If you have ever visited the farm, you know that sometimes you can smell the soap from our parking lot. If my office window is open, I often hear people comment how great everything smells as they cross the front porch.
This makes me very happy. But if you are extremely sensitive to scent, this may be something of a dilemma for you. We have many people who use our soaps and prefer unscented products, so I wanted to clarify what "unscented" truly means.
When we call one of our products "unscented" that means that we do not add any additional scent to it - no fragrance oil or essential oil of any kind. It does not mean that we do anything to chemically mask or remove the odor. The ingredients that are used in the product may still have a scent.
For example, the cocoa butter in our lotion sticks will slightly smell like cocoa butter. And our unscented soaps (Purity, Calendula, Castile, and more) will still smell like soap. They do not smell like 'nothing'.
If you are hyper-sensitive to scent, we recommend that you start with a travel size to make sure that you enjoy how the pure soap smells and that it doesn't bother you.
We do make our unscented soaps in the same building that we make scented soaps. Essential oils contain Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) which are chemical compounds within the essential oil that evaporate into the air at room temperature.
These VOCs are in the air and can settle on our unscented soaps and packaging. People who are hyper-sensitive to scent will most likely be able to detect the scents in the soaproom on the outside of their unscented soaps and packaging.
Fortunately, the scent doesn't transfer to the inside of the soap itself. So removing the packaging and washing once to remove the outside layer impacted by the soap should remove any detectable scent from the soaproom.