Tomioka Silk - Silk Mulberry Soap

Pure Japanese SILK + MULBERRY WINE

Since ancient times, it has been said that women who work in silk mills, which produce raw silk from cocoons, have white and beautiful skin. The reason is that the protein of silk dissolved in hot water prevents the skin from drying out.

Features

・The silk used for soap is 100% made in Japan.
・Using olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, blended about 3μ of silk powder.
・Add mulberry and mulberry wine, stir, age with cold process method and air dry for more than 40 days.
・Contains fibroin (silk powder).
　*Fibroin is a protein made of 18 kinds of amino acids, the same as human skin. It is the same material as surgical thread and artificial skin, and is a cosmetic ingredient that is currently attracting attention.

Ingredients

• Olive oil
• Palm oil
• Coconut oil
• Sodium hydroxide
• Wine
• Silk

During the Meiji era, when the spinning industry was flourishing, the Tomioka Silk Mill was a modern factory where former clans and elites of Chinese children worked. The work of picking up yarn from cocoons and turning it into silk yarn is a manual operation using hot and cold water. Even so, it is said that the hands of the girls were white and smooth. Why in an age without hand cream? The reason is that the protein silk protein contained in the silk retains moisture in the skin, removes dullness, prepares the texture, and presents them with silky skin