Our story begins four generations ago with beef tallow and ash preserved from the wood stove: My great-grandmother began making soap on the family farm in the Prairies, a legacy handed down to my mother, Linda, who founded Saltspring Soapworks in 1979—of necessity.

At a time when our post-war industrialized society was embracing synthetics for their cost-savings and consistency, those same synthetics inflamed my mother’s skin and sensibilities—inflammation that could only be remedied with a return to simplicity. A return to the land and natural ingredients.

What started with handcrafting soap in our kitchen and selling the artisanal bars from the trunk of her car quickly became British Columbia’s oldest soapworks and a pioneer in the natural bath and body care movement. Forty-five years later, we’re still proudly known for integrity in skincare.

And we couldn’t have done it without you.

With gratitude,