Brown Rice Family soap

Michelle and I stopped by the Natty Garden today so that she could get her plants repotted into some new pots by Joel, and I wanted to check out the soap that the Brown Rice Family was selling out front, next to the vegetables and the coconuts. There was about seven different varieties of soap wrapped in simple kraft paper; the soap is completely hand made by Joe and Yuichi. I bought the cedar mint soap ($10) and a peppermint soap ($7), but they also had a Ylang Ylang soap, and Orange soap, hmmm, and a few others which I now cannot remember. I then immediately came home and took a shower to try out my new soap, and if you overlook the little bits of cedar detritus that litter the tub after you use it, the cedar mint soap is truly delicious feeling. It has some sort of exfoliating grittiness that feels incredibly pleasant against your skin, and then scent is a very light scent that smells like you went camping in a forest. But a clean camping smell, not like you just hiked the Appalachian Trail and have stinking feet, but more like you happily rolled around in a patch of moss underneath a beautiful cedar tree.

If you happen to buy the soap directly from Joe + Yuichi, they have a very nice binder detailing the ingredients in each soap and the story behind each one as well. But unfortunately, this is not available on their website yet. However, if you want to buy some of their divine cedar mint soap, please send them an email at soap@brownricefamily.com Seriously, you will love the soap.