Hand crafted tallow and lard Soaps
For so many years our family has had very dry skin all year round. We tried every lotion finding that some worked for the short term but many did nothing to improve our skin. We tried changing soaps and found that the so called vegetarian, goats milk and pure glycerin ones that touted to cure dry skin, well they didn't and then acne would often occur. We found that soaps made with coconut and palm oil caused us to break out and dried our skin.
Soaps are made with the simplest of ingredients. Tallow, Lard, water and sodium hydroxide. Some other ingredients that I add in to some soaps: Organic Local Oatmeal, all natural colored clays, flowers, herbs, and some dried natural colorants (like powdered spinach, indigo or spirulina for example). I love making soap that is gentle for our skin but also working on adding some natural colorings because a nice looking soap is a good thing!
I take the tallow and lard (mostly from our own animals or other local farms) in the raw form, render it down slowly (this takes about the whole day) at low temperatures, filter and then use that as the oil part of the soap. Since our skin (and insides) don’t agree with coconut or palm we do not use those in the soaps. We keep it as local and natural as we can.
Our soaps are ALWAYS
Coconut & Palm oil free
Paraben and Sulfates free
NO Artifiical Colorings
New in 2023- no fragrance oils will be used. Soaps will be either scented with essential oils or have no scent added.
I am not working with natural clays to add colors and designs to soap along with the natural properties of the clays, I’m also working with infusing botanicals and adding different milks into the soaps als0.
We utilize the tallow and lard from our own animals and when we run out we purchase from other local farms.
Ethically Sourced
Local Sourced
Pure and Simple
Variety varies and what’s available is updated on our online store or can be found at 20/Shop in Cazenovia betweent the Linklaen house and Pewter Spoon on Main Street/Route 20.
We also ship NATIONWIDE with priority mail.
Bars are usually in the 4 oz size range and priced at $6-$7.50 a bar.
I no longer do bulk orders as I can’t offer much of a discount due to the labor intensive rendering of the fats.
You can order through our ORDER NOW page. On farm pickup or shipping.
SHAMPOO BARS
We are currently trialing different shampoo bar recipes to see if we can find one we feel good about selling and contains no coconut or palm. It’s tricky as most use coconut or palm ingredients to obtain a nice sudsing as we are opposed to the sourceing and how our skin doesn’t like them. Stay tuned once we have one that we like we will start offering for sale.
TALLOW BALM
This is great for dry skin or mild skin scrapes and sore hands too. Made with our beef tallow, beeswax from a fellow veteran in NYS, a little olive oil then infused with nettles, comfrey and lavender dried herbs. We do not scent this so it has an earthy scent with some subtle lavender. Our hands and feet take a beating as farmers so this our go to for our skin. $12 for a 4 ounce jar.
