Small-batch soap · Cold process
Soap, made slowly and by hand.
Olive oil, shea butter and a six-week cure. Every bar is poured, cut and boxed by our family, about ten at a time.
- Small batches
- Cured six weeks
- Cut by hand
- Boxed by hand
The soaps
Off the curing rack
օճառ
ochar · Armenian for “soap”
Named for the simplest word we know.
We’re the Tonoyans. Ochar is what our family has always called soap, and it seemed right to put it on the box. Every bar is still made at home by one of us, from the first weigh-in to the last fold of the label.
Read our storyThe making
Six weeks from pot to bar.
Cold process is the old, slow way of making soap. It keeps the good parts of the oils in the bar, and it can’t be hurried.
- i.
Weigh
Olive, coconut and shea, measured to the gram. The recipe decides how hard the bar is and how it lathers.
- ii.
Pour
The oils meet the lye, then the scent and colour go in, and the swirls are poured by hand into moulds.
- iii.
Cut
A day or two later the loaf comes out of the mould and is cut into bars by hand.
- iv.
Cure
Six weeks on an open rack, until each bar is hard, mild and long-lasting. Then it’s trimmed and boxed.
Ingredients
Nothing you’d have to look up.
Every bar lists exactly what’s in it, down to the colour. If a word on the label is unfamiliar, it’s on our ingredients page with a line about why it’s there.
About our ingredientsWhat goes in
- Olive and coconut oil
- Shea butter and castor oil
- Vitamin E
- Skin-safe micas for colour
- A scent, named on every label
What stays out
- Palm oil
- Sulfates and detergents
- Parabens
Small batches, gone quickly.
Each scent is made about ten bars at a time. When one sells out, it’s back after the next six-week cure.
Shop what’s in stock