Where Science & Nature, Meet Artistry
Welcome to BioInspired Living
At BioInspired, our focus is on crafting products inspired by nature incorporating high quality natural ingredients. We aim to create healthy products that nourish the body as well as the senses and soothe the soul. In particular, we produce artisan soaps, candles, salves, balms, bath bombs and shower discs that exemplify these ideals.
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Our shop has products that range from beeswax candles, artisan soaps, balms, salves, bath bombs and shower discs. Wish to send a gift box? We can assemble the perfect gift for you. Don’t see what you like? Let us know and we can work together to create what you have in mind.
Soaps
Beeswax Candles
Balms, Salves, and Deodorant
Bath Bombs/Shower Discs
Gift boxes
Custom Made Orders
One Bar of Soap
This all started with a bar of artisan soap given to us as a gift. That single bar of soap was transformative in the sense that it showed us what good soap truly was, but it was more than that. In this one beautiful bar of soap, a seemingly simple cleansing product, we saw how soap could be harnessed to provide a much more holistic experience, appealing to the body, eye and nose as well, compared to the major store-bought brands.
This led to experimentation within our own kitchen to make our own soap. What makes a good recipe? What is the general process? How do you make the pretty swirling patterns? As we learned more, we experimented with other products as well...driven by a desire to make good and beautiful handcrafted products where we know what they contain, and that also evoke an experience for the user. We believe that color and smell evoke emotions and memories. Standing in the shower in the winter months with a bar of lilac soap may remind someone of their grandmother’s garden from their childhood days and for others, the reminder that spring will return with a flourish of smells and colors. We find great joy and inspiration in nature and its power to rejuvenate the soul. Our mission is simple...to share this joy with you and what we have learned along the way.
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The Good Ingredients
Ingredients
Our soaps are handcrafted using cold-process techniques. Most of our soaps have a foundation composed of coconut oil and lanolin. Coconut oil is a good cleanser, produces a nice lather, and adds hardness to the soap. Lanolin is a wax secreted by sheep that has water-proofing properties that help sheep shed water from their wool.
Fragrance Philosophy
Essential oils are the natural scents that are isolated from things in nature through extraction processes like steam distillation. Fragrance oils are synthetic...man-made. Most of our soaps will use these synthetic fragrance oils simply because they tend to be more stable in cold process soaps and there are a lot more options from which to choose for beautiful aromas.
Color
We use oxide pigments and micas to color our products while avoiding the use of lakes and dyes. While useful in many products and generally considered safe, lakes + dyes are not generally very stable, can leach (water soluble) into materials other than what is desired and carry the liability of being an organic molecule with potential biological properties.