About Us

The Elora Soap Company was founded in 1987 in Elora, Ontario, Canada by John & Karen Kimpel. We moved to Paisley, Ontario in 1990, to a century building, which we have been renovating ever since. There we live, 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.
We have 2 kids, Ben (19) & Sierra (15), 1 dog, Shadow (mostly lab), and 2 cats, Casper (white), and Cassiopoeia (tabby).

2 other great people work here:

Donna -  is really one of the family at this point, only she's more helpful!
Kate - is newest, and she will be here for the summer.

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.

(See Best things about professional craftspeople)

2008 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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