In 2013, Handbrewed Soaps was born when my husband and I came up with the idea to “marry our passions” together. His passion for brewing beer and my passion for hand-brewing soap! I started making cold process soap in 2011 as a stress relief from my teaching career; and of course ‘out of the need to provide my family with a better alternative to commercial, store-bought soaps.’

Then, started making soap out of my husband’s beer. The beer made for a great lather, and we had a lot of it. So the old story goes, I was hooked, and Handbrewed Soaps was born.

For 10 years, we made beer and wine soaps and then...3 years ago, we got sober and pivoted our mission to not just bathing with brew, but to brewing your best life, whatever that means to you. ANd... Sober Soaps was born!

These days, we are brewing sobriety. We believe that when you are brewing your best, you can serve your best to the world. So yes, beer soap lives besides sober soaps on our site, because it’s the duality of life, the ying to the yang, the shadow to the light, that makes us human!

OUR MISSION:
We have a motto in our family, it is:
BREW YOUR BEST, THEN SERVE IT TO THE WORLD!

Handbrewed Soaps mission is to uphold that motto by helping you brew your best life. We serve our best to the world by providing:
• 50% of all our profits from our Sober Soaps line and Merch to those in recovery.
• Four bars of soap for every one bar of ‘Keep Oakland Healthy’ soap purchased goes to local shelters and non profits in Oakland (exclusively found on our website).

As of December 2021, we have donated over 4,000 bars to local shelters and $500 to local recovery centers (sober soaps mission began in September 2021!)
Want to help us make a larger impact? Feel free to contact us through Etsy!