About Our Soap

What to know about your soap?

Fontanel Farm Bear Fat Soap has some very unique qualities, that other soaps don’t and what makes us different from the others. 

Fontanel Farm Bear Fat soap is always made with 100% bear fat and other organic butters with organic oils like almond. Our Bear Fat Soap comes in two processes. Hot process goes through a heating process, is a soap that has a healing quality;  Lavender soap has 100% lavender oil and is known for its skin healing, qualities while, North Shore Bear Fat has Peppermint and Eucalyptus for its healing of the lungs, and makes a perfect sauna soap. The other process of soap we makes is cold process. Cold process is not heated and molded immediately with spiritually healing oils and fragrance; I call those soaps healing for the soul. Cold process looks more like commercial soap and needs five to six weeks to cure/age and work through the process of developing the rich scent that is healing to our heart. 

Size of your soap is based on weight. We do our best to cut all bars at about 5-6 ounces with the knowledge that when soap is in its optimal state the weight will be about 4 ounces. We do our best to send out soap to you when it is fully cured and ready for use. On occasion I have run out of a variety of soap and need to substitute it for a fresh bar that has recently been cut and will weigh more. There will always be a note in the order stating the soap needs time to cure and will be ready in a specific number of days or weeks. While we do our best to calculate the drop in weight in a bar of soap, there are times when I have errored on the side of a heavy bar. If you get a bar that appears too big and I should have shaved it down before packaging; good for you. You paid for one weight and got more than 

you bargained for. 

Care of your soap will determine if it lasts forever or if it become a dish of expensive soap pudding. I strongly encourage you to allow your bar of soap to dry in between uses; mine hangs in a soap bag from a shower hook. The sink soap is on a soap mat. That soap mat is soaked in a tub of hot water each week and I clean my house with that water. Nothing goes to waste in my life. I have also been known to switch my soaps out. Routinely I get bored with a scent of soap in my bathroom and switch it out for another for a couple of weeks. My previous soap gets a break to fully dry out in the linen closet and my new soap gets to scent up my bathroom. The soaps last longer and I have variety.