Saturday, December 11, 2010

Assorted Soap Gift Set-3 bars of soap, scented candle with soap dish!

Looking for a great, ready to give gift idea? Try one of our assorted organic soap trays! Our all natural, organic soaps packages includes 3 small bars (3.5 oz.), a scented coconut candle and a stylish soap tray holder! Its a excellent way to sample some of our numerous flavors of soap and find your new favorite bar!



Soaps come shrink wrapped and ready to gift! 3 great certified organic flavors, please refer to our soap listings for details of each flavor.  Some of our common flavors are Grapefruit Margarita, Mountain Air, Lavender Swirl, Harmony Fusion, and Citrus Cedar Sage.

Assorted Soap Gift Set - 3 3.5 oz bars of soap, one coconut candle - $26.00




Friday, November 26, 2010

Kayaro Soap Operas “Soap Drive For Haiti”

"1000 pounds of soap will supply 100 children with soap for a month."


Kayaro Soap Operas offers the best in organic soap and skin products. We buy our products from the best farms, soapers and importers from around the world, and bring you the best quality, all natural products available. Our aim is to help raise awareness of organic products, focus on working with “green” environmentally friendly companies and find sustainable solutions to modern, small business needs.

We are working on a partnership program with Clean The World, a non-profit organization that recycles soap and distributes it to impoverished countries, homeless shelters and others in need worldwide.

One of the most dire situations right now is the cholera outbreak in Haiti. Clean The World has been on the forefront, battling the epidemic as much as they can. They have managed to ship millions of recycled bars of soap in the last few months, but they still need help and support. The epidemic is steadily increasing, claiming victims daily! One of the easiest ways to combat this disease is by simply hand washing! We aim to fight the outbreak by sending as much soap as we can to Haiti!

We need your help!



1. Please donate ANY soap products that you have! We are setting up drop-off sites and locations throughout Los Angeles area and will be announcing more drop off locations daily! You can also email us with any questions! We are working with non-profits locally and hope to have drop off sites at area high schools very soon. If all else fails, email us for shipping info!

2. Cash donation! We need cash to ship our soaps to Clean The World’s distributions center in Orlando, Florida. Cash donations also go toward direct shipment of soap to Haiti. Here is a small break down of how much soap your cash donations can buy, courtesy of Clean The World!

$25 provides 85 children with soap for one month

$50 provides 170 children with soap for one month

$100 provides 340 children with soap for one month

$500 provides 1,700 children with soap for one month

$1000 provides 3,400 children with soap for one month




3. If you are traveling and staying at a hotel this season, make sure to save the soap and shampoo products before you leave! If you want to take the extra step, you can ask the desk person if they know about Clean The World’s program. Check their site for a list of hotels that are partners!

4. Shop with Kayaro Soap Operas! We are dedicating 10% of all of our sales proceeds to Haiti relief work, and we will donate one bar of our soap for every 10 bars sold! You can feel good shopping with us, knowing that you are doing your part to help fight the cholera outbreak!  Our goal is to provide you with a safer alternative to soap and bath products, while helping the environment!

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Kayaro Soap Opera’s “Soap Drive For Haiti” is planned to end on December 31, 2010, with early cut-off dates for our ‘mobile’ drives (schools, stores, local hotels, etc.)

We can arrange for pickup for Los Angeles participants!

Schools/students can help start a soap drive! If appropriate, teams can be set up to create a competition on who can collect more soap.

Media can help by spreading the word, running public service announcements regarding this release, and contact us for more.

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Wonder how you actually recycle soap? Watch this video!!

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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Organic Soap Making

Monday, November 22, 2010

Kayaro Soap Opera 4 Pack Sampler! Great way to discover some of our new soaps!

Our sampler packs include 4 2 oz bars of the following soaps!



Rosewood Lavender Soprano: 
Ingredients: Made with saponified oils of olive, coconut, canola, palm (from certified sustainable sources), beeswax, rattanjot, and true essential oils of rosewood, lavender & bergamot.


