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Our mission is to create from scratch,
products that soothe the skin along with the spirit,
and
to honor those that have come before us.
MoSoap® is dedicated to MaeErma Jane, and
all the other family members that taught me
everything I know about soap making, herbs
and life in general.
Quite honestly, MoSoap was started as a dare.
You never tell a soap maker they don't know how to make
"real soap". But I'll start at the beginning......
How did we
start and who are we?
Most soap makers talk about how they started making soap
as a hobby or a desire to handcraft natural products for
their families. It was that never that romantic for me,
instead it was something that was expected. Coming
from a family with a long history in crafting herbal
products for others, learning to make soap was right up
there with learning botany and aromatherapy. I may have learned science in
school but when I worked with my grandmother making
soap and gathering plants, I saw and studied science in action. But
handmade soap was not thought of as it is today, a
trendy natural care item. Back in the 70's, most people
that made liniments, salves and soap were considered the
"backwoods" sort or just plain ignorant, not terribly
respected. But times do change along with
opinions luckily.
For over fifteen years, I privately
worked for individual and companies handcrafting
personal care products in between working as a flight
attendant. I made everything from laundry soap to pet
care items as I gradually
absorbed my grandmother's original soap making customers
and their families. MaeErma Jean stopped making soap at
age 82 and turned things over to me, though she still
held on to some recipes! I still to
this day, handcraft the products for two of the original
families my grandmother started with 55 years ago.
Then on a fateful day in 2001, I
was told I didn't know how to make "real" soap. I had been attending a local
Missouri art show and was told by a gentleman that I
needed to make real lye soap because everything else was
just fluff. I was absolutely
shocked by his comment. I had 16 different
handmade soaps in front of him, made with the finest of
ingredients from around the world and care in crafting.
All he wanted was
unscented, white crumbly lye soap. I had grown up making
traditional lye
soaps with my grandmother (pictured top right) and had
been talking to a local woman about making her some pine
tar soap only a week before. With the thought that
people might want simpler soaps and balms that what I
had been creating , I began to put to together vintage
recipes from my family and from rural folklore medicine
that friends shared. Within a few months,
everything had come together and Missouri Soap & Bath
was launched as a division of
Botanical Earth.
I will be forever grateful to the crabby craft show
gentleman on that cold December day.
 Now,
MS&B has been renamed simply MoSoap®
and I am thankful
everyday for the inspiration and motivation from
customers and fellow soap makers. I've
decided to slowly grow MoSoap®
instead of taking every
retail opportunity offered - and there's been some fine
offers. We no longer wholesale our products.
We have a hard enough time keeping up with orders here
let alone filling wholesale orders for stores.
If you have a question
about our products here at MoSoap®, drop me a line.
I try to respond as soon as possible. Or feel free
to give us a call and speak with Jackie or Ann if you
have a question or problem - all of us love to ramble on
about our soaps. In the mean time, take a look at
what others are saying about MoSoap®:
Our customers talk even better about our soaps then we
do!
Thanks for reading,
Debra
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