About Us

About our Handcrafted Artisan Olive Oil-Based Soaps

  Our natural, handmade, handcrafted soaps are formulated to deliver the very best in skin care while using only safe, truly natural ingredients. We never use harmful synthetic chemicals, preservatives, artificial dyes, or synthetic fragrance oils. All of our soaps are made in small batches to ensure the quality of each batch. We hand-stir, hand-cut cut and hand wrap every bar. We even make our own wrapper. Every bar is given a long curing period so that when it reaches you, it is mild and ready to use..

    We hand-make many different varieties of soap. Every bar begins with carrier oils; we use a high percentage of cold-pressed organic extra virgin  Greek olive oil to which we add organic unrefined coconut oil. We also use sustainable palm oil and castor, avocado, Brazilian nut, almond, and hazelnut oils. Some of our essential oils include tea tree and copaiba oils for a rich, creamy lather that nourishes as it moisturizes and is great for skin care.

   Next, we add botanicals, butters, and cleansing earth clays for their exceptional skin care benefits. Finally, we scent our fragrant soaps with only pure essential oils extracted from plants  - fresh, clean scents, the way Mother Nature intended.

   We import oils from Italy, Greece, and Spain, clays and flowers from Morocco and France, essential oils and butters from Africa, France, Australia, and Egypt, and of course, the good old USA. All our honey and milk are local, straight from the farm.

  Our handmade soap is truly 100% natural from start to finish. You can feel the difference! Treat yourself to a bar and experience how good natural soap can be for your skin. Beautifully simple. 

A Century-Old Family of Natural Handcrafted Soap

  Santa Lucia was a farmer's daughter from Murari's Borba, born in Italy in 1904. She moved to Brazil in 1917 from her home in Tuscany, Italy, where she had to learn to make soap from scratch and essential oils from the plants out of necessity.

  After years of making soap for her 13 children, her family finally convinced her to open a small soap shop in São Paulo, Brazil, where she made soaps with her family for 25 years. Those soap recipes found their way to North Carolina last year when I went back to Brazil for Christmas and asked my grandmother for food recipes to bring back to NC. While looking through boxes of recipes, we came across all her old soap and essential oil recipes.