Natural Liquid Soap: Liquid Lion, Explained
What makes a liquid soap natural?
Natural liquid soap is a plant-oil soap made from organic oils and lye, with no synthetic detergents. Liquid Lion is Iron Lion Soap's castile-style version: gentle, GMO-free, and gluten-free, for hands, body, and around the home.
Liquid Lion · Castile-style plant-oil soap · One pump, three jobs · 18 YEARS / EST. 2008
The liquid soap · $18.00
100% organic plant oils, castile-style. One bottle for hands, body, and around the home.
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- Natural liquid soap is real soap in liquid form, made from organic plant oils rather than synthetic detergents.
- Liquid Lion is castile-style: 100% organic oils, GMO-free and gluten-free ingredients, gentle enough for daily hand and body washing.
- One bottle is multi-purpose. Hands at the sink, body in the shower, and a diluted splash for cleaning around the home.
- A bar cleans the same way. The choice comes down to how you like to wash and where you want to use it.
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Plant oils in, detergents out
A natural liquid soap starts the same way a good bar does. You take organic plant oils, add lye and water, and let saponification turn the two into soap. The castile method uses plant oils as the whole story, and that is the method behind Liquid Lion.
That matters because a lot of what sits in a squeeze bottle is not soap at all. Most body wash is a blend of synthetic detergents, thickeners, and fragrance, built to foam big and cost little. Liquid Lion is made from plant oils with no synthetic detergents, so the lather comes from the soap itself.
The ingredients are GMO-free and gluten-free, which keeps the list short and readable. You can see what goes on your skin, and you can pronounce it. That is the point of a plant-oil soap.
Gentle is the other half. Because the base is organic oils, Liquid Lion cleans hands and body without leaving skin tight and squeaky. It rinses clean and leaves skin feeling comfortable, which is why one bottle earns a spot at the sink and in the shower both.
The Villain
The drugstore aisle sells you a jug of synthetic detergent wash and calls it a shower. Big foam, big fragrance, a color that never came from a plant. Read the back and half the list is thickeners and surfactants with a scent painted on top.
The detergent wash foams because it is built to foam, not because there is soap in the bottle. You pay for water, plastic, and a fragrance blend, then buy the same jug again next month.
The test is the ingredient list. If the first thing you cannot say out loud is a detergent, you are washing with chemistry, not with soap.
One bottle, three jobs
Liquid Lion is a multi-purpose soap, and that is not a marketing stretch. Castile-style plant-oil soap has always done the whole house. At the sink it is a hand soap. In the shower it is a body wash. Diluted in water it wipes down counters and cleans up around the home.
One pump and the lather comes up fast, then rinses clean. On the hands it leaves skin feeling soft, not stripped, so a day of ten washes still feels fine. In the shower it covers head to foot from a single bottle, which clears the shelf of three half-empty jugs.
For the home, cut it with water and it becomes a gentle all-around cleaner. It is the kind of bottle that ends up in the kitchen, the bathroom, and the gym bag, because it does the work in every one of those spots without a different formula for each.
Liquid Lion · one pump, real lather · plant oils, no synthetic detergents
Liquid Lion · Plant-oil liquid soap · $18.00
100% organic plant oils, castile-style, GMO-free and gluten-free. One gentle bottle for hands, body, and around the home.
Get Liquid Lion · $18.00From the Den · Verified Yotpo review · Liquid Lion
“Feel so refreshed and clean when I use this. Perfect liquid for after a hard day.”
Kyle F. · 5 stars
Liquid or bar, and the math
A bar and a bottle clean the same way, so pick by habit. Some hands reach for a pump at the sink and a squeeze in the shower. Others want a bar in the dish. Liquid Lion is $18.00 for the multi-purpose bottle, and a single bar runs $9.99 if you want the shelf to have both. Plenty of dens keep the bottle by the sink and a bar in the shower.
If you are stocking the whole house, The Arsenal is the value route. Six bars come to $50, about $8.33 each, because the sixth bar rides free. Add a bottle of Liquid Lion for the sink and you cross the $65 free-shipping line in one order with soap for every room. New here? Our guides on real soap versus body wash and building your own bundle lay out the rest.
$50.00 · Buy 5 bars, get the 6th free
The Arsenal 3.0
Six bars, your pick. Stock the shower alongside a bottle of Liquid Lion at the sink. The sixth bar is on the house.
Load the ArsenalGo through a bottle a month? The SoapScription restocks the den from $30 so Liquid Lion is always waiting by the sink.
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Questions people ask
What is natural liquid soap?
Natural liquid soap is real soap in liquid form, made from plant oils and lye rather than synthetic detergents. Liquid Lion is a castile-style version built from 100% organic plant oils, with GMO-free and gluten-free ingredients, for washing hands, body, and around the home.
How is Liquid Lion different from body wash?
Most body wash is a blend of synthetic detergents, thickeners, and fragrance. Liquid Lion is made from plant oils with no synthetic detergents, so the lather comes from the soap itself. It is gentle enough for daily use and rinses clean without leaving skin feeling tight.
Can I use Liquid Lion for hands and body?
Yes. Liquid Lion is multi-purpose. Use it as a hand soap at the sink, as a body wash in the shower, and diluted in water as a gentle cleaner around the home. One bottle covers all three, which keeps the shelf simple.
Is liquid soap or bar soap better?
Both clean the same way, so it comes down to how you like to wash. A pump at the sink and a squeeze in the shower suit some people, while others prefer a bar in the dish. Liquid Lion is $18.00 and a single bar is $9.99, and many people keep both.
What is Liquid Lion made from?
Liquid Lion is made from 100% organic plant oils in the castile style, with no synthetic detergents. The ingredients are GMO-free and gluten-free, which keeps the list short and easy to read. Iron Lion Soap has made plant-oil soap since 2008.
18 YEARS / EST. 2008 · Born on the mats
Plant-oil liquid soap, castile-style. Gentle for hands, body, and around the home.
Get Liquid Lion · $18.00
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