Our Philosophy

The skin lets in nearly seventy percent of everything applied to its surface. That’s seventy percent of all the bleaches, artificial fragrances, aluminium, sulfates, silicones, steroids, and petrochemicals often found in mass-produced skincare.

That’s why we got busy creating non-toxic recipes with the highest quality oils and essential oils. You can feel and smell the difference!

Our Promise





Toxin Free

Nothing goes into our creations that harms the skin or the body. Everything is carefully selected to nourish, protect, heal, or calm the skin. Our fragrance oils are non-toxic & essential oils are pure to avoid nasty perfume headaches!

High Quality Ingredients

We always choose the most high quality ingredients, from organic sources. Even our emulsifiers are natural - we only use olive or vegetable derived emulsifiers.

Guaranteed

If there is an issue with your order owing to manufacturing defects or errors, we will happily accept returns for a refund or replacement in accordance to our returns policy.

Artisanal

All of our creations are lovingly hand crafted and made in small batches, never factory-produced. As a result, every soap looks and smells unique!

Our Story

Gourmet Soap Kitchen is a small manufacturing business in Wagga Wagga, started 25 years ago in 1999 - originally Riverina Soap Kitchen. Founder Angela Forman is passionate about health, having had children with eczema and having the frustration of recommended products not working. She researched and found that the ingredients in these products were harmful to children and possibly further aggravating the condition.

As the business has grown, we now have the satisfaction of being able to help others with skin conditions who have been suffering for many years and, like Angela, had no luck with over-the-counter or even prescription creams and soaps.

Along with Angela, there is me - her daughter Bridgett. As a child up until now, I have suffered and suffered due to my eczema and not had any luck with commercial products. I have had eczema all over my legs, arms, hands, face, wrists, and chest. Thankfully, I have a mother who cared so much about skin that she started a business! Now our soaps are the only ones I use. I hope to pass on the benefits that I received to others.

Our aim is to produce the highest quality soaps. Today’s soaps are often derived from petroleum by-products, sulphates and surfactants. They often contain cheap ingredients with debatable levels of safety and sustainability. Many manufactures choose to use cheaper oils, such as palm oil, with no real skin benefits and a significant impact on the environment. We instead choose to source the best possible oils and waxes, many of these sourced locally, directly from farmers. This allows us to know exactly where the oils come from so that we know they are grown free of chemicals. We get all of our olive oil and honey & beeswax from local farmers in the Riverina that treat their land and their bees with respect and care.

With a strong emphasis on health, we design and manufacture nearly all our products on site and develop our own unique recipes formulated to target specific needs.