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MAISON BERTHE GUILHEM
✔️ Chemical, Cruelty and preservative free ✔️ Suitable for Vegans ✔️ Exclusive, it's made for us
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Made in Ariège in the Pyrenees
🟢 200 washes per pack
🔵 100% Plant Based
🔵 Organic Sunflower Seed Oil
🔵 Organic Coconut Oil
🟠 Pure Essential Oil
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These pure soap flakes contain no unnecessary chemicals and are gentle enough for both hand washing and machine washing, making them a dependable, all-purpose laundry essential.
Made using cold-saponified Coconut Oil and Sunflower Seed Oil, they form a true vegetable soap that cleans effectively while remaining kind to fabrics and skin. Lightly fragranced with pure Rose Geranium essential oil, this is one of the most natural and versatile laundry detergents you can use year round.
Rose Geranium essential oil is traditionally valued for its antifungal, antibacterial, and antiviral properties, helping to deodorise laundry and refresh indoor environments naturally. Its softly floral, green aroma is also known to promote relaxation, while its scent has long been used to help repel insects, making it particularly well suited to everyday laundry and stored textiles.
Produced using the pure artisanal tradition of cold saponification and certified organic by Ecocert, these soap flakes offer reliable performance with complete ingredient transparency.
This laundry soap is built on a true soap formulation, created by cold-saponifying organic vegetable oils with sodium hydroxide. During this traditional process, the alkali is fully transformed, leaving behind a mild yet effective soap enriched with naturally occurring glycerin.
The formulation works by binding to dirt and grease and allowing it to rinse away cleanly, without the need for synthetic detergents, enzymes, or optical brighteners.
Organic Sunflower Oil contributes gentleness and fabric care, helping preserve fibres and colours
Organic Coconut Oil provides effective cleansing power, lifting everyday dirt and heavier soiling
Naturally retained glycerin helps prevent fabrics from becoming dry or brittle over time
Rose Geranium essential oil adds light fragrance alongside deodorising and traditionally protective properties
Because the formula is highly concentrated, only a small amount is required per wash, delivering reliable results while remaining gentle on skin, laundry, and the environment.
Natural Laundry Boosters (Optional)
For whites or heavy-duty cleaning:
Add 1 tablespoon of sodium percarbonate to the detergent drawer along with your soap mixture. This acts as a natural whitener and provides additional deodorising and antibacterial support.
As a natural fabric softener:
Add 100–200ml of white vinegar to the fabric softener compartment. This softens towels and fabrics naturally and, when used regularly, helps prevent limescale build-up in your machine.
Contains Rose Geranium essential oil (Pelargonium graveolens), a naturally occurring fragrance ingredient. This product is free from synthetic fragrance, dyes, enzymes, optical brighteners, and preservatives.
As with all naturally fragranced laundry products, those with very sensitive skin or fragrance sensitivities are advised to test on a small wash before regular use.
Sodium sunflowerseedate**, sodium cocoate**, aqua, glycerin**, pelargonium graveolens oil*, sodium chloride, citric acid, tetrasodium glutamate diacetate, sodium hydroxide.
* Ingrédients issus de l’Agriculture Biologique
** Fabriqué à partir d’ingrédients biologiques
Contains Rose Geranium essential oil (Pelargonium graveolens), a naturally occurring fragrance ingredient. This product is free from synthetic fragrance, dyes, enzymes, optical brighteners, and preservatives.
As with all naturally fragranced laundry products, those with very sensitive skin or fragrance sensitivities are advised to test on a small wash before regular use.
Each pack provides approximately 200 washes, making it an exceptionally economical and low-waste laundry solution.
This impressive longevity comes from the highly concentrated nature of true soap flakes. With no added fillers, thickeners, or synthetic bulking agents, only a small amount is needed per wash. The flakes dissolve fully and work efficiently, even in cooler washes and short cycles.
Fewer washes per pack also means:
Less packaging over time
Fewer repeat purchases
Lower transport and environmental impact
It’s a clear example of how traditional formulations often outperform modern detergents, delivering both performance and long-term value without compromise.
Directions for Use
Prepare a Liquid Soap in Advance
Dissolve around 20g of soap flakes
in 1 litre of boiling water.
Allow to cool and store in a bottle or reused liquid detergent container.
Hand
Dissolve a handful of soap flakes in 2 litres of boiling water.
