About this item

GREY ALL THE WAY THROUGH — the charcoal is milled into the batch while it is still fluid, not swirled on the outside. Cut the bar in half and it looks the same in the middle.
CURED SIX WEEKS, NOT SIX DAYS — a cured bar is a harder bar, and a harder bar lasts. This is the single biggest difference between a handmade soap that disappears in a fortnight and one that does not.
COLD-PROCESSED — no heat forced through it, so the glycerine the saponification makes stays in the bar instead of being drawn off.
FOUR INGREDIENTS — coconut oil, rice bran oil, activated bamboo charcoal, sodium hydroxide. Nothing for colour, nothing for shelf life.
WRAPPED IN PAPER — no film, no box, no plastic window.

Bathing Bars

Bamboo Charcoal Soap

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Activated bamboo charcoal, cold-processed and cured six weeks.

No plastic in it · Nothing plastic in this product — it composts or recycles whole when you are done with it.

Arriving between Wed, 9 Sep – Mon, 14 Sep

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Free delivery over ₹499
Cash on delivery available
7-day easy returns
Paper-first packing

Six weeks on a rack is what makes a bar last

Every bar here is cold-processed: the oils and the lye are combined without forcing heat through them, so the glycerine the reaction produces stays in the soap rather than being drawn off and sold.

Then it sits. Six weeks on a curing rack, losing water and hardening. A bar sold at two weeks looks identical and dissolves in a fortnight; the same bar at six weeks lasts two or three times as long. It is the least visible thing about a soap and the one you notice most.

What is not in these bars

No SLS or SLES — the lather comes from coconut oil, not a detergent
No parabens and no synthetic preservative; a cured bar does not need one
No palm oil
No plastic wrap — paper, and nothing else
No colour added for the sake of the photograph

How do I make a handmade soap bar last longer?

Keep it out of standing water. A bar left in a flat dish that holds an inch of water will soften and go through three times faster than the same bar on a draining dish or a wooden rack. Use it with a loofah rather than straight on the skin and it goes further again — the fibre works up a lather from very little.

Is handmade cold-processed soap better for skin?

It keeps its glycerine, which most mass-produced bars have had removed and sold separately, and it has no synthetic detergent in it — the lather comes from saponified coconut oil rather than from SLS. Whether that suits you depends on your skin; the transparent glycerine bar is the mildest of ours and the one most people with sensitive skin settle on.

About this product

Bamboo charcoal is milled into the batch while it is still fluid, which is why the bar is grey all the way through rather than swirled on the outside.

Cold-processed, then racked and left for six weeks. A cured bar is a harder bar, and a harder bar lasts.

What it's made of

Coconut oil, rice bran oil, activated bamboo charcoal, sodium hydroxide

Product declarations

Generic name: Bathing bar
Net quantity: 100 g
Country of origin: India
Manufacturer: Bikli Naturals, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Best before: 2 years

Delivery & returns

Ships today and should reach you between Wed, 9 Sep – Mon, 14 Sep. Delivery is free on orders over ₹499.

Unopened items can be returned within 7 days of delivery. Read the full policy.

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