Maple Sap soaps I've known and loved. Now it's your turn.

Ann Marie Craig • March 11, 2021

Help us design a new maple sap soap!

The maple trees are dripping sap and we are sugaring off a few gallons of maple syrup for family use and gifts for the next year. This maple sugaring season is one of my favorites, and long ago when I decided to craft our soaps using natural ingredients from the earth such as snow and rain, it was a simple extension to add maple sap to the mix. Although the amount of naturally occurring sugar in the sap is quite small (about 4%), like honey, it is soothing to the skin. I use the sap in the same way I would use any liquid added to the batches, and the resulting soaps are as lovely as the others.

The pretty limited edition Maple Sap & Roses Spa Soap pictured above was one of my favorites. The luffas were organically grown for us in Elizabethton, TN, so even the scrubbiness of the soap was from the earth. See those pretty roses in the photo? I begged them from the grocery store's floral toss-out bin because they were a little blown and perfect for the picture. That pretty soap was designed in 2012, along with Sugar Moon (sweet orange & vanilla), the Maple Sap & Roses bar without luffa, Maple Sap with Oatmeal & Vanilla (just like breakfast!), and our gorgeous Witch Hazel & Mint soap, which contained dried witch hazel flowers from Washington State. Here's a photo of them. Can you guess which is which?

There have been others, such as our very first maple sap soaps: Primrose & Peppermint, Bees in the Clover (unscented honey & red clover) with walnut oil, and Lavender & Maple Sap soaps, created in 2004.

Or how about a Maple Sap, Citrus, Oatmeal, & Mint bar from 2010? Or 2014's Geranium and Nettle Soap?

In 2007 we crafted Walnut & Maple Sap soap, superfatted with lovely walnut oil.

So here we are in the springtime of 2021, the crocuses are in bloom and the sap is running quickly. There is maple sap to be had and I want to make soap! This year, why don't you tell us what kinds of essential oils you'd like added to a batch created by you and for you. I can't wait to see what you'll come up with!

Pssst: As always, if we use your ideas to craft this soap, we'll send you a bar of your very own!