Located in the beautiful Victorian seaport of Port Townsend, Washington, Townsend Bay Soap Company is a family-run company, making all of their products by hand and testing them only on family and friends. It was founded by Carol Middelburg in 1999 using only the finest ingredients, pure essential oils, and fine fragrance oils. Carol's great-grandmother used to make bread twice a week, grow her own vegetables, and make soap for her husband and their nine children. Such tasks, plus many more, were simply a routine part of her life as a homesteader in California's Mother Lode gold country back in the late 1800s.

Today at Townsend Bay Soap Company, the soap ingredients are finer and their methods more streamlined than those of Carol's great-grandmother, but the basic concept is exactly the same. Their soaps are made entirely by hand, in small batches, using the best ingredients they can find, and are allowed to cure for one month. At the end of that time, they have beautiful bars of soap that are nutrient-rich, help soften skin, and provide wonderful fragrance and lather. A few years ago their daughter joined the fold with a line of fine and gentle bath and body products. Just as each bar of our soap is handcrafted with care, using pure essential oils and fine fragrance oils, so is each item in their bath and body line. Compared to the days of Carol's great-grandmother, it's a whole new and very exciting bath and body world!