Handmade Soap & Tallow Products

Why Handmade Soap?

Has your skin ever been itchy after using a commercially made bar of soap? Or have you every had to slather on the lotion after a shower to make sure your skin isn’t dry and itchy? This is only one of the reasons why our family started using handmade soap bars.


handmade tallow soap

We use locally sourced grass-fed tallow and homegrown lard in our handmade soap bars. These products are rendered by Rachel, and make a very nourishing and creamy bar of soap that is long-lasting (when dried properly between uses).

photo of woman with a toddler with lake superior in the background.
Owner of Linena and Logs LLC.
rachel helppi, owner

Meet Rachel

I started making handmade soaps for our family, and selling to friends and family. And as my stash of soaps built up, I had the opportunity to start selling in a local shop. I then expanded to my online shop and have continued to make and sell homemade soaps and tallow products!

All-Natural Ingredients

At Linen and Logs, we choose to use all-natural ingredients in our handmade soaps. For colorants – using natural clays, powders, or infusions; and for scents – quality essential oils or unscented. We also use herbal and powder infusions for added skin benefits.

basket of soap bars - citrus grove tallow soap

Cold Process Soap

When we make our all-natural soap bars, we use a process called Cold Process. This involves a chemical reaction between sodium hydroxide (also known as lye) and the fats and oils (tallow, lard, oils, butters, etc.) to make soap. Once the saponifaction process (the chemical process) there is no lye left in the soap bar. The bar of soap is cleansing and naturally contains glycerin.

Why Linen and Logs Soap?

We started making all-natural soap to benefit our skin on a daily basis – and we want to share that with your family. We make an assortment of scented and unscented soaps for everyone from the baby to the elderly. Nontoxic, all-natural, gentle and nourishing for your skin.

vertical stack of orange poppyseed tallow soap bars
bar of eucalyptus lavender tallow soap sitting on a wood soap holder with a stack of 5 soaps in the background and lavender sprinkled in front
stack of 3 soap bars - tallow turmeric soap
4 bars of Superior Stone Charcoal Bar laying on side to show the patterns in the soap.