Our most popular soap among locals, these hand and body soaps are made with windfall whidbey Douglas fir and western red cedar branches (and sometimes branches gifted from trusted neighbors who had to trim branches due to deck or home expansions or home or land maintenance projects. We also add a few local roses (rose petals, buds, and new leaves) to the mix because so many wild rugosa and Nootka roses greet us as we walk into and out of the woods here. The ground tips make the soap more exfoliating. The soap cleans like a champ and most people find the fir+cedar+rose scent to be both relaxing and invigorating--a magic that we entirely attribute to the forest we wander, listen to, and love. 

We call this our forest-bathing soap, because for us using this soap in the shower or the bath has a similar relaxing, calming, and eventually invigorating effect to how we feel when walking in the woods. They live in our Safety & Welcome family because the forest helps us feel welcome on earth--exactly as we are--most days. 

Storage and life of the bar: To extend the life of the bar, store it where it can dry quickly after use (such as on a soap rest, soap drainer, or on a folded, dry wash cloth) and where it doesn't get regular spray from the faucet. 

Size: Four-ounce bars  

Ingredients: Whidbey windfall and gifted Douglas fir and Western red cedar branches plus our own garden roses and wild roses (petals, buds, and new leaves) infused into olive oil (a blend of organic and trusted non-organic), organic coconut oil, shea butter, castor oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide, sodium lactate, dried & ground springtime fir tips from Whidbey, and a small amount of fir, cedar, and rose essential oils (small amount of rose essential oil in jojoba oil).

Packaging: The soap boxes are reusable, compostable, and in some places, recyclable. Visit the Packaging page of this website for more details. If you would prefer no packaging at all, mention that in the Comments field when you order.

We made this offering at the request of neighbors and friends. Finally, folks, here it is! Made with trusted fresh local plants and herbs--that we grew and hand gathered on land we love--to soothe occasional joint discomfort, pain, and inflammation caused by injuries, sprains and strains, overuse or lack of use of muscles, or heavy physical activity. Visit your doctor, nurse practitioner, naturopath, and/or clinical herbalist whenever pain persists precious people! 

To use: Apply to sore joints using clean fingers, one to three times a day, as needed. Stop using if your skin doesn't like the plants in this salve. Visit your health care professional if pain persists.

Ingredients: Olive oil infused with local goldenrod (Solidago), self-heal (Prunella vulgaris), stinging nettles (Urtica dioica), rosemary (Salvia rosmarinus), black cottonwood buds (Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa), and calendula (Calendula officinalis), local beeswax, plus peppermint (2 drops per tin) and rosemary (2 drop per tin) essential oils.

Relationships and sourcing: We work as grateful learners and partners with local plants, flowers, lichens, herbs, forests, and fields who we consider kin, elders, and friends. The plants in this offering were either grown here at Ritual Mischief or ethically gathered on friends' trusted lands--by us--on Whidbey Island and surrounding areas. We receive local beeswax from Hive Harvest on the Olympic Peninsula.   

Size/packaging: Reusable, 2-ounce, metal screw-top tin. See the Packaging page of this website for more details. 

Medical Disclaimer: Avoid this salve if you have a known allergy to any of the ingredients listed within it. And as with all our products, if your body doesn't like the plant or product, listen to your body and stop using it. To make well-informed decisions for yourself, seek the guidance of your qualified health professional, such your medical doctor, nurse practitioner, naturopathic physician, and/or clinical herbalist with questions regarding your medical conditions, dosage information, and possible ingredient interactions with prescription drugs. This is especially important if you are pregnant, breastfeeding, taking prescription drugs, have a chronic disease or any chronic health concern, if you have allergies, or if you have never touched, worked with, or used products with these plants in them before. The information on this page is for general reference for further exploration and study. It is not intended as a replacement for professional medical advice. See the Medical Disclaimer page of this website for more details.