. Whether that suits you depends on your skin; the transparent glycerine bar is the mildest of ours and the one most people with sensitive skin settle on.

## Buying this

- Price includes GST. Free delivery in India on orders over ₹499.
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