Coastal Wilderness Soap Loaf

Coastal Wilderness is a 1.3kg hand-crafted soap loaf scented with sea salt and moss: fresh, green and mineral, the smell of a cliff path after rain, with a rich lather that leaves skin feeling clean rather than perfumed. It is the outdoors scent of the Wild and Natural loaves, the one for a man's bathroom, a shower after a run, a beach-house basin or anyone who finds floral soap cloying. The loaf comes uncut, to be sliced with a kitchen knife into twelve or thirteen bars of around 100g, thick or thin as you like, at a fraction of the price of boxed soap, which is how small shops, holiday lets and people who give a lot of soap buy it; a slice wrapped in brown paper is a good present on its own. The base is a glycerin soap that lathers well and does not dry the skin. Handmade in the UK, so the colours vary a little from the photograph. Set a cut bar on a draining dish and it lasts twice as long.

Hand-crafted glycerin soap loaf, sea salt and moss, uncut. 24 x 8 x 6cm. From the UK.