DROYT NATURAL GLYCERINE SOAP

We’ve had a visit from the Soil Association in our bid to become approved for organic soap. This can take a few weeks, so in the meantime we’re starting to plan what sort of soaps we can make. First, of course, you have to source the raw materials and since these include such exotic items as castor oil and coconut oil, as you can imagine there are no local growers! In a supply and demand system, something with high demand but restricted supply is more expensive, and this is the case with all organic ingredients at the moment, although I’m sure this will change as more growers come on board. So we hope to be launching our first organic product ‘Droyt Organic Liquid Soap with Glycerine’ in the New Year, probably retailing at £5.95. Watch this space. The Soil Association are specific about what we can call the soap. Because we cannot source Organic glycerine, but 95% of the ingredients are organic, we can say ‘Organic Liquid Soap’ but because the glycerine is non-organic, although it its vegetable derived, we cannot call it ‘Organic Liquid Glycerine Soap’. With the number of so-called organic products out there, I think it is a good thing that there is an organisation who are trying to improve the situation so that customers can make informed choices.

Off to make up the colour for white mint, so will post again soon. 

 

 

 

 

 

Hi to all our customers from me, Alistair McCracken. I’m the Sales Director at Droyt Products Ltd and this is the first of what I fully intend to be a regular post on life in a small soap factory in England. Of course, best intentions and all that, but we shall see what happens. Also is life in a small soap factory interesting enough to publish a weekly blog? This is a good question and I think I can answer it myself, by saying that  ’interesting’ and ‘blog’ are two words which are rarely used together accurately, so I shouldn’t really worry about it.

So let’s get started. Today for breakfast I had muesli………………….. Just kidding, of course. It was Fruit and Fibre.

What soap are we making today?  It’s always good to know that so I can make up the correct colours. In fact it’s Red Rose as the main batch with a small batch of Vitamin E. Red Rose uses a dye called Red 33 and Vitamin E, which is a pale amber colour uses some orange and a tiny amount of blue. Is this is a bit like painting class? Anyway we have a really accurate balance in the lab which weighs to 0.01 g and since we’re only putting in a matter of a few grams, it’s important it is accurate.  The other job today is designing some labels for a new project for a customer in Germany. Usually this sort of job is just the back label which has all the ingredients and barcode and so on, so designing is probably not the right word. It’s more like shuffling all the required information around till it fits.  

Anyway that’s enough for now. Next week I’m going to talk about Organic soap and hopefully will have some news on that subject.