We are so excited to announce our newest partnership! Little Red Hen Soap will be partnering with Children First. Children First works in Haiti to meet the needs of former street children. Enoc Loiusius started it in 2016. Loiusius wanted to provide the children with not only a safe place to live but a home and a future.
Children’s First operates not only an orphanage but also a school that children in the community can attend.
Little Red Hen Soap will be funding the purchase of goats, chickens, and plantain trees. These will enable them to provide extra nourishment for their children and help them move towards sustainability. You can find out more about Children First at https://www.facebook.com/haitichildrenfirst
We are so delighted to announce that, thanks to a very generous donation, we have met our goal for Maisha Africa! This will allow them to build a piggery (pig farm). This pig farm will provide nutrition for the children in their care, manure for farming, and provide ongoing sustainability.
Traditionally soap was made from animal fat and lye, very much like we make ours today. The biggest difference was in the type of lye and the amount of fat being used. Traditional lye was made from the ashes from a fire and water. The ash was put into a tub of water and left to sit. After the ash was filtered out this left you with a lye water of sorts. The lye water was then added to fat to make the soap. The problem was it was difficult to measure the amount of lye in the water and soapers could end up with a bar that would burn skin. Today soapers can purchase lye specifically for making soap. It has a known and measurable amount of lye and when combined with a digital scale ensures that you get a safe bar of soap every time. 
This is where super fating comes in. Super fating creates a user error buffer. Soap recipes today are created to have 5% to 10% more fat than they need just to make sure that the bar has no chance to burn someones skin. It also ensures that there is just enough extra oils to moisturize your skin. Super fating and high quality fats and oils are one of the reasons Little Red Hen’s soaps are so great for your skin.
Over time the bar becomes slick and the lather is lotion like. Sea salt, unlike typical table salt, does not go through a lot of processing so it retains the minerals. The pretty pinks you see in the salt are the minerals. Your skin is able to absorb those minerals providing yet another benefit. If you have never tried salt soap you and your skin are in for a real treat.