Handmade Soaps

We make all of our soaps ourselves, here in the picturesque Wensleydale village of West Tanfield, because we want to know exactly what goes into our products.

Beginning with high-quality olive oil, coconut and palm oil - we are in the process of switching all our recipes over to cocoa butter, but are still using up stocks made with palm oil - we use traditional techniques (well, okay, we cheat a little and use an electric stick blender to speed things up) to convert these oils into a lovely and mild, skin-softening soap with rich, creamy lather that contains all the natural glycerin that's so good for your skin and yet is usually lost in most commercially-made soaps. We then add pure essential oils for a rich and luxurious scent and sometimes ground coffee or spices, such as paprika or cinnamon, to add colour or act as a gentle exfoliant. We never use any artificial scents or colours.

Our soaps are then left to air-cure for at least 4 weeks, ensuring that each one is mild and gentle, before being hand cut, wrapped, labelled and sold.

Cinnamon Swirl : spicy and warming
	Cinnamon Swirl (the soap formerly known as Brass Monkey) is a masculine, winter warmer scent. Spicy and woody, with sweet orange and sandalwood oils, it will help to settle you for winter evenings. Ground cinnamon marbled through the bar adds colour and texture to this mulled-wine of a soap.
Weight: 85g (each bar is hand cut, so some might be heavier) Price: £3.00

Healing Hippy : great for dry skin
	Healing Hippy is scented with relaxing clary sage for feelings of well-being, tea tree for healing and patchouli, which is what you get when you hug a hippy really hard. This soap is good for dry, itchy and mature skin or just to pick you up when things are getting "really heavy, man" and you want to stick a peace sign up to the world.
Weight: 85g (each bar is hand cut, so some will be heavier) Price: £3.00

Limander : wakes you up in the morning!
	Limander is scented with zingy lime oil to refresh and revive you and lavender oil to calm you. We also use spicy ground paprika in the recipe which gives it a lovely subtle salmon colour. This is one of our best-selling soaps and is a perfect tonic for those mornings when you can’t quite wake up.
Weight: 85g (each bar is hand cut, so some will be heavier) Price: £3.00

Oomilegs : for your aching muscles
	Oomilegs has been specially blended to help unwind and loosen you up when you've been pushing yourself hard. Whether you've been hill walking, gardening or salsa dancing, the essential oils of eucalyptus, lemongrass, lime & black pepper combine to ease your aching muscles and leave you ready for an evening's funning.
Weight: 85g (each bar is hand cut, so some will be heavier) Price: £3.00

Oooaaah : summery and flowery
	Oooaaah is one for the outdoors type, the soap is scented with lemongrass, lavender and palmarosa to not only keep you smelling gorgeous, but also do just a little bit to help keep those pesky bugs at bay. It's named after what we say when we get in a lovely hot bath after a hard day in the garden.
Weight: 85g (each bar is hand cut, so some will be heavier) Price: £3.00

Purrrre : unscented and uncoloured
	For a long time we'd been asked for an unscented soap, but we didn't want to just leave out the essential oils. So instead we've made Purrre our luxury bar. All of our soaps are lovely and mild and leave your skin feeling soft and silky, but for Purrre, we've added avocado oil, jojoba oil, shea nut butter and sweet almond oil. It's perfect for very sensitive skin or if you want a soap that won't affect the scent of your perfume.
Weight: 85g (each bar is hand cut, so some will be heavier) Price: £3.00

Scrubadub : a hardworking kitchen soap
	Scrubadub has been blended as a gardener's or cook's soap. We've added ground coffee to the recipe to act as a gentle but effective exfoliant and scrub (great for sloughing off those dull dead skin cells on shoulders and thighs). We also use the essential oils of coriander seed and lemon, which together act as excellent deodorisers. So whether you've been chopping garlic or planting garlic, this soap will get you clean and leave your hands soft.
Weight: 85g (each bar is hand cut, so some will be heavier) Price: £3.00