Where Science & Nature, Meet Artistry
Welcome to BioInspired Living
Your skin is often overlooked as the largest organ of your body and needs just as much or more care as the rest of you; it is your body’s first line of defense to your environment. To care for your skin, we, at BioInspired, strive to formulate high quality natural ingredients into our products that possess properties known to moisturize, heal, and nurture your skin. We look to nature to inspire the aesthetic for color schemes and fragrance combinations.
Our Lemon Balm & Verbena Soap is like a little bar of sunshine for your daily routine with its bright, cheerful, citrusy goodness.
This vibrant yellow beauty packs a refreshing lemony punch, thanks to its uplifting blend of verbena, litsea cubeba, and lavender essential oils. Each bar is finished with a delicate topping of dried lavender, adding a gentle, calming touch to its bold, energizing scent.
Perfect for morning showers, midday handwashing, or anytime you need a mood boost, this soap delivers a beautifully balanced experience, bright and invigorating, with just a hint of soothing floral charm.
Let this bar bring a little brightness to your sink or shower; your skin (and senses) will thank you.
Ingredients: lard, water, coconut oil, olive oil, sodium hydroxide, castor oil, cocoa butter, kaolin clay, lemon balm extract, sodium lactate, mica, titanium dioxide, tin dioxide, iron oxide, verbena essential oil, litsea cubeba essential oil, lavender essential oil, dried lavender. (4.5 oz)
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Our Lemon Balm & Verbena Soap is a sunny, citrusy bar infused with verbena, litsea cubeba, and calming lavender oils. Gently topped with dried lavender for a soothing, aromatic finish. Bright, invigorating, and subtly floral, this soap is ideal for morning routines, refreshing handwashing, or anytime you need a little uplifting boost.
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Our Coffee Moringa Lard Soap is crafted with locally roasted coffee from Thinkwell, freshly brewed for incorporation into each batch, along with finely ground coffee for natural exfoliation.
By popular request, this bar is now available in both scented and unscented versions. The unscented option delivers the same rich character, gentle exfoliation, and thoughtfully selected natural ingredients without added fragrance. A beautiful choice for those with fragrance sensitivities or anyone who prefers a scent-free routine.
Ingredients: lard, water, coconut oil, olive oil, sodium hydroxide, cocoa butter, moringa seed oil, coffee, coffee grounds, fragrance. (4.5 oz)
This customer-inspired favorite is a refreshing soap with a delightful aroma that is carefully crafted blend of invigorating cypress essential oil, complemented by the bold and vibrant notes of strong lime essential oil, and rounded out with a subtle hint of earthy patchouli.
Ingredients: coconut oil, water, lanolin, sodium hydroxide, canola oil, titanium dioxide, iron oxide, mica, tin dioxide, green chrome oxide, cypress essential oil, lime essential oil, patchouli essential oil. (4.5 oz)
While our variations of deodorant above contain subtle hints of fragrance, we understand that even small amounts of scent may trigger sensitivities in some individuals. This particular variation has been crafted specifically to cater to those with heightened sensitivity to fragrances.
Ingredients: cocos nucifera oil (coconut oil), sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), maranta arundinacea root (arrowroot powder), cera alba (beeswax), diatomaceous earth (diatomaceous earth). (3.0 oz)
One Bar of Soap
This all started with a bar of artisan soap given to us as a gift. That single bar of soap was transformative in the sense that it showed us what good soap truly was, but it was more than that. In this one beautiful bar of soap, a seemingly simple cleansing product, we saw how soap could be harnessed to provide a much more holistic experience, appealing to the body, eye and nose as well, compared to the major store-bought brands.
This led to experimentation within our own kitchen to make our own soap. What makes a good recipe? What is the general process? How do you make the pretty swirling patterns? As we learned more, we experimented with other products as well...driven by a desire to make good and beautiful handcrafted products where we know what they contain, and that also evoke an experience for the user. We believe that color and smell evoke emotions and memories. Standing in the shower in the winter months with a bar of lilac soap may remind someone of their grandmother’s garden from their childhood days and for others, the reminder that spring will return with a flourish of smells and colors. We find great joy and inspiration in nature and its power to rejuvenate the soul. Our mission is simple...to share this joy with you and what we have learned along the way.
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Ingredients
Our soaps are handcrafted using cold-process techniques. Most of our soaps have a foundation composed of coconut oil and lanolin. Coconut oil is a good cleanser, produces a nice lather, and adds hardness to the soap. Lanolin is a wax secreted by sheep that has water-proofing properties that help sheep shed water from their wool.
Fragrance Philosophy
Essential oils are the natural scents that are isolated from things in nature through extraction processes like steam distillation. Fragrance oils are synthetic...man-made. Most of our soaps will use these synthetic fragrance oils simply because they tend to be more stable in cold process soaps and there are a lot more options from which to choose for beautiful aromas.
Color
We use oxide pigments and micas to color our products while avoiding the use of lakes and dyes. While useful in many products and generally considered safe, lakes + dyes are not generally very stable, can leach (water soluble) into materials other than what is desired and carry the liability of being an organic molecule with potential biological properties.