Natural soap contains one ingredient that is sometimes mistaken as a negative: lye. The truth is though, lye is a natural ingredient – even if it isn’t very trendy! In fact, although lye isn’t technically organic, it is one of the few non-organic ingredients that the USDA allows within their organic standards. That means that, even though it isn’t organic, it is used in such a way in soap making, that soaps made with it can still be considered organic. In fact, there is no true soap that does not contain or use lye somewhere in the process of making it. The alternative, in fact, is a harsh detergent. A lot of the fear and negative thought around lye comes from images of frontier women using it in the American West. This is an outdated image though, and processes have
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