FAQs

Birch+Brass Values Real Ingredients 

That's why our soaps are crafted with organic oils and butters. Our soaps are only scented with essential oil, never fragrance oil. Plus, we work with local businesses to source some ingredients for our soaps, like honey, beeswax, aloe, rosemary. With better ingredients, you'll get better soap! 

Our soaps are handmade, using an all natural process to create your next bar of soap

Made with USDA Organic oils and butters 

We don't use any colorants to change the hues of our soap 

Biodegradable, learn more in the FAQ

Free of GMOs

It goes without saying, but our soaps are not tested on animals

Some of our soaps are even vegan

Nourish, moisturize, and cleanse your skin naturally. Choose handmade Birch+Brass soaps! 

We can't say with 100% certainty, but we've heard many success stories of how our soaps have improved skin. From reducing redness and irritation, to softer skin, and even reduced razor burn!

If you see any benefits with your skin when using Birch+Brass soaps, let us know on Facebook! It makes us so happy to know we're making a difference with your skin. 

Birch+Brass soaps are made using oils and butters from a USDA Organic (and women owned) company. So our olive, coconut, hemp seed, castor and palm kernel oils are organic plus the shea butter. 

Other ingredients in our soaps that are not organic are locally sourced ingredients. Like the beeswax, aloe and rosemary in our Sensitive Skin soap, or the honey and goats milk found in our Oat+Honey bar.

The only other ingredients you'll find in Birch+Brass soaps is water, essential oil, and lye - which is salt based solution used to turn the oils into soap. 

Sodium Hydroxide, also known as lye, is a chemical made from salt that's used to make soap. On it's own lye is caustic, but none of this remains in finished soap. When creating soap, the lye mixes with the oils, or should we say organic oils, and undergoes a chemical reaction called saponifaction and creates something entirely new - soap!

Two soaps from Birch+Brass soaps are indeed vegan! You can tell based on the ingredients we use—all plant based, organic oils. The two bars that are vegan are Citrus+Floral and Lavender+Oat. 

What makes our other two soaps not vegan is the use of beneficial, local honey, beeswax, and goat milk. 

Because Birch+Brass makes natural soaps, using only natural ingredients, they are biodegradable.  Biodegradable meaning it breaks down by the living things into substances that are not harmful to the environment. Soaps with SLS, when not created with natural ingredients, are not biodegradable soaps.

Feel free to take Birch+Brass soap on your next camping trip (we will!) but beware of how you use your soap! 

Soap should not be used directly in water sources as the bacteria that break down soap is found in soil. This goes for all soaps that are biodegradable. Dispose of your rinse and soapy water in a 6" hole, at least 200 feet away from water sources, according to BackCountryAttitude.com.