Quality - Handcrafted - Harmony

Unique infusions of herbs, oils, essences, and quality ingredients. Soaps, Body Lotions, Hydrosol Calming Sprays

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Our exquisite soaps are crafted and wrapped in Lake Wales, FL. Our proprietor handcrafts soaps with premium ingredients. Other Products are sold in our small onsite shops located in sunny Central Florida, USA.

About Calming Star

Calming Star sources its ingredients from reputable suppliers and experienced in-house Soap Alchemists. We follow proper formulation techniques to ensure the safety and effectiveness of our soaps, sprays, and body lotions. This includes outsourcing and consulting with two healthcare professionals who provide their suggestions prior to selling any item in our product line. Our owner also hand-mills eight of the most popular soap varieties. Our product line is small, artisan-made, and handcrafted in the USA. Calming Star is a business founded on providing quality products that will empower, enlighten, and enchant all the senses. Quality Handcrafted Harmony 🧼🍾🎨

Latest News - Blog June/July 2025

We are also excited to have our products available at the Antique Emporium in the Eagle Ridge Mall, located in beautiful Lake Wales, FL, USA. Come browse the wonderful items in the Antique Emporium, and while you're there, support our local mall by enjoying delicious food at the food court and exploring other stores, such as Claire's, Foot Locker, GameStop, Dillard's, Spencer's, and more. Do you feel like getting a massage or having your nails done? This mall has those too. Feel like a movie? Go see one in the mall's Regal Cinema and buy some delicious popcorn, even if you don't want to see a movie!

Antique Emporium is located in the mall at 732 Eagle Ridge Dr, Suite 532, Lake Wales, FL 33859. Come by and you will be greeted with a friendly smile! Stop by our Booth, located towards the back, by the mirrors. "Calming" is our motto!

Stay tuned for more!

Hand-Milled Soaps - Unique Creations

About Calming Star Soaps - Yes they are thin and easy to hold.

Our soaps are cold-processed. This is the "old-fashioned" way of making soap.
Any time you add water to a recipe, bacteria can grow in your product before the item is completely used. Many preservatives advocated by the purists in the natural crowd only last several weeks and are very inconsistent. Safety first.

A word about that scary "lye":

"Saponified soap" simply means that the soap has undergone the saponification process.  Saponification is the chemical reaction that transforms fats, oils and a strong alkali, such as lye, into soap. It's SOAP. It occurs when fats or oils are combined with a strong alkali such as sodium hydroxide (lye) or potassium hydroxide (stronger than lye). Essentially, "saponified soap" is any soap created through this traditional soap-making process. So, in essence, most traditional, handmade soaps are "saponified soaps."

There's more?

All of our olive oil soaps are vegan. However, we make the popular "Unscented Goat Milk Soap," which is not vegan. What creates the great lather in our soaps? Premium Coconut oil. Whenever we researched handcrafted soaps, we found that approximately 90% of them include coconut oil. It makes fantastic lather. Another excellent quality of coconut oil is its very mild pH level, which is awesome for human skin.

Our Hand-Milled soaps are rebatched quality soaps crafted by the company owner, Ruth. She has selected the most popular fragrances and spends a considerable amount of time on each soap that she creates, wraps, and sells in our various small vendor shops.

After all, it's soap. 🧼

I hope this clarifies!