Little did I know I would get way more than I bargained for, receiving a whole lot of useful information to all my questions from the owner Sandra, who is just full of knowledge and passion about what she does.

So I decided to get one of the soaps to try as well as some liquid castille soap to use for laundry and cleaning. Sandra makes a small range of different things that you can see on the website. Some of the products are also available on, Faithful to Nature and a few other stores.

The soaps are made with natural and minimal ingredients, such as shea butter, coconut oil and olive oil and thus are really soothing on the skin and do not have any harmful chemicals in them that most other cleaning agents do. The soap bars can also be used as shampoo and they work really really well.

After my first use I was hooked and doubt I will ever buy any ‘commercial’ soap or shampoo ever again. I previously used bicarb soda as a face wash/scrub and now alternate with this soap. It’s really a great soothing face wash as well, and having oily skin myself I can say it does help. 

Everything is handmade by Sandra herself and there are various ‘flavors’ of soaps to choose from depending on what sort of smells you like. It is also great to know all the products are cruelty free and are approved by Beauty Without Cruelty South Africa. They are also Vegan, Biodegradable, Eco Friendly, and Grey Water Safe.

Do yourself a favour and give one of these soaps a try, you can even collect from her directly in Cape Town, or order online.

“Puresimple specialises in handmade pure vegetable oil based soaps, body butters & creams and household cleaners. The BATH and BODY ranges have been specially formulated to be mild and gentle on the skin whilst the HOUSEHOLD range has been formulated to clean thoroughly but gently.

All products are handmade and, where possible, ingredients are sourced locally to minimize the carbon footprint and to support environment friendly principles. All finished products are biodegradable and contain no artificial additives, synthetic surfactants, cosmetic fragrances, paraben-type preservatives, mineral oils or petroleum based ingredients.

Packaging has also been specially sourced to ensure that it is biodegradable and/or recyclable.”

*A small side note: If you live in quite a hot area and the soap becomes not so solid, just put it in the fridge/freezer It’s also great using a cold bar of soap on your skin when it is so hot!

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From the title I’m sure you were expecting to find an article full of research studies or something to show that coconut oil will not help you in losing weight and does not speed up fat loss. Fortunately, that is not really the case here.

You see, as people in this technological media age, we are bombarded with so much information and marketed or targeted information which in some cases may not be true, or may not be entirely true. People twist information to keep some truth in it, in an attempt to adapt the information to market and sell their product or to sell the information itself in terms of page views etc.

So what has this got to do with coconut oil? Well, one of the things people are always on the lookout for is something new and easy to use to speed up the process whatever it may be, especially when it comes to fitness and losing fat. They will read one article which says things like, you need to add coconut oil (for the record we are just using coconut oil as one specific example) to your diet in order to “rev up your metabolism” and “use fat for energy” and in turn lose fat around your waistline etc.

While something like coconut oil may possibly do such things, to an extent, this is what can happen.

Someone who is not too clued up and wants to lose weight, reads such an article and then immediately thinks that just by ADDING coconut oil to their diet they will start to reap the benefits and lose weight. But logically think about what you are doing. You are adding calories to your diet when you add coconut oil to it.

In order to lose fat you need to reduce your calories slightly (to below your baseline at least). So in essence by doing this you may just see yourself picking up weight. Even replacing your vegetable oil for coconut oil in cooking, while a good thing, still won’t guarantee weight loss. Why? Because both are oils and both still contain fat which make up calories.

So the bottom line is to get educated on your diet and training first and foremost before you go and add certain products and “special” trendy things into it hoping for some magical results.

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