good for your skin
Our soaps are created with the focus on quality 100% natural ingredients and the beneficial properties of the ingredients. We choose to use ingredients that are more expensive than what commercial soap manufacturers use, not so that we can charge more, but because we are interested in making soap that not only cleans your skin but is also good for your skin and the environment. You will also find that our soap bars, if they are kept well drained between use, will last much longer than a commercially bought bar of soap!
Want to make positive changes in your life and the world? Visit the Holistic Lifestyle Fair at the Observatory Recreation Centre (South Africa) on Sunday 3 July from 10am-4pm and find out how. The Fair’s theme on the 3rd is ‘Manifesting Happiness’ – for yourself and others. Continue reading
Our handmade soap
Our handmade soap contains all the beneficial glycerin, which results in a soap that is truly delightful to bathe with. We also use natural ingredients that you would actually want to use on your skin….. ingredients that you can pronounce!!! Your skin will feel totally different after using our soap and many of our customers say they no longer need to moisturize after a bath/shower!
Author: Rae Conterio
website: http://africanbliss.blogspot.com
NEXT Episode: Good for your skin
Date: 25/06/2011
“soap” is a cleansing agen
According to the dictionary, “soap” is a cleansing agent made from an alkali acting on natural oils and fats. A detergent, on the other hand, is also a cleansing agent BUT a synthetic one that is chemically different from soap. Handmade soaps are true soaps, the soap bars you buy commercially are usually detergents. Do you even know what is in the commercial bar you’ve been using??? Probably petroleum products, alcohols, preservatives, and a lot of other things that you cannot pronounce! Is the soap you use even called soap, or is it a “beauty bar”, “cleansing bar”, or “deodorizing bar”? Besides containing harsh ingredients, the naturally occuring glycerin is usually stripped from the finished product and used to make moisturizing lotions and other products. Some commercial soap manufacturers even put part of it back in and call it “glycerin enriched”. If they did not remove it in the first place, they would not have had to put it back in……?????
Website: http://africanbliss.blogspot.com/
Author: Rae Conterio
NEXT episode: Our handmade soap
Date: 21 June 2011
The farm dogs
Breath slowly in the cooling early morning air of the open plains of South Africa where the farm is situated.
Run across our tall green grasses and hope to meet an interesting cute beetle digging among the healthy blades of African grass.
We make 100% natural soap.
Meet the guardians of the farm where we make the African Bliss 100% Natural Soap.
Their names are Star and Picasso.
NEXT Episode: Soap is a cleansing agent
Date: June 19 2011
We are passionate about our soap business and take enormous pride in the soap we produce. We feel it’s so important that people realise what they are putting on their skin when they buy a bar of commercial soap.
Author: Rae Conterio
website: http://africanbliss.blogspot.com
NEXT Episode: The farm
Date: 17/06/2011
Our skin is the biggest organ in our body. So using organic soap is a good idea. Eat Organic contacted a natural soap maker in South Africa. We want to learn more about the economics and benefits of using 100% natural soap instead of regular soap.
We could not find an organic soap maker in South Africa in time for this post. Instead we found a fantastic 100% natural and pure … not organic soap. In the next episode we will present the 100% natural and pure soap range made by African Bliss – 100% Natural Soap.
Appetite catering specializes in providing fresh healthy seasonal food for all occasions. We believe in purchasing good quality ingredients and making our own salad dressings, stocks, mayonnaise, preserves, jams, breads, desserts etc Continue reading
As the organic farming movement is at a very early stage in SA, most South African farms have international accreditation. In fact most consumers are more keen to buy organic food than wine. In the UK the organic alcohol market is growing at 22% year on year, compared with total alcohol market growth of 3%. The UK is the leader in selling South African organic wines, followed by Germany, Asia and the Netherlands. Continue reading
HOW IT STARTED
Honest Chocolate all started from a bit of experimentation with raw cacao. Anthony made a few simple chocolates from raw cacao powder as a healthy treat for himself and friends and when they were polished off inseconds, with demands for more, he knew he was onto something. Over the next few months he taught himself more about the art and science of chocolate making, an endeavour that eventually developed into Honest Chocolate. Continue reading
The announcement of the 2011 SAB Eat In Produce Award winners took place on Thursday 17th March at the Old Biscuit Mill night market in Woodstock.
Totally Wild’s Aloe and Baobab juice was nominated the ‘Best New Product’ at the 2011 Eat In Produce Awards. Continue reading
Hotel Lamunu is a small hotel in the heart of Braamfontein, Johannesburg’s rapidly rejuvenating live-work-play district. The hotel is a short distance from the Nelson Mandela Bridge which links Braamfontein to Newtown and the Johannesburg CBD and is also within walking distance of both of Johannesburg’s major universities. Lamunu has a penchant for being a real hotel serving the needs of real, interesting people. The hotel pays tribute to some academics by naming the six floors and three meeting rooms after interesting graduates of Wits University.
All newly re-furbished rooms come standard with individually controlled air-conditioning, complimentary wireless internet connectivity, flat screen TV, iPod docking stations, direct dial telephones, laptop safes and ultra-comfortable double beds. The hotel offers two full service bars and complimentary secure underground parking. Continue reading
S Bar is a place where students come first. Where the like minded meet and chillout. The S Bar space is unique, different and compelling. It is an exciting bottleonly drinking joint with a very limited menu. The exciting one off design is thebest place to meet and party with your friends.
S Bar is the student bar where everybody hangs out. The beer and food are the bestvalue in the Braamfontein village – the daily student experience. Continue reading
SCD Probiokashi (www.bokashi.co.za) is the exclusive licensee to manufacture and distribute all
SCD Probiotics’ (www.scdprobiotics.com) products in Southern Africa.
At present our main focus is on SCD Bokashi and the SCD Indoor Kitchen
Composter. The SCD Kitchen Composter (previously known as the Happy Farmer
Kitchen Composter) has also been endorsed by Oprah Winfrey (see
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/100-Things-That-Are-Getting-Better/2).
www.bokashi.co.za
Post is simply an eatery. With little emphasis on conventional branding and an ethos of re-use and restoration from inception, the “brand” of post is communicated in the experience. The materiality of the store itself, reclaimed timber and steel, and glass pay homage to the location referencing surrounds and the story of the city.
African Organics presents for the first time in South Africa, a 100% natural range of hair and body care products. With years of experience in formulating to natural and organic standards, our formulators were presented with a brief to produce a 100% natural range that everyone can afford to use without compromising on quality. Continue reading
Esse’ full facial and body care range comes as close to organic as there is to find. Certified organic by EcoCert, animal friendly by Beauty Without Cruelty SA, fair trade by PhytoTrade Africa and endorsed by the Vegan Society, discerning consumers can be assured of effective and ethical beauty treatments. Continue reading
Re-energise at the next Holistic Lifestyle Fair, Sunday 6 March – free film “The
Energetics of Healing” by Caroline Myss Ph.D
Just what the doctor ordered… a visit to the Holistic Lifestyle Fair at the
Observatory Recreation Centre this coming Sunday, 10am-4pm.
