BLACK MUD Soap

There is a place on this earth where the water is so dense with ancient minerals that you cannot sink.

You simply float.

The Dead Sea sits at the lowest point on the planet — 1,400 feet below sea level — and has been doing so for approximately three million years. Pharaohs bathed in it. Cleopatra reportedly commissioned trade routes for its mud alone. People have traveled extraordinary distances, across deserts and centuries, for the particular thing it does to skin.

We put it in a bar of soap.

BLACK MUD is not a novelty. It is not a gimmick. It is thirty-five minerals — magnesium, potassium, calcium, silicon among them — suspended in a rich black mud harvested from one of the most singular bodies of water on earth, worked into a bar that transforms an ordinary shower in Troy, New York into something that feels, improbably, like a private spa at the edge of an ancient sea.

The fragrance does not apologize for its ambition. Salty sea air at the top. Driftwood and clean sand underneath. Then, quiet and unhurried, sea moss and soft violets, jasmine and lily rose, a complexity that reveals itself slowly, the way a good landscape does when you stop moving long enough to actually look.

Coconut oil and Olive oil. The oils that have been doing this work for centuries, before anyone put them in bottles and called them revolutionary.

Handcrafted in small batches. Naturally biodegradable.
Three million years in the making.
Worth every penny.

Net wt. 4.2 oz. Ships from Troy, New York.

ingredients: saponified oils (coconut, olive, rice bran, soybean, castor), briny water, dead sea mud, fragrance.