Archive for January 6th, 2008

Running Causes Acne?

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Wow. For some reason this idea has been popping up lately. This myth that running causes acne. And usually back acne. Let me address this as I have some experience as a runner and as one who has had his fair share of acne. I played soccer for 12 years growing up from 6 until I was 18, and I can safely say that whether it was in season or out, I had acne always. Would it worsen in season? I don’t recall this happening at all. However, I was also getting a lot of sun, especially right before school started with long soccer practices starting like 6 weeks out before school started every year in high school. But early on when I first started getting acne at age 10 or 11 as I remember, this had no bearing on acne. The only thing that made a huge difference was when we started using Its Pure Soap… this made a HUGE difference. You all need to try it!

Special soaps for acne

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Hmmm… this is another rather common question. People come to our site looking for solutions to bad acne hoping for some sort of SPECIAL soap just for them. Well, the truth of the matter is that, special soaps for acne are not required. A simple, basic, all natural soap is all that is required to cure acne problems. A simple soap containing just three ingredients like LARD, LYE, and WATER. Just like Its Pure Soap.

Lye Soap (for Acne)

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Lye soap is a very redundant term that most people don’t even realize it. You see, soap REQUIRES lye in order for it to BECOME soap! And that is no LYE… I mean LIE… bad pun, I am sorry… As a part of the soap making process, lye is REQUIRED to make soap, there is absolutely no way around this. Lye is contained in EVERY soap! This is such a common question, that I felt the need to address this. Lye soap is not harsh and actually works very well for acne!

Natural Soap

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Ok, what exactly is Natural soap? Hmm… I would define it as having no modern day chemicals in it. Everyone know by now that your skin is the largest organ we have and ABSORBS things right through it. We receive essential Vitamin D from the sun which gets transmitted through our skin! It is wise to use only NATURAL products to put on our skin. If you desire to have soft, smooth and luxurious feeling skin, then we highly recommend the Its Pure Soap. Sorry to be so sales-pitchy here but we searched high and low for a soap that made sense, and this was the only one containing just lard, lye and water… can’t get much easier than this!

Skin is skin… but not when it is leather from cows…

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Here is another theory that we have been thinking about that makes a lot of sense. Commercial soap is made from tallow. Tallow (sodium tallowate) which comes from cows. Whereas our soap is made from lard (rendered pig fat)… now the question we’ll ask is, “Whose skin is human skin more like? Cow or pig?” This is kind of a no brainer to us cause the last time we checked… cows don’t have skin, they have a HIDE…