Allow to cool slightly before washing, or use the prepared liquid soap with extra hot water.
Wash thoroughly, then rinse well.
Machine
Shake the prepared soap mixture well. Pour 40–50ml into the detergent drawer of your machine.
Maison Berthe Guilhem is an artisan family savonnerie that hand make all their soaps.
Berthe Guilhem made her first goat's milk soaps in 1956 alongside ointments and the famous gardener's balm. Initially she made all the products for herself, her children, friends and neighbours.
Today Marc & Jean-Luc, Berthe Guilhem's grandsons, and their families, continue using her original methodology and recipes that adhere to strict and uncompromising respect for their formulations and for the environment.
Their believe "you can work in a human-sized laboratory, maintain an artisanal identity while manufacturing effective, efficient and state-of-the-art organic cosmetic products."
Marc Guilhem, grandson of Berthe Guilhem, is also a former student of the European Center for Applied Naturopathy
Creamy and durable, our soaps are made by hand
Maison Berthe Guilhem use a cold saponification method; The combination of organic vegetable oils and organic goat's milk in an unaltered state gives them exceptional results. Always cold, the formulation is kneaded before being vigorously pressed and molded. The soaps are hand cut and stamped after several weeks of drying. Their lifespan is extended due to their low percentage of humidity (8 to 10%).
100% natural ingredients
They make all their own infusions, decoctions, macerations and mother tinctures ensuring they make the best use of their natural properties.
What is cold saponification?
Cold saponification is the result of a mixture of soda in water, then later in oil. This manufacturing method is called Cold Saponification because it does not use the heat like traditional Savon de Marseille: The heat is naturally induced by the addition of soda to the water and then to the Oil that raises the temperature of the mixture until it blends. Once this process has occurred the ‘soap’ is left to dry for several weeks before Organic Goats Milk and other ingredients for example Avocado Oil, Shea Butter or Essential Oils are added.
Certified organic natural artisanal know-how
The Berthe Guilhem laboratory is certified to the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (A.N.S.M.). The majority of products are labeled COSMEBIO and certified organic QUALITÉ FRANCE and COSMECERT. At each stage of their manufacture, they are subject to dermatological tests and quality controls proving their safety. These tests, carried out by an independent laboratory, are done on healthy volunteers.
Berthe Guilhem: highly organic products
Maison Berthe Guilhem ensures the quality of its products and their composition. They all contain between 55% and 100% organic ingredients, which is very important compared to the 20% needed to obtain an organic certification!
Call us old fashioned if you want. We are real humans who love our landline telephone.
If you have any questions about our products or your order, please call us T.01423 803080 or email bonjour@frenchsoaps.co.uk.
You can also read our FAQs here
DELIVERY
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I have tried a different fragrance this time. The scent is at its strongest while I am making it into a gel. When I have used it in my laundry it is not as apparent but the washing is still nice and fresh.
Great soapflakes. This is my second bag .. it lasts so long. I love the smell of Rose Geranium .. all my bedding and towels smell great for days. The flakes combined with percarbonate, soda or the olive oil Marseille soap are great for whitening items.
I just love it ... and it's great that it's a natural product .. green equals a very happy lady ... thank you. 🥰 I've also gifted items to a few friends andvthey love it too. X
Very economical to use , leaves clothes soft & fresh . Used with French laundry soap on stains , removes almost everything.
I haven't used this yet but it smells divine.
Smells lovely though by the time you've rinsed the scent is gone. Didn't get rid of a few stains on a white shirt but I probably need to add sodium percarbonate as detailed in instructions. Otherwise very happy with it and am now a convert. Is also so much cheaper than regular laundry liquid.
A bit dubious about using this product but really wanted to steer away from strong chemicals for washing my clothes. Also bought the Bicarb for extra boost. So far really amazed, it does work really well. When clothes are dry there is a faint smell/ fragrance, and they are softer, they feel lovely and clean. This is a much gentler way of cleaning, just need to adjust to preparing the prep of the flakes to liquid beforehand.
Brilliant find, thank you.
Telephone or Whats App: 01423 803080
Email: bonjour@frenchsoaps.co.uk
Social: @FrenchsoapsUK
Address: Unit 14 Ousegill Business Park, Carr Side Road, Great Ouseburn, North Yorkshire, YO26 9AE
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