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Grandma's Natural Handcrafted Soap Company


Fresh, Natural, Healthy

What do you get when you combine a chef and a naturalist? No, it's not a trick question. The result is beautifully handcrafted soap from Natural Handcrafted Soap, a Raleigh, N.C.-based company. "Making soap is a lot like cooking," Nick, co-owner of Natural Handcrafted Soap, explains. "It requires blending ingredients and getting just the right balance."
Grandma's Handmade Soap - Lye Soap

Nick's partner, who hails from Brazil, was handed down recipes from her grandmother that included natural ingredients from the rain forest for soaps that really make a difference on one's skin.
Our 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 and hand wrap every bar. We even make our own wrapper. Every bar is given a long cure period so that when it reaches you it is mild and ready to use..
Our soap is scented naturally with only luxurious essential oils or absolutes extracted from natural plant sources for skin healing benefits; we also add herbs, butters, spices and natural botanical s for exfoliating texture and natural coloring. Each bar of natural soap is hand-cut and hand packed.

Our handcrafted soap is made in small batches using a cold process.. We select the highest quality pure oils from around the world, such as olive oil ,coconut oil , avocado oil , sweet almond oil, hemp oil, palm kernel oil, jojoba oil, and soy oil. We also use rich butters and other rich oils to enhance the moisturizing capabilities of the soap, butters and oils like cocoa butter, shea butter, mango butter, honey, aloe vera, castor oil, lanolin oil, essential oils, natural herbs, safe fragrance oils add to the soap's scent. Natural herb powders, herbs and clays add color to our soap; and botanical s, and other natural ingredients add texture and exfoliates.

Glycerin is naturally produced during the soap making process. In fact, pound for pound, glycerin costs more than soap, which is why most soap companies remove the glycerin from the soap and sell it to manufacturers of lotion. We do not remove the glycerin from our handcrafted soap, so when you purchase soap made by us, it contains all of the naturally occurring glycerin. With our handcrafted soap you get a fabulous cleanser and a moisturizer all in one, which was created for top moisturizing ability.


Using commercial soaps over time leave your skin dried out, or way to oily ,and feeling like its never clean. Natural handmade soap, that only uses natural ingredients, can restore the moisture to your skin, while still getting you clean. You will be amazed at the difference!


Handmade Soap is soap in its true, pure form. It gently cleanses away excess oils and bacteria, but doesn't strip your skin of its natural oils.

Why you may ask, should I buy handmade soap when I can get more soap for less money at the grocery store?
Generally, the commercial soaps carried at most chain stores, etc. are full of chemical additives, additives that not only dry out your skin but can lead to rashes and other irritations. This is not only because of the synthetic additives in the soap but also because most soap companies take the glycerin out of their soap. The commercial soap bars that line most grocery stores’ shelves are actually synthetic detergents. While that's great for your dishes, it's not very good for your skin.

Century Old Family of Natural Handcrafted Soap

Santa Lucia Murari Borba was a farmer's daughter from Murari's Borba, born in Italy 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 Sao Paulo - Brazil where she made soaps with her family for 25 years,
those soap recipes found there way to North Carolina last year when I went back to Brazil for Christmas and asked 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.


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Volcanic Ash Clay Soap Good for Acne  restore your complexion to its natural beauty!

Artisan Handmade Soap Aged Volcanic Ash - Patchouli 12 Oz Bar .


Large Limited Edition Volcanic Ash Soap , This is a wonderful aged soap that can be used not only in the shower or bath, But makes a wonderful decorative soap, custom hand stamped.

-Cleopatra made Volcanic Ash Clay a part of her daily beauty regimen. Today, Volcanic Ash Clay is the best kept secret .

Long ago, the earth bore one of its most precious gifts to mankind. Erupting volcanoes sent showers of powdery ash into the sky, which drifted throughout the world, settled to the ground and became drenched with the falling rain. The fusion of volcanic ash and water created a mineral-rich substance that remained there for an untold number of years & until man discovered that this substance, Volcanic Ash Clay, held the key to cleansing, beautifying, and purifying the human body.

Volcanic Ash Clay has been embraced throughout history for its extraordinary health and cosmetic benefits. The ancient tribes of central Africa, North American Indians, and the spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi all praised clay for a multitude of uses. Even Cleopatra made Volcanic Ash Clay a part of her daily beauty regimen.

Today, Volcanic Ash Clay is the best kept secret of the most elite health and beauty spas in the world. When applied to the skin's surface, this soothing clay lifts, firms and exfoliates, resulting in a revitalized and more youthful-looking complexion. It also has the unique ability to draw out toxins and impurities that are embedded deep within the skin's pores.

The powerful cleansing and absorptive properties of Volcanic Ash Clay make it a highly sought-after solution for blemishes, cellulite, sun damage, stretch marks, wrinkles and more. Unfortunately, costly clay treatments have been available only to the privileged few who could afford them ... that is, until now. Men love it, too, makes a great shaving soap.

A deep cleansing scrub made with rare earth elements, softens and detoxifies the skin. Eliminates stubborn acne, restore your complexion to its natural beauty!

Copaiba is the secret of Brazilians for beautiful young and healthy Copaiba is an all-natural, gentle ingredient, it should be suitable for all skin types.

Patchouli is also recognized for treating inflammatory skin conditions like eczema and psoriasis, and is also said to effectively treat dandruff, acne, vanish scares

AGED Soaps - There are so many personal hygiene products to choose from, we tend to forget the natural alternatives that humanity has relied on for hundreds and even thousands of years. While your regular shower gel or soap may have an amazing fragrance, an irresistible creamy consistency and produce lots of foam, it’s also full of chemicals and usually made with cheap oils that provide little or no benefits to your skin. Our soap is a natural hard soap made using an old traditional method and obviously no colorants, preservatives or cheap fillers. During the aging process, any alkaline content that didn’t react during saponification slowly breaks down in contact with air and water content gradually decreases, making the soap bars harder, less scent and much healthier for the skin as all the oils concentrate, it transforms into a wonderful healthy face and body soap. All our soap bars can be used by anyone looking for a natural, chemical-free soap, but it can also help in a variety of skin problems. The olive oil used to make this soap gives it a creamy consistency and makes it especially gentle and moisturizing. Virgin olive oil contains valuable antioxidants, helps restore your skin’s natural balance, it has a mild anti-inflammatory effect reducing redness and irritation and it is usually well tolerated even by the most sensitive skin types. Our aged soaps over time will lose most of their scent, BUT the benefits of a aged soap are much greater than a scent. Over time all the water evaporates and the essential oils along with the carrier oils all concentrate. Much more CREAM lather not foam
Ingredients: Organic Unfiltered Extra Virgin Greek Olive Oil Organic Unrefined Coconut Oil ,Sustainable Organic Unrefined Palm Oil , Organic Unrefined Cocoa Butter , Organic Volcanic Ash , Patchouli Essential Oil , Brazilian Organic Copaiba Oil...

   
 
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