Hi, I’m Ros, and I make Larkrise Soaps.

Welcome to our new website, and my blog!

In it I’ll be giving  you hints and recipes,  ideas, and thoughts, about ways you can dispense with lots of the artificial chemicals in your life, and live closer to the way nature intended,  especially when it comes to soaps, body products and household cleaners.

I started making soaps about three years ago when I began to worry about the noxious chemical things most factory made cosmetics, soaps and household cleaners contain, especially ‘fragrances’.

After I made the first batch of all-natural soap for my family we all fell so in love with the product that we were hooked, and could never go back to ‘factory’ soap again.

I love the gorgeous ingredients I get to handle each time I make a batch – local Victorian olive oil, fresh and fragrant Gippsland lavender, petals and infusions from my own garden,and no animal ingredients except beeswax and goats milk.

The soaps are cured for four weeks to make them just right for your skin, and then my family and I cut, stamp and wrap them by hand.

So… I’m lucky.  I can play and experiment with parsley, pumpkin, carrot, coriander, shea butter, cocoa butter and heaps of other things which look great, smell even better and are good for you as well.

I make fresh products from beautiful ingredients and my family and I get to test every new product. At the moment I’m working on gorgeous moisturising bath bombs, so I HAVE to have a long luxurious, perfumed soak every night.

Well, someone’s got to do it!

Our soap shop is open most days during  the summer, and we’d love you to call in and say hello if you’re in the area. We’re just 3 kms from Foster on the Fish Creek Road.  Look out for our pink flag.

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