Santa Lucia was a farmer’s daughter from Murari’s Borba, born in Italy in 1904, who pioneered the natural handcrafted soap industry with essential oils in Brazil.
Nick’s partner Elis, who hails from Brazil, was handed down recipes from her grandmother Santa Lucia that included natural ingredients from the rainforest for soaps that really make a difference on one’s skin.
What Is Natural Soap?
Natural soap is made using ingredients from nature—without synthetic chemicals, artificial fragrances, or harsh preservatives. Unlike mass-produced commercial soaps, which often contain detergents and fillers, natural soap is crafted from plant oils, clays, botanicals, and essential oils. These nourishing ingredients care for your skin rather than stripping away its natural oils.
At Grandma’s Natural Handcrafted Soap, we make our handmade natural soap with a commitment to purity, simplicity, and sustainability.
How Is Natural Handcrafted Soap Made? Cold Process Explained
We use the traditional cold process method to create our natural soaps. This time-honoured technique involves mixing plant-based oils and butters with a lye solution (sodium hydroxide). This triggers a natural chemical reaction known as saponification. During this process, the lye is consumed, transforming into soap and glycerin, leaving no residual lye in the final product.
Unlike factory-made bars, our cold-process natural soap retains glycerin—an exceptional natural moisturizer. This ingredient helps keep skin soft and hydrated by drawing in and retaining moisture. Each soap bar is poured, cut, and cured by hand, a process that spans at least 6 weeks. The result is long-lasting, skin-loving soap.
What’s in Our 100% Natural Soap Bar?
We take pride in using only 100% natural ingredients in our soap formulations. Here’s what you’ll typically find in our bars:
Plant-Based Oils and Butters
Every natural soap bar starts with skin-nourishing oils. Some of our key ingredients include:
- Shea Butter: Deeply moisturising and packed with vitamins.
- Coconut Oil: Cleansing, antibacterial, and creates a rich lather.
- Brazilian Oils: Adds silky softness and creaminess to the soap.
Organic Natural Clays
This ingredient draws out impurities from the skin and helps control acne. It’s a key feature in our best-selling Dead Sea Mud Soap, which is popular among those with oily or problem-prone skin.
Botanical Ingredients
Nature provides countless ingredients that love your skin. Here are a few favorites:
- Spirulina: Brightens and evens skin tone.
- Oatmeal: Calms sensitive or itchy skin.
- Coffee Grinds: Gently exfoliates for smoother skin.
- Citrus Fruits: Promotes collagen production.
- Acai Berry: Loaded with antioxidants.
- Coconut Milk: Softens and hydrates.
- Chamomile: Soothes irritation and redness.
Naturally Scented Natural Soap Bars with Essential Oils
We never use artificial fragrance oils in our soaps. Instead, each bar is delicately scented with pure essential oils for a soothing, therapeutic experience:
French Provence Lavender Natural Soap
Relaxing and anti-inflammatory—perfect for evening routines.
Volcanic Ash and Patchouli
Deep and earthy, this scent is especially beneficial for dry skin and grounding energy.
Australian Tea Tree Natural Soap
Antimicrobial, great for any time of the day.
Tangerine Lemon Lime Natural Soap
Uplifting citrus fragrance that’s gentle on sensitive skin.
Grapefruit Natural Soap
Fresh and energising—ideal for those morning showers.
Lemongrass with Lemon Natural Soap
Naturally antiseptic, it is favored for its benefits for oily skin types. Floral Jasmine Lilac Natural Soap
This floral, sweet scent is excellent for balancing combination skin. Fragrance-Free Natural Soap for Sensitive Skin
If you have eczema, psoriasis, or experience dry, irritated skin, our fragrance-free natural soap is the perfect option. These bars are made with no essential oils—just our pure base of plant oils and gentle clays. They cleanse without causing flare-ups and are also suitable for:
- Babies and young children.
- Sensitive facial skin.
- Allergy-prone individual Benefits of Using Natural Soap
Naturally Moisturising
Thanks to the glycerine naturally produced in the cold process, our natural soap helps keep your skin soft, supple, and moisturised—often requiring no lotion afterward.
No Harsh Chemicals
Our soaps are free from SLS, SLES, parabens, alcohol, synthetic colourants, and preservatives. You can trust, pure natural soap for your skin.
No Synthetic Fragrance Oils
Using only pure, premium essential oils allows our natural soaps to soothe both your skin and mind without synthetic additives.
Scented to match Natural handcrafted Soap beloved Spring Flower fragrance for women, this generously sized 6 ounce bar of Provence Lavender / Jasmine soap lathers gloriously and rinses easily away, leaving skin clean and fresh, ready for next steps in your Natural regimen.
Sea Moss with Sea Kelp tropic-fresh Virgin Island that won four of five stars from the Virgin Island Magazine, this big sized bar of hand crafted soap lathers richly and rinses easily away, leaving skin clean and lightly fragrant before work, at the gym, on the road or evening out.
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