Hydrate your skin right in the shower with our solid after-shower lotion bar. Designed to work with the warmth and humidity of the shower, it melts onto wet skin to help seal in moisture and leave skin feeling softer, smoother, and delicately scented with calming lavender and fresh rosemary.
We are often told to apply moisturizer as soon as we step out of the shower to help lock in hydration. Our Shower Butter Bar simply brings that idea into the shower itself.
This solid body butter works like a conditioner for your skin. As the bar glides over warm, wet skin, the rich blend of natural butters gently melts, helping seal in the moisture from your shower while leaving skin feeling softer, smoother, and deeply nourished.
Crafted with a nourishing blend of unrefined plant butters and oils, this luxurious bar helps soothe dry, sensitive, or itchy skin while creating a light protective barrier that supports lasting softness.
Soft lavender unfolds with its familiar calming floral notes, while fresh rosemary adds a clean herbal brightness that keeps the scent beautifully balanced. The result is a timeless botanical blend that feels soothing, fresh, and quietly uplifting — like stepping into a peaceful herb garden.
Mango Butter is naturally rich in fatty acids that help support skin softness and hydration.
Illipe Butter, traditionally valued for its deeply moisturizing qualities, helps condition and protect dry skin.
Together with cocoa butter, kokum butter, avocado oil, and coconut oil, they create a concentrated blend that melts beautifully onto warm skin.
Each bar is packaged in a recyclable, compostable glassine bag made from wood pulp and placed inside a paperboard box.
Soft skin. Lasting moisture. Calming floral and crisp herbal notes
After washing and rinsing, glide the bar over warm, wet skin while still in the shower or bath, allowing the warmth of your skin and the water to gently melt the nourishing butters.
You can also step out of the shower and massage the bar over warm, damp skin.
Pay special attention to extra dry areas. Rinse lightly if desired, or simply pat skin dry.
Rub a small amount of the butter onto your hands and run your lightly buttered fingers through the length of your hair.
Cut a small sliver from the bar and drop it into your bathwater. As it melts, it releases rich skin-loving butters into the water.
No time for a bath or shower? Simply rub the nourishing oils and butters directly onto dry skin areas for extra moisture.
* When using in the bath or shower, always take care as your bath or shower may become slippery.
The goal is simple: to Harness the Power & Simplicity of Nature® to cleanse, soothe, heal, and protect your skin and hair!
Our unique formulas rely on moisturizing oils and butters, healing botanicals, and pure essential oils. We choose every ingredient with one end-result in mind….the BEST possible natural skin care for YOU!
Illipe Butter
Kokum Butter
Organic Lavender Essential Oil
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*Ingredient is Fair Trade Certified Made with certified organic Mango Butter, Cocoa Butter & Avocado Oil |
Overall rating: 4.6588235 / 5 from 85 reviews.
The Shower Butter Bar with Lavender Rosemary hydrates and softens skin, praised for its moisturizing lotion bar, fantastic scent, and silky feel.
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"I love the shower lotion bars and this scent is no exception. It leaves me with a gentle all over scent. I find what works is storing the bar in an old soap case outside my shower. After I turn off the shower, I grab the bar and rub it all over my wet arms and legs, then pat dry. If I keep it stored out of the shower in a case a bar lasts over a month and I don’t get a mess. Also I figure I could easily travel with one of these"
— Susan (5/5)
"Awkward to use. Supposed to rub over wet skin. Rather thick and greasy and bit sticky on skin."
— Writer (2/5)
"Couldn't imagine this working but boy was I wrong. These shower bars are wonderful. They are a great first layer of moisturizer for winter dryness. In summer months I'll probably only need the shower bar but in winter they work well under cream moisturizers like Nivea or similar. No pilling. When you apply on warm wet skin, it turns creamy and then you work it in. Little goes a long way. These also smell wonderful and spa like. They provide at least 24 hr moisture. On my 2nd order and will continue to purchase."
— Carlotta P. (5/5)
"I love the scent and ease of use of the Lavender Rosemary Shower lotion bar! I use it on my dry, warm skin right after showering. It moisturizes and smells great!"
