Salt and Soleseife Bars

A homemade salt bar is a bar of soap made using the cold process method, where a certain amount of finely ground salt (like sea salt or Himalayan pink salt) is added to the soap batter, creating a bar with gentle exfoliating properties and potentially added skin benefits from the minerals in the salt.

Essentially, it's a handmade soap that incorporates salt for added texture and potential skin benefits. 

Key points about soap salt bars:

  • Exfoliation: The salt crystals gently scrub the skin while you lather, providing a mild exfoliation. 
  • Hardening effect: Adding salt can also make the soap bar harder and longer lasting. 
  • Types of salt: Most commonly, sea salt or Himalayan pink salt are used due to their fine texture. 
  • Making process: The salt is typically mixed into the soap batter during the cold process soap making method.

- - - 

We will also be offering special Soleseife Bars in the new year.

Brine soap is also known as soleseife, a German word that means "brine soap". The word is pronounced "zo-luh-zighfuh". 

Soleseife is made by dissolving salt into water before mixing it into the lye-water solution used to make soap. This process results in a smooth and creamy soap bar, as opposed to the coarse texture of salt bars, which are made by adding salt to the soap batter near the end of the process. 

Brine can be made using up to 25% salt, but some use seawater with a lower salinity to avoid making the soap too drying or decreasing lather