What the Heck is a Humectant?!

Here in Tauranga, the amazingly fine, cold and crisp weather has got us thinking just how much this weather can our dry skin out. And that got us thinking about those wonderful things called humectants. Quite simply, these ingredients love water - humectants are hungry for moisture. So if you use a skincare product that has a humectant in it, that humectant will draw moisture into your skin - to help keep it hydrated for longer.

A well-known humectant that we formulate into our products is Glycerine. The Day Cream and Night Cream, as well as the Hand & Body Cream all contain Glycerine. So do the liquid washes, and all the bar soaps. That means you can wash your skin and help retain moisture, as well as add another humectant with the creams.

So while you're cleaning your skin with our natural bars soaps and natural liquid soaps, you're getting a helping hand to hydrate your skin with the extra glycerine; and you're also helping to lock that hydration in with our natural moisturisers for your face and body.

A really cool trick is to put a bar of the No3 natural soap outside on a rainy day (under shelter, away from the rain!). After an hour or so you will notice that it will feel like it has accumulated moisture on the surface, like condensation. That is the humectant - glycerine - drawing moisture out of the air.