Handmade Old Fashioned Bar Soap

Description

All of our bar soaps are handmade in small batches in our kitchen near Houston, Texas. They are still made by our founder, Dorothy. Our absolute favorite soaps are created from historical recipes, family recipes passed to us through our research, and those created in her “what if” moments in the soap room. Pioneer, rancher, farmer, and Victorian era recipes are always fun for her to work with and have been our core products since the beginning. We do adjust recipes as needed to meet current legal requirements or avoid ingredients now known to be harmful in our products.

We use food grade fats, oils, or butters in all our old-fashioned soaps because we believe you shouldn’t rub it on your body if you wouldn’t put it inside you! Most of our soaps come scented or colored to keep it interesting. When we add a scent, we use with either essential oils or nature identical fragrances that are free from parabens, phthalates, or formaldehydes. Our colorants usually come from herbs, spices, flowers, fruits, vegetables, or nature identical colorants. We avoid FD&C dyes, preservatives, vitamin E, and palm oil whenever possible. The unscented variations of these have colors based on the oils used, ranging from bright white to greenish or tans and browns. Your product label states the ingredients used in each batch for your reference and you are welcome to reach out to us with questions anytime.

-Traditional soaps listed here can include ingredients such as beeswax, honey, lard, tallow, goat milk, coconut milk, sea salts, avocado, coconut, lavender, calendula, hemp oil, cow milk, poppy seeds and much more. Want to learn more about the specific ingredients we use in our products? We are building a more comprehensive list here of all the ingredients we use in our company.

-Want a vegetarian friendly soap? We are adding tags to those products here on the page so it will be easier to find! Look for those marked as olive oil or castile in the lists. These are the blue labeled soaps in our booth and pictures (as of Fall 2018.) The soaps in this section are usually vegetarian friendly and we can make a vegan option at your request, if it’s not already listed. These soaps can sometimes take longer for us to restock due to their longer curing time. Castile soaps tend to be straight olive oil; we sometimes add oils or butters to either the olive or coconut oil soaps to play with the chemistry a bit. When we do, they tend to be any of the following: Avocado, Castor, Hemp, Cocoa Butter, Shea Butter, Mango Butter, and/or Beeswax. Current soaps in stock have ingredient variation listed below. Olive oil soaps have been traditional for many families for generations. Their lather is typically described as smooth, creamy, or thick in texture.

-Coconut oil soaps are now only done by custom order. Simply add it to your shopping cart and let us know what scent or blend you’d like yours made in.

Looking for our alcohol based soaps? They have their own page right here with information about what varieties are currently in stock, which alcohols we’re using right now, and how to have us work with you to make your own custom alcohol soap. We happily work with breweries, wineries, mead makers, home brewers, and distillers to make those incredible soaps.