— Marcia A. (5/5)
"The instructions seem to suggest using this on wet skin, but this bar worked better for me on skin that was just toweled dry. It's a good body lotion with a fairly strong fragrance. It's pleasant, but maybe if you are sensitive, get the fragrance free. I love the chance to move away from the plastic bottles."
— J'aime (4/5)
"This is the best company. I've been a customer for over 15 years. My first time using this kind of product. I do love lavender and rosemary There was a nice scent but a little too strong and lasted much longer than I expected. I have friends that are very sensitive to the lavender scent and will have to be careful when wearing for their sakes. I will be using the bar but will also try another scent in the future."
— Evelyn F. (4/5)
"Works. Great ! My skin is always so dry, especially in the winter months. It isn’t greasy which I appreciate, and doesn’t require lots of rubbing in. It has made a huge difference. I love the efficiency !"
— Kaite W. (5/5)
"This bar is very moisturizing and smells lovely."
— Damia S. (5/5)
"This is so fast and easy to use! I was worried the smell would be too strong, but it disappates very quickly. I finally don't have dry skin any more and using this is way faster than rubbing lotion in."
— Emily S. (5/5)
"It smells so good and also use the soap. Makes you feel hydrated and smooth."
— Patricia (5/5)
Well, first of all, it's an all-natural product. Commercial lotions are NOT. Our Body Balms and Whipped Shea Butters only contain the ingredients that they need to moisturize your skin.
Creams and lotions formulated with synthetic ingredients often aggravate sensitive skin, exacerbate irritated skin conditions, and trigger allergic dermatitis.
The organic oils and butters we use do NOT contain petroleum based chemicals (Mineral Oil, Petrolatum, Paraffin), chemical emulsifiers (DEA, MEA, TEA), chemical preservatives (Parabens, Urea), Propylene Glycol, artificial colors, or synthetic fragrances.
Have you ever noticed that when you use your body lotion your skin never stays moist and you find yourself going back to the lotion bottle over and over?
Look at the ingredients. The main ingredient in lotion is water! Once water is added to make a lotion, preservatives are needed to prevent mold and bacteria growth.
Commercial lotions often contain isopropyl alcohol and/or mineral oil. Both of these actually are very drying to your skin. The alcohol gives a temporary sense of coolness due to evaporation.
Mineral oil is a clear, liquid oil with no scent and will not spoil. It is very inexpensive because it is the liquid by-product of the distillation of petroleum to produce gasoline and other petroleum-based products from crude oil. It is found in lotions, soaps, baby oil, cosmetics, and motor oil. Mineral oil
It is great for oiling your wooden cutting boards--but not your skin. Mineral oil does not penetrate to soften. It is difficult to absorb, coats your skin and clogs the pores. If you would like to have healthy skin, stay away from mineral oils, animal fat, petroleum, and synthetic oil based skincare.
We know that natural body butters make great moisturizing body creams. But here are some other ways we have used these balms and butters:
HINT: If you enjoy the application "feeling" of a lotion better than a cream, try massaging our rich Whipped Butters into warm, wet skin after a bath or shower. Wait a few moments and gently pat dry. (Do not rub the skin dry!)
Since a lotion is just a lot of water mixed with oils, a rich natural butter on warm wet skin will have a similar feel.
Have you ever enjoyed the scent of a fragrant flower or herb? The fragrance comes from potent, aromatic compounds called essential oils found in the flowers, stems, seeds, bark, roots, fruits, and other parts of plants. It often requires several pounds of a plant to produce a single bottle of essential oil.
Essential oils not only give plants their unique scents but also help lure plant pollinators and protect plants from insects and other predators.
The chemical composition of essential oils may provide valuable psychological and physical aromatherapeutic benefits for some people.
It is important to note that to be a true essential oil, the oil must be isolated from the plant material by physical means only. Essential oils are NEVER extracted using solvents.
Although synthetic fragrances or "nature identical" oils are available at a much lower cost, only natural plant essential oils will provide any aromatherapeutic benefits.
