Enucia Product Catalog
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in10 Tuesday Jul 2012
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inWe have made our first batch of liquid soap. It is not ready for market yet, but getting close. I am excited about this product and think this will allow us to make not only liquid soap for next to the sink but to also make shower gel. Our liquid is going to feel as wonderful as our bars. Stay tuned more to come!
24 Thursday May 2012
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inWe are very excited to start researching and making Liquid Soap. It will be a while before it is available for purchase but we are hoping to have it available by end of Summer beginning of Fall at the latest. We want to make sure the Liquid Soap is the same quality as our other products.
Also, I have had a couple people ask me in the last few days about the foam soap. Well it is not as hard as you think to make your own foam soap. As long as you have the dispenser you can make it yourself. Purchase any clear liquid soap (not the lotion kind), then get an empty Foam Soap container add about 2 to 3 tablespoons of the liquid soap and SLOWLY pour in some warm water, you don’t want to agitate the soap. Leave approx 1 inch of room at the top to prevent overflow when pump is placed in the bottle. Quick and easy – now enjoy your own foaming soap!
25 Saturday Feb 2012
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inA couple days ago I was asked “Why is your product(s) better than what you can get at the store?”. What a great question and here is my answer!
When looking at the ingredients of a big commercial brand soap what do you see? Lots of synthetic and chemically synthesized ingredients that either cause the skin to dry out or may also be more prone to cause acne. There are other ingredients that are just fillers that do not benefit your skin, some harmful to your skin.
Our ingredients are all natural, no fillers and are all beneficial to the skin. Our ingredient list shows oils such as Coconut Oil which is an excellent cleansing oil, Olive Oil which is a wonderful emollient, Palm and Palm Kernel which add emollient as well as hardness so you get a Cleansing Bar that will last – typically longer than the commercial brands. Our Cleansing Bars add moisture to your skin rather than removing the oils. Skin is the largest organ of the body ~ protect it and nourish it!
14 Tuesday Feb 2012
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inWe have been testing Rice Bran Oil in our Salt Scrubs and on it’s own to see how well the oil works on skin. I have to say that I think Rice Bran Oil works better on dry, rough skin than Jojoba. The oil seems to soak into the skin faster and helps heal dry skin better. Rice Bran Oil is a great source of Vitamin E which is excellent for the skin. I am excited to start working this into our products. It will be a while before we are able to get in into our Cleansing Bars, but all of our other products will start incorporating Rice Bran Oil as they are ordered. I am excited for this modification and believe this will only enhance our products.
13 Monday Feb 2012
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inDry skin is a huge issue in the winter months. Cold days with wind that chaps hands and exposed skin. Lotion never seems to do the trick for me. I have slathered a ton of lotion on my hands to no avail. The only things that seems to work for me is to use a Salt Scrub. This removes all the dry old skin while using wonderful oils to add moisture back to the skin. These oils add intense moisture that quickly is absorbed into the skin, leaving it soft and refreshed. Is the winter weather getting to your skin? Try our Salt Scrub – results are seen instantly. Use regularly to keep the rough itchiness away! It is amazing how quickly your skin can be transformed.
01 Wednesday Feb 2012
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inWe are so excited to announce you can now find our products at Twistyle Salon and Day Spa located at 1332 Bethel Road, Columbus, OH 43235. If you are in the area stop by and check it out. Not only are our products there, but it is a WONDERFUL Salon as well. Must check it out!
25 Wednesday Jan 2012
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inWith the current world wide shortage of Jojoba Oil, we have been forced to reevaluate our oils. This is becoming an oil more and more cosmetics are using due to its wonderful properties. However, due to weather extremes there is a shortage in crops and harvests. This has been going on for some time now, the recovery dates keep being pushed further and further back. Last we heard the supplies won’t be back to normal until 2013 (at the earliest) A lot of our products use Jojoba Oil, so we have gone back to the books and researching other oils with high enough standards to be put into our products. After strong research we found an oil we are going to start testing in our products. If we like the oil and it keeps our products to the standards we striving to achieve we will make the switch. We will not compromise our products, so you can rest assured that our products will continue to have an excellent and luxurious feel that we have always had. Please feel free to contact us with any questions and/or concerns. We are excited about our upcoming modifications and will keep you updated on the changes.
