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The last one uses LIQUID castille, which might be hard to find & expensive. I didn't realize it was liquid at first. Thorough searching yielded one made from the bar soap, which is what I wanted. YAY!
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Castile soap has a very good reputation as being about the purest soap you can find. I think it includes olive oil as one of the main ingredients. I've worked in nursing homes where castile soap is used on some of the elderly patients who have very sensitive skin.
Another thing you may want to look into is the Ph balance factor. Castile soap, for example, as gentle as it is, I believe is still alkaline. If you've ever used any of the expensive Redken company products, however, you can feel a big difference when you wash with their soap, in that there is no sticky residue left on the skin, because it is more acid-base, than alkaline. Human skin supposedly prefers a slightly acidic cleanser over alkaline, or at least a somewhat balanced Ph factor right near the middle between the 2 extremes.
Other than FEELING the difference on my own skin and hair after using some of these different products mentioned above, I really know actually very little about the topic (even though at first glance from reading my reply here it might SOUND like I'm "knowledgeable" - LOL)....
- Ken
Well, I'll chop up the bar and let it dissolve in a quart of water & see what it's like. Maybe it'll be gross, but I had to find out. It's made with coconut oil, this brand. ( Kirks. )
At my last job on a 3 million dollar house on Puget Sound, there was a Rosa Chinensis Mutablis, I think, growing in the old hedgerow, neglected. ( the lot recently sold to new owners who levelled it and started over. ) I pulled a branch out near the roots and will try to root it. It looks like the type to root easily. I'll just bury it halfway. It's a hard to find natural chinese species. The large five petalled flowers start out as pink buds, open white for a day, turn yellow, then darken to pink, dark pink, and brownish red. There's different colored flowers all over it at once, and it's still blooming.
It REALLY needs to be in my collection, and from a found cutting like this!!!!!!!
Later Ken.
Hi again, John!
I grew Mutabilis in a large pot on my deck for about 3 years (along with several other roses in large posts); but eventually gave it to a friend of mine that lives down the coast in Half Moon Bay, where it could be put in the ground. I absolutely LOVED that rose -- although not a very long-lasting cut flower. It's the only rose I know that never fades its color with age; but rather, it "SUN-TANS" (turns darker - amazing that it can change to 3 different colors, all over time on the same flower! Apparently other China category roses have this "tanning" behavior as well. I also love the dainty, healthy (usually) foliage. Even totally non-knowledgeable friends when they see it, they can for some reason tell right away that it must be an old rose cultivar. Also, if planted again a warm & sunny South-facing wall, Mutabilis can eventually become a climber -- it just seems happiest there, too!!
- Ken
Thank you for that story Ken. The flowers on this one are lasting. That probably has to do with the weather here - 40s & 50s, cloudy & rainy mostly, though today was sunny & warm. It's loke putting a cut flower in the fridge. Though, ou did say you got lots of fog there, so I don't know.