Muhuhu Soap

We’ve recently discovered muhuhu essential oil. It's wonderfully fragrant. It's commonly known as African sandalwood because it smells quite similar to Indian sandalwood. Muhuhu smells woody, sweet and faintly floral.

We get lots of requests for a sandalwood soap but genuine essential oil of sandalwood is extremely expensive. If you find something called sandalwood soap, we’ll bet it’s made with synthetic fragrance. Sandalwood, like rosewood, is endangered. We do not use essential oils from endangered species. We consulted the Missouri Botanical Garden and received the okay to use muhuhu. “It’s near threatened but it’s easy to raise. Not endangered at this point,” a researcher told us. (We also learned the proper binomial of muhuhu is Brachylaena huillensis, rather than the B. hutchinsii one sees on many websites.)

Muhuhu essential oil is nonethless rare. We could have diluted it with less costly essential oils, but we want you to enjoy the pure scent of the muhuhu.

Australian clay makes the bar a soft orangey color.  We’ve superfatted it with unrefined shea butter because shea comes from Africa as well and it is a superior moisturizer to add to soap.

Africans use muhuhu for its antimicrobial and aphrodisiac properties. However, little is known of this oil, so we cannot recommend it for use by pregnant women, infants or children.

Contains

• saponified olive oil and/or rice bran oil, palm kernel oil and soy oil
• glycerin
• muhuhu
• unrefined shea butter
• nothing else

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• new
• premium