Every single bar is mixed, poured, and individually cut by hand so you may notice charming, subtle variations in size, weight, and color between batches. I describe and photograph the collections as accurately as possible. The unique bar that arrives at your doorstep may not look exactly like the bar pictured because it's a one of a kind creation with its own beautiful personality.

Full Bars: At least 4 oz or more.

Free Gift: Every soap order I send out includes either a free soap saver bag or a soap saver pad. I also love surprising customers with little extras whenever available, such as stickers, samples, or other small goodies tucked into your package. Because who doesn’t love happy mail? 💜

Soap Saver Bag: A textured, eco-friendly pouch made from natural fibers. Simply pop your soap bar inside to create a rich, bubbly lather while gently exfoliating your skin. It is also perfect for holding those tiny, leftover soap scraps so nothing goes to waste! When you are done, use the drawstring to hang it up so your soap dries perfectly between uses.

Soap Saver Pad: A porous cushion that sits right on your countertop or shower shelf. It elevates your soap bar above standing water, allowing air to circulate completely underneath. By keeping your bar high and dry, it prevents your soap from turning into mush and extends its lifespan.

All of my products come in a nice presentation and make a great gift. If sending as a gift, please leave me a note during checkout and I can add a small gift card with your message if you’d like.

These handcrafted soap bars are made with a blend of traditional oils, botanicals, and other carefully selected ingredients. For many people, daily cleansing is more than a routine, it can be a simple moment to slow down and care for both the body and mind.

Unlike many commercially produced soaps that rely on synthetic detergents, artificial fragrances, and other additives that leave your skin feeling dry and tight, these bars provide a gentle cleansing experience while helping maintain the skin's natural moisture and balance.

Nature provides everything needed to cleanse deeply while preserving your skin's natural vitality.

Why I Love These Ingredients

The 5-Oil & Butter Base

This formulation meticulously balances five premium, plant-derived oils and butters to create a dense, conditioning bar with a luxurious lather. As the soap cures, it naturally retains its skin conditioning glycerin. This nourishing foundation blankets your skin in essential fatty acids, protective lipids, and vital nutrients, ensuring your skin barrier feels thoroughly hydrated, supple, and healthy after every rinse.

Olive Oil: Deeply rich in natural polyphenols, vitamins and oleic acid to deeply condition, cushion the skin barrier, combat environmental stressors, and lock in intense moisture.
Coconut Oil: Provides unparalleled natural cleansing power and creates a rich, fluffy, and abundant bubble structure.
Shea Butter: Packed with dense fatty acids to intensely soften rough texture, shield dry areas, and deliver a smooth velvet finish.
Avocado Oil: Loaded with vitamins A, D, and E to deeply penetrate, calm surface sensitivity, and support skin elasticity.
Castor Oil: Acts as a powerful natural humectant that pulls moisture into the skin while stabilizing a creamy, long-lasting foam.

The Healing Botanicals & Plant Essences

Every herb and pure essential oil is selected for its distinct therapeutic legacy in historical herbalism. Rich in natural antioxidants, purifying compounds, and aromatherapeutic properties, these botanical elements work together to feed your skin while delivering a deeply restorative sensory escape right in your shower.

Indigo Powder: A historic, plant-derived botanical colorant prized for its rich, calming hue and natural skin soothing properties.

Peppermint Essential Oil: A cooling, vibrant botanical kick that instantly breaks through brain fog, sharpens mental clarity, and energizes your spirit.

Eucalyptus Essential Oil: A highly clarifying herbal companion renowned for soothing deep muscle fatigue, easing tension, and opening up clear breathing.

Each unique soap variety enhances these core benefits by pairing this signature nourishing base with intentional plant botanicals and pure, therapeutic scent profiles.

Saponified Oils (Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Shea Butter, Avocado Oil, Castor Oil). Indigo Powder, Peppermint Essential Oil, Eucalyptus Essential Oil.

How To Use

Lather over wet skin. To extend the life of your handcrafted bar, allow it to dry completely between uses on a draining dish, soap saver pad or use a soap saver bag and hang up when not in use. Gentle enough for daily use.

