Heaven's Plant Medicine
Gardener's Soap
Heavy-Duty Exfoliating Hand Soap
$10 per bar
The Story
The bar you reach for after the dirt. Gardener's Soap is a 100% coconut bar with a 22% superfat, which is soapmaker speak for leaving a generous cushion of free oil in the bar so the deep clean does not take your hands with it. Into that cushion goes pumice, apricot kernel shell, and ground oatmeal, the scrub trio that lifts soil, sap, and grime, finished with lemongrass for a clean, bright, kitchen-garden scent. It is a work bar, made to be used hard.
The Ritual
After the last bed is weeded, take it to the sink. Wet hands, work the bar directly over the dirt, scrub where the soil has settled, rinse cool. The bar does the heavy lifting so your nail brush does not have to.
Meet the Ingredients — Story, History & Science
Coconut Oil (Cocos Nucifera)
The history: The tree of life of the South Pacific, coconut oil has been the cleansing fat of tropical soap for generations.
Traditional use: The hard-working, high-lather oil of island soapmaking.
The science: High in cleansing fatty acids, it is the degreaser of the bar; the 22% superfat leaves enough free oil to keep hard-worked hands from drying out.
Apricot Kernel Shell (Prunus Armeniaca)
The history: Apricot kernels have been pressed for oil since antiquity; the cracked shell is the gentle-but-firm scrub of choice for hands that work in the soil.
Traditional use: The garden-scrub that does not carry a tree-nut warning.
The science: Finely ground, it lifts embedded dirt without scoring the skin, and it is nut-allergy friendly, no tree-nut flag on the label.
Pumice (Volcanic Glass)
The history: Pumice is volcanic glass, the original scrub stone, used since Roman times to smooth callused hands and feet.
Traditional use: The volcano's gift to the working hand.
The science: Its fine grit cuts through sap, pitch, and ground-in soil that a plain bar cannot touch.
Ground Oatmeal (Avena Sativa)
The history: Oatmeal has soothed itchy, weather-beaten skin in farm kitchens for as long as oats have been grown.
Traditional use: The soothing scrub of the household, stirred into the wash.
The science: Mild and colloidal, it buffers the harder scrubs and leaves the skin calm after the clean.
Lemongrass (Cymbopogon Citratus)
The history: Lemongrass is the bright, citrus-herbal scent of Southeast Asian kitchens and temple courtyards.
Traditional use: The kitchen-garden herb, brewed as tea and burned as scent.
The science: Its citral gives the bar its clean, lemony top note that lingers on the hands after the dirt is gone.
How to Use
Wet hands, work the bar directly over soiled skin, scrub, rinse. A nail brush helps with the corners. Keep the bar dry between uses.
The Details
Hand-cut cold-process bar, cured 4 weeks or longer. Net weight about 3.5 oz (final weights confirmed at cure). Wrapped in unbleached parchment with a belly band; Batch and Best By written by hand on the band. Availability: first loaf poured Oct 13 and curing now — ready mid-November.
Good to Know
Exfoliating work bar, not for the face. For external use only. Discontinue if irritation occurs. Contains ground apricot shell. Keep the bar dry between uses on a draining dish.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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$10.00
Preorder — ships mid-November
3.5 oz
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