Description

Shea butter adds a rich and luxurious feel to this soap. Now also imagine the feeling of silk on your skin. Your luxury bar of soap contains both creating a glorious silky glide on your skin. Great lather.

Each soap is handcrafted and unique. They will never look exactly the same

I chose Tussah silk over Bombyx Mori, commonly known as the domesticated, farmed mulberry silk-worm moth. Tussah is wild harvested mostly in India, and whilst no certificate was provided, my source is harvested after the moth has naturally vacated her cocoon and gone on to mate. In the mulberry silk industry, the entire cocoon with larvae/pupae inside are boiled. In my eyes, there is no justification for latter.

MYTHS, STORIES & INSPIRATION

I’m entranced by crystals formed deep within our earth. They are far more beautiful in their entire geode formation than when split into individual pieces. I have this urge to try and recreate them in soap, many times with poetic license when they don’t quite appear as I’d envisaged.

Having imported a gorgeous fragrance with rave reviews, called Persephone’s Kiss, I wondered at who Persephone was.

Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter, was the mythical Goddess of the Underworld and the Embodiment of Spring.

She became the queen of the Underworld after her abduction by her uncle Hades, the god of the underworld.

While Persephone was picking flowers from a field, Hades burst through a crack in the earth driving his chariot and snatched her as she cried for help. Her mother Demeter searched long for her with no success before being informed that Hades had taken her to be his queen, with the approval of Zeus. Persephone was not allowed to return to the world above until Demeter prevented all plants from growing, causing a famine and forcing Zeus to demand that Hades let her go. Persephone however had consumed some pomegranate seeds while in the Underworld, and having eaten food from Hades’ realm she could not leave. Zeus settled this by decreeing that Persephone would spend some months in the Underworld with her husband, and the rest of the year above with her mother.

The myth of her abduction, her sojourn in the underworld and her temporary return to the surface represents her functions as the embodiment of spring and the personification of vegetation, especially grain crops, which disappear into the earth when sown, sprout from the earth in spring, and are harvested when fully grown.

The name seemed additionally so appropriate for a geode.