Our Ingredients
All of our products feature high-quality ingredients that are intentionally curated to provide the best possible experience when enjoying our collection of bath, body, and home goods. If you have any questions about our ingredients or particular products, feel free to reach us at ahoy@oldwhalingcompany.com.
Bar Soap Ingredients
All of our handcrafted bar soaps contain the following base ingredients:
- Olive Oil (olea europaea)
- Water
- Coconut Oil (cocos mucifera)
- Soybean Oil (glycine soja)
- Lye (sodium hydroxide)
- Fragrance (Except Castille Baby Bar)
Additional Bar Soap Ingredients
- Bamboo & Teak: Fine Grain Pumice Powder
- Bergamot & Grapefruit: Activated Charcoal
- Coastal Calm: Indigo powder
- Coconut Milk: Luffa powder + shreds
- Fragrance Free: Goat's milk
- French Lavender: Cosmetic Color (ultramarines)
- Magnolia: Cosmetic Color
- Oatmeal Milk & Honey: Oats, Goat’s Milk Extract, Honey
- Oceanswept: Activated Charcoal, Cosmetic Color (ultramarines), Indigo powder
- Sea La Vie: Cosmetic Color (hydrated chromium oxide)
- Seaberry: Rose Kaolin Clay
- Seaweed & Sea Salt: Kelp Powder, Kelp Granules
- Spearmint & Eucalyptus: Spirulina, Activated Charcoal, Cosmetic Color (chromium oxide)
Interested in learning about how we make soap?
Bath Bomb Ingredients
All of our sea-inspired Bath Bombs are handmade using the following base ingredients:
- Baking Soda
- Citric Acid
- Soybean Oil
- Olive Oil
- Epsom Salt
- Distilled Water
- Fragrance (Except Fragrance Free)
Additional Bath Bomb Ingredients
- Bergamot & Grapefruit: Polysorbate 80, Cosmetic Color (Red 40 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake)
- Coastal Calm: Polysorbate 80, Cosmetic Color (Blue 1 Lake)
- Cotton Candy: Polysorbate 80, Cosmetic Color (Blue 1 Lake, bis(glycidoxyphenyl) propane / bisaminomethylnorbornane copolymer, aluminum hydroxide, red 28, red 22)
- French Lavender: Polysorbate 80, Cosmetic Color (Mica Titanium Dioxide, Tin Dioxide, Ultramarine Blue, Manganese Violet)
- Magnolia: Polysorbate 80, Cosmetic Color (Bis(Glycidoxyphenyl)propane/Bisamino-methylnorbane copolymer, Aluminum Hydroxide, Red 28, Red 22)
- Oatmeal Milk & Honey: Oats
- Oceanswept: Polysorbate 80, Cosmetic Color (Blue 1 Lake, Iron oxides)
- Sea La Vie: Polysorbate 80, Cosmetic Color (Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 5 Lake)
- Seaberry: Polysorbate 80, Cosmetic Color (Red 40 Lake), Rose Kaolin Clay
- Seaweed & Sea Salt: Polysorbate 80, Sea Clay
- Spearmint & Eucalyptus: Dried Spearmint Leaves (menta virdis(spearing) leaf)
Body Butter Ingredients
All of our Body Butters are made with the following gentle ingredients:
- Water
- Cetearyl Alcohol - made of fatty acids, thickener, emulsifier
- Isopropyl Myristate- naturally occurring fatty acid and emollient, skin conditioning
- Stearic Acid - kosher grade, vegetable source, thickener and emulsion stabilizer (binds oil with water)
- Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride - a moisturizer made from fraction of palm and coconut oils and stabilizer, great for sensitive skin
- Ceteareth-20
- Glyceryl Stearate - an emulsifier
- Shea Butter (Butyrospermum Parkii)
- Dimethicone - a silicone-based polymer
- DMDM Hydantoin - antimicrobial
- Organic Sunflower Oil (Helianthus Annuus Seed Oil)
- Organic Aloe Vera (Aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice)
- Iodopropynyl Butylcarbamate - a preservative and antifungal that prevents product from spoiling and growing bacteria
- Fragrance (except Fragrance Free)
None of our body butters contain any mineral oil, parabens, sulfates, phthalates, or color.
Candle Ingredients
Our hand-poured candles are made from a combination of soy and olive wax with our sea inspired fragrances.
