What's so special about Cheryl's Southern Soapery products? A lot. We take great care and pride to produce top notch, quality products that will be good for your skin. Take a look below to see what makes us stand out from the rest of the soapy crowd.
Quality Ingredients
All of our ingredients are top quality and mainly organic and sourced from ethical and responsible providers who understand soap and cosmetic making needs. We don't cut corners by using sub-par ingredients to increase profits.
All of our bars include colloidal oats, kaolin or other good for your skin clays, tussah silk (for slip) and soap nut berries (these are berries not nuts). We also include one of the following milks because of their purported benefits for skin: goat milk, coconut milk, heavy cream or buttermilk.
Care
Each batch of soap is carefully crafted to be gentle on the skin with nourishing ingredients. Each batch tested for skin feel, slip, and lather stability. Our soaps are cured for 6-8 weeks to ensure net weight is accurate and you get a good hard bar that will last.
Attention to Detail
In addition to making sure we produce balanced recipes that have good skin and hand feel, we bevel each bar of soap. It's more than just aesthetics. We care how that bar feels in your hand as you are turning it to build lather.
What you won't find in or on our soaps and why
Inferior quality oils or butters:
Especially those that are cut with other products to create volume or full of additives or fillers. They're garbage.
Botanicals and other design elements that will clog your drains or rot:
Many soap makers are creative and use beautiful 'natural' ingredients to top their soaps with. You'll not find botanicals of any kind in CSS soaps. Examples would be: lavender or flower buds, flower petals, dried orange slices, chunks of fruit, etc..
Why not they look pretty? Many botanicals don't do well with the saponification process and turn brown. For example, most experienced soap makers know that Lavender buds end up looking like mouse turds when incorporated in the soap batter or on top of the soap. Yes, botanicals are pretty and you can take them off before you use the soap but most people forget. I'd hate to get feedback that your drains clogged because of something that was in or on a soap.
We do use a handful of things that won't turn brown or attract moisture and decay (aka rot), clog drains or harm the environment. Things we do use would be plant-based, biodegradeable glitters, sea salt, small amounts of coffee grinds for exfoliation, skin safe micas (responsibly and ethically sourced) and from time-to-time organic oatmeal. At CSS we prefer to create beautiful, functional bars of soap through design, soap embeds and other methods that will not decay, mold or clog your drains.
P.S. This is not a swipe or throwing shade at other people's creative choices, it's about our decisions and why we choose them. To other creatives reading this, YOU DO YOU! I'll admire your creations.
If we won't use it, we won't sell it.