Mooseberry Soap Co.

At Mooseberry, we carry all kinds of soaps and soap products. We use all the processes to make soap including cold processed soaps, hot process products and remilled handmade vegetable glycerin-based soaps like Apple Slice and Wild Blackberry. Each bar is unique and cut especially for you. They not only smell good, but they look great and feel wonderful on your skin. That's because we use rich moisturizing natural and organic oils, the same ones we use in our natural moisturizing creams like our Natural Eye, Wrinkle and Anti-puff Cream.

We specialize in making natural soaps, natural shampoos, creams and scrubs with pure essential oils like Bergamot. We use natural herbs, natural colorants and clays using products found naturally in our surrounding forests and hills of central New York and the Finger Lakes region. You will love our cinnamon-red clay soap and our cinnamon red-clay liquid soap which detoxifies and purifies your skin. We also carry natural mint, natural apple, blackberry, coconut and many other herbal blends like our natural Gardener's Soap, many in liquid version as well. Our inventory of blends and scents are among the finest and the most diverse in the industry. Read our testimonials to find out how our customers feel about what our products have done for their skin. Even our lip balms and special "Lip-to-Toes" natural brown sugar scrub are all natural containing ingredients like pure aloe snipped from our garden, hemp oil and avocado oil to give you the best protection in the summer and winter months and the smoothest feel ever.

We take great care in selecting the safest ingredients for you and the environment. Most of our soaps are certified 85 to 90% organic (No soap can be 100% "natural", as some soap makers may claim). Our market caters to people who care about what goes into their bodies, what goes ON their bodies and how it what we make and produce can affect our globe. Our trademark is aromatic, naturally based products.

For those of us who have sensitive skin and allergies, please check out our fragrance-free natural olive oil soap. Once you gain confidence in the safety of our products, you can move up to oatmeal-based soaps like spicy oatmeal, oatmeal lavender bud , pure lavender, lemongrass with tea tree oil.

For shaving the natural way, we have a great bayberry-lime or mint that comes in liquid or bar.

Soap makers, check out the many unique soap making accessories you can carry to enhance your own line and the handmade wooden & formica soap molds to make your job easier. We are now carrying bulk oils, extracts and butters to help you make better more affordable soaps.

And we have a comprehensive WHOLESALE plan for those of you who would like to sell your own custom products at retail and with your own private label.. We will make up special blends just for you and since we are always adding new products to our own line, you can sell these, too. Our soap makers stay ahead of the curve and are always researching and experimenting to find you the right products for your skin and the environment., That’s why our shampoos, moisturizers and natural sugar scrubs work so well for you and fit into your active, healthy lifestyle. Our honey almond with shea butter and coconut flaxseed are among just some of the favorites with our customers. And we carry a very affordable Industrial Soap made with natural recycled vegetable glycerin that can be used for anything from floors to pets!

Please feel free to look around and shop - Enjoy the natural earth-colors of our natural soap blends.

Welcome!

WHY MOOSEBERRY SOAP?
In today's market, we are seeing an explosion of handmade and supposedly organic products. I tell my customers read-read-read when it comes to so-called natural soaps and soap products, from lip balms to moisturizers, soap (industrial soap or skincare products) and creams to sugar scrubs or bath salts. There is no doubt that it is a very competitive market. At Mooseberry Soap Co LLC, we keep up! We take into consideration you, our customer, coupled with the needs of the economy and the environment. That's why everything we sell comes from the earth as much as possible, be it clays that detoxify and purify your skin, spicy herbs and spices that invigorate and exfoliate like crushed clove and ginger or our lavender, lavender bud and oatmeal based soaps and liquid soaps that act to soothe or calm. We take our essential oils very seriously and offer the best organics and botanicals on the market, in terms of aromatherapy. Best of all, our soaps smell and feel wonderful on your skin. We've had customers come up to us at public markets, in local salons and on the web telling us how we have cured their psoriasis with the lemongrass tea tree oil soaps or the spicy oatmeal soap, or that their skin no longer has eczema because they tried our natural Anti-wrinkle, Anti-aging Moisturizing Cream. We never make claim to cure ailments or to use our products medicinally but it sure is good to hear a satisfied customer's own words about how the soaps, scrubs and moisturizers feel on their skin.

This brings me to few words about exfoliation, one of my favorite topics. We handpick certain clays that act to detoxify and purify the skin. We take great care in knowing whether you have dry skin or oily skin, whether it is normal skin or has rough patches. In other words, we care. We take great delight in helping you achieve the satisfaction you need and want. The variety of exfoliating agents ranges from poppy seeds to sesame seeds to berries to dandelion and peppermint leaf or crushed organic spices like clove and cinnamon. I could go on and on with our list of natural herbs and spices that come straight from our gardens and those of local farmers in the beautiful finger lakes region of New York State. A favorite of ours is pure vanilla bean. It smells so great that our customers keep coming back to buy more vanilla bean products like vanilla bean sugar scrub and yummy vanilla bean natural soap.

Do we do cold processing or have glycerin-based soaps? The answer is yes to both. What this means is that we take organic oils like olive oil and coconut oil and mix them with sodium hydroxide (the only chemical we have to use because that's what makes soap) and we then add in rich organic shea butter and sometimes pure honey from the local farmers to make honey soap. We retain the natural vegetable glycerin that results from making our soap in a process called saponification. Glycerin is the part that many manufacturers remove and sell for lots of money. We keep the glycerin in because we know how smooth it makes you feel.

Why use honey?
That's because it's an awesome product on your skin and it makes a great soap. We also happen to be environmentally conscious and eco-friendly folks, caring about what goes back into our bodies and our planet. We use eco-friendly packaging and as little waste as possible and are members of green organizations in our community. People ask us if we carry goat's milk soap? We have been known to use goat's milk in the past but because we are avoiding use of animal products as much as possible (yes, we still do use honey), we have discontinued use of goat's milk. When you have good stuff like shea butter and green tea extract to add to your soap and creams, you really don't need animal by-products. Some other active natural ingredients we use are hemp oil, avocado oil and cocoa butter. We like the extracts from the mango tree and make a special cream and soap with mango and white clay. Our sugar scrubs and salt soaks use organic epsom salts and sea salts combined with our special oil blends and clays. What does tea tree oil do for a soap and you? Well, for one, it's antiviral and antibacterial. Used in the proper quantities, which our soap makers know how to do, we make sure our soaps are made in the best way possible, carefully cured and tested until ready.

Are our products vegan?
Yes. Many of our products are vegetable based. We use a natural vegetable glycerin in our lotions, soaps, creams and scrubs. In our cold process soaps, we retain the glycerin, as previously mentioned.

Do we use natural colors?
Yes, the colors we use are all natural. We do not believe in using dyes for soap making, as you will see with other soap makers, because of the harmful chemicals and toxins present in micas and dyes.

We not only carry soap, but we are paying attention to your other natural needs, as well. In an effort to stay ahead of the curve, we now have natural laundry detergent, lip balms, all-purpose brown soap and some surprises coming out soon. You may want to try our honey-beeswax-soy candles to get a feeling for the direction we are headed. And we think you will be pleased and excited with the results.

To our wholesale customers, please feel free to go to our wholesale section of the web site and fill out a form. We can provide competitive pricing for reselling, distribution, custom soaps and private labeling.

Mary Bartolotta, Owner
Mooseberry Soap Co LLC
This article: Copyright 2012