BLISSFUL PEACE

A single-colour cream soap with no layers, no topping and no decoration — just the herbal scent of juniper with thyme. BLISSFUL PEACE is a vegan soap for the moments when the house finally goes quiet. Instead of special effects, it sticks to our rule: nothing extra, nothing without a reason.

How did juniper end up in soap?

Juniper and thyme create a scent that pretends to be nothing it is not: dry and herbal, clean, with a note you know from a walk past a forest clearing. We dose the essential oils sparingly — instead of a heavy perfume, just a gentle waft that does not quarrel with your evening or with the other scents in the bathroom.

We make it by the cold process and let it cure on the shelf for at least 30 days before packing — for us, time is part of the recipe. We tune the composition to how the soap will smell after weeks on the shelf, not on the day it is made; that is also why it feels so settled.

Coconut, olive and sunflower oil with shea butter give a rich, creamy lather, and we leave the glycerine that forms during saponification in the soap — it is a humectant, a substance able to bind water. The recipe is vegan, palm-oil-free and deliberately superfatted — with a calculated surplus of oils that no longer saponifies, so that washing is no harsher than it needs to be. How such a figure is calculated is explained in our article on superfatting soap.

To lather is human. Treating yourself to holy peace is human too.

In its paper box it becomes a gift for anyone to whom you would rather give a peaceful moment in a hectic December than yet another thing — or for yourself, that is allowed too. Between washes, give it a dry soap dish; and if you are looking for more recipes without animal ingredients, you will find them all in one place among our soaps for vegans.