Our Story
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Conscious Soap For Conscious Folk
Balm of Gilead Skincare is a natural skincare company with a big heart, providing conscious customers with delightfully delicious smelling, skin loving, fresh natural soap for everyday freshness since 2012. We strive to use organic ingredients as much as possible.
As a family-run company, we are truly passionate about providing ‘fresh’, natural products that blast customers with a luxurious, sumptuous, skin softening, skin cleansing experience, without any of the horrible extras associated with common soap brands.
Formed Naturally
When Balm Of Gilead was formed, unsurprisingly it was formed gently and naturally, just like our soaps.
Mavis, founder of Balm Of Gilead Skincare who has her career background in Accountancy, was having a great time hand-making soap with her treasured daughter for fun, and to give as cute little gifts to friends and family. The problem was, those initial sweet little soapy concoctions went down a storm with those who tried them, and Mavis was so inundated with praise and repeat gift requests, eventually she just couldn’t ignore their popularity.
Following a pivotal straight talk with a friend, Mavis sought to not only develop these initial carefully crafted hobby soaps, but dare to believe that this wonderful small time hobby with her daughter could actually evolve into something bigger and better.
More than half a decade on, Balm of Gilead Skincare, is currently flourishing and has truly swept into many markets, drenching customers in refreshing, high-quality, brilliantly blended soaps sold online, in select stores, gift shops and wholesale both in UK and abroad.
Everyday Freshness Made Naturally
Balm of Gilead Skincare, creates delicious, ‘fresh’ soaps for those who want to cleanse, soften and smother their skin in the most sumptuous, natural, pure ingredients. We put huge effort into ensuring our customers always receive the most delicious smelling, active soaps around. So you can be sure we really are only pouring the purest, most naturally divine ingredients into our soap, we take care to leave out PALM OIL, parabens, sls, preservatives or artificial colourants. For even more benefits to our treasured customers, we use the traditional cold process method – nothing is highly processed here. In fact, this is one of the most popular aspects of our soap, because this process ensures that glycerine, a natural by-product of soap making stays within the finished product, which helps to enhance the moisture we put into skin, and help keep it there. It also keeps our products fresher for longer naturally, and there’s a lot of freshness to preserve. We make all of our products with the ripest organic fruits and vegetables, juice, plus creamy dairy free milks, clays and high quality botanicals, all which combine with the alluring fragrance of pure essential oils, to create products that really have been made by us, but truly created by nature. We really do go the extra mile to make not only your skin smile, but your conscience too.
Inspired by a kitchen full of goodies
The world of plant-based food and living is so colourful, beautiful and awe-inspiring, it would be a real struggle not to find inspiration within it. Founder Mavis follows a plant-based diet herself, and the many vibrant fruits and veggies, creamy nuts and aromatic herbs and spices she uses in the kitchen, and picks and pulls from the garden, have an influence on what goes into the soaps. Much of what we put on our skin is absorbed into our body, so it makes sense that for all the fresh organic juices, rich and decadent raw cheesecakes and abundant garden salads we nourish ourselves with, we would also want to smother our skin in products that
pertain to the same high nutritional standards. We strive to make our soaps nutrition for the skin.
Inspired by the Balm of Gilead plant
Originally mentioned in the Bible, Balm of Gilead represents healing, fragrance and therapeutic properties. Although our products don’t contain the balm of the Gilead plant, the far reaching powers of the original tonic inspired us to call our skincare business Balm Of Gilead Skincare. We want you to know you can trust our ‘fresh’ and natural products to refresh, nourish and revitalise your skin, whilst also soothing your mind and wholeheartedly aligning with your conscious way of living.
Balm of Gilead Skincare: Drench Your Skin In Completely Natural Goodness
All of our products are vegan friendly apart from our Manuka Honey and Oatmeal soap which is vegetarian. From our Vitamin E, Linoleic and Oleic acid rich creamy macadamia and avocado soap to our much loved Vitamin A packed organic carrot juice soap, there’s a beautiful, hand-crafted Balm Of Gilead soap for everyone here.