About Our Soap

Our ingredients

Our soap recipes use quality ingredients, and we try to use locally sourced ingredients whenever we can.

We grow our own loofah and other herbs. Our goat milk comes from a local farm here in Davidson County NC that raises and cares for beautiful Nubian goats.

We use lard as the "hard" oil in our soaps. Lard has a lot of pros when it comes to soap making. Lard produces a very creamy textured soap, it's very moisturizing and the final product is a harder, more firm bar of soap.

Hog production is the second largest commodity produced in the North Carolina agricultural economy. North Carolina is the second largest hog producer in the U.S.

We use locally sourced lard and feel that using that is more responsible then using palm oils. We love palm oils but feel that a lot of what is available is not sustainably harvested and contributes to deforestation in our Earth's rain forests.

Our coconut and olive oils come from sustainably sourced companies.

Our process

We make our soap using the cold process technique and let it cure for 3 months before selling it.

We superfat all of our soaps, that is we include a little extra oil in the recipes. Soap making starts as a science and turns into art. Every oil has its own saponification value, or the amount of lye it takes to turn 1 oz of oil into 1 oz of soap.

When we make cold process soap, we use a formula like this: (oil amount) x (SAP value) = lye amount needed. 

If you use the exact amount of lye you need to make the exact amount of soap with nothing leftover it would be a 0% superfat. We want leftover oils in the recipe that aren’t bound to lye, this helps to be sure we use all the lye and also leaves a little oil leftover in the soap to better moisturize the skin!

You will see imperfect edges and corners on our bar soaps, we do not trim our soap. We want to give the customer as much of the product as possible. 

You will also see a white powder on our soaps. This is called soda ash and is a naturally occurring by-product from the saponification process.

Soda ash is the 10th most consumed inorganic compound in the world, which has been used for over 5,000 years. It is a safe, simple compound. It will come off the first time you use the soap. Many soap makers go to great lengths to remove the soda ash from their soap, we feel though that this gives our customers a guarantee that this is real soap!