Handmade Soaps

Old Fashion Handmade Natural Soap

Granddaddy’s Old Fashioned Handmade soaps are 100% hand made in small batches using the cold process method. I use all natural ingredients and essential oils; no perfumes or fragrance oils, dyes, or artificial additives. If I do add any colorants, they are either natural spices or clays...no dyes. Some essential oils add color as well. Many of our handmade soaps are made with pork or beef tallow as a part of the oil blend and are NOT vegetarian friendly.

I make “cold process lye soap” the same way that people have made soap for centuries. It involves mixing sodium hydroxide and water (lye) with a fat (lard or other natural oils) in the proper proportions utilizing a lye calculator, adding essential oils and other ingredients, and mixing thoroughly.

The process of mixing creates a chemical reaction known as “saponification” which converts the oils and lye into soap.

I know that many people fear using lye soap because they have heard that lye will burn your skin. In it's original state, lye is caustic and can irritate the skin. But, through the saponification process, the chemical composition of the lye becomes inert (safe) as it combines with the fats to produce soap; it is changed from an unsafe chemical into a harmless bar of soap. So please do not fear using handmade soaps. If properly mixed and cured, handmade soaps are far better at cleaning your skin and much safer than commercially made detergent soaps sold in stores.

Soap is a rinse-off product and should NEVER be considered for medicinal use.

While certain essential oils have known medicinal uses, Sudz and Sawdust will not ever make claims that our soaps are medicinal in nature or purpose. I will, however, make mention of certain properties of certain oils and/or additives as potential benefits when using our soaps.

I make several types of homemade soaps:

(1) Granddaddy's Old Fashioned soap is just lard, lye, and water.....nothing else. Pure, natural, 100 % soap.I do this as an unscented soap, and also with certain essential oils added for their unique properties and fragrance.

(2) Granddaddy's Castile soap...100% pure olive oil soap with no additives. Very cleansing and moisurizing, low lather and gentle, perfectly safe for babies and children.

(3) Granddaddy's Coconut Pig soap is a combination of pork tallow (lard) and pure coconut oil blended and mixed with essential oils to create a hard white soap bar that cleanses the skin without drying. Essential oils aid in moisturizing and beautifying the skin.

(4) Granddaddy's 3 Oil soap is a unique blend of oils that produces a softer, extra moisturizing bar combined with essential oils known to aid in nourishing and beautifying skin.

All of our products are handmade with pride in Transylvania County, North Carolina