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...

A New Zealand plant that often gets overlooked is the mighty kūmarahou.  Alongside it's healing properties, the kūmarahou flowers contain saponins, which are natural surfactants that produce a foamy lather, which can gently cleanse your hands a...