Summer House Natural Soaps is a family business rooted in a 200-year-old house and barn in Barnstable on beautiful Cape Cod, Massachusetts. It's a great place to raise flowers, herbs, chickens, children, and of course, to make soap. Inspiration and some of the fresh ingredients are drawn from gardens, the surrounding pine forests and cranberry bogs, and the sea coast just a few steps away.
All Summer House Soap is carefully made in small batches using the cold-process method which best preserves the beneficial qualities of the ingredients: food-grade olive oil for moisturizing, coconut oil for rich lather, palm oil for long-lasting hardness, and other oils and butters chosen for their skin-conditioning properties. As a byproduct of the soapmaking process, the finished bar also contains 25% glycerine, giving your skin that satiny feeling after you bathe. A whole range of additions are mixed with the base batter: oatmeal, honey, buttermilk, cocoabutter, healing herbs and botanical oils, exfoliants, mineral colors and more. Batters are mixed by hand and poured into wooden molds which are wrapped in blankets for three days while the alchemy of saponification unfolds. After the soap sets, the bars are cut, cured for three weeks to further develop mildness, and beautifully wrapped in handmade papers. Once you experience the sensation of hand made soap, you might never go back to commerical soap!
Beach Rose: This pale pink bar enhanced with skin-softening rose hip oil and cocoa butter is scented with a lovely blend of rose fragrance and rosewood essential oil. (5 oz.)
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