Welcome to Auntie Clara’s Handcrafted Cosmetics!
We’re a small, family owned and operated enterprise making luxurious handcrafted soap in small batches.
Please browse our site and let your eyes rest on some of the finest, most beautiful artisan soap you can find – all proudly handmade in Somerset West, South Africa.
Enjoy!
Latest From Auntie Clara's Blog:
Ghost Swirl Soap Revisited. FAQs about High and Low-Water Soap Design.
Auntie Clara does a recap of the Ghost Swirl soapmaking technique and answers some frequent guestions about the Ghost Swirl Soap READ MORE
African Clay: Local, Natural, and Ancient
Auntie Clara discovers local, natural African clay for spindle whorls and for breathtakingly beautiful natural colours in coldprocess soap! READ MORE
Langbaken Beest and Beasts: Soap and Culinary explorations in the Karoo
The Karoo a magical place. It’s an endless region (one third of South Africa) of arid semi desert. Fields of sharp rocks as far as the eye can see with scarce, low, dry... READ MORE
Lye Calculation Using a Saponification Chart – Tutorial
A couple of weeks ago, just as I was pulling into a parking bay at the local mall here in Cape Town, my niece #4, who is in her final year of high... READ MORE
Coffee River Soap and How To Make Glycerine Rivers
A while ago fellow soapmaker Karol Dulmanis posted a picture of a coffee soap in one of the Facebook groups I belong to. The beautiful soap had an interesting dappled look with light... READ MORE
Seasonal Soap
Cape Town is suffering from a catastrophic lack of water. The winter rains are coming to an end and the relentlessly dry, hot, beautiful summer season is upon us. For several years the... READ MORE
Snail Beldi and Mushroom Soap – 2017 Edition of Soap On Holiday
After last year’s holiday trip to Italy and the trip to the US and UK the year before, we decided to go back to our native Finland this year. It was a good... READ MORE
From Tadelakt To the Titanic – How To Use Soap
A while ago I made some big bars of all-coconut laundry soap. I took some pretty pictures and posted them in a couple of soapmaking groups on Facebook. To my surprise several soapmakers... READ MORE