The history of soap goes back thousands of years with the earliest record of soap making around 2800 BC. The ancient Babylonians made a basic soap from fats boiled with wood ashes & it was used primarily for cleaning wool & cotton used to...

On the shelf of native herbal healing products, a New Zealand plant that often gets overlooked is the mighty Kūmarahou. It is a ‘mighty’ plant with good reason. Kūmarahou contains saponins - natural surfactants, which when agitated, saponify an...