Studios

Art and goods from the woods.

Small-batch cold-process tallow soap, artwork, movies, music, podcasts, and writing.

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Studios includes hand made objects and recorded works from RIPPLEROOT. There are a variety of ideas and projects in the works.

The Apothecary — Deep Woods, six scents

All-natural, cold-process tallow soap. Hand-poured in small batches at the homestead, cured four weeks, themed around the elements. Hover a label to see the actual bar. Every card links out to our Etsy shop — that's where stock and checkout live.

The Root

The Root

Earth. Vetiver, patchouli, cedarwood. Activated charcoal, pitch black. Smells like deep soil after rain.

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The Pine

The Pine

Fire. Fir needle and cedarwood, with a green stripe of spirulina. The forest as a campfire.

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The Stone

The Stone

Air. Eucalyptus and rosemary. A dusting of Dead Sea salt on top. Brisk, mineral, alpine.

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The Mist

The Mist

Water. Lavender and clary sage. Kaolin clay, ghostly white. A foggy morning in a lavender field.

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The Ancient

The Ancient

Legacy. Frankincense, myrrh, and fir needle. Natural gold, no additives. Resinous and old as the woods.

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The Clearing

The Clearing

Pure. Unscented tallow cream, nothing added. For skin that wants nothing in the way.

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Inside the Apothecary

What's in the bar

A traditional tallow base — saponified beef tallow, olive oil, coconut oil, and castor oil — scented with pure essential oils and tinted with botanicals, clays, salts, or activated charcoal. Nothing else. No synthetic fragrance, no detergents, no preservatives we wouldn't put on our own skin. What's on the label is what's in the bar.

How it's made

Hand-poured at the homestead in dedicated small batches — Apothecary molds are kept separate from the unscented "Clearing" bars so the scents stay clean. Every bar rests for two days in the mold, gets sliced to size, then cures on the rack for four weeks before it ships.

About tallow

We chose tallow on purpose. It's the oldest soap-making fat in the world, mimics the lipids in human skin, lathers cleanly, and comes from animals already raised for meat — a use for what would otherwise be waste. Bars made with it last longer and rinse cleaner than vegetable-only formulations.

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