Five ingredients. That's it.

The backbone of the bar. Olive oil is high in oleic acid, which produces a dense, conditioning lather and contributes to the bar's long cure life. It's been used in soap for thousands of years — not because it's trendy, but because it works.

Coconut oil drives the lather — it's the reason cold process soap can produce a thick, bubbly foam without synthetic surfactants. High in lauric and myristic fatty acids. Without it, the bar would clean but barely foam. We balance it carefully against olive oil to avoid a drying effect.

Palm oil is a divisive ingredient — it has a real deforestation problem. We use it because it's the only oil that makes the bar hard and long-lasting without tallow or synthetic thickeners. We source exclusively from RSPO-certified suppliers, which means independently verified: no deforestation, no habitat destruction. We checked. If that ever changes, we'll reformulate.

There is no soap without lye. Every soap on the market — from the cheapest bar to the most expensive — was made with lye. During cold process saponification, lye reacts completely with the oils. The finished bar contains zero lye. What it does contain is the glycerin that's produced as a byproduct of that reaction — which is why cold process soap feels different from commercial detergent bars.