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Know Your Ingredients
Your Skin Deserves to Know What Touches It
At Bloom & Bubbles, we believe that true skincare begins with trust—and trust begins with transparency. That’s why we’ve created this special section dedicated to every ingredient used in our handmade soaps.
We understand: when you flip over a soap bar and read the ingredients, you’re often met with long, scientific names like Sodium Palmate or Tetrasodium Etidronate. Sounds like something from a lab, right? But most of these ingredients are simply plant-based oils, natural clays, floral extracts, or skin-safe compounds—things your grandmother might’ve used, just listed in their official cosmetic terminology.
This page is our promise to help you decode those names and understand what’s really nourishing your skin. Each ingredient below is listed exactly as it appears on our packaging, grouped for clarity. And when you click any name, you’ll find a friendly, in-depth explanation—from what it is, where it comes from, what it does, and why it’s in your soap.
Because informed customers are empowered customers.
And because your skin deserves nothing less.
Botanical Ingredients
Natural extracts, oils, clays, herbs – the skin-loving heroes
Rose Petals
Rosa Centifolia Petals
Avena Sativa (Oatmeal)
Melaleuca Alternifolia Oil
Mentha Arvensis Oil
Papaver Somniferum Seed
Olea Europaea (Olive) Fruit Oil
Petroselinum Crispum
Thymus Mastichina
Origanum Vulgare​
Ocimum Basilicum
Thymus Vulgaris
Illite (Red Clay)
Illite
Functional Ingredients
These build the bar—cleansing agents, thickeners, stabilizers, and moisturizers
Sodium Palmate
Sodium Cocoate
Sodium Olivate
Glycerin
Sodium Stearate
Sucrose
Sorbitol
Sodium Laurate
Sodium Oleate
Sodium Myristate
Dipropylene Glycol
Propylene Glycol
Alcohol Denat
Sodium Chloride
Glyceryl Laurate
Cocamidopropyl Betaine
Tetrasodium Iminodisuccinate
Tetrasodium Etidronate
Tetrasodium Etidronate
Fragrance and Aroma Compounds
The sensory magic that enhances your bath with scent and calm
Parfum
Linalool
Limonene
Hexyl Cinnamal
Coumarin
Geraniol
Alpha-Isomethyl Ionone
Citronellol
Amyl Cinnamal
Eugenol
Benzyl Alcohol
Benzyl Salicylate
Benzyl Benzoate