Healing Oils and the Bible
The Bible is full of stories of healings. Prophets and priests, ancient physicians and early Christians, Jesus and His disciples prayed and annointed with oils for healing and purification. For this they used the aromatic oils from plants in their natural environment. These precious oils, some of them more rare and expensive than gold, were treasured as true gifts from God.  There is no evidence of distillation of oils taking place during biblical times. It is through distillation that modern essential oils are made. When old writings refer to a healing oil, people erroneously assume this is an essential oil as well. Rather, experts believe these were aromatic oils, made by infusing plant material into the same oil many many times over, producing very powerful substances.
And God said...	Our Healing Soaps
"Along the bank of the river, on this side and that, will grow all kinds of trees used for food; their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. They will bear fruit every month, because their water flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food and their leaves for medicine." Ezekiel 47:12   Essential oils when carefully extracted have the concentrated potency of the life force and the energy of the plant they come from. The following soaps were made using precious essential oils mentioned in the Bible. Some of their healing properties will penetrate your skin. While soaps probably won't cure your problems, they sure will help you feel better. Commercial soaps strip the skin of natural oils, while handcrafted soaps will leave your skin beautifully soft and nourished.	Our healing soaps are made with herbs, resins and essential oils from the Bible, used since ancient times. They are handcrafted with care and love from vegan, cruelty-free ingredients that produce a rich and luxurious lather that pampers and comforts the skin and the soul. Information about the herbs and essential oils added to the soaps has been taken from the Bible and from well respected books on this subject. Many herbs and essential oils are considered to have healing properties and you may be able to reap some of their benefits by incorporating them into your soaps.

 

MYRRH SOAP
Ingredients include Essential Oils of Dill, Myrrh and Rosemary as well as honey and crushed chamomile flowers.  Myrrh was one of the gifts the three Wise Men brought to the infant Jesus: gold for his kingship, frankincense for his holiness and myrrh for all his future suffering on earth. “And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.” Matthew 2:11b
Myrrh in the Bible	FRANKINCENSE SOAP
Myrrh is the dried resin of several different species of Commiphora (Burseraceae). These are shrubs or small trees from the dry and semi dry regions of Africa, Arabia and India. Some of the species are used for their fragrance and others for their medicinal properties. It has recently been discovered that C. myrrha  has opiate qualities, which helps us understand why in Mark 15:23 Jesus on the cross was offered vinegar mingled with myrrh. Jesus refused the drug. But if the opiate properties of Myrrh were known in Biblical times, His friends and loved ones were trying to alleviate His suffering.	Ingredients include Essential Oils of Frankincense and Myrrh; cinnamon, paprika, nutmeg, ginger, and cracked black pepper. “Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?” Song of Solomon 3:6

HYSSOP SOAP
Ingredients include Essential Oils of Hyssop, Peppermint, Lemon and Myrrh. “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Psalm 51:7  "And a clean person shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it upon the tent, and upon all the vessels, and upon the persons there... And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even." Numbers 19:18-19
SPIKENARD SOAP	OLIVE OIL SOAP
Ingredients include Spikenard Essential Oil and Rose Water. “And Jesus being in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard, very precious, and she broke the box, and poured the ointment on his head.” Mark 14:3	Ingredients include Olive oil, olive extract and Essential Oils of Lemon and Spikenard. "But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion, and went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine; then he set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn, and took care of him." Luke 10:33-34

BALM OF GILEAD SOAP
Ingredients include Essential Oils of Balm of Gilead and Sandalwood and crushed, dried balm fruit. “And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.”  Genesis 37:25 "Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured." Jeremiah 46:1
JUNIPER SOAP	CEDARWOOD SOAP
Ingredients include Essential Oils of Juniper, of Bergamot and blueberry seeds. “And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, arise and eat.” 1 Kings 19:5	Ingredients include Essential Oils of Cedarwood, Sweet Orange Oil and Myrrh. “The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.” Psalm 92:12

SANDALWOOD SOAP
Ingredients include Essential Oils of Sandalwood, Sweet Orange, Myrrh, Lemon and Bergamot as well as Rose Water. "And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pound weight." John 19:39 The use of sandalwood (aloes) is at least 4,000-years old. Its history tells us that its wood has been carved as well as distilled for its sweet, woody, and fruity-scented oil. As an indication of respect and due to their great antiquity aloes and myrrh were used in preparing Christ’s body for burial.
CINNAMON CASSIA SOAP	CYPRESS SOAP
Ingredients include Essential Oils of Cinnamon Cassia, Chamomile, Lavender and Sweet Orange. "All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad." Psalms 45:8	Ingredients include Aloe Vera gel, Essential Oils of Cypress, Lemon, Chamomile and Myrrh. "He hewest him down cedars and taketh cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest."                                    Isaiah 44:14

BENZOIN ONYCHA SOAP

Ingredients include Benzoin resin, oatmeal, peppermint leaves and Essential Oils of Frankincense, Rosemary and Cinnamon Cassia. Benzoin was used both as medicine and as incense in the ancient world. They used it in perfume and blended it in holy anointing oils, and used it as an ointment to heal skin wounds. “And the Lord said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha (benzoin), and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall be there be a like weight” Exodus 30:34