Why does handmade natural soap cost so much?
First, the all natural ingredients used to produce Blackberry Creek Soap are the highest quality ingredients available. Making natural soap is extremely labor intensive which is particularly true when manufacturing soap as beautiful as Blackberry Creek Soaps. Second, it depends what you’re comparing it to. My soap is priced very competitively with other all natural soaps. Of course it’s more expensive than commercial soaps. Most commercial soaps extract many of the most useful substances in their soap while hot processing thousands of pounds of soap at the same time. Most noticeably they extract the glycerin from the soap. Glycerin is important for moisturizing your skin. The commercial soap companies are happy to sell the glycerin back to you in their lotions and creams to treat the conditions their soap causes you in the first place. Third, put the cost of natural soap in perspective. How many baths or showers can you take using a 3.5 oz. bar of natural soap? 30? 40? Let’s use thirty
