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The Bath Aura — Bath, Body, Aroma

Full disclosure

Everything in it, and why

49 ingredients across the whole range, with the INCI name and the place it came from. This list is generated from the formulations themselves — if something is in a bar, it is on this page, and we could not quietly leave it off without also taking it out of the soap.

Most ingredient pages are written by a marketing department and maintained by nobody. That is why they drift out of sync with the product inside a year. Ours reads straight out of the same data that builds every product page. It is longer and less reassuring than a two-word claim. It is also checkable, which is the more durable kind of reassurance.

A note on the schema. INCI is the International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients — the Latin-and-chemistry naming standard that lets a dermatologist in Chennai and a regulator in Brussels know they are discussing the same molecule. “Shea butter” is a marketing name. Butyrospermum Parkii is the thing. Where an ingredient has an INCI name, we give it. Where it does not — a wooden stick, a cotton wick — we say what it is in English.

Where it comes from

Named places, not “ethically sourced”. A place can be checked; an adjective cannot.

Andhra Pradesh
Rice Bran Oil
Chikmagalur
Coffee Infusion · Ground Coffee
Coconut shell
Activated Charcoal
Coimbatore
Aloe Vera Pulp
Erode
Turmeric
Ghana
Unrefined Shea Butter
Idukki
Vanilla Extract
Kannauj
Rose Absolute
Kashmir
Rosemary Oil
Kerala
Coconut Cream · Coconut Oil · Lemongrass Oil
Khewra
Himalayan Pink Salt
Mahabaleshwar
Strawberry Powder
Nagpur
Ground Orange Peel · Sweet Orange Oil
Provence
French Clay
Rajasthan
Multani Mitti
Sundarbans
Beeswax · Raw Honey
Tamil Nadu
Neem Oil

The index

Grouped by what the ingredient does. Every entry names the formulations it appears in, so you can go from curious to the actual bar without a search.

The base — oils and butters9

Every bar starts here. These decide whether it is hard or soft, whether it lathers, and whether it leaves your skin feeling looked after or stripped. Nothing else in the formulation can rescue a bad base.

Salts and minerals2

Rock salt from Khewra and Epsom. They soften the water, carry the oils into it, and do the actual work of a long soak.

  • Epsom Salt

    Magnesium Sulphate

    Magnesium, absorbed through skin. Muscle recovery.

    In Orange, Rosemary, Rose, Coffee and 1 more.

  • Himalayan Pink Salt

    Sodium Chloride

    Khewra

    Softens water, eases muscle. Softens water.

    In Orange, Rosemary, Rose, Coffee and 1 more.

Clays and carbons4

Four thousand years of putting earth on skin, in three grades of force. Multani Mitti is the decisive one. French pink clay is the polite one. Charcoal sits between them.

Aromatics — oils and absolutes10

Steam-distilled and solvent-extracted, bought by origin rather than by price. This is the most expensive column in our costing sheet and the first thing you notice.

  • Fragrance Blend

    Essential oils and IFRA-compliant aroma.

    In Large Jar, Small Jar, Bubble, Sweet and 10 more.

  • Rose Absolute

    Rosa Damascena

    Kannauj

    Fragrance, skin conditioning. Fragrance.

    In Rose, Rose Whip, Rose Clay.

  • Sweet Orange Oil

    Citrus Sinensis Peel Oil

    Nagpur

    Fragrance, brightening. Fragrance.

    In Orange, Orange Whip.

  • Coffee Infusion

    Coffea Arabica

    Chikmagalur

    Fragrance, tone.

    In Coffee Whip.

  • Eucalyptus Oil

    Eucalyptus Globulus

    Opens the chest.

    In Rosemary.

  • Lemongrass Oil

    Cymbopogon Flexuosus

    Kerala

    Fragrance, astringent.

    In Lemongrass.

  • Rosemary Oil

    Rosmarinus Officinalis

    Kashmir

    Clarifying, circulation.

    In Rosemary.

