Natural Soap: Cottage Garden

Handcrafted cold processed soap with shea butter. Naturally coloured with French pink clay. Fragrant rose geranium and relaxing lavender for a heady summer scent.

Like all our soaps, Cottage Garden is a ‘cold process’ soap, made with a technique steeped in history and tradition.  People have been making cold process soap for thousands of years.

Our Cottage Garden soap contains nourishing Extra Virgin Olive Oil, rich Cocoa butter and luxurious Shea butter which we combine with cleansing Coconut oil and protective Beeswax to create a fluffy soft lather which cleans your skin without stripping it of its natural oils.

We have carefully selected essential oils to blend our unique Cottage Garden scent which we combine in-house, using essential oils of rose geranium, lavender, lemongrass and clary sage to give you a scent reminiscent of a summer evening in an English cottage garden.

Once the soap has cured for a minimum of six weeks, we crown every bar of Cottage Garden soap with sweet little pink rose buds, to add additional fragrance and decoration. We hope it brings a smile to your face when you unwrap your bar.

Cottage Garden soap is VEGETARIAN friendly.

Minimum weight 100g bar, packaged in recyclable and compostable greaseproof paper and recycled card. 

Why we have chosen some of our ingredients:

Shea Butter is rich in vitamins, plant sterols, minerals and other nourishing compounds for the skin.  The butter softens, protects against drying, and nourishes.  High in vitamins E and A, shea butter locks in moisture, increases elasticity and evens out skin tone.

French Pink Clay contains a high number of useful minerals and ions including illite, montmorillionite and iron. Illite is useful as a natural cleanser, drawing dirt and other toxins out of the skin, helping to decongest pores and increase circulation to promote cell repair. French Pink Clay also gives our Cottage Garden soap a lovely salmon pink colour.

Lavender Essential Oil has been used for hundreds of years as it has a multitude of benefits.  It is antibacterial, can help calm stress and anxiety and of course aids sleep.

Rose Geranium Essential Oil has a longstanding reputation as an essential oil particularly suited to women.  It is supportive of the reproductive system and is also astringent, balancing the skin's production of sebum. Emotionally the oil is uplifting, as it can help with anxiety and depression.

Full Ingredients:

Sodium olivate (Olive oil), Sodium ricebranate (Rice bran oil), Sodium cocoate (Coconut oil), Glycerine, Aqua, Sodium cocoabutterate (Cocoa butter), Sodium castorate (Castor oil), Cera alba (Beeswax), Sodium sheabutterate (Shea butter), Kaolin illite (French pink clay), Lavandula Angustifolia (Lavender) Oil, Pelargonium Roseum (Geranium) Oil, Cymbopogon Flexuosus (Lemongrass) Oil, Salvia Sclarea (Clary Sage) Oil, Linalool*, Citronellol*, Geraniol*, Limonene*, Citral* and Eugenol*

*Naturally occuring in our Cottage Garden essential oil blend.

  To make sure your soap lasts as long as possible, please allow it to dry between uses by using one of our freely draining wooden soap dishes.