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About Us
Meet the Maker
Creating gorgeously gallus hand-made soaps, bath salts and shampoo bars and shower steamers. For those who want something completely natural and sustainable, but with an added extra something.
Gallus and Green was born out of desire to do something purely for me. I'm Sian and I was furloughed from my proper job for what felt like forever. I enrolled in a craft soap making workshop and the rest is history. With some spare time on my hands, these beautiful creations gave me some much needed me-time. Call me selfish? Call me gallus?
Sustainable
All of our products are made with sustainability in mind. The colour comes from natural mineral pigments and all the scents from essential oils, extracted from plants.
We try to be as zero waste as possible and the beautiful packaging can be recycled, reused or composted, if you can bear to part with it. As we add products to our range, it is essential the packaging is sustainable, which can be challenging but options are improving, so keep your eyes peeled for some newness.
Not one drop of palm oil goes into our soaps (you wouldn’t believe those soaps that still use it). Nothing is tested on animals. There are no synthetic fragrances or colours. All the ingredients are completely natural.
Unique
Every soap uses the same recipe but every one will be unique.
A base mix of light olive oil, rich shea butter and opulent castor oil, to which we add the finest essential oils and mineral pigments.
How the soap looks will differ between every single bar. Poured by hand, cut by hand, bevelled and then stamped by hand. A huge amount of love goes into every bar we cut. Each soap then gets wrapped in the most gorgeous paper to create an extra special luxury finish.
Caring for your soap
It’s taken 6 weeks for your soap to be in perfect condition for you to use.
It’s really important you look after it. Soap’s (and shampoo bar's) best friend is air. If you can ensure your soap has the chance to dry out between uses, it will last so much longer.
Use a soap dish or rest with lots of holes, so the bar doesn’t sit in water. The fewer the contact points between bar and dish the better. We love and wholly recommend the Coconut Soap Rest.
And when your soap gets so small you can hardly keep it in your hand, use one of our glorious creations from our friends at Willow Tree Yarnery. Just pop your soap into the soap pod and lather up. Use your bar right to the very end. No wastage.
Wrapping
All our soaps come beautifully wrapped in Cadeaux Paper. All of their gift wrap is made using paper from sustainable sources and produced in the U.K. We use their 100gsm uncoated paper stock, so our wrap remains luxuriously thick and maintains its beautiful matt finish.
It's printed using vegetable oil-based inks rather than petroleum-based inks making it easier to recycle and minimise its environmental impact.
To find out more about their paper visit their website.
https://www.cadeauxpaperworks.com/
The bath salts come in a gorgeous dark amber glass jar which can be reused and refilled with our pouches, which are also compostable.