How we make our soap

How we make our soap

We make soap the slow way — hot process, by hand, in small batches at our farm in the Usk Valley.

Hot process soap is cooked rather than poured. It takes longer and requires more attention, but it means the soap is fully saponified before it leaves the pot — what goes in is what ends up on your skin, nothing hidden in the cure.

We use plant oils chosen for what they actually do: olive oil for a gentle, conditioning lather; coconut oil for cleansing strength; shea and kokum butter for hardness and skin feel. No palm oil. No synthetic fragrance. No fillers.

The botanicals

Some of our bars include dried botanicals — nettle powder, chamomile, marshmallow root — ground from whole dried plants and worked into the soap at the right moment in the process. They're there because they do something, not for decoration.

The nettle in our Original Herb Soap, for example, starts as whole dried leaves ground into a fine green powder. It gives the bar its colour and contributes to the earthy, herbal character of the scent. You can see exactly where it comes from.

What you won't find

No palm oil. No synthetic colours or fragrances. No fillers, no ingredients we can't account for.

Looking after your soap

A draining soap dish will make it last twice as long. Soap that sits in water disappears fast — keep it dry between uses and it'll look after you for longer.