Skab Selv – Your Own Soap

Hands — wet your hands, rub the soap between your hands until it lathers, wash, rinse.

Face — lather up in your hands first. Not the soap directly on your face. Wash with the lather.

Body — lather up in your hands or on a washcloth. Use all over the body.

Shaving — lather up and apply directly to the skin. Enough glide to shave without extra products. Use a shaving brush if you like. It makes a thicker lather.

Dishes — wet a dish brush and rub it in circles against the soap. That makes enough lather for one round. Or a pot scourer, a microfibre cloth. Yes, it works.

Hand soap, body soap, face wash, shaving foam. More products, more plastic bottles, more ingredient lists you can't read.

Or one bar. Without packaging to recycle — because there isn't any. Without excess water shipped across the country in a truck. Without the 20+ ingredients it takes to keep a liquid soap liquid.

Turn a bottle of liquid soap around. Read the ingredient list. Count the words you can't pronounce.

Keep the soap dry between uses. A soap dish with drainage or a sisal soap pouch. The more it dries between uses, the longer it lasts.

Beef tallow soap is hard — it won't melt, even in direct sun. But it lasts longest when it's not sitting in a puddle of water.

Olive soap is softer. It needs to dry. A soap dish with good drainage is not optional.

All our soaps are made by the cold process. Fat meets lye. The fat is split. The glycerin is released and stays in the soap — instead of being removed and sold separately, as the industry does.

Beef tallow is chosen for its fatty-acid profile. Palmitic and stearic acid resemble what your skin produces itself. Coconut provides the lather. That's it.

We don't use lard, palm oil, rapeseed or sunflower. Not on principle — but because the fat profile doesn't make a soap that lasts.

The INCI list is on every product page.