20 Friday Jan 2012
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inThe start of Enucia came about a year and a half ago (November 2010), however it has been in the works for a little longer. April of 2010, I was working for corporate America, and our office was told it was closing its doors in Columbus! I had a feeling this day would come; I now had a few options. I could relocate with the company to New Jersey, I could get a new job in the area, or I could try something new and stay at home with our daughter. Relocating was quickly eliminated as an option; this choice just didn’t make sense for our family. I started looking to see what was out there for jobs, not much I have to admit. I didn’t really want to go back into the corporate world – especially after being laid off for the third time in 10 years. So after a lot of thinking and careful consideration we decided I should stay home for now and try my hands at handmade soap.
I have a family history of soap making ~ my paternal and maternal grandparents and great grandparents made their own soap. My paternal great grandfather and grandfather ran a successful company in northern Ohio of cleaning products. I used that knowledge to research the different processes of soap making – wow what a huge variety there is in making soap. There is what is called Melt and Pour, Cold Process, Hot Process, among others. I first tried my hands at Melt and Pour, this was fun, but this wasn’t what I was looking for. I wanted to be able to make soap that could control – such as ingredients and the feel when using it. After additional research I found the Cold Process method fit what I was looking for (it was also the process that my grandparents had used).
As I was researching oils and processes, I recruited my husband to help with my new venture’s name and packaging. After many forms and different varieties the name Enucia was born. I am asked frequently what Enucia means. Well it doesn’t really mean anything specific. We wanted a name that was not specific to anything yet had a ring to it. We thought Enucia had that feel of Luxury we were looking for, so Enucia – Bring Luxury Home was born! Now the name is set, the packaging is coming along.
During my research I went to the library and checked all the books out that I could find regarding Cold Process Soap, I researched the internet reading everything I could find. Bought some highly recommended books, I did everything that I could do to understand and get as much knowledge as I could before I started making soap. What interesting information I found about oils specifically. For instance, some oils have excellent cleaning properties, some are wonderful lathering oils, while others are wonderful skin conditioners. Olive Oil is an oil that has been used for decades for soap; it creates a very mild wonderful soap, that can be used on anyone’s skin, even a baby. Who knew soap making would be so scientific – the soap made really relies heavily on the make up of the individual oils you use. My next step is to understand ratio and how much of each oil to put into my recipes.
Understanding oil composition is very important when trying to understand what the batch is going to turn out to be. Each oil has different classifications and lots of different numbers associated with each oil, for instance there is an SAP Number which helps determine how much lye is needed to turn the oil into soap. This all plays a role in creating the soap you want. So creating the ‘perfect’ bar will take some understanding of each oil and the properties and the values. I was getting very close to all the information I felt like I needed to be able to move forward with make my ‘perfect’ soap.
Lye is used in all types of soap. Sodium Hydroxide is used for bar soap and Potassium Hydroxide is used for liquid soap. The lye is mixed with the oils and Saponification happens. Without becoming too scientific – Saponification is the process of the oils and lye mixing and the process of becoming soap. The lye is the neutralized and you then have a wonderful bar of soap.
After months of research and playing around with recipes I created, I was ready to create my ideal soap. I had to purchase more soap making supplies so I could create what I wanted in a larger batch. I was pretty confident that this batch was going to very close to my ideal soap, and I was ready to find out! With the Cold Process method the soap is poured into the mold and wait 24 to 48 hours until the soap is unmolded and cut. Then another 3 to 6 weeks until the soap is ready for use. Now waiting approximately a month until I was able to feel and use my newly created soap. Waiting began…..
After waiting for the curing process to finish, it was wonderful to find that the process worked very well. I needed a little tweaking to my ingredients to make it what I wanted, but generally the soap turned out pretty good. I recruited my husband again to help me make soap molds – I wanted to be able to make logs of soap that I could cut into bars. He did a fantastic job, different sizes and they work perfectly to this day.
Now I was thinking ahead and wanted to buy enough product/supplies to be able to enter my first craft show in November to see how things would sell. I had many many months to prepare and decide what I wanted. The list seemed overwhelming. What oils and how much should I buy? What essential or fragrance oils should I buy? What other products should I think about bringing with me to the show? Overwhelming myself is something that seems to come naturally. 🙂 I decided that I didn’t want to use any dyes in my soap, I wanted to stay as natural as possible, so I started researching different herbs to use in the soap mix to give color to the different scents. I found a good mix of herbs and purchased my supplies and after refining my recipes I was ready to begin producing bars and packaging for craft shows coming in November of 2010. I knew that my friends and family loved my soap, they were hooked. Could I get others hooked too? Only time will tell…