The Soapery is a handmade natural products maker with a small shop at 9 Tory Street in Maitai, Nelson. It makes artisan cold-process soaps, soy wax candles, room sprays, solid shampoo and conditioner bars, lip balms, perfumes, hand cream, body lotion, face cream and calendula balm. The website says the products use natural vegetable oils and pure essential oils, with no palm oil and no plastic packaging, and that everything is made by hand.
Customers praise the soaps for leaving skin soft without stripping it, the solid shampoo bars, and the face cream for sensitive skin. One says the gift soaps arrived quickly and wrapped well. The Soapery sells at the Nelson Saturday Market and other Nelson-area markets as well as at the shop. Our pick in Nelson for handmade natural soaps and gifts.