Soap from the garden: leaf, oil, and time

The soap was never supposed to be a product line. It was a way to use the mint that took over a crate and the olive oil we already bought in tins. Then people started asking for the bar that lived by the potting bench.

We still make it the slow way. Oils, lye, a leaf pressed on the pour, four weeks of cure. No dye. The scent is mint and a little tomato leaf, which is a smell you only know if you have brushed a plant on the way to the sink.

If you garden, your hands need something that does not pretend soil is a problem to be perfumed away. That is the bar. The pump bottle is the same formula for the kitchen.