Federal Color - Artist's Essential Bar Soap, Bergamot & Clove
Made in St. Louis by Federal Color for brushes & paint-stained hands
This is version 2.0 of our Artist's Essential Bar Soap, with a new and improved formula that lasts longer and cleans even better than before.
We use a balanced blend of natural oils in our artist soap, designed in our Color Lab to provide great results for both brushes and hands. We use coconut oil to make a cleansing bar that lasts a long time; we add a generous dose of olive oil for conditioning; and we add castor oil for outstanding lather and creamy texture.
Bergamot is our signature fragrance at Federal Color, and this soap uses a heavy pour of bergamot essential oil to define its overall aroma. Then, we enrich the scent-scape with notes of clove and orange.
How It's Made
Artist's Essential Bar Soap is a cold-process bar, made in our workshop in St. Louis. We do this the old-fashioned way, using lye to turn room-temperature oils into soap. This happens through a chemical process called saponification. The lye solution breaks the chemical bonds in the oils, producing the fatty acid salts that we call soap.
Because lye is caustic, this process is the most dangerous thing we do at Federal Color. It's also really fun, because the chemical reaction happens quickly and you can watch the raw ingredients transform into soap batter over the course of a few minutes. Then, we pour it into molds.
Finally, we cure the soap for a few weeks on a high shelf in the warehouse. This step reduces the soap's moisture content, makes it more gentle, and makes it easier to generate lather. We test a mini bar with our own brushes (and hands) before it's ready to ship out.
Made in St. Louis by Federal Color for brushes & paint-stained hands
This is version 2.0 of our Artist's Essential Bar Soap, with a new and improved formula that lasts longer and cleans even better than before.
We use a balanced blend of natural oils in our artist soap, designed in our Color Lab to provide great results for both brushes and hands. We use coconut oil to make a cleansing bar that lasts a long time; we add a generous dose of olive oil for conditioning; and we add castor oil for outstanding lather and creamy texture.
Bergamot is our signature fragrance at Federal Color, and this soap uses a heavy pour of bergamot essential oil to define its overall aroma. Then, we enrich the scent-scape with notes of clove and orange.
How It's Made
Artist's Essential Bar Soap is a cold-process bar, made in our workshop in St. Louis. We do this the old-fashioned way, using lye to turn room-temperature oils into soap. This happens through a chemical process called saponification. The lye solution breaks the chemical bonds in the oils, producing the fatty acid salts that we call soap.
Because lye is caustic, this process is the most dangerous thing we do at Federal Color. It's also really fun, because the chemical reaction happens quickly and you can watch the raw ingredients transform into soap batter over the course of a few minutes. Then, we pour it into molds.
Finally, we cure the soap for a few weeks on a high shelf in the warehouse. This step reduces the soap's moisture content, makes it more gentle, and makes it easier to generate lather. We test a mini bar with our own brushes (and hands) before it's ready to ship out.
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Made in St. Louis by Federal Color for brushes & paint-stained hands
This is version 2.0 of our Artist's Essential Bar Soap, with a new and improved formula that lasts longer and cleans even better than before.
We use a balanced blend of natural oils in our artist soap, designed in our Color Lab to provide great results for both brushes and hands. We use coconut oil to make a cleansing bar that lasts a long time; we add a generous dose of olive oil for conditioning; and we add castor oil for outstanding lather and creamy texture.
Bergamot is our signature fragrance at Federal Color, and this soap uses a heavy pour of bergamot essential oil to define its overall aroma. Then, we enrich the scent-scape with notes of clove and orange.
How It's Made
Artist's Essential Bar Soap is a cold-process bar, made in our workshop in St. Louis. We do this the old-fashioned way, using lye to turn room-temperature oils into soap. This happens through a chemical process called saponification. The lye solution breaks the chemical bonds in the oils, producing the fatty acid salts that we call soap.
Because lye is caustic, this process is the most dangerous thing we do at Federal Color. It's also really fun, because the chemical reaction happens quickly and you can watch the raw ingredients transform into soap batter over the course of a few minutes. Then, we pour it into molds.
Finally, we cure the soap for a few weeks on a high shelf in the warehouse. This step reduces the soap's moisture content, makes it more gentle, and makes it easier to generate lather. We test a mini bar with our own brushes (and hands) before it's ready to ship out.