What Are Essential Oils (Much more detail)
How Essential Oils Are Extracted
Why We Use Only Real Plant Essential Oils?
If you are pregnant or under a doctor's care for any medical condition, please consult your healthcare provider before using essential oils.
Pregnancy & Children: We do not provide information on the safety of essential oils during Pregnancy or for use in Children because the available information is very ambiguous and often contradictory. If you’re interested in using essential oils during pregnancy or with young children please do your own research and consult your doctor, midwife, or health care professional before use.
Trying to choose the right natural soaps or skincare products can be a bit overwhelming especially when you have allergies and/or skin sensitivities.
Since we proudly list every ingredient in all of our products, reading the ingredient list will help to eliminate ingredients that may cause you problems.
We always recommend doing a patch test before using any new products especially if you have sensitive skin or allergies.
We receive so many emails asking for help with allergies, we created categories in our “Help Me Choose” section to provide information for those with allergies or sensitivities to nuts, coconut, shea butter and gluten.
Check out our help me choose pages!!
If you are allergic or sensitive to any of the ingredients in our products, they may cause skin irritation. Even natural ingredients may cause sensitivities.
People with severe allergies--please note: If you have severe anaphylactic-type reactions to ANY of the ingredients in ANY of our products, please do not buy our products. We have dedicated soap rooms and product rooms that are kept meticulously clean, but we cannot guarantee against possible cross-contamination of individual ingredients.
The most important consideration in any business is its customers. Today's world of misleading claims, false advertising, and simple deception, often leaves consumers trying to discover the truth about personal products and their ingredients.
Some of my favorite products are made with ingredients that just do not exist as certified organic. Why? At this time there are no standards created for ingredients specifically used in the personal care product industry. Organic certification of personal care products is based on the organic food standards set by the National Organic Program of the USDA.
But since we are a certified organic company, we are required to submit documentation that even our "non-organic ingredients" were produced without the use of toxic pesticides, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), sewage sludge, or irradiation.
Why Did We Become a Certified Organic Company?
What Do All of the Organic Labels Mean?
Chagrin Valley Soap & Salve has been Leaping Bunny Certified since 2013.
The Leaping Bunny Program was developed in 1996, by The Coalition for Consumer Information on Cosmetics (CCIC), to identify and support companies that are doing their part to help eliminate the unnecessary use and mistreatment of animals to test cosmetic products and ingredients. The CCIC is made up of eight animal protection groups including the Humane Society of the U.S., as well as groups from Canada and Europe.
At Chagrin Valley we do not test our finished products on animals (other than human volunteers). But what about the raw materials, the ingredients we use?
Many products display labels claiming that their finished product is ‘not tested on animals’ but this does not guarantee that the product ingredients are actually free from animal testing.
The CCIC Standard is a pledge that a company makes to remove animal testing from all stages of product development. Our pledge to buy ingredients that are cruelty-free is integrated into the purchase agreement for all of our suppliers.
Personal care products displaying the “real” Leaping Bunny logo are certified ‘cruelty-free' using the internationally recognized Humane Cosmetics Standards. These rigorous standards require that no animal testing is performed or authorized for finished products or any of the ingredients in any stage of product development by the company, its laboratories or its suppliers after a fixed cut-off date. All Leaping Bunny companies are subject to independent audits and pledge commitments that are renewed on an annual basis.
This annual renewal is a key requirement that sets the Leaping Bunny Program apart from other cruelty-free certification programs. Companies that manufacture products, as well as their ingredient suppliers, must annually recommit to upholding their promise to not conduct animal testing on any finished products, ingredients, or formulations.
Why is this annual commitment renewal important? "Because product formulations change, suppliers come and go, and manufacturers develop innovative lines to meet consumer needs. But we know that compassionate consumers need to be confident that no animal testing is involved in the products they use."
At Chagrin Valley Soap & Salve . . .
The Leaping Bunny Program provides
the best assurance to consumers
that they are making compassionate shopping choices
by purchasing Cruelty-Free skin care!
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