Lyrical Lime Ginger:
Ingredients: Made with saponified oils of olive, coconut, canola, palm (from certified sustainable sources), beeswax, annatto seed, chromium green, and true essential oils of lime, lemongrass, ginger.






Lavender Swirl
Ingredients: Saponified Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Canola Oil, Palm Oil(from certified sustainable sources), and Jojoba Oil.
Coloured with Ultramarine and scented with Lavender Essential Oil.
 


Harmony Fusion 
Cedarwood & Spice Soap with Comfrey
Ingredients: Made with saponified oils of olive, coconut, canola, palm (from certified sustainable sources), beeswax, comfrey, titanium dioxide and true essential oils of cedarwood, patchouli lemongrass, rosemary & clove.)





Lavender Bergamot Organic


**NEW** Lavender Bergamot Organic

Bar is made from certified Organic Coconut, Sunflower and Olive Oils as well as moisturizing Organic Cocoa Butter. Dry or chapped skin conditions are further soothed owing to the addition of Organic Jojoba Oil.

The delicate lilac colour is complemented by the sweet scents of Organic Lavender and Bergamot Essential Oils.

One Extra Large 5oz / 140 gram bar $7.99





Mountain Air Soap! A wonderfully fresh air scent!

Mountain Air Soap

Take a wiff of this awesome blend of soap!  A hint of lavender, lemongrass and cedar wood are thrown in with geranium, palmarosa and sage essential oils, resulting in a incredibly fresh smelling soap!

Ingredients: Organic Palm Oil, Water, Organic Sunflower Oil, Organic Coconut Oil, Sodium Hydroxide, Organic Olive Oil, Lavender Essential Oil, Lemongrass Essential Oil, Palmarosa Essential Oil, Cedarwood Essential Oil, Geranium Essential Oil, Clary Sage Essential Oil. 

 3.5 oz. bar $5.99






Grapefruit Margarita with aloe (Vegan, All Natural)


This is a delicious blend of a bar!  Grapefruit Margarita is filled with just the right amount of sharp citrus smells!  The Key Lime gives it the margarita finish!  You gotta try one!! 

Ingredients: Olive Oil, Water, Coconut Oil, Sodium Hydroxide, Organic Palm Oil, Soy Oil, Sunflower Oil, Shea Butter, Grapefruit Essential Oil, Orange Essential Oil, Key Lime Essential Oil, Kaolin Clay. May Also Contain Tocopherols (natural vitamin e) and Stearic Acid (vegetable source). $6.00

Cinnamon Almond Bar

Cinnamon Almond



Ingredients: Organic Palm Oil, Water, Organic Sunflower Oil, Organic Coconut Oil, Sodium Hydroxide, Organic Olive Oil, (Natural) Fragrance, Orange Essential Oil, Cinnamon Essential Oil, Turmeric Powder. $6.00

A Little Soap, a Big Difference in Haiti video-CBS News coverage on Clean The World

We are working on a "Soap For Haiti" campaign here at Kayaro Soap Operas, with the work of non-profits like Clean The World and Shawn Seipler as our guide and role model! We are reaching out to them, other non-profits and soap makers, as well as organizing our own efforts to start this project. We want to raise funds, as well as collect used soaps and bath products, and send them to Haiti, where they are desperately needed!

Our overall goal is to raise awareness on global issues of health in general. Stay tuned for more announcements on our campaign, and check out this video for more on Clean The World!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sweet Sandalwood-A great, enviromentally safe sandalwood soap!

One of the most loved essential oils is also one of the most endangered ones! Sandalwood harvesting has lead to entire forests being cleared, and an emergency that threatens to render the long venerated tree extinct. That is why we avoid using sandalwood essential oils and instead we use fragrance oils to complete this great bar!


Naturally earthy-tan with spice sprinkles and a vibrant lavender swirl make this a visually stunning bar of soap!

Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, avocado oil, essential oil, fragrance, mineral colorant, ground cinnamon.

Note: no sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product!


