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Tea Tree Oil: The Aboriginal Medicine That Beat...

Tea tree oil — distilled from the leaves of Melaleuca alternifolia, a tree native to coastal New South Wales in Australia — has the most extensive clinical research base of...

Activated Charcoal in Soap: The 200-Year-Old Ad...

Activated charcoal has been used medicinally for over two centuries. In 1831, a French pharmacist named Touery famously survived a dose of strychnine many times the lethal level by consuming...

Pine Tar: The Ancient Wood Medicine With 3,000 ...

Pine tar is one of the oldest medicinal compounds used by humans for skin conditions. Evidence of pine tar production dates to the Bronze Age in Scandinavia and northern Europe,...

Why Natural Soap: The Complete Case for Making ...

The choices made daily in the shower accumulate into the most significant topical skin exposure most people have. Over a year of daily showers, the soap used contacts skin for...

Bourbon and Tobacco Natural Soap: Why the Scent...

Bourbon and tobacco as soap fragrance is one of the more unexpected combinations in the natural soap world. It shouldn't be — warm, complex, woody fragrances have a long tradition...

The History of Bathing: From Roman Thermae to t...

The daily shower is a modern invention. For most of human history, bathing was periodic rather than daily, water was heated over fire rather than piped in on demand, and...