Vellum St Soap Company

Vellum St Soap Company The soap you wish your mouth got washed out with! We craft our soap the old school way, using lye. lard (tallow, duck, and goat fat as well!), and love.

Vellum Street Soap Company is a victual apothecary, basically meaning we don't believe you should put anything on your skin that you wouldn't put in your mouth. All of our cold process soaps are made from high quality, food grade ingredients, locally and sustainably sourced, with nothing added that doesn't have a beneficial purpose for your body. With our founders background as a chef, with a focus on sourcing sustainably and nutritional quality, you can be assured every ingredient that goes into our soaps has been researched and benefits tested, to get you the best possible finished product. Many of our ingredients are procured from local restaurants, excess ingredients that have no further ingredient use in the kitchen, but make wonderful ingredients for soap. We're proud of our relationships with these establishments, and are thrilled to make them more sustainable by working towards using every part of every animal and plant they bring into their kitchens. Vellum Street is the soap you wished your mouth got washed out with!

10/24/2025

While you may be rooted in old ideas, you are not, in fact, a plant, nor are plant oils what your mammalian skin craves. While they can feel initially moisturizing, over time certain plain oils can interfere with your skin’s own sebum production, causing your body to produce even less, keeping you trapped in a cycle of dependency.

Tallow, coming from our bovine brethren, is molecularly much closer to the oils your body produces, so it delivers a moderate and pH balanced boost, even gradually helping to heal the skin, causing you to need less over time.

What you put ON your skin is just as important as what you put IN your mouth, which is why we use upcycled & local food grade ingredients, all safe enough to eat! Slather liberally anywhere your skin needs a little love. All lip balms come in a no mess slid top tin for easy use and even easier recycling! For use on lips, hands, face, ass... tallow’s great for skin when it’s been fed grass! 🐮💋

It’s the most wonderful time of the year- the bi-annual Body Care sale at !Running until October 25th it’s a great oppo...
10/23/2025

It’s the most wonderful time of the year- the bi-annual Body Care sale at !

Running until October 25th it’s a great opportunity to get incredible savings on some of your favorites (including a certain whipped tallow skin fluff, wink wink, nudge nudge 😉).

To celebrate pulled up with the Mini truck to the KWF Collegeville location to do some on site sampling - did you catch our dynamic duo in action??

Would you like to see them at other Kimberton Whole Foods locations to try some fat marshmallow fluff or Tub O’ Lard for yourself?? 🛻🐮💋

10/20/2025

It doesn’t have ac.
There’s lots of rattles.
What’s a power window?
The heater takes forever in the cold.
It runs BLAZING hot in the summer.
The glove box is held together with a wire and pops open when I hit a pothole.
Despite my super quick reaction time off the line, I am beating NO ONE in a race.

But Godzilla DAMN is she nice to look at 😮‍💨

10/20/2025

It doesn’t have ac.
There’s lots of rattles.
What’s a power window?
The heater takes forever in the cold.
It runs BLAZING hot in the summer.
The glove box is held together with a wire and pops open when I hit potholes.
Despite my super quick reaction time off the line, I am beating NO ONE in a race.

But Godzilla DAMN is she nice to look at 😮‍💨

10/17/2025

I set an example. That’s all anyone can do.

Everyone has an opinion & everyone thinks that their opinion is right. For almost every opinion, cherry picked research can be found to back it up. We all have cognitive biases & we choose our facts, generally, based on them. We gravitate towards people who tend to hold those same opinions, further strengthening the echo chambers of our beliefs, & reinforcing their righteousness.

I officially launched Vellum Street in 2015, but goal prior to the business was just to make a gentle, synthetic free soap & moisturizer to treat my skin issues (which stemmed from an almost 2 decades long battle with an auto immune condition, misdiagnosed by multiple docs & specialists) using kitchen scraps from my bakery - I didn’t have money, or even an actual business, in mind. I was doing it for myself & for friends also suffering from skin issues. I was doing it to try and be less wasteful. Because of this, I have always based my decisions for Vellum Street on the best ones I could make for healthy skin & a healthy environment (which are intrinsically intertwined) & that has brought so many wonderful folks into the workings of this little biz thats now my full time gig.

There used to be a very small handful of us doing this. Formulating & selling niche beef fat products from farms & sources we intimately knew.

As tallow skincare continues to rise is popularity, becoming commercialized & commodified at an obscene scale, and new brands pop up daily who are having products mass produced in factories overseas, with tallow of questionable quality, or even small brands misusing terminology & not understanding basic chemical formulation (and yes, EVERYTHING IS A CHEMICAL folks-chemical does NOT mean bad! Water is a chemical. Tallow is made up of chemicals. Beeswax & honey & plants & the air & even you are ALL composed of chemicals!) spending big bucks on marketing, it’s important, if your concerns are healthy skin & a healthy environment, that you vet the brands you’re giving your trust to.

Do not blindly trust what you see. Ask questions, look a little deeper, and be objective. Moo-Chas Grass-Ias, amigos 🐮💋🧡💛🩵

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10/13/2025

The soap you wish your mouth got washed out with - there’s a reason that’s been our tag line since day one.

And no, it’s not because our soap tastes good (although we have heard it does) but because it’s made of only the highest quality food grade ingredients like tallow, real vanilla bean, cherries, and citrus fruits by a former chef with a dirty mouth.

Anyway, we can’t wait to hop into the shower with ya 🐮💋🚿

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10/10/2025

All month long celebrate OINK-TOBER with us by saving 10% off our entire HOG WASH & FRIENDS lard line using code OINK-TOBER at checkout!!

Look, we KNOW you love tallow (why else would you be here?!), but have you tried lard??

Lye Lard LOVE- that was Vellum’s very first tag line, and the very first animal fat with ever made skincare with.

We dont give discounts a lot, but we know many of you arent familiar with lard, and we want to encourage you to try it! So please celebrate OINK-TOBER with us and enjoy an extra 10% off to spread the lye lard & love !

Hogs & kisses, amigos 🐷💋

At checkout use code OINK-TOBER

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