"And my hands are much better after switching from pump soap to your bar soap for my frequent hand washing—no more dry knuckles!"

Mia Barnard from our Facebook page

Classic Soap

Old-Fashioned Lye Soap is great for bathing, shampooing, and washing clothes. Its only scent is the pure, clean soap smell, aka unscented. The age-old soap-making process we use creates a bar that is moisturizing, lathers well and is long-lasting. 

Our Plain Soap Base

We don't want to brag, but this is probably a finer soap than Grandma used to make. We start with fresh food-grade oils in our bars—olive oil, soy oil, and palm kernel oils. Lye is what converts the fats to soap, but not any of the caustic lye is left after saponification. In the process, glycerin is formed. Considered a humectant, glycerin draws moisture from the air to soften your skin.

Folk Claims About Lye Soap

• It's excellent for removing laundry stains.
• Wash right after exposure to remove poison ivy. 
• Put it under your bottom sheet at the bottom of your bed to alleviate leg cramps.
• It sucks the heat out of sunburn. 
• The lather relieves the itching of mosquito and chigger bites and also repels mosquitoes.
• Hang lye soap on trees to keep away insects that bore.
• A bar under the sink keeps ants away.
• A bit on a hook is good catfish bait.
• It keeps kids from swearing.

Contains

• saponified olive oil and/or rice bran oil, palm kernel oil and soy oil
• glycerin
• nothing else

Pioneers made their own lye, or potash, by pouring water through ashes. Photo taken at Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, Illinois.   

You may wish to explore:

• Fragrance-Free Soaps
• Old-Fashioned Soaps
• Smooth/Untextured Soaps