Ask the Soapman

Can I buy your products anywhere other than online? Are you in any stores? Vermont soap is carried by over 1500 stores nationwide. We are usually found in health food stores and co-ops but also in bookstores, gift stores and country stores and sometimes even by hair stylists. Email info@vermontsoap.com with the zip codes of some of the larger towns in your area and we will check our database for outlets close by. And always feel free to email info@vermontsoap.com with suggestions for stores near you where you would LIKE to see us carried. We will follow up, send small…

Where may one find fragrance descriptions for your products? Thank you! Lavender: This is Vermont Soap’s signature lavender blend (not your Great Grandmother’s lavender). Forget the mediciney, overpowering and often synthetic blends of the past, this is a clean light lavender blend with hints of citrus and echoes of deep woods. It reverberates in the heart and is both calming and cheering. Citrus Sunrise: If you could capture sunlight and happiness in a scent this just might be it. Light as a Spring morning yet full like good Asian food. It will put a smile on your nose. Peppermint Magic:…

What is the difference between your castile soaps, bath & shower, and hand soaps? Aren’t they all oil based and foam equally? I love this question. Just as a baker will take different types of flours, different yeasts, waters, salts, sugars and extras to make an astonishing range of baked goods, so too our master soapmakers work with different plant oils, lyes, waters and extras to create a very wide range of foaming products. The differences are in: ASTRINGENC or how pore tightening or loosening a formula is. Dry skin formulations are the least astringent. One way to vary this…

I am chemically sensitive but I usually can tolerate essential oils if they’re organic. I’m attracted to lavender scents so just wondering if the essential oils included in your lavender soaps are all organic? We use an American Lavendin that is steam distilled on farm in the USA. It is 100% natural but not certified organic. US farmers growing crops for distillation typically grow without pesticides (the plants themselves take care of that) but use ammonia nitrate fertilizer towards the end to boost yields another 10%. Many essential oils are “stepped on”; blended with fragrances and/or diuted with cottonseed oil…

Hello, Interested in the Bulk Liquid Castile soap. Does Castile Soap expire? If so, how long can I keep it for after purchasing? Thanks for your time. Roxann Hi Roxann, Great question. Thanks for writing. We rate all of our products for a three year shelf life. For comparison, mass market products are formulated for a minimum seven year shelf life – think Twinkie ™. The enemies of all natural products are ultraviolet light, which breaks things down, air, and temperature. The less of those things you have i.e. seal the bottle and store in a cool dry place out…

We are looking for dried castile soap. Can you help us? Hard to find. There was an outfit in the UK making it but they left the business maybe 6 or 7 years ago. My understanding is that you could start with liquid castile soap. Then it would be spray/freeze dried. This type of machine is out there and if you find a company that will take on the project I am happy to work with you guys by supplying the castile liquid soap. On a smaller scale you can take always unscented handmade bar soap and grate it. This…

Could I add my own choice of essential oils to your unscented shower gel or would that ruin the soap? Yes! You can mix your own pure essential oil blends into our unscented gels and liquid castile soap. Real essential oils stay in much better than fragrance or perfume oils will. Use about 2% scent or just put it in a few drops at a time until you have the boof where you like it. All the Best, Soapman

I like your foaming soap very much, and use it in several places in my home. A friend recently bought me a decorative foaming soap dispenser for my main bathroom. I would like to use your soap in it. The instructions on the new dispenser say to dilute soap – about 1 part soap to 4 parts water. But when I use your soap in your dispensers, I don’t dilute it, of course. Do I need to dilute your soap for my new dispenser, or use it as is? The foaming mechanism looks pretty basic, similar to yours. Thanks! Hi…

What does the vegetable gum/glycerin extract in the baby wash and fine hair shampoo do? I am asking because I originally was planning to purchase unscented castile liquid to use as baby wash. Then I came across the baby wash and saw that the ingredients are identical except for this one. Hi Stacie, Definitely go with the baby gel. It is much milder than castile liquid soap for baby and for all human skin. We make it from a special body care soap base that we developed for this purpose. The way we formulate, every ingredient serves double duty. The…

Thank you for your time. If you go to ewg.org (Environmental Working Group) website, they have a link to healthy cleaning products. You can type in any ingredient, and they will rate it A-F. When you type in the ingredient Saponified Coconut it is rated an A, but I thought you could help me understand the ingredient more. I want to order the unscented house cleaning products from your company. It has Saponified coconut, Olive & Jojoba oils, Rosemary extract. I have respiratory problems and hope this will be a wise choice for house cleaning. It’s the purest I can…