Storage & Shelf Life

Store unused bars in a cool, dark, and dry place. For the best scent and lather experience, use within 12 months of purchase.

Important Information & Warnings

For external use only. Do not ingest.
Avoid contact with eyes. If contact occurs, rinse thoroughly with water.
If under a physician's care, consult your healthcare provider before use.
Please review the ingredients list for any potential allergens before purchasing.
These products contain natural real plant matter and/or essential oils but as with any product, a patch test on skin before full use is still recommended. Discontinue use if irritation or redness develops.
Keep out of reach of unsupervised children and pets.

A Note on Essential Oils

Because these handcrafted bars are scented with essential oils, we recommend that pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, those with medical conditions or under a physicians care and families with young children consult with their healthcare provider before introducing them to their daily routine.

Disclaimer

The statements presented on this site have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. The products offered on this website are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

🐓 Who’s Mama Red?

Hi, I’m Tameron and most people know me as Mama Red. I own and run Bella Mia Farmstead (and Bella Mia Botanicals), a small, one woman farm in rural Western New York.

I raise and breed chickens, tend my gardens, and live a homestead life alongside my dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, turkeys, and quail. For my boring day job, I’m a web developer and designer, which is why my little farm happens to have a pretty website.

Bella Mia Botanicals began in much the same way many good things do, through curiosity, a love of herbs, and a desire to create products with ingredients I felt good about using for myself and my family.

Like many others, I started paying closer attention to ingredient labels. The more I researched, the more surprised I became by how many products we use every day that contain long lists of ingredients I couldn't pronounce, didn't recognize, or simply didn't feel comfortable using anymore. That realization sparked a personal mission to replace as many of those products as possible with simpler, more natural alternatives made from ingredients I could identify, understand, and trust.

What started as a personal journey into herbs, homesteading, gardening, and natural living slowly grew into a collection of handcrafted products made with care, intention, and a healthy appreciation for the beauty of simple ingredients.

I believe self care doesn't have to be complicated. Sometimes it's as simple as a warm bath, a quiet moment, and ingredients inspired and created by nature.

When you support Bella Mia Botanicals, you're supporting a real person, a small farm, and a dream that's still growing one batch at a time.

Thank you for supporting my small business and allowing me to share a little piece of what I love with you.

-- Mama Red 💜

In a world filled with mass produced unhealthy products, I believe there is something special about slowing down and creating natural products the old fashioned way.

Every Bella Mia Botanicals product is thoughtfully selected, handcrafted, or produced in small batches with a focus on simple ingredients, botanical traditions, and quality you can feel good about.

What Makes My Products Different?

✦ Handcrafted in Small Batches: My products are handcrafted in small batches and packaged by hand to help ensure quality, freshness, and attention to detail.

✦ Real Herbs & Botanicals: I use pure herbs, flowers, teas, fruits, mineral salts, clays, oils, butters, essential oils and botanical ingredients. Whenever possible, I choose organic ingredients and prioritize simple, thoughtfully selected materials that align with my botanical first philosophy. Every ingredient is chosen for a reason, whether it's its beauty, traditional use, unique properties, health benefits or the experience it brings to your self care routine.

✦ Simple Ingredients You Can Feel Good About: Rather than building products around overpowering fragrance, artificial colors, or unnecessary additives, I focus on the herbs, flowers, minerals, and plant based ingredients that make each blend beneficial and unique.

You'll never find harsh detergents, sulfates, phthalates, parabens, petrochemicals, mineral oil, silicone, talc, artificial colors, synthetic dyes or fragrances, or unnecessary fillers in my products. I avoid ingredients that don't align with my philosophy and instead focus on simple ingredients inspired and created by nature.

✦ Made With Care: From the ingredients I choose to the products I create and curate, my goal is to offer items I'd proudly use in my own home and share with my own family.

Bella Mia Botanicals began with a simple belief: Nature already provides many beautiful, healing, beneficial ingredients worth using and celebrating. My goal is to bring those ingredients together into healthy products that encourage people to slow down, relax, and enjoy a few moments of self care in a busy world.

