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Orris & Sweet Vetiver
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Spring · 26 / Volume IX
An ordinary
ritual, made
with care.
Soap, body wash and hand wash, formulated in small batches with cold-pressed oils and quiet botanicals. Made in Halden, kept simple by intention.
Cured
28 days
Batches / yr
14
Since
2014
· Cold-process· Cured 28 days· Plant-based· Hand-wrapped· Halden, Norway
Collection · Bar soap
The signature six.
Studio note · 04
Made in the
old tannery.
Every bar begins with cold-pressed olive and coconut oils, saponified over four days, then cured in open air for the better part of a month. Nothing rushed. Nothing decorative.
Inside the atelier →
· Daily
Body wash, two scents.
Glycerine-rich and slow to rinse. Three hundred millilitres in recycled glass.
Shop body wash →
· Daily
Hand wash, kept by the sink.
A neutral lather, soft on dry hands. Refillable bottles, six-month supply.
Shop hand wash →Index · Botanicals
What goes
inside.
Twelve botanicals, six oils, sea salt and nothing else. Each ingredient sourced from a single grower we have visited.
- 01Olea EuropaeaCold-pressed olive - Andalusia›
- 02Cocos NuciferaVirgin coconut - Tamil Nadu›
- 03Iris PallidaOrris butter - Tuscany›
- 04Cedrus AtlanticaAtlas cedar - Middle Atlas›
- 05Citrus AurantiumBitter orange - Calabria›
- 06Rosa DamascenaDamask rose - Isparta›
- 07Vetiveria ZizanioidesVetiver root - Haiti›
How we make it
Three months,
from grove to bar.
We work on a three-month rotation - sourcing in early spring, pouring through summer, curing into autumn.
01
Source
We visit each grower once a year. Olive oil from Andalusia, coconut from Tamil Nadu, orris from a single farm in Tuscany.
02
Pour & cure
Cold-process saponification at low temperature. The bars rest on cedar racks for twenty-eight days before they leave the studio.
03
Hand-wrap
Wrapped one at a time in unbleached paper, tied with linen twine, stamped and dated by hand. No plastics, no shrink film.
Commitments
What we won't do.
Palm oil
We do not formulate with palm oil, even certified. The supply chain is not transparent enough for us.
Synthetic fragrance
Every scent comes from a steam-distilled or expressed essential oil. We name the grower on the bar.
Plastic packaging
Wrapper, twine, label and ink are compostable. Bottles are returnable for credit at any stockist.
Greenwashing
We avoid sustainability claims we cannot prove. Where we are still working on something, the page tells you so.
Press · Cereal Magazine
“Among the few small-batch soap houses left in Northern Europe whose restraint feels intentional, not performative.”