Whats the big deal about glycerine?
Glycerin attracts water molecules — it causes water to hang around wherever it is. In fact, you may notice that your hand-made soap sometimes will get small beads of water on it — that’s ok! It just means it has a high glycerine content and is attracting water right out of the air. Now, you can probably guess what happens when you use high-glycerine soap on your skin — your skin attracts water instead of losing it, leaving you feel softer! Most commercial soaps don’t contain glycerine (they remove it and sell it to other industries) so they are more drying than hand-made soaps. • Why does my soap look like it is sweating? Glycerine is a humectant; it attracts water. Since hand-made goat’s milk soap contains large amounts of glycerine, your soap may attract water so much that it forms tiny beads and ‘sweats’. Don’t worry…this is normal! It just means you have a great quality soap!
