Please Note!

We have temporarily sold out of all of our soap.
We will have soap again just as soon as the weather
warms enough to make it.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
If you would like to be notified when the soap is ready to ship,
please send us an email.

Lye Soap $3.00/Bar Healin' Hollers Lye Soap - "Down home" country soap, made one batch at a time. We use a cast iron kettle over an open fire and a big wooden paddle to stir the soap. When the soap reaches the right consistency, it is ladled into wooden trays to set up. We cut it by hand and let it dry and cure naturally before wrapping it in butcher paper. We suggest you unwrap the soap when you receive it so each bar can continue to dry and cure. The drier the soap the longer it will last. As this natural soap dries and cures, it will shrink slightly and may turn more brown in color. Why homemade soap? Many people have an immediate negative reaction to the thought of "lye soap." What they don't understand is that all soap is made with lye. Soap is the result of a chemical process called saponification, a process that mixes vegetable oils or animals fats together with a water solution of a strong alkali (lye). The resulting reaction creates two products: soap and glycerin. Grocery store soaps that are mass produced in factories and called "bath bar," or "deodorant bar," or "beauty bar," are actually synthetic detergents, not soap. They contain no glycerin because soap manufacturers remove it and sell it to other manufacturers who use it in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and food products. Grocery store soaps are also filled with synthetic ingredients that have nothing to do with cleaning or taking care of your skin. Many of these ingredients, including colors and scents, are the very things that dry skin and cause allergic reactions. Healin' Hollers Lye Soap has no lye in the final product. It has all been reacted with the fats to form soap and glycerin. And the glycerin is what helps to moisturize your skin and keeps the soap from drying out. No chemicals, emollients, artificial fragrances, or colors are added. All photographs are ©1998-2008 Alice Q. Swanson. These photos may not be reproduced under any circumstances without written permission of the photographer.