Approx 4.8 oz bar. $7.99


NOTE::THIS BAR IS NOT 100% ALL NATURAL:::: The UN-natural part of the soaps shown is fragrance oil, the only synthetic in our soap recipe. It makes up roughly 5% of the overall mixture.





Emerald Isle Ritornello-Your new favorite soap!

Capturing the essence of waterfalls and green forest, Emerald Isle Ritornello is a great alternative to today's commercial soap bars. While the average soap you get from the super market smells similar to this one, the difference is Emerald Isle Ritornello delivers the same great smells with none of the chemicals found in commercial bars!







This is a knock out soap, with fresh scents of clover, heather and little bits of lilac flowers thrown into the mix. You'll feel super clean with this bar, sure to take the place of your conventional "Irish" "Zesty" soap! The bar is a deep green, packed with flower power and sure to leave your bath room smelling naturally great!



Ingredients: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, avocado oil, fragrance, mineral colorants, cosmetic-grade mica.

Note: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product!

Approx 4.8 oz bar. $7.99




Cadeau du Jardin Ballet! Give yourself this garden gift!

Cadeau du Jardin Ballet! Give yourself this garden gift!







This soap has natures finest remedy for replenishing, balancing, and total skincare. Sprinkled with Calendula petals, Bulgarian lavender, patchouli and sweet orange in a creamy white soap! Tremendous!



Ingredients:Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, calendula-infused olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, avocado oil, essential oils, arnica extract, calendula petals .


Note: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product!


Approx 4.8 oz bar. $7.99





Super sweet Ginger Peach Intermedio is just the break you need!

Ginger Peach Intermedio With Celestial Seasonings ® tea infusions!






This is one amazing bar of soap!  One of our personal favorite, our wholeseller has become a soaping celebrity based on this bar!  It's filled with sweet peach, a hint of ginger and a light mix of  Celestial Seasonings ® peach tea, what a fabulous combination of a soap!

The bar is filled with  peach, sprinkled with thick chunks, tea bits and sprinkles that complete the peaches-and-cream dream!

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, avocado oil, fragrance, cosmetic-grade mica, mineral colorants, Celestial Seasonings Peach Tea. Note: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product!

NOTE::THIS BAR IS NOT 100% ALL NATURAL:::: The UN-natural part of the soaps shown is fragrance oil, the only synthetic in our soap recipe.  It makes up roughly  5% of the overall mixture. 





Rosewood Lavender Soprano-A fan favorite scent takes center stage!

Rosewood Lavender Soprano

Don't miss out on this sure hit of a bar!  The boss of all bosses in the essential oils world just might be lavender, with its endless list of healthy benefits.  Perfect for relieving stress, soothing irritated skin and scalp and not to mention it's respiratory benefits, this bar has been married with rosewood!  The two essentail oils combine to form a high note hitting organic bar!

Ingredients: Made with saponified oils of olive, coconut, canola, palm (from certified sustainable sources), beeswax, rattanjot, and true essential oils of rosewood, lavender & bergamot.


Shipping Weight: 3.50 ounces (approx.) $5.99





Saturday, November 20, 2010

Sustainable Palm Oil! Help Save The Planet, use safe soap!!!

excerpt taken from Care2.com

Netherlands Commits To Sustainable Palm Oil

posted by: Beth Buczynski 
According to the Rainforest Action Network, about 50 percent of the products we use everyday contain palm oil, including soap, detergent, and processed foods like chocolate and cereal.

Several months ago, Care2's Jasmine Greene reported that the demand for palm oil is leading to increased deforestation in already threatened areas like Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia.

for more on this important issue and how you can take action in your own household, click the link below!
http://www.care2.com/causes/real-food/blog/netherlands-commits-to-sustainable-palm-oil/

Ivanhoe Country Mint: A Super Minty Organic Soap!

For those who like a minty, zesty smelling bar, Ivanhoe Country Mint is for you! Bursting with fragrance, essential oils, spearmint, shea butter, coconut, and peppermint collide in this great bar of soap!













