Custom production

The simplest route is to choose one of our existing soaps and create your own packaging or label for it. The recipe stays tried and tested, but on the outside the product can speak the language of your company, hotel or event.

If you want to go further, we can adjust the look, scent or other properties of the product. And for a private label, we can start right from the beginning and create a recipe of your own.

So not every project needs a new soap to be developed. And not everyone has to settle for a finished product with the logo swapped. At the start, we'll talk about what you want to achieve and choose the most sensible route accordingly.

When a new soap is being created, the recipe is its foundation.

It isn't enough to pick a few nice-sounding oils and mix them together. When designing it, we look at how the individual ingredients behave during saponification and what they do to hardness, lather, cleansing properties and the final feel in use.

So we design the recipe according to what kind of soap should come out at the end, not according to which ingredients look best on the label.

If you already have a recipe of your own, we can work from that too. We'll go through it from a technical point of view and tell you whether we can make it as designed or whether something will need adjusting.

Soap isn't bought by nose alone, but scent certainly doesn't play a minor role in choosing it.

In custom production we work with essential oils and their combinations. We can build the scent around the character of the brand, the setting or a particular occasion. A hotel in the middle of a forest may need a completely different character from a city brand or a summer wedding.

We work with colour and look in the same way. A soap can be minimalist, single-coloured, layered or marbled. It doesn't have to carry every colour of your logo to be yours — sometimes it's enough for the whole product to belong visually to the same world.

And since it's made by hand, the pattern of individual bars may differ slightly. With a marbled soap, we actually want it to differ. Every cut reveals a slightly different pattern.

A corporate gift has a rather thankless job. It should be universal, reasonably priced, attractive, usable and, on top of that, somehow connected with the company giving it.

Soap meets one essential condition: it's something that can genuinely be used up.

For companies, we can prepare custom batches for employees, clients, business partners, events or seasonal packs. Depending on the project, it can be an existing soap with individual packaging or a more distinctly customised product.

And yes, you can still put a logo on it. Only this time it doesn't have to end up in a drawer next to three promotional pens.

Hotel toiletries don't have to be an anonymous miniature that a guest uses and has forgotten the look of five minutes later.

A custom soap can tie in with the place where it's used — through its scent, look, name and packaging. It can be part of the room, a welcome pack or a range guests can buy to take home.

With accommodation in particular, it makes sense to think of the product as part of the overall experience. If a hotel stands in the mountains, by a vineyard or in the middle of a historic town, it doesn't need to have the same soap on the washbasin as a hotel five hundred kilometres away.

Private label is a different discipline from a corporate gift with its own label.

If the soap is to be part of your own brand and you want to sell it long term, we approach it as a fully fledged cosmetic product. We deal with the recipe, target group, look, scent, packaging, production quantities and the repeatability of further production batches.

With a new cosmetic product, you also need to allow for the relevant documentation, safety assessment, labelling and other obligations required to place it legally on the market. We take care of all of it for you, of course. 

You don't need a twenty-page brief for the first contact. Four basic pieces of information will help us much more: what you want made, for what purpose, roughly how many pieces you need and when you need them ready.

Then we go through the scope of the project. We find out whether we can work from an existing recipe or whether development will be needed, what the options are for scent and look and what type of packaging you need.

If we're developing a product of your own, preparing the recipe and sampling come next. Only once the result has been approved do we plan the production itself.

We make the soap, pour it into moulds, cut it and, depending on the project, stamp it. Then we put it on the shelves.

And we wait.

Our soaps need to cure for several weeks after they're made. During curing, water gradually leaves the soap, it hardens and its properties settle.

We can't shorten this time just because you have an event in two weeks. We can't skip it for a larger order, and a surcharge for express production won't help either.

That's why we sort out the deadline right at the start.

After curing, we check and weigh every bar and reject any that don't pass; only then do final packing and dispatch follow.

That depends mainly on how much you want to change.

One production minimum makes sense for an existing soap with your own label and another for a product for which we develop a new recipe, source specific ingredients and prepare individual packaging.

So we don't want to pretend there is one universal minimum quantity for all custom projects. Send us your idea and the number of pieces, and we'll tell you what solution is realistic for that volume.

Having your own brand doesn't mean the rules we make MuSK by no longer apply.

We make our soaps by the cold process and give them the time they need to cure. And if a brief doesn't make sense to us from a technical, safety or production point of view, we'll say so before we start making anything.

Your name can be on the label.

But we're still the ones behind the making.

You don't need to know which oils to use, how much essential oil belongs in the recipe or what size the label should be. That's our part of the job.

In your first enquiry, tell us:

What you want made. For whom or for what purpose. Roughly how many pieces you need. And by when you need them.

From that, we can work out which route to take.

The soap can then carry your name. But it will still be made by us in Prievidza.

To lather is human. Having your own soap is seriously cool.