What makes our soap so special?

All our soaps are hand made from pure vegetable oils - Australian virgin olive, Certified Segregated Sustainable palm oil (see FAQs for information about this), coconut, macadamia, and castor oils. These ingredients produce firm, mild, creamy, moisturising soaps, with rich lather even in hard water. The different soaps are then crafted with essential oils, extra superfatting oils such as mango butter, herbs and cosmetic grade colours. 

As well as making good soap at a physical level, we aim to create soap that cleanses and nourishes the human spirit. We invoke divine blessings and beautiful qualities for every soap we make, adding crystal essences to prompt us about the blessings we seek. It is a very great honour to apply energetic blessings to a physical product which will be used in a very personal way. It is our way of helping the world become a better place.

We make large full blocks, half blocks (available in our Assortment and Large Soap Sampler), guest soaps, heart shaped small soaps and then various collections of soap in gift packs.  The weights do vary over time with the age of the soap, as they slowly lose some of their water content. 

What's the deal with Palm oil?

We tried very hard to ditch palm oil, being fully concerned about the situation with loss of habitat for orang utangs in SE Asia. However, palm oil is a really important ingredient for hardness and we found it impossible to replace all of it. Our solution was to reduce it as much as possible and source only Certified Sustainable Palm Oil which we pay quite a bit more for than regular palm oil.  Truly, half the goods in our supermarkets contain palm - handmade cold process soapmakers use an infintissimal amount compared to the big food and soap manufacturers such as Nestle and Lever & Kitchen. Several years ago we experimented (loyal customers may remember!) with a palm free Pearl Maxima. However we weren’t happy with the result and most people were reluctant to pay the extra cost. As much as we would love to see our whole soap range become palm free, we’re reluctant to make all the soaps this way for this reason.