The gentleness of olive oil and its ability to act as a humectant and draw moisture from the air to your skin makes Castile soap wonderful to use. The bubbles of Castile Soap are low and plentiful.
Castile Soap is gentle enough for a newborn baby's tender skin, can be used as a post-surgical soap or to hydrate older skin, which can become thinner and parchment-like, vulnerable to bruising.
Olive Oil is the simplest oil to use in soap making and creates the gentlest of soaps. If you enjoy the gentleness of an olive oil soap but feel your skin needs more moisture, consider our Castile Cream olive oil soap which is still 100% olive oil as the base oil, but with goat milk added.
Our Castile Soap is available in unscented, or gently scented at half strength with peppermint or lavender natural essential oils.
Castile Soap was originally created in Castile, Spain, in the Mediterranean
where Olive Oil has always been plentiful. It has sometimes been spelled Castille. A true Castile soap is always 100% Olive Oil, NOT 'mostly' Olive Oil. It is white in color and sometimes softer than other soaps because it contains none of the other oils which contribute hardness to a bar of soap.
I stopped by your booth at the WNC Herb Festival recently and bought a grab bag of soap and a bar of your new scent. I just had to tell you that I really love all your soaps, but particularly this new scent. I’ve been using your soaps now for about 10 years -- even when my husband was downsized and money was really, really tight -- I would save birthday money and buy several bars, cut them in half and use them for bathing and washing my hands in the kitchen. I am hooked and yours is the only soap I use now. I still haven’t converted my husband yet, but I’m hoping to.
We live in Asheville now and I regularly visit your booth in the Kress building. I have sent baby soaps to my new grandbabies and soap for diabetics to my elderly Mom. Thanks for a grand product that just brings such joy to my life. I never enjoyed washing my hands so much!
Hope to visit your ‘shed’ sometime. A sweet smelling customer