Clean soap for our skin, our animals, and the environment.

Ancestral French Soaps is the product of our determination to live a life that aligns with our values.

We choose a slower, cool process that preserves the integrity of our high-quality ingredients and creates a harder, longer-lasting bar. We even delay our clean-up process until the residue has dried and is safe to enter our wastewater system. We know that anything this good cannot be made in a hurry!

We have researched and are reviving a soap recipe from the Mediterranean region that has a deep soap making tradition.

We use only the most pure, sustainable and essential ingredients in our process, which results in a soap that goes beyond simply cleaning. Read more about our family's history.

About Us

                                                               Why Olive Oil?

The first ingredient in any soap is the oil; it is what reacts with the alkali to complete the process of saponification. We have found that to produce a quality soap, it is important to keep our ingredient list short and maintain quality, including 100% organic, extra virgin olive oil.

Olives are the only environmentally sustainable fruit whose oil will clean and nourish your skin and scalp, keeping the body's natural oil intact. Other oils, like palm and coconut, will create a soap that strips us of our natural protective oil, called sebum.

Olive oil-based soap will absorb into your skin and provide essential nutrients to help produce the sebum lost during cleansing. This means that you do not need to use conditioner after using our hair soap, nor will any of our soap dry out your skin!

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Holistic Process

We choose our recipes, our ingredients, our cleaning process, and our business relationships and practices by conscious and making sure that the environment comes first. That way, when our soap reaches our customers they can feel confident in knowing that they, too, are contributing to the environment's health.