This post is just to introduce everyone to the concept of African Black Soap. Most people have not heard of it, then when they do they see the kind I have here in this picture and learn that this is the real kind:
They then get confused when they learn some of the actual Black Colored Bars are Authentic also, and they wonder "how?", So we can start there. African Black Soap in it's Raw Form looks like you see in the picture, and is made using various ingredients, but African Black Soap in it's Raw Form should itself be seen as an ingredient. When many people use African Black Soap it burns their skin, because the process of making African Black Soap does not lend itself to completely dissolving the Lye equally throughout the mixture, and it has lumps here and there of different Colors, some of those spots are caustic and have been known to burn skin.
So what you are supposed to do is use it as an ingredient. Though Raw African Black Soap is made of Shae Butter, etc, it should be melted down and used as an Ingredient, African Black Soap is not a finished Product to be sold, but is a Product to be added to other Recipes to create Creams/Scrubs and Soaps, as if the Raw Brick is a Brick of Cocoa Butter, or Shae Butter.
Don't try to make it in America, it is not Economically Practical because some of the Ingredients are considered Trash in other Industries (like an Oyster Shell in the Pearl Industry), so it then goes to be made into Soap in a very Economical way. And the people doing it in Africa are better at it anyway and don't need the competition, but need people using it in Recipes.
