We developed our recipes to create a superior soap that leaves your skin soothed, smoothed and refreshed. We start by cold blending olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, mineral water, heavy cream and sodium hydroxide to create the base for all of our recipes. For specialty soaps wine or goats milk is substituted for heavy cream.

Soapmaking Ingredients: The following soapmaking ingredients are used in some or all of our bars of handmade soap.

• Sweet Almond Oil
  Sweet Almond Oil is often used for superfatting soaps. It is a great moisturizer, makes a stable lather and helps condition the skin.
• Aloe Vera Liquid, Aloe Vera Gel
  Aloe vera is used in creams and lotions. It's a well known healing and soothing agent for damaged, dry skin. It is soothing and healing for burns, skin irritations, and raw open wounds.
• Apricot Kernel Oil
  Apricot kernel oil is often used in soap. It is a good moisturizer and helps condition the skin.
• Avocado Oil
  Avocado oil is a great moisturizer. Avocado oil contains vitamins A, D, and E, which makes it healing as well as moisturizing.
• Beeswax Beeswax has the sweet smell of honey. Beeswax makes a harder bar of soap and is also used in creams, lotions, lip balms and candle making. It contains a high percentage of unsaponifiables. At best, half of these substances participate in the normal soap making reaction
• Calendula Oil
  Has many therapeutic benefits and is known to successfully heal a variety of types of skin damage. (burns,wounds,dry skin)
• Canola Oil
  Canola oil is a good moisturizer.
• Castor Oil
  Castor oil attracts and holds moisture in the skin.
• Clay (Kaolin, Moroccan Red, French Green, Rose) Clay cleanses and tones, absorbs dirt, oil, toxins from the skin while increasing lather and lending natural color to soaps.
• Cocoa Butter
  Cocoa butter is used to make soaps harder. When used in soap as a superfatting oil it acts to lay down a protective layer which holds the moisture to the skin, so it is an excellent skin softener. It has a natural chocolate scent but it is also available in unscented versions.
• Coconut Oil
  Coconut oil makes soaps lather beautifully. It will make a very hard, white bar of soap with abundant lather. It even lathers in very hard water or even sea water). Coconut oil is a saturated fat.
• Cottonseed Oil
  Cottonseed oil produces thick and lasting lather, in addition to having emollient properties.
• Emu Oil
  Emu Oil is reported to help heal skin tissues and help draw other ingredients (like mint) down into your skin so they are more effective.
• Essential Oils
  Essential oils are fragrant natural botanical extracts that possess many healing properties on both the physical and emotional levels. These are also used in aromatherapy.
• Evening Primrose Oil
  Evening primrose oil is absorbed quickly into skin and provides essential fatty acids that are reported to help inhibit bacterial growth and encourage antibodies so the skin is better able to defend against infection or inflammation. It is not recommended as an additive in soaps made for oily complexions.
• Fragrance Oil
  Synthetically made oils used to fragrance some soaps.
• Goat’s Milk
  Goat’s milk, when added to soap creates a very silky and soft bar. It has been recognized as a natural emollient for centuries. Goat’s milk contains important vitamins such as A, B6, B12, and E. It has wonderful soothing and moisturizing properties.
• Grapeseed Oil
  Grapeseed oil is a lightweight oil that absorbs into the skin quickly without leaving a heavy greasy feeling.
• Hazelnut Oil
  Hazelnut is an excellent moisturizer for soaps. It is low in saturated fatty acids, so use other more saturated fats to lessen your trace time and yield a harder bar.
• Hempseed Oil
  Hempseed oil is not as stable as some other oils and can spoil quickly. It creates a silky bar of soap even if it is only used to superfat your batch.
• Herbal Teas
  Herbal teas (such as green tea) are a wonderful addition to soap. They can be calming, soothing, and generally create the perfect bathing experience.
• Honey - (not an oil but can be used as an additive)
  Honey is also a humectant, so it helps retain moisture on the skin in much the same way as glycerin.
• Jojoba
  Jojoba helps to promote a stable lather and is good at conditioning skin. Because of its expense, it's usually used to superfat soap batches or in shampoo bars. It is an excellent emollient for skin conditions like psoriasis, because it has a chemical composition very close to the skin's own sebum. It is suitable for all skin types, beneficial for spotty and acne conditions, and good for sensitive and oily skin. It also helps to unclog the pores and remove any embedded grime, restores and conditions hair.
