Retail Locations our soap is Available for Purchase:
Joyfully Made Pottery & Soaporium 401 E. Market St. Nappannee, IN
The Village Boutique inside Davis Mercantile, 255 E. Main St. Shipshewana, IN
The Bishop's Nook Taylor University-Atterbery Building W. Reade Ave. Upland, IN
Birds Gotta Fly Vintage------- 2nd floor 916 N. Michigan St. Elkhart, IN
Rana's New Generation Hair Salon 525 N 17th St. Niles, MI
Varns & Hoover Hardware 101 S. Main St. Middlebury, IN
Our Soap is more than your everyday bar of soap...
Every creamy bubble will make you fall in love with Forte Soaps beautiful bars! Full of lots of lather and wonderful scent, whether you favor essential oils or fragrances, you may choose whatever you fancy!
What are those??
Spots. I know, I know, you may wonder what those are. Steric acid spots are not harmful in ANY way to your skin nor do they make our soap less affective. Just something that handmade soap does when temperatures differ between loaves. But trust us, there's nothing to fear!
What's with the lines?
Well, handmade soap is just that....hand made. That means it's also cut BY HAND. We do have a wire cutter, but sometimes things don't go perfectly, and soap that may harden quickly gets a little too hard to cut perfectly. Thus, the lines.
...And those other spots?
That's the GOOD STUFF! We add oatmeal, salt, sugar, and clay to our bars to give you an amazing skin-pampering bar of soap. So, yeah, it's good for you. They all help to rub off the bad skin stuff to leave behind the good smooth stuff! Another thing to love!
Meet the Maker....
Darlene Torrence is the Owner and maker of Forte Handmade soap. She has been honing her craft for over 10 years now, and also enjoys pottery, as well as face painting and henna art as a profession from April through December. She is married to Randy, and they share 9 children between them, ages 18-37. They have opened a brick & morter store, Joyfully Made Pottery & Soaporium ON THE 2ND FLOOR in Coppes Commons in Nappanee, Indiana. Come visit them if you're in the area! They love that so many enjoy and appreciate the goat's milk soap she's worked to perfect with her own recipe to help those with troubled skin. We now offer our body products here, including tallow products and Beeswax melts!