  • Strawberry Powder

    Fragaria Ananassa

    Mahabaleshwar

    Fragrance, colour.

    In Strawberry Whip.

  • Vanilla Extract

    Vanilla Planifolia

    Idukki

    Fragrance.

    In Vanilla Whip.

  • Vetiver Root

    Vetiveria Zizanioides

    Cooling base note.

    In Lemongrass.

Botanicals and texture6

The things you can see in the bar and feel on your skin. Dried, ground or folded in whole — never a printed image of a leaf.

  • Ground Coffee

    Coffea Arabica

    Chikmagalur

    Exfoliant, circulation. Mild exfoliant.

    In Coffee, Coffee Shea.

  • Dried Orange Peel

    Botanical, texture.

    In Orange.

  • Dried Rosemary

    Botanical.

    In Rosemary.

  • Ground Orange Peel

    Citrus Sinensis Peel

    Nagpur

    Mild physical exfoliant.

    In Papaya Orange Peel.

  • Papaya Pulp

    Carica Papaya

    Papain — gentle enzymatic exfoliation.

    In Papaya Orange Peel.

  • Rose Petals

    Botanical, colour.

    In Rose.

Actives14

The ingredients that are there to do something specific, and about which we try to make specific rather than sweeping claims.

Waxes and wicks3

Soy and beeswax. Never paraffin, which is a petroleum by-product and burns like one.

Colour1

Most of our colour is the ingredient itself — beetroot, turmeric, charcoal, carrot. Where a shape needs a colour the vegetable cannot give it, we use cosmetic-grade mica and say so.

The other list

What we never use

An exclusion list is only worth reading if it costs the writer something. Two of these cost us money. One of them contains an admission.

  • No sls and sles

    Sodium lauryl sulphate makes an enormous lather very cheaply, and at the concentration required to do so it is drying. It is not poison and we are not going to pretend it is. We get the lather from coconut oil and castor instead, which costs more and behaves better.

  • No parabens

    A bar of soap is alkaline, and that is a hostile place for a microbe to try to live. It does not need a preservative, so it does not have one. This is a fact about the formulation rather than a virtue — a water-based lotion would need something, and if we ever make one, we will tell you what.

  • No palm oil

    This one costs us real money. Palm makes a harder, cheaper, more reliable bar than rice bran and coconut do, and every soapmaker who has dropped it knows exactly what they gave up. We think the deforestation arithmetic settles it. RSPO-certified palm exists and we have looked at it more than once.

  • No synthetic fragrance in the soaps and salts

    Essential oils and absolutes only, bought by origin. It is why the Rose costs what it does — rose absolute runs to roughly a hundred times the price of a rose fragrance oil. The candles are the exception and we say so on the right, because we would rather be exact than clean.

  • No animal testing

    Not by us, and not by anyone we buy from. We are a small soap company in India; there is no plausible reason for a bar of soap to be tested on an animal, and no version of this where the claim is difficult to make.

  • No mineral oil and paraffin

    Both are petroleum fractions. Paraffin is the standard candle wax because it is cheap and takes scent well; it also burns dirtier. We pour soy and beeswax, which cost more, tunnel more readily, and are worth it.

What we mean by chemical free

The whole industry uses the phrase and almost nobody defines it. So here is ours, in full: the six things listed above are not in anything we make. No sulphates, no parabens, no palm oil, no synthetic fragrance in the soaps and salts, no mineral oil or paraffin, and nothing tested on an animal.

That is a list you can hold us to, which is the only kind worth printing. Every ingredient we do use is named above with its INCI name — the one on the regulator’s list, not the one that sounds nicest — so you can check the claim rather than take it.

Read the long version

Allergen note: several formulations carry naturally occurring fragrance allergens — limonene, linalool, citral, geraniol — because citrus peel, lavender, lemongrass and rose contain them. They are declared on the pack. If you react to essential oils, the Oats & Honey bar has none at all. That is the one we would point you to first.