• Kukui Nut Oil
  The kukui nut is native to Hawaii and is high in linoleic acid. It is quickly absorbed into the skin. Excellent for skin conditioning after sun exposure, as well as for acne, eczema, and psoriasis. It offers just the right amount of lubrication without leaving a greasy feeling.
• Macadamia Oil
  Macadamia is a luxurious and slightly expensive oil. It has a long shelf life so it can be purchased in quantity for a good price. It is a wonderful addition to any soap. It is easily absorbed into the skin and acts as an emollient protecting skin cells from deterioration and thus leading to better condition for your skin.
• Mango Butter
  Mango butter is extracted from the mango fruit. It is yellowish oil and has almost no scent. It is a great moisturizer.
• Monoi Oil, also known as Monoi de Tahiti
  Monoi oil is expensive but luxurious product made from coconut oil. It oil has wonderful moisturizing properties and is great for your skin.
• Neem Oil
  Extracted from the bark of the Neem Tree. This oil has the ability to treat a variety of skin disorders such as dandruff.
• Oats
  Oats work as a gentle exfoliant and cleanser. These are soothing, moisturizing, softening, and calming.
• Olive Oil
  Olive oil is excellent as a base oil in soaps, either in whole (Castile soap) or in part Olive Oil prevents the loss of your skin's natural moisture, softens skin and attracts external moisture to your skin. It helps keeps your skin soft, supple and younger looking.
• Palm Oil, also known as Vegetable Tallow
  Palm oil makes a hard bar that cleans well and is also mild. Palm oil is universal and used in many expensive luxury soaps.
• Palm Kernel Oil
  Like Palm Oil, Palm Kernel oil makes a soap that is very hard and lathers well. It has most of the same qualities as palm oil.
• Peanut Oil
  Peanut oil contributes long-lasting lather to a soap. Peanut oil is similar to olive and castor oils and has a good amount of vitamin E.
• Pumice
  Pumice is a very light colored, frothy volcanic rock. It is formed from lava that is ejected and shot through the air during a volcanic eruption. Pumice is ground up and used in soap as an exfoliant.
• Rice Bran Oil
  Provides some sun protection and is softening and moisturizing. This oil is good for mature, delicate skin. As it is high in fatty acids and is rich in vitamin E complex is is great for dry, flaky skin.
• Rolled Oats
  These work as a natural and very gentle exfoliant.
• Safflower Oil
  Safflower oil is an unsaturated oil and should be used in combination with palm, coconut, or a similar oil. It is valuable for its moisturizing properties.
• Sea Salt
  Contain elements and minerals found naturally in the human body, which are essential to good health. Soothes and softens skin and can relieve muscle tension. These can be used as a treatment for psoriasis, eczema, acne, to remove muscle tension.
• Sesame Seed Oil
  Sesame oil is said to be good for Psoriasis, Eczema, Rheumatism, and Arthritis. It has a strong nutty scent.
• Shea Butter
  Shea butter is a wonderful moisturizing agent and contains a large percentage of ingredients that do not react with the lye thus remaining in the soap to nourish your skin.
• Vegetable Shortening or Soybean Oil
  Vegetable shortening is normally made out of soybean oil. It produces a mild and stable lather in soap.
• Sodium Hydroxide
  Sodium Hydroxide (commonly known as lye) creates the chemical reaction to merge all of our wonderful oils into a natural bar of soap. There is no active lye left in the soap once the product is complete.
• Sunflower Oil
  Sunflower oil is a less expensive alternative to olive oil.
• Vintage Dated Wine
  Wine acts as an astringent when added to handmade soap.
• Vitamin E
  A natural anti-oxidant that helps slow the aging process. Heals, moisturizes, protects skin. Prevents scarring and gives UV protection.
• Wheat Germ Oil
  This oil is thick, sticky and antioxidant. It's also very rich in vitamin E. Can be used to nourish dry or cracked skin and soothes skin problems such as eczema and psoriasis. Helps to prevent and reduce scarring and may prevent stretch marks. Mature skin, in particular, will benefit from wheat germ oil. Some people use it as a preservative in vegetable oils, soaps and toiletries, and others totally disagree as to its preservative powers. On its own, wheat germ oil oxidizes rapidly.
• Whipping Cream
  A wonderful addition to soap as it is heavily fatted making it perfect for moisturizing the skin. It also creates an extremely creamy bar of soap with a luscious lather.