Pepin County Pine Tar - Tallow-Based Wisconsin-Brewed Beer Soap®️

Pepin County Pine Tar - Tallow-Based Wisconsin-Brewed Beer Soap®

Before the prairie was plowed and the cities rose, Wisconsin was woods. Vast, cathedral-dark, seemingly infinite woods — a forest so immense and so consuming that a small girl growing up in its shadow would one day write about it, and the entire world would understand exactly what she meant.

Pepin County, tucked into the gentle bluffs and river bottomlands of western Wisconsin along the Mississippi, was that place. It was here, in a little house in the big woods, that Laura Ingalls Wilder spent her earliest years — years that would become, in her telling, some of the most beloved pages in American literature. The woods she described were real. The isolation was real. The particular quality of silence that only an old growth forest produces — that deep, resinous, breathing quiet — was real.

And the logging that would eventually claim those woods was equally real.

Pepin County's timber industry was, for a significant chapter of Wisconsin's history, an enterprise of extraordinary scale and consequence. The great white pines that once covered this region were felled, driven down the Chippewa and Mississippi rivers, and milled into the lumber that built the expanding American Midwest. It was brutal, essential, transformative work — and the men who did it left their mark on the land as surely as the axes they swung.

Pine tar was their soap. It has been used for centuries as a cleansing and skin-conditioning agent, valued for its naturally antiseptic, anti-inflammatory properties and its remarkable ability to soothe irritated, hardworking skin. It clarifies without stripping. It conditions without coddling. It is, in short, a soap with a genuine purpose and a long memory — which makes it entirely appropriate for Pepin County.

The addition of a green grasss and amber fragrance helps to soften the pine tar's characteristically bold, resinous edge without diminishing its character — the way the river softens the bluffs without erasing them. The amber accord deepens and grounds the composition in the forest itself, while while the greenery of fresh cut grass lifts it with a clean, bright clarity — the light breaking through the canopy on a clear Wisconsin morning.

Brewed with a Wisconsin craft microbrew from Pepin County itself — because regional authenticity, in this workshop, is not merely an aesthetic choice. It is a standard.

And why beer in a bar of soap? The question is fair, and the answer is rather satisfying. Beer's natural sugars produce an exceptionally rich, creamy lather that plain water simply cannot replicate. Its B vitamins and antioxidants lend a subtle nourishing quality to the skin, while the yeast contributes to a smoother, more conditioning wash experience. The result is a bar that performs as distinctively as it smells — which, in the tradition of Wisconsin Waterfalls Soap & Etc., is the only acceptable outcome.

Scent: Green Grass - Amber - Pine Tar

Net wt. 6 oz / 170g · Cold Process · Wisconsin-Brewed Beer Soap®

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Ingredients: Sodium Tallowate, Sodium Avocadoate, Wisconsin-Brewed Beer, Aqua, Pine Tar, Alow Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Juice, Sodium Jojobate, Sodium Stearate, Parfun, Bentonite, Sodium Chloride