Why Essential Soap?
Because it smells wonderful... because it feels great on your skin... because it's handmade...because it's entirely natural... because it makes you happy...

What is Essential Soap?
Essential Soaps are hand-crafted, all-natural, 100% vegetable soaps (except for the animal products milk and honey) that are scented with pure essential oils. The use of essential oils, rather than synthetic fragrances, ensures not only that only natural ingredients touch your skin, but that you experience the aromatherapeutic benefits and skin benefits of these precious oils. All of the Essential Soaps are high in soothing olive oil (30%) and are enriched with nourishing shea nut butter (3%). Essential Soaps are hand-cut and hand-wrapped in Thai papers.

Natural v. synthetic
Natural soaps rely on ingredients found in nature for their skin care qualities. Natural soaps seek to enhance the skin's own remarkable capacity of protecting us and healing itself by providing nourishment, rather than using harsh synthetics. While synthetic soaps rely on factory-made materials to provide consistency, natural soaps often vary slightly from one batch to the next. This is to be expected, as the variation of the natural ingredients, temperature and other conditions can all subtly affect the final bar. Essential Soaps contain grapefruit seed extract as a natural preservative, but are best used within a year and stored away from heat.

About Essential Soap
Essential Soap is the creation of Becky Winkler, who makes each and every bar by hand in her home in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A long time artist, designer and generally crafty gal, Becky became interested in natural health and aromatherapy in her college years. Entirely self-taught, her interest lead to creating essential oil blends for herself, developing soap recipes for gifts and eventially the birth of Essential Soaps. Her mission in making Essential Soaps is to provide a moment of quiet luxury in people's daily lives, while sharing the benefits of aromatherapy and natural ingredients for health. Becky developed her recipes over several months until she was satisfied that the bar of soap she offers is not only incredibly good for your skin, but feels wonderful on the skin, has a pleasant, not perfume-y or overpowering aroma, provides a full lather and is hard enough so that it doesn't quickly melt away in the shower. If you are ever less than completely satisfied with our products, we will gladly issue you a refund. Please email sales(at)essential-soap.com [replace @ for (at)] or phone at 734-730-4221. Or write to 646 Dellwood Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103.

Fan Mail
To read testimonials from our customers, click here. To share your thoughts email sales(at)essential-soap.com [replace @ for (at)].

Take care of your Essential Soap
...and it will take care of you! We recommend these tips to ensure that your Essential Soap is at its highest quality for the longest time:
• Keep your Essential Soap in a soap dish that drains away from the direct flow of water and never sitting in water.
• Keep your Essential Soap away from heat and direct sunlight
• Essential Soap lathers best with a "shower scrubbie" or "bath pouf" which are available at the drug store or on this website. Click here.

For the very sensitive
Those with very sensitive skin or allergies may experience some irritation from the pure essential oils contained in Essential Soap. Some essential oils may pose more of a threat of irritation than others. Please see "Our Ingredients" for more on specific essential oils. Those with very sensitive skin may like to try the Milk & Honey Essential Soap, as it contains no essential oils or added fragrances. A word to the wise: a cat lives in the house where Essential Soaps are made and packaged.