Timeline of Artisan Soap Makers?

My recollection is (in order)

MamaBears
Queen Charlotte
Saint Charles
Mystic Waters
Mike's Natural

To how fast the artisan shave soap movement exploded onto the scene.  Mike's and Mystic Waters both hit the forums early in 2012, 3-1/2 years ago.  To contrast that, Soap Commander just celebrated their first anniversary.

Looking at their website, QCS has been in business since '09. That is EONS in the current world of artisan soapers. I believe SCS is even older!

Very nice list. Many thanks

Soap only?

My soap intro was in Dec' '14, but I don't make it, Seifenglatt (Soap Smooth) does. I have no idea when they began.

We started with bath soaps in 2011, and began the current iteration of shaving soaps around the middle of last year.

Thank you all artisans for your input!!!

One way to date (very approximatively) the soap makers is the check for the archives of their website:

• Saint Charles Shave is running at least since November 2005
  
• Mama Bear's Soaps exists at least since August 2008
  
• Benton Clay from at least February 2010 until December 2014
  
• etc.
  

One way to date (very approximatively) the soap makers is the check for the archives of their website:

• Saint Charles Shave is running at least since November 2005
  
• Mama Bear's Soaps exists at least since August 2008
  
• Benton Clay from at least February 2010 until December 2014
  
• etc.
  

Glad we have someone with the smarts chime in

Seifenglatt was not made by me, it was made by old soap maker in Montpellier.
I started making Soap Smooth soap right around the time we partnered up with Brian to make Krampert's Finest

Thanks!

We started with bath soaps in Jan 12, and with shave soaps about 10 months later. We didn't start making usable shave soaps in later on in 2013 ;-)