Lady True Soap and Body Care

 of Spirit Medicine Soap Co.

Est 1996 – A family tradition passed on through many generations~

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Thank you for your interest in my naturally sourced products.

My soaps are created with high quality food grade oils, herbs, roots, and essential oils. Some include tallow or manteca (lard)– like the old fashioned soaps that my predessesors made.

My product line consists of soaps, healing balm, CBD and Trementina salves. I also make lotions. I use high quality scented oils for limited lines of my soap products.

The soap tradition in my family goes back many generations. Through oral history, I learned that my great grandfather Simon Lopez and his brothers were soapmakers. The Lopez family are natives of the San Luis Valley. My grandmother, Simon’s daughter, Inez Lopez Trujillo was also a soapmaker. I don’t know who taught my great grandfather and his brothers- who were born in the 1800’s. Some people remember my grandmother making soap in a big pot over a fire outdoors. I love this memory and that they shared it with me!

Fast forward to the 1970’s…While playing hide and seek with my Tia (Maria Trujillo Dominguez) and hiding under a bed, I found a flat wooden box with no lid that was filled with home made soap. My grandma explained this was lye soap that she had made and the “box” was the soap mold. I was intrigued. Because my grandma was very protective over me, she would only give me small bits of information about soapmaking – because she did not want me messing around with lye and it took years to get enough information for me to start my soapmaking journey😊I was very persisitant.

As an adult, I began to do my own research. I learned that lye is the driver for the process of combining oil with water to make soap. This process is called saponofication. The end product is oil and salt – soap. I started making soap in 1996. I did many experiments with oils other than tallow because the old fashioned soap did not smell good. One of my cousins shared that my great grandfather used to add trementina (pine sap) or yerba buena (mint) leaves to his soap. Through experiments and trial and error, I developed my soap products and they were welcomed by people who used it as a very healing soap, and some say as an age defying product, and that it was effective for cleaning and caring for the skin, and not harsh like the old fashioned lye soap. Most of all, people love it because soapmaking is a throwback to the old days when the elders in the San Luis Valley used to make soap.

My soaps are made with love ~ with the ancestors in mind ~ and as a way to continue tradition.

 

                                                             Lady True Soap and Body Care ~ Maureen Trujillo