Soap and Mineral Water

Take Iron Mountain Hot Springs home to your bath.

Iron Mountain Hot Springs mineral water is the wet ingredient in a new handcrafted soap made for us exclusively by Magnolia Scents by Design. The natural process uses water to make lye, then the water evaporates but leaves behind the minerals to enhance your bathing experience.

“For the Iron Mountain Hot Springs, we use their 100 percent pure mineral water,” said Magnolia cofounder Brian Hight of Independence, Kansas. “It’s better for the skin. It will leave behind all the minerals that are naturally in the water. If your skin needs those things, they’ll soak in.”

Hight and his partner Ryan McDiarmid launched Magnolia as a candlemaking company in 2006, opened their first store in 2008, and expanded into soaps in 2014. Their usual product uses distilled water in the process, leaving nothing behind. Each bar of soap incorporates about one ounce of water. The ingredient label on the custom bars reads Iron Mountain Hot Springs Mineral Water rather than Purified Water.

“We hadn’t ever done this idea of a custom recipe using other ingredients,” Hight says. “It’s kind of a new frontier for us.”

The soap is now available at Iron Mountain’s gift shop, which also offers the company’s candles and other soaps.