Hi — I'm Arcel.
The maker behind The Little Batch — and eight years in, still the only hands that touch each bar. Made slow, by hand, here in Jackson Hole.
It started with a prayer, and a kitchen counter
My skin had always been too sensitive for store-bought soap — nothing but Dove ever agreed with it. In 2018, after our third boy was born, I was praying to be able to stay home with my children. Honestly, I believe this little craft was planted in me as an answer to that prayer.
I didn't know a thing about soapmaking, so I researched and researched, took a small class here in town, and taught myself to make what I simply couldn't buy. The very first bars weren't for sale at all — they were gifts, for the people I love.
Then friends started asking for more
The bars I gave away kept coming back as requests. Quietly, the hobby became the very thing I'd prayed for — work I love that lets me be home with my boys.
I slowed down through pregnancies and the tender seasons between them, but I never really stopped. Today I still formulate, cut, wrap, and ship every single bar myself — I even render my own tallow from locally-sourced beef fat — and set up my own table, market by market.
We make soap the way we live here
Close to the land, and always around the kids. I homeschool our three boys, so the soap happens in the margins — batches poured before the school year starts, and orders packed and shipped on our holiday breaks. Some of what goes into each bar is gathered right here in the valley: wild roses, rose hips, nettle, and yarrow picked on hikes with the boys, their pockets full of the mountains — plus calendula, rosemary, and mint from our own small garden. You'll find our little table at markets around town, and our bars at the Jackson Hole airport and Lucky You in town, with the Center for the Arts around the holidays.
What goes into a Little Batch bar
Foraged in the valley
Wild roses, rose hips, nettle, and yarrow, foraged on family hikes — plus calendula, rosemary, and mint from our garden.
Gentle by nature
Local goat's and cow's milk, honey, and calming oatmeal — for sensitive skin, because mine is too.
Fairly sourced
Fair-trade shea, kombo, cocoa, and red palm butter, so the farmers in Ghana who grow them are paid fairly.
“Consistency matters to me — but a handcrafted bar will always be unique in its own way.”
— Arcel, makerThank you for letting our little batch be part of your day.
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