About Us

Our Place

The Elora Soap Company was founded in 1987 in Elora, Ontario, Canada by John & Karen Kimpel. They moved to Paisley, Ontario in 1990, to a century building, in the Heritage Village.  We lost John, sadly, in 2008, but we still feel him with us every day, and I am sure that many of you will remember him too. 
Today Karen, and the kids, Ben and Sierra, Shadow (mostly lab), and Cassiopoeia the tabby cat, all live and work in Paisley.  There, we make soap, and operate a retail store - it’s a fun place - you can write on the wall, chalk on the sidewalk, play with the tin-toys...oh, and find out a lot about soap - we are open 7 days a week.

Another great person works here too:

Pat
-  is very helpful, and we are lucky to have her here once or twice a week.

Best things about Elora Soap Company:

We are in the world, not just on it. (who said that?) We have tried, at every level, to reduce, reuse, & recycle – everywhere we can. And to produce something useful.

Our products aim to strengthen your dermal (that's your skin) system. The recipes that we have developed, our choice of herbs, and our natural ingredients are all geared to enticing your body to produce the "good" things that it can – but may have forgotten how. One of our goals is to get our customers (some of our customers, definitely not J.B.M.,) away from using steroids, like cortisone, and to help their system to get strong enough on its' own to not need them.

We listen.

We have lots of fun.

We have a wonderful peer group.
(See Best things about professional craftspeople)

We get to go to festivals, and call it work.
2011 shows and festivals that we'll be attending.

Worst things about Elora Soap Company:
We are too busy to spend lots of hours building our Website.
We are too busy to think of more worst things.

- I got another one! – None of our products tastes great.
- Sorry - wrong. Mint Flowers & Leaves tastes pretty good.
Got any?

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