No. Cold-process soap retains its natural glycerin, which most commercial soap strips out during manufacturing and resells separately. Combined with shea butter, cocoa butter, and aloe vera, Wildflower Garden cleanses without leaving skin feeling tight or stripped.

Yes. With no synthetic fragrance, sulfates, or synthetic dyes, Wildflower Garden is formulated to be gentle for sensitive and reactive skin. Its color comes from madder root, a traditional plant-based colorant, not synthetic dye. As with any new product, we recommend a patch test first.

Yes, sodium hydroxide (lye) is required to make any true soap — it's the ingredient that converts oils into soap through a process called saponification. None remains in the finished bar; it's fully used up during the cold-process cure. This is true of all genuine soap, not a red flag.

Most commercial bars are actually detergent-based "beauty bars," not true soap, and are formulated with synthetic fragrance and stripped of their natural glycerin. Wildflower Garden is true soap made through traditional cold-process saponification, keeping all of its natural glycerin and scented only with essential oils.

It can be used on the face, though it's formulated primarily as a body bar. If you have very dry or acne-prone facial skin, you may prefer a dedicated facial cleanser, as any bar soap can be more drying on facial skin depending on your skin type.

With normal daily use, a bar typically lasts 4–6 weeks. Storing it on a draining soap dish between uses, out of standing water, will help it last longer.