Discovery Box
13.5 oz | 378 g
Nine 1.5 oz sample bars. About 4 to 5 showers each.
Experience all bars by Black Altar.
• Fresh-poured monthly, never stale
• Find your match
• Ships within 24 hours
Nine 1.5 oz sample bars. ~5 showers each.
Our 9 bar discovery box is built to experience all our bars have to offer at a fraction of the cost.
Black Altar makes nine bars hand made by 20 year soap artisans. Our discovery set included every bar we make, sample size, $2 an ounce. Some quiet and unscented. Some textured and awakening.
All bars are made cold-process, the old way. The glycerin stays in the bar, so your skin doesn’t feel stripped. Each of our recipes are designed, crafted and tested before being hand-poured our partners to ensure highest of quality, premium scent and experience.
Try every bar. If it doesn’t change something about how showering feels, we refund you. Keep what you didn’t love. Pass it to a friend.
Leave the grime, keep the shine.
100% Essential Oil Scent
Cruelty Free
Fragrance-Free
Small Batch by Hand
Sustainable Palm
What's inside
Aloe Veil — Quiet comfort. No perfume. No performance. The bar for sensitive days.
Earth Salt — Mineral weight. Dense lather. Clean exit. The reset bar.
Golden Oats — Milk-warm comfort. Light texture. Easy rinse.
Garden Blossom — Green-bright lather. Herbal lift. The morning bar.
Marbled Charcoal — Crisp finish. Less surface shine. The clarifier.
Wild Awakening — Bold aroma. Noticeable grit. The strong one.
Ritual Ember — Warm spice. Slow lather. Evening energy.
Vanilla Twilight — Sweet-dark comfort. Clean finish.
Silky Shea — Cushion cleanse. Barrier-friendly feel. Dry, sensitive, or winter skin.
How it's made
Cold-process, the old way. We’ve partnered with a 20 year soap making artisan in the U.S. to bring recipes to life.
Ingredients
Every bar is infused with the same sustainable and organic ingredients at it’s base: Saponified Oils (Olive Oil, Organic Sustainable Palm done right, Organic Coconut Oil, plus Shea Butter or Sunflower Oil depending on the bar). What makes each bar its own thing gets added on top: clay, salt, oats, botanical oils, charcoal, spirulina, vanilla bean.
Full ingredient list for each bar lives on its single product page. Every bar is Rainforest Alliance palm, cruelty-free, and vegan unless it includes goat milk or honey (Golden Oats only).
30-day promise
Use the box. Try the bars. If it doesn’t change anything, we refund you. Keep what you don’t love. Pass it to a friend. No drama.
Every bar we make in one box.
Made in small batches. Every ingredient earns its place.
Small batches, fair trade oils, Cold-pressed oils and Rainforest alliance certified. Infused with sustainable and organic ingredients you can pronounce. Check out our ingredients codex.
Reviews across all bars
Gorgeous soap
Absolutely love the Wild Awakening bar by Black Altar. It smells divine, lathers like a dream, and is simply fantastic.
Do yourself a favor and get this soap!
Felt great, clean scent
I like this bar a lot. It felt really good and the lather was nice. It has a clean smell but it's not really scented. I thought it would smell different. Great lather tho.
Amazing aroma
I purchased this and the aroma coming from it is just amazing. It’s smooth and keeps your skin feeling fresh. Did I mention it smells great?! I would definitely order again!
Soap slaps
Love how soft on the skin it is for a bar of soap
Complete!
Thats how I felt afterwards. I've only used the lavender and sage but the experience was wonderful. The texture and the smell are amazing, great soap!
Obsessed
If I could find Witch Bloom as a perfume I would never reach for anything else. These soaps smell so good and THEY USE ETHICALLY SOURCED PALM OIL!!!! Literally, it's my favorite thing a body brand can do. I'm a bar soap girlie now <33
excited for this
I just ordered my soap. I tried a sample back when they first launched. Get ready to feel good.
Love these soaps!!!
Smooth, delicious fresh aroma, well made !! Thank you for your product is excellent
Household fave!
I purchased this soap for my son, who has dry skin. It keeps him moisturized during his active day which is amazing. And I must say, it extremely lathering and smells amazing.
Immediately loved the smell
It smells AMAZING. Right when I opened it I immediately loved the scent. I’m usually pretty sensitive to smells and some soaps and perfumes give me a headache, but this scent is so refreshing. It also feels great on the skin!
Gentle Glow-Up
Nice exfoliation without being harsh. Calming scent and great texture overall.
Ohkayyyy lol
Okay well I just used the wild conjuring. The smell is extremely nice(strong) extremely soapy! I love it and it didn’t like thin out, like as if it was cheap. The bar is thick! I love it. My skin is soft regardless lol but it gave me that squeaky clean feeling and now that my body is dry, it feels softttttttt
Luxurious, cooling
This bar is so incredible! The smell alone makes you feel like you’re in a luxury spa. I struggle with dry skin and this soap is incredibly hydrating, silky, and leaves my body feeling smooth. Absolutely planning to rebuy from this brand
What we keep out keeps you clear.
Paraben Free
Sustainable Packaging
Sustainable Palm
Made in U.S.A.
Handmade Soaps
Cruelty free
Sulfate free
Petroleum Free
Certified Vegan
No Unnatural Preservatives
Sodium Lauryl Sulfate Free
Ethically Sourced Materials
Hand-poured, small-batch bars made with plant-based oils and transparent ingredients. Visit our ingredients codex.
Why three bars instead of one?
Same bar every day is how you end up tight one morning and oily the next. Skin doesn't stay one thing. A rotation gives you three bars with three roles. You pick the one that fits the day. The shower tells you which is which pretty fast.
My skin feels tight after bar soap. Will this do the same?
Probably not. That tight feeling is soap stripping your skin while it cleans. Most big brands pull out the part that keeps you moisturized, bottle it, and sell it back to you as lotion. We leave it in. That's the whole difference.
I have sensitive skin. Is this okay for me?
Depends on the bar. Our unscented bars (Aloe Veil, Silky Shea, Earth Salt) are built for reactive skin. If fragrance triggers you, stay there. If you want to try something scented, use it twice a week, not daily.
What is cold-process and why does it matter?
It's the slow way of making soap. Low temperature, no shortcuts. The part of the bar that keeps your skin from feeling stripped stays in instead of getting yanked out and sold separately. Most factories skip cold-process because waiting is expensive. We didn't.
Are your ingredients organic?
About 80% are. The ones that aren't, like Himalayan salt and activated charcoal, aren't classified as organic because they come from the earth rather than being grown. Not everything good grows in a field.
Is it actually all-natural?
Yes. Every ingredient is listed because we're proud of them. No fillers, no secrets, nothing in there that doesn't earn its place.
Do you test on animals?
No. PETA certified. Just a line we don't cross.
What's the deal with sustainable palm?
Palm oil has a bad reputation because a lot of it comes from deforestation. Ours doesn't. It's Rainforest Alliance certified, from South American farms that don't clear forest for the crop. Real standard, not a logo for optics.
How does shipping work?
$5 single bar, $6 two bars, $7 three or more, free over $59. Our shipping is discounted. Most of our boxes cost us $9 to $12 to send. We cover the difference so you do not get hit with a surprise at checkout.
For every ten bars sold, one is donated.
With your help, the total bars we’ve donated is:
We partner with Bethlehem Inn because arriving with dignity is not a luxury. It’s a baseline. You can read the full story of our partnership, including our tour footage and the team behind it.
