MusK gift set, Art in your hands

Five soaps that people tend to photograph first and unwrap only afterwards. The design soaps gift set brings together striking designs from our workshop: Kriváň embossed with 2495 m n. m. (2495 m above sea level), Štrbské pleso with a panorama of peaks above the water, The Little Prince with the fox and the sun, a blossoming meadow with colourful little flowers and a green soap with a slice of citrus. All handmade cold-process soaps — pictures you can wash with.

How do you paint with soap?

The design is not a print. It is created right in the mould from streams of differently coloured soap mass — mostly with mineral colourants — and besides our hands, gravity has a say in the final arrangement of the colours. We then cut the block with a wire, so each bar captures the design in a slightly different cross-section. No two bars are alike. Literally.

Under the design, though, is plain honest soap: the cold process, curing on the shelf for at least 30 days and scents exclusively from essential oils. Beauty is a bonus here, not a substitute for the recipe. After curing, we also take every bar in hand once more, check it and weigh it — bars that do not meet our standards simply do not make it into the set.

Who is the set for? Hikers with Kriváň well and truly under their belt, readers who still understand The Little Prince past thirty, and everyone who would rather give a piece of craft from Slovakia than a fridge magnet. Made in Prievidza.

If you would like to give one of the designs on its own, you will find Kriváň, Štrbské pleso and The Little Prince outside the set too — and more combinations among our gift sets. Give a design soap a place where it can be seen and where it dries out. No picture looks good in a puddle.