THE YORKSHIRE SOAP COMPANY
STORY SO FAR
Founded in 2004 by Warren Booth, from Copmanthorpe near York, and former chef Marcus Doyle, from Ripponden near Halifax, who started making and selling soap from a small gift shop in Hebden Bridge with just £500. Unable to afford proper soap moulds, Doyle used what he had to hand — cake tins and baking cases — to create the brand’s signature soap ‘cupcakes’, drawing on his training as a chef. The business grew from that Hebden Bridge shop into a wider retail operation, and its novelty soap cakes have attracted enough attention that the then-Prince Charles paid the company a visit.
DESIGNED BY
Formulated and designed in-house by co-founders Warren Booth and Marcus Doyle in Yorkshire. UK-based: Yes.
MADE BY
Per the brand’s own statements: every product is handmade in the Yorkshire Soap Company’s own kitchen, continuing the small-batch, cake-mould-based method the founders started with in 2004. Single-site, in-house UK manufacture; no parts-by-percentage breakdown published.
TO BUY
Further information
Further research reading
https://www.stephensonpersonalcare.com/blog/2017-02-16-soap-business-continues-to-clean-up-after-12-years-of-success
Region Made
Yorkshire (Hebden Bridge origin)
