Our Story

Welcome to Soapyard.com, where we are dedicated to bringing you the highest quality soaps made by artisans in Marseille using local and natural ingredients.

We have custom-made aluminium tins which are perfect for our bars, but have lots of other uses too!

Our story began when we moved to the south of France and discovered the traditional market soap sellers of Antibes. We were blown away by the number of fragrances and the quality of the soap that we had never really stopped to look at before. This experience inspired us to create our unique design of bar soap, but still using the same recipe and the same local skilled artisan soapmakers. Only the best natural ingredients are used, where possible, organic, and sourced from the local area.

We decided to adapt the traditional rectangular bar soap shape, and created a new design, which is a chunky round soap with a sturdy hole through the middle for a colourful and reusable rope. You can use the bar with or without the rope.

Our soaps are handcrafted by skilled artisans in Marseille and we are proud to support their craft and expertise. We invite you to experience the natural luxury of our soaps for yourself and see why we are passionate about what we do.

This is a snap of the soap stalls in the Provençal market in Antibes on the Côte d'Azur, which first inspired our business. You will find them in most markets in the South of France and the soaps are almost always locally made using the same traditional formula used for generations.