Soap
Cold process soap, made by hand in Nampa, Idaho. Not melt-and-pour. Not outsourced. Every bar cures six weeks on the rack before it leaves the shop — that’s when the lather sets and the bar goes hard. Most commercial soap is detergent with a fragrance on top. This isn’t. Frankincense and cedar, pine tar rendered with saindoux, wild honey and oat. Small batches, cured slow, packed by hand. Ships anywhere in the country.
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Big Burn Bar — Pine Tar & Saindoux Soap
In August 1910, a fire took three million acres of Idaho and Montana in two days. They still just call it the Big Burn. It rewrote how this country thinks about wildfire, and up in the panhandle you can still find the scars. Pine tar is what pine gives up under heat — the tree's answer to fire. This bar is pine tar and saindoux, which is rendered lard, and we're not going to dress that up. It's been the working man's soap for two hundred years because nothing about the formula needed improving. It's dark. It lathers like it means it. It smells like a fire that just went out. Cold process, cured six weeks. Nampa, Idaho.
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Camas Prairie Bar — Oatmeal & Honey Soap
When the camas blooms in June, the Camas Prairie turns so blue that the first settlers coming over the rise mistook it for a lake. Now it's grain country — wheat and oats on a high bench above the Salmon. This is the prairie's bar: ground oats for the scrub, raw honey for what it pulls back in. The plainest bar we make and the one that never comes back. It's what you hand somebody who doesn't know what to ask for. Cold process, cured six weeks. Nampa, Idaho.
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Kaniksu Bar — Frankincense & Cedar Soap
The Kaniksu is the old cedar country up on the panhandle. Some of those trees were standing before Idaho was a state. A few were standing before Idaho was an idea. This bar is frankincense and cedar — resin and wood, the two oldest smells there are. Frankincense has been burned in temples for four thousand years. Cedar built everything north of the Salmon. Together they land somewhere between a church and a woodshop, which is about right. Cold process, cut by hand, cured six weeks on the rack. Nampa, Idaho.
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Sawtooth Meadow Bar — Lavender & Chamomile Soap
The meadows under the Sawtooths get a few weeks. Snow comes off in June, the wildflowers run hard through July, and by August the show is over. Nothing up there blooms on a schedule that suits anybody. Neither does this bar. The chamomile gets infused into the oils while it's actually blooming in our beds — a few weeks a summer — and lavender goes over the top. Then it's done until next year. That's not a marketing decision. It's just when the flowers are here. When the batch is gone, it's gone. Cold process, cured six weeks. Nampa, Idaho.
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Skinny Dipper Bar — Unscented Cold Process Soap
Skinny Dipper is a hot spring above the Payette River. No boardwalk, no signage, no gift shop. You hike in, you get in with nothing on, and the water doesn't care who you are. That's this bar. No fragrance. No essential oil. No colorant, no clay, no botanical dust to make the label look busy. Saponified oils and six weeks on a rack. Thats it. Most bars marked "unscented" still carry a masking fragrance to cover the smell of the base. This one covers nothing. If your skin argues with everything, here's the bar with nothing to argue with. Cold process, cut by hand, cured six weeks. Nampa, Idaho.