Our Process
It all starts in September, when the olives and berries on some of earth's older trees are finally ripe and ready for picking. Everyone in the small Turkish villages nearby come together to celebrate the bounty of their harvest.
After the olives and berries have been pressed, we take only the purest of the oils back to our shop. The women of our artisan collective mix the oils with just a bit of distilled water and some lye, stirring slowly and carefully with a watchful eye for four hours (like cooking, soap making requires a lot of patience!).
We add a touch of sea salt at the end and then use buckets to pour the soap into wooden molds.
Each bar is cut by hand using traditional tools -- knives attached to a long wood stick -- and then hand stamped and stacked in the traditional method. Depending on the season, it can take up to eight months for the soaps to dry.
Then we hand package them, one-by-one; each is a beautiful little gift from us to you.
Learn more about our soaps
It all starts in September, when the olives and berries on some of earth's older trees are finally ripe and ready for picking. Everyone in the small Turkish villages nearby come together to celebrate the bounty of their harvest.
After the olives and berries have been pressed, we take only the purest of the oils back to our shop. The women of our artisan collective mix the oils with just a bit of distilled water and some lye, stirring slowly and carefully with a watchful eye for four hours (like cooking, soap making requires a lot of patience!).
We add a touch of sea salt at the end and then use buckets to pour the soap into wooden molds.
Each bar is cut by hand using traditional tools -- knives attached to a long wood stick -- and then hand stamped and stacked in the traditional method. Depending on the season, it can take up to eight months for the soaps to dry.
Then we hand package them, one-by-one; each is a beautiful little gift from us to you.
Learn more about our soaps
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