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Ivanhoe Country Mint is made from certified Organic Coconut, Sunflower, and Olive Oils and Organic Shea Butter. Rich in essential fatty acids, the addition of Organic Evening Primrose Oil makes this soap especially well suited for mature or dry skin conditions while the Organic Peppermint and Spearmint Essential Oils provide the cooling sensation of mint as well as a zesty wake up call to greet the morning.



One Extra Large 5oz / 140 gram bar Only $7.99 each.




Thursday, November 18, 2010

Orange Geranium Opera & Harmony Fusion Seranade

Two more of our flavors, sure to please!
















Orange Geranium Organic Bar is made from certified Organic Coconut, Sunflower, and Olive Oils as well as moisturizing Organic Cocoa Butter. Rich in essential fatty acids, the addition of Organic Hemp Oil makes this bar especially moisturizing for the skin. The yummy blend of Organic Patchouli, Orange Sweet and Geranium Essential Oils are sure to please.










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Our new Harmony Fusion Organic Bar is made from certified Organic Coconut, Sunflower and Olive Oils with the addition of a super skin restorative: Organic Shea Butter. Dry or chapped skin conditions are further soothed owing to the addition of Organic Jojoba Oil. The Harmony Essential Oil Blend is a wonderful balance of Lavender, Patchouli, Geranium, and Clove Organic Essential Oils











One Extra Large 5oz / 140 gram bar Only $7.99 each.

Lavender Swirl Legato! Kayaro Soap Opera's favorite fragrance

Once you've had the bouncing lavender bubbles rolling around, you'll wonder how you ever went without it! 

















This all natural, all time favorite blend contains jojoba oils, and is scented with lavender essential oils, giving it a beautiful, flowery scent that we all know and love! This is a beauty of a bar, as the lavender dips and twist around, giving it a cyclone of sweet smells! 

Ingredients: Saponified Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Canola Oil, Palm Oil(from certified sustainable sources), and Jojoba Oil.

Coloured with Ultramarine and scented with Lavender Essential Oil.

110g/3.85 oz Soap Bars Shrink and Gift Wrapped
  $5.99






Monday, November 08, 2010

The Benefits of Using Real, Natural Soap

The Benefits of Using Real, Natural Soap Natural News.com

Excerpt:

Commercial soap manufacturers make it a practice to remove the glycerine that is produced during the saponification (soap-making) process. The glycerine is a highly profitable substance, often sold to other companies who use it to make lotions and moisturizers, which your skin, now dried out from the harsh detergent 'soap,' desperately needs.

Most commercially produced bars contain synthetic lathering agents, artificial colors, and a slew of chemicals we can't even pronounce. Antibacterial and antimicrobial soaps often contain triclosan. Triclosan is a toxic chemical that is known to cause cancer. According to the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides (NCAMP), manufacturers of a number of triclosan-containing products claim that the active ingredient continues to work for as long as 12 hours after use. Consumers are, therefore, exposed to triclosan for much longer than the 20 seconds it takes to wash their hands or face.

Always remember that your skin is porous and absorbent. It absorbs whatever it comes in contact with, much the same as sticking something in your mouth. Chronic use of chemical laden products will cause the body to store the chemicals in the body fat or even in the brain. With enough accumulations of toxins in the body, illness can occur.

These nasty chemicals and toxins are now finding their way into our eco-system. Every time that lather goes down the drain, those pollutants are going with it. A recent report by the UK's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) revealed that synthetic chemicals from soap, body washes, shampoos and other healthcare products were sneaking through the filters at water purification plants. The list of offenders included phthalates, which are linked to reproductive disorders in both humans and animals, and parabens, a preservative, which links to cancer.

What's the alternative?

All natural, organic, handmade soap. There are several small businesses selling extremely high quality, all natural, organic soap - yes real soap. Sure, these soap bars generally cost more than the detergent bars you'll find at Wal-Mart. But the difference is these soap bars are actually good for your skin, and are good for the planet.