These handmade bath soaps are the only soaps you will find that are 100% scented and colored with real wild plant trimmings from the mountains and deserts of the West. Most soaps smell sweet and perfumey, these smell like outdoors! Made with real Pinon Pine from New Mexico, Juniper from the Mojave, Cedar from the Northwest, Sage.
Note from the creator: "When I first started this business, I looked everywhere for soaps that smell like real wild plants. But guess what, they don’t exist. The closest thing I could find were soaps with names like "Juniper", "Sage" and "Laurel" but these soaps smell nothing like the real plants they are named for because they are scented with essential oils and not with the real plant. Essential oils are extracted from plants in a complicated industrial process which yields very sweet, perfumey smelling oils. That’s why "Juniper" soaps invariably smell more like Chanel #5 than anything you are likely to bump into in the Grand Canyon. So I bought every soap making book I could get my hands on, spent a lot of messy days down in my basement experimenting, and eventually figured out a process by which I could get the scent and color of wild plants into the soap by infusing wild plants in the soap oils. These mild, all vegetable oil soaps are the only soaps I know of that smell like real wild plants because they are the only ones that are made exclusively from wild plant trimmings. I don’t use any essential oils, perfume oils, or colors - all the smell and color of the soap comes from the wild plant. So now you can enjoy the aromatic pleasures of hiking in the deep, dark woods of the Northwest or the sage blanketed hills of Southern California without ever leaving your tub."
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Juniper Ridge - California Bay Laurel Soap
Item 14296
$6.00
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| California Bay Laurel has an impossibly strong scent that makes you think immediately of the lush, moss laden coastal canyons where it is most commonly found. |
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Juniper Ridge - Coastal Sage Scrub Soap
Item 14293
$6.00
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| This is the real smell of California's central to southern coasts because this soap is made with real leaves of the sage plants which blanket the precipitous hillsides of the coastal mountains from Big Sur south to Baja California. |
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Juniper Ridge - Sierra Cedar Bar Soap
Item 14295
$6.00
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| This soap smells like the Sierra because it is made from the spicy smelling leaves of Incense Cedar which blanket its western flanks. This is the real smell of warm summer evenings in the meadows along the Tuolumne river, or of stumbling out of your sleeping bag in the middle of the night, with the impossibly cold, wood-smoke Sierra air lighting up your senses. |
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Juniper Ridge - Siskiyou Cedar Soap
Item 14298
$6.00
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| Also called "Ginger Cedar" for its highly unusual, spicy odor, Port Orford cedar is found only in the tangled knot of coastal mountains in northern California and southern Oregon known as the Klamath region. Its soothing odor is extremely evocative and was said to have strongly affected 19th century seamen who sailed schooners made from the fresh wood. |
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Juniper Ridge - White Sage Soap
Item 17467
$6.00
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| White sage, with its incredibly strong, aromatic resins, is the most highly prized Western Sage. It is popular across the Southwest, where it is used in Native American purification rituals. Its beautiful leaf clusters and enormous flowering stalks burst forth in the spring, painting streaks of white against the rusty green hillsides and filling the air with the pungent aroma of wild Sage. This is the only Sage soap anywhere that is 100% scented and colored with real White Sage. |
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