How We Make Soap continued

Healing herbs, cleansing grains, and rich emollients transform a basic bar of homemade soap to a fine cosmetic bar. At Hummingbird, we carefully choose and often grow our own nutrients. Comfrey is lovingly grown, hand picked, dried, then pulverized for our Comfrey Luxury Facial Bar. We also grow more than six types of lavender for our Simply Lavender Bath Bar. Honey from our own or neighbors' hives is warmed and added at trace to our Honey Oatmeal Gardener's Hand Scrub to offer a thin, protective layer to challenged skin. As our list of loyal customers grows, so too do the requests for nutrients.

Should a soap be scented, fragrance oils or essential oils are added after any nutrients. We at Hummingbird use no artificial fragrance oils, only the purest and finest quality essential oils, some of which are also used for aromatherapy. Essential oils were mankind's first medicines.

While the FDA may not have approved them for healing purposes or endorsed historical claims of their therapeutic value, we at Hummingbird believe in their successes through the centuries. Our use of essential oils in our products is not done just to be trendy, or for the sake of fragrance alone, but after careful research and with the hope that they will heal based on the wisdom of the ages.