Our hand-milled Prim (also known as 'Primitive') and vintage Soaps are old fashioned, rough-cut, slow-cured bars of the beautiful but practical soaps of yesteryear. Recalling a time and place where the ingredients found in nature or on the farm were the substance of everyday life, it is our hope that these appealing vintage soaps inspire in you a sense of the charm and simplicity of days gone by...
These hearty olive, coconut and soy homesteader or farm-style soaps come in stacks of three ample 3.5-oz. bars, and are packaged in a vintage-style decorative fabric bag and colorful raffia tie. They are a unique and nostalgic, mercantile-inspired gift idea for lovers of prim, vintage, farm and country decor items. Made of a moisturizing blend of olive, soy and coconut oils, and whatever other downhome fixin's y'all see below.
These soaps are crafted on a custom order basis, so please allow a week between ordering time and when your order is shipped. Thank you!
Soap has always had an interesting history:
~Soap was definitely made as early as 2800 B.C. by the Babylonians, who stored the boiled fat-and-ashes concoctions in clay pots.
~Soap was used as currency in some ancient cultures.
~The Gauls and Germans made soap of tallow and ashes, and used it to tint their hair red!
~Arguably the most important innovation in war-time medicine was the discovery that washing wounds with soap decreased mortality and amputation rates dramatically.
