Anna's Sweet EsSCENTials: healthy, all-natural olive oil handmade soaps

Anna's Sweet EsSCENTials -- Handcrafted Specialty Soaps

Anna's EsSCENTials handcrafted herbal soaps and natural body products are made with olive oil, sunflower oil and other exotic oils such as hazelnut, almond, kukui nut and wheat germ. Herbs or other additives, essential oils or high-quality fragrance oils ensure our handmade soaps are wonderful treats for yourself or a loved one.

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Easter Baskets

Holiday baskets and customized, handmade gift sets are available. On this site you will also find handmade gifts from other Kentucky artists. Contact us for word of new arrivals.

At one time, soap was a precious commodity, with mentions going back as far as 2500 B.C.

Our handcrafted, fragrant soaps combine moisturizing natural ingredients with health benefits of herbs and skin-care additives.

Handmade soaps come in all shapes and sizes. Anna's EsSCENTials uses only the best vegetable oils and ingredients. We never use tallow or animal fats, and of course use no animal testing.

While all-vegetable, quality handmade soaps are not as scarce as they used to be, they must still be searched out. A pure, natural soap may cost a bit more, but you are paying for fine ingredients rather than fancy packaging of synthetic soaps. We leave out unwanted chemicals and preservatives which are part of nearly every commercial bar of soap.

A good handcrafted soap is the best health bargain available. For $5 a month, you pamper your skin with healthful ingredients and eliminate unwanted chemicals. higher price tags. When you buy soap, be sure you're not paying for the packaging instead of what's inside.

Real Handmade Soap

Everybody loves good soap!
Anna's EsSCENTials Bodycare creates fine handmade olive oil soap and body products. Made the slow, old-fashioned cold-process way at our Kentucky soap studio, we use only the purest vegetable oils (olive, sunflower, hemp, almond, coconut, wheat germ and hazelnut for example). We add essential or fragrance oils, herbs, and skin-care additives such as almond butter, shea butter, goat's milk, honey, orange bits and oatmeal.

A selection of Anna's handmade specialty soaps.

Handmade soap - a healthy treat for your skin

Handmade soap, especially an olive oil soap, can be an amazing treat for your skin. Olive oil is a natural humectant, meaning it attracts moisture without clogging up pores. If you've never tried an olive oil soap, we urge you to look through our list of handmade soaps on the products page. They are all designed to treat your face and body with gentle, moisturizing care.

Our handcrafted soaps contain naturally-occurring glycerin (usually extracted by commercial soap manufacturers for lotions) for a wonderfully luxurious, silky feel.

Appreciated gifts too!

A natural soap can be a work of art! Anna's handmade soaps are created in very small batches and designed to make a stunning display or a wonderful gift. Each bar is hand-cut, a generous 4-5 oz. size, and we often add flowers (lavender, calendula, rose petals), citrus peels and rare moisturizing oils for that special zest and unique appeal.

Each bar of handmade soap has its own special character, but all are mild and great for sensitive skin. We use a slow, cold-process method to saponify oils, resulting in a moisturizing soap with a wonderful, creamy lather.

soap and dish

Anna's line of handmade soaps and natural body care products is constantly expanding as we develop new recipes. Bookmark this page and come back often. If you¹re looking for a special fragrance or type of handmade soap, contact us to check on our latest creations.

On the internet or in quality shops

We place our Kentucky handcrafted soaps in quality health food and gift shops. We also distribute them at craft fairs and farmer's markets as well as shipping across the country for internet orders. We can fill small- to medium-sized handmade soap orders immediately. For large soap or body product orders, please allow a four- to six-week lead time.

Anna's natural body care products

We take the same care with our handmade body products as we do with our soaps. And there is good reason to prefer handmade body care products over their commercial relatives. Besides the fresh ingredients and special care, you are eliminating a long list of potent and potentially toxic chemicals from your body care routines.

Currently, we offer a wonderful shea butter face and body cream, a fantastic lip balm, a lovely skin-softening hemp lotion, a foot massage and healing cream, cuticle cream and more. Add these natural skin care products to your soap order and create an instant, treasured handcrafted gift set.

As featured on a television show on the Do It Yourself (DIY) network and on the front page of the Owen County News Herald!

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emailing Anna's or send postal mail to:
Anna's EsSCENTials Bodycare
114 W. Bryan, P.O. Box 159
Owenton, KY 40359

Photography Credits

Group photo shown above, as well as close-up group photo on Products page, courtesy of and copyright 2000 by Andrew Northrup, Northrup Photography. All other photography copyright 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Anna's EsSCENTials.

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Anna's Sweet EsSCENTials
114 West Bryan, PO Box 159
Owenton, KY 40359
(502) 484-2333 voice (502) 484-2337 fax

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