Plus you’ll be supporting my little farm, not a big company, corporation or warehouse 

📦 Shipping: Shipping is calculated at checkout based on package size and destination. All orders over $75 ship free.

Because every Bella Mia Botanicals product is handcrafted in small, fresh batches, orders typically ship twice per week. This helps ensure your products aren't sitting pre-filled on a shelf for weeks before being shipped.

If you need a rush order, feel free to message me before placing your order and I'll do my best to accommodate your request.

Orders generally ship via USPS Ground Advantage, though I may occasionally use UPS Ground depending on the order size, destination, or shipping requirements.

Once your order ships, you'll receive an email containing your tracking information.

How often can I use these soap bars?

These gentle bars are formulated for daily use! They're mild enough to use every single day on your face, hands, and body without drying out your skin.

How do I make my handcrafted soap bar last longer?

Handcrafted soaps last the longest when allowed to dry completely between uses. To extend the life of your bar, always store it on a draining dish, soap saver pad or elevate it out of standing water. You can also use a drawstring soap saver bag and hang it up to air dry when not using.

What is the shelf life of these soap bars?

Our natural soap bars do not contain synthetic preservatives and are best enjoyed within 12 months of purchase. Over time, the pure plant essential oils may naturally begin to fade slightly in scent, but the bar remains completely safe and effective to use. To maximize freshness, store unused bars in a cool, dark, and dry location away from high humidity.

Are these safe for sensitive skin?

Yes! Our 100% natural base is specifically curated to avoid common irritants, making it an excellent choice for sensitive skin types. However, because everyone's skin is unique and our formulas contain real plant botanicals and essential oils, we always recommend doing a quick patch test on your inner forearm before your first full use.

Can I use these if I am pregnant, nursing or under a physicians care? Are they safe for children?

Because these handcrafted bars are scented with essential oils, we recommend that pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, those with medical conditions or under a physicians care and families with young children consult with their healthcare provider before introducing them to their daily routine.

What does "Plant-Derived Scent" mean?

We care deeply about what goes onto your skin, which is why we strictly avoid synthetic fragrance oils, artificial perfumes, and toxic phthalates. The aromatherapeutic scents in our bars come exclusively from pure essential oils, absolutes, and natural plant extracts, giving you a clean, grounding experience free from harsh chemicals.

Will these bars leave a heavy residue or film on my skin?

Not at all! Our balanced blend of skin-loving plant oils (like Olive, Avocado, and Shea Butter) delivers deep hydration, while Castor and Coconut oils ensure a rich lather that rinses away completely clean. Your skin will feel soft, supple, and conditioned, with zero tight or waxy chemical residue left behind.

Why does my soap bar look slightly different from the photo online?

Every single bar is mixed, poured, and individually cut by hand so you may notice charming, subtle variations in size, weight, and color between batches. I describe and photograph the collections as accurately as possible. The unique bar that arrives at your doorstep may not look exactly like the bar pictured because it's a one of a kind creation with its own beautiful personality.

Additional FAQs can be found HERE.

For complete shop policies, please review the following pages before placing your order:

🔗 Refund & Returns Policy

🔗 Shipping Policy

If you have any questions or need assistance, please don't hesitate to reach out. I'm always happy to help.

Thank you for supporting my small business! 💜🌿

If you're wondering why some of my product photos look more "real life" than magazine cover, there's a good reason for that. My photography skills are terrible. I'm great at digital design and a lot of other things, but photography, unfortunately is not one of them. Haha!

Bella Mia Botanicals is a very small business, and most product photos are taken by me right here at home between making products, feeding animals, gardening, chasing chickens, and trying to remember what I walked into the room for.

Professional photography is still on my "someday" list. For now, I do my best with the camera on my phone, questionable lighting, and a workroom that seems determined to make every photo look yellow and darker than it actually is. I can make some breathtaking photos in my graphics design software and even with AI but I don't want to alter my photos. I want to stay true to what they are.

The good news? What you see is the real product you'll receive, no stock photos, no heavily altered images, and no surprises when your package arrives. And I can assure you they all look way more beautiful in person than they do in my amateur photos.

Thanks for supporting a small business that's still growing, learning, and improving every day.

-- Mama Red 💜