About

Natural bath and body care for every need

Our Story

A Family Legacy of Craftsmanship

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,

Our Island

The verdant archipelago we call home

Welcome to Saltspring Island: Our home and the origin of our story, where ancient Garry oaks guard our shorelines, meadows waft the scent of wildflowers, and artists abound. It’s a place of natural and manmade beauty, the muse for our business, and a living reminder that the land we nurture will nurture us in kind.

Our Standards

Ingredients of merit for customers of discernment

Since 1979, our ingredients have been naturally sourced and ethically engineered to remedy every need, from the dry skin of winter’s bitterness to the stress of twenty-first-century life. Because you deserve remedies that are as selective in their ingredients as they are effective in their formulations.

Immerse your senses