About

The journey of Butter Tree started with the mission to help my skin, but I wanted it to be natural.

Growing up with the assumption that modern products are good for your skin, they put me in a perpetual cycle of dry, tight, cracked, flaking, and irritated. Half full bottles of shampoos, conditioners, body soaps, and face soaps littered the shower and shelves. One product would resolve the problems of the previous one I gave up on only for it to start giving me the same problems after a few days. Moisturizers and lotions, from the same parent companies as the soaps, were meant to solve my dry and tight skin problems. Which they did but overtime my skin would grow irritated with everything I tried, and I would need to switch again. Then I gave up. Gave up on anything with an ingredient list that sounds like a chemistry book. Gave up on anything that has so many preservatives in it that it has a longer shelf life than the life expectancy of a tortoise.

So, I started trying handmade soaps. It made a world of difference. But I also learned that not all handmade soaps are created equal. The destructive deforestation practices that bring us the abundance of cheap palm oil and the chemical fragrances and pigments that burn your sinuses and give you dry irritated skin. There are lots of variables that effect the quality of a simple bar of soap. I thus resolved to make my own and I wanted it to be 100% natural.

After growing up on a farm and spending a decade in the kitchen of my family’s catering business, my mother gave me an understanding and appreciation for sticking to raw, natural, and unprocessed ingredients. So, with soap I took the same approach. I researched ingredients, recipes, and processes. I learned what I could from other artisan soap makers. Then I practiced. I made trial batch after trial batch until I developed my recipe. Now I no longer have the problems I used to. The dryness, flaking, itchy, and cracking skin is no longer a problem. My face doesn’t break out like it used to and the tightness after washing is no longer a problem.

Butter Tree Soap exists to share that with you. To cut down on the chemicals that we use every day on our skin. I want you to enjoy the same relief I felt after making the change to all-natural soap and knowing that you aren't washing chemicals down your drain.