What is Artisan Soap

How to use handmade soap

• Lather: Wet your skin, then rub the soap between your hands or on a loofah or washcloth to create a lather.
• Massage: Gently massage the soap into your skin.
• Rinse: Rinse off the soap to wash away dirt and bacteria.

Tips for caring for your handmade soap:

• Store properly: Keep your soap on a well-drained soap dish in a linen closet.
• Let it dry: Let your soap dry between uses so it lasts longer.
• Use within a year: While handmade soap can last for years, it's best to use it within a year of opening to enjoy its freshest scent and aroma.

Our soap making process?

We offer rustic, handmade soap crafted using traditional knowledge, high-quality ingredients, and modern techniques.

For all our soap, we use a combination of the highest quality oils and butters* along with distilled water and sodium hydroxide (lye**) – you can’t have soap without lye, that is what turns the oils and butter into soap. Through proper hot and cold process soap making, the lye and oils/butters are transformed and become soap, leaving NO lye in the finished product.

We then add different combinations of oils, botanicals and other natural ingredients. We prefer to use high quality mica as our main colorant as mica can be sustainably mined and be ethically created to be made to be “nature-identical” – identical and indistinguishable from mined mica.

All of our soaps created using the cold process method are cured for a minimum of 6 weeks. Our hot process created soaps are cured for a minimum of 4 weeks. Keep this in mind if requesting a custom batch.

*Vinnie’s favorite oils and butter to use in soap making are olive oil, coconut oil, sustainable palm oil, castor oil, sweet almond oil, cocoa butter, coffee butter, and shea butter. Our palm oil is specifically sourced from the RSPO (Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil whose goal is to transform the palm oil industry to make it sustainable.

**Some useful information on lye:

• Lye is a natural, strong alkaline compound that reacts with fats and oils to create soap. This chemical reaction is called saponification.
• Lye is an essential ingredient in soap, and it's been used for thousands of years to make many products.
• Lye can be made from a variety of materials, including wood ashes, salt, clay, and limestone.
• You can’t have soap without lye.
• A “commercial soap” without lye is not soap, it is a Syndet bar. Syndant bars are made from synthetic detergents and create lather, but they don't contain a base or saponified fats.