Lotus Wellness Essentials
Nourish Natural Handcrafted Artisan Soap — Frankincense & Myrrh
Nourish Natural Handcrafted Artisan Soap — Frankincense & Myrrh
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We don't use fragrance oils. Everything in this range is scented with essential oils and our own infusions, and nothing else. It is a harder and more expensive way to scent a bar, and it is the reason this one smells the way it does.
Frankincense and myrrh — the oldest pairing in botanical care, and still one of the best. The frankincense comes two ways: the essential oil for the bright resinous top, and our six-week whole-resin infusion of Boswellia carterii in jojoba, superfatted into the bar for depth underneath it. Resin is what gives frankincense its weight as a scent, the part that lingers on the skin after the bar has rinsed away.
Cold-process, cured slowly for a hard, long-lasting bar with a creamy lather.
100 g · cold process · cured 4–6 weeks
What it does
- Cleanses without stripping
- Leaves skin feeling soft rather than tight
- A warm, resinous scent that lingers on the skin — from botanicals, never fragrance oil
What's in it, and why
- Frankincense — the house scent of Lotus Wellness Essentials. Grounding, resinous, quiet. Here as both essential oil and whole-resin infusion, so the scent has depth rather than sitting on top and washing off.
- Myrrh — the traditional partner to frankincense. Deeper, slightly sweet, and it holds the scent in the bar.
- Shea butter — superfatted into the bar so it cleans without stripping.
- Olive oil — gentle and conditioning, the backbone of a good bar.
- Coconut oil — for lather. A soap without it barely bubbles.
- Castor oil — gives the lather its creaminess.
- Jojoba oil — the carrier for the resin infusion, superfatted so it stays in the bar rather than saponifying away.
- Kaolin clay — a fine silkiness, and it helps hold the scent.
How to use
For face and body. Keep the bar on a draining dish between uses — a handmade bar left sitting in water will soften and go quickly.
Full ingredients
Sodium Olivate (Olive Oil), Sodium Cocoate (Coconut Oil), Aqua, Sodium Shea Butterate, Glycerin, Sodium Castorate, Kaolin, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba) Seed Oil, Boswellia Carterii (Frankincense) Resin, Boswellia Carterii (Frankincense) Oil, Commiphora Myrrha (Myrrh) Oil.
Handmade in small batches in Melbourne. Cured for at least four weeks before it leaves here.