Free shipping on orders over $60 Hand-cut. Cold-pressed. Cured six weeks. New: Norse Viking — Batch 003 shipping now Apache: Summer 2026 — join the waitlist Free shipping on orders over $60 Hand-cut. Cold-pressed. Cured six weeks. New: Norse Viking — Batch 003 shipping now Apache: Summer 2026 — join the waitlist

Ancient Ingredients. Modern Results.

Established MMXIX·Two soaps. The world is large.
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1,284 reviews·Free shipping over $60·30-day returns, no theatrics
Cold-pressed
Six-week cure
Botanical only
No sulfates, no palm
Small batch
400-bar runs
Free returns
Use a third, change your mind
The Collection · Spring MMXXVI

Three Soaps.
One Still Curing.

We do not make a soap a month. We make a soap a season, and only when we have found something worth the postage. Each bar below is a small dispatch from somewhere we have been.

Nº 01
Batch 003 / 400
Norse Viking soap held in hand
65.6835° N · 23.0973° W
Westfjords Coast, Iceland

Norse Viking

“The North Atlantic in a bar — minus the hypothermia.”

Icelandic kelpBirch tarNorth Atlantic sea saltVolcanic clay
$9/ 5 oz
Nº 02
Batch 011 / 600
Aleppo soap bar, olive and laurel
36.2021° N · 37.1343° E
Aleppo, Syria · crafted in Turkey

Aleppo

“The purest soap the world has ever known.”

Olive oil20% laurel oilVitamins A · E · D · KHot-process, hand-cut
$9/ 5 oz
Nº 03
Coming Summer MMXXVI
Apache desert sage soap with wax seal
On the curing racks
31.8833° N · 109.3500° W
Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona

Apache

“Desert sage, cedar smoke, and a sky you cannot photograph.”

Desert sageJuniperYucca rootMesquite smoke
$9/ 4.2 oz
Sigrún harvesting kelp at low tide on the Westfjords coast
Sigrún, Westfjords, March 2025.
Field Note Nº 03

A Soap Should
Tell You Where It's Been.

It started with my grandfather's shaving brush — a mangy thing from Trieste he refused to retire, and a cake of olive soap he'd carried home from Aleppo in 1962. The smell of that bar is the only part of him I can summon at will.

Relic exists because most of what we wash with is a chemical apology to our ancestors. We travel. We pay the maker. We ship it cold-pressed in a box you'll want to keep.

— J. Halliday, founder & reluctant cartographer

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The Relic Promise

Four Things We
Refuse to Compromise.

I.

Ingredient honesty

Every botanical printed in plain English on the box. If you can’t pronounce it, it isn’t in there.

II.

Maker first

We pay producers the price they ask, then add 10%. We do not haggle for a living.

III.

Six-week cure

No bar leaves the workshop until it has cured for at least 42 days. Patience is a feature.

IV.

Plain returns

Use a third of the bar. If it isn’t for you, mail back the rest. Refund in three days.

1,284 reviews · 4.9 average

What People Are
Writing Home About.

“I am always so thankful to get my Biomax soap. I open the box and it smells nostalgic — the most clean, healthy skin feeling I can appreciate.”
BerryVerified buyer
“Soothes my aging skin, and super clean ingredients which is difficult to find in other products. Only soap my husband and I will use.”
Candyce R.Verified buyer
“I have had dry skin on my face for years. This is by far the most improvement I've ever realized from a single product. I only wish I had found it sooner.”
Kevin H.Verified buyer
“I was looking for a soap to replace my shampoo and conditioner — and this is it. It cleans without stripping or drying out my hair.”
SarahVerified buyer
Practical Matters

Frequently
Asked.

Real questions from real customers, answered without marketing perfume.

Roughly three weeks of daily use for the Aleppo, six to eight for the Norse Viking — provided you allow the bar to dry between baths. Set it on a slatted dish, not a saucer of its own dissolved ambition.

The Norse Viking is cold-processed and cured for a minimum of six weeks. The Aleppo is hot-processed by hand in Turkey using the traditional method, then cured for nine months before it ships.

Yes. We use no synthetic fragrances, sulfates, parabens, or palm oil. Botanicals only — described in plain English on every label.

The first batch is on the curing racks now and ships in Summer 2026. Reserve a bar with the waitlist below — you pay only when it ships, and you can cancel any time.

Anywhere in the United States, Canada, the UK, and the EU. Free shipping on orders over $60. Tracking number included by default; postcards from us, occasionally.

Use a third of the bar. If you are not converted, send the remainder back for a full refund. We have done this since 2019 and have refunded eleven people, mostly by accident.