About Hearth and Homestead

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Hearth and Homestead is a family-owned organic soap and ancestral skincare company. We craft our products by hand in Rustburg, Virginia, using clean, all-natural ingredients. Our products are always free of toxins, fillers, artificial fragrances, GMOs, and other harmful substances — if it's not good enough for our family, it's not good enough for yours!

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Our Story

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Hi, I'm Lily Wilmoth. I started Hearth and Homestead in 2016 after the birth of my first child. Becoming a mother reshapes your priorities, and skincare was at the top of my list. 

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Throughout my pregnancy, I had suffered from dry skin, rashes, and itching. This made me pay more attention to the ingredients in the skincare products I'd been buying from the store. I realized these body products were full of harmful toxins, chemicals, and preservatives. I knew I needed to find a natural skincare solution.

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I read up about the sort of skincare our ancestors used. I knew that they used much less complex ingredient lists than our cosmetic labs do today, but I never realized the depth of nourishment that was possible using natural ingredients until I started doing some research. So many of the folk remedies of the past didn’t have any scientific data to back them up (now the research is coming out slowly!), and yet they have been remembered for thousands of years for a reason.

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I started making my own soap with homegrown garden herbs and simple, all-natural ingredients, then started crafting tallow balm and other organic body products for my entire family. I made natural baby products for my children, as well as organic men's soap for my husband. I wanted to make sure that everything that went onto our family's skin was safe, nourishing, and free from harmful toxins.

Our Ingredients

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We aren't shy about the fact that we're big proponents of regenerative agriculture, and the majority of our products start with our carefully selected, hand-rendered grass fed tallow that we handle from start to finish. Tallow was a very important ingredient to our forefathers!

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We are advocates of synthetic-free skincare, so we do not work with emulsifiers or preservatives, and instead choose to create anhydrous/oil-based products that are shelf stable and safe to use without any additives. This is how human skin was created to be nourished. If I wouldn't put it on my family’s skin, I won't put it in any of our skincare products.