Traditional Handmade Soap

Before soap became a commercially mass produced cake of synthetic foaming agents and grease stripper – traditional method handmade soap was both a science and an art - a true labour of love! Great care was taken to create the perfect blend of emollients, scent and gentle cleansing.
Traditional Handmade soap is created from scratch, unique houseblends of oils, butters, additives and herbs, calculated manually to create luxurious bars of soap. Soap is made from reacting an alkaline agent with various oils or butters. When they come into contact with each other, a reaction called saponification occurs – thus the oils and butters are no longer what they originally started off being, but have created an entirely new property – SOAP! Once the saponification takes places, the concoction starts to solidify. When it solidifies to just the right consistency, the soap is sliced into bars and put away to cure or age. Each batch of soap takes about 6 weeks from start to finish to make.
Traditional Handmade Soap are luxuriously different as they are typically not the homogenous formula with a different scent that commercially produced soap is at best. Rather, each batch is specifically created for a particular soapy indulgence. You may prefer a creamy soap bar, a milky soap bar, a super foaming soap bar, an astringent soap bar or if you have sensitive skin you may prefer just a plain soap bar that is pure soap without any fragrance.

Traditional handmade soap is a time honoured and skilled craft. The end product being a culmination of an intricate knowledge of what each ingredient contributes and react together to create a unique blend of soapy lavishness.