What are the Ingredients in your handcrafted soap?

At Earth Maiden, we choose each of our oils for the qualities they impart in the final soap product. We begin with a base of olive oil to condition the skin, palm and coconut oils contribute superb, fluffy lather, excellent cleaning qualities and make for a longer lasting bar in our South Carolina humidity. Palm oil is  a good alternative to animal tallow in our all vegetable soaps. We also add shea butter which is gentle and creamy for added moisture and nourishment, and castor bean oil, a humectant, which contributes to lather and skin conditioning. 

To this base, we often add other specialty oils, sweet almond, jojoba, apricot kernel, kukui nut, wheat germ oil or herb infused oils and butters such as mango or cocoa butter for their beneficial properties for the skin. Each oil or butter adds unique skin benefits. We are proud of our soaps and of our quality ingredients, so every soap label provides a complete listing of the ingredients. We want you to know exactly what you are putting on your skin.

Most all our scented soaps use pure essential oils. In certain instances, quality fragrance oils are used. This usually occurs when the natural essential oil is prohibitively expensive, would cause continued depletion of natural resources, in the case of sandalwood,  or the scent cannot be easily expressed from nature, such as cucumber. We use no preservatives, chemicals or synthetic colorants in our products. Most of our soaps contain certified organic ground oats, and/or natural plant materials to gently sooth and exfoliate .