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Wild Prairie Soap Company
Category: Beauty and Spas Cosmetics & Beauty Supply Shopping Cosmetics & Beauty Supply Cosmetics & Beauty Supply [Edit]
10746 82 Ave NWEdmonton, AB T6E 6P4
(780) 439-6640
- Hours:
Mon-Wed, Sat 10 am - 6 pm
Thu-Fri 12 pm - 8 pm
Sun 12 pm - 5 pm
- Price Range:
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$$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- By Appointment Only:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
4 reviews for Wild Prairie Soap Company
4 reviews in English
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Review from Alex P.
7/28/2011
So, I've been on a quest for shampoo bars and healthy soaps for a long time. Much to my dismay, most of the local soap boutiques only offer crap products containing SLS and other foam boosters, additives, and unknown fragrances. Yikes! Not stuff I want to be rubbing all over my body. I had almost given up (and turned to making soap myself) but luckily I found this place!
The prices for the soap bars, compared to other similar products I've been ordering online, are very good! They're more expensive than your average drug store soaps, but MUCH better for your skin. And they have a huge selection, offering different soaps for a number of different preferences and maladies. Using their soap for about a week now, my skin is much less dry and feels smooth and great! I need only a fraction of the amount of moisturizer I was using a couple weeks ago. The soaps don't lather as much as drug store soap, but you can't expect them to as they don't have any synthetic foam boosters. The lather they do have is smooth and rich, and feels so good to rub against your skin! Not to mention the soaps all smell fantastic. Not overpowering like places such as Lush, but mild, nice, and relaxing. And most of their soaps only use essential oils for fragrance, so you know exactly what is in it.
They offer a lot of other beauty products. I looked around the store and was on the fence. The products are all good for you and use high quality ingredients, like the soaps, but a lot of them were too expensive in my opinion.
I talked to a couple of the sales associates and they had a lot of good information about body care in general. They did not seem self-promoting or anything, they just wanted to share what they knew. They were fun to talk to and seemed very intelligent, educated and passionate.
Overall, I'm very impressed by the attitude of both the staff and the company itself. The western world needs more places like this that offer safe, beneficial products rather than the low quality, skin-drying gunk that big companies seem to be churning out. -
Review from Lauren N.
11/5/2008
Being a soap store, Wild Prairie of course smells great, but it's not overbearing. Instead, it's a nice, light, and natural scent (kind of like lavender) that follows you around like a breeze as you walk through the store.
In addition to soaps (and lots of them), Wild Prairie sells lotions, eye and neck pillows, lip balms, pj's and slippers, house robes, and home decor items. Their robes are the softest ones you will ever touch! I reached out to feel one and it was like running my hand on silk, but it's still made of a terry-cloth-like material.
I thought it was pretty funny how they displayed their Poo Pourri products. They have a white toilet right beside the display table, with lemons spilling out of the toilet bowl. So funny!
They have a sink where you can test out different soaps, and see which one suits your skin and nose the best. There is also something called the "soap du jour", where they pick a different soap to be 10% off each day. All their soaps and house line body products are made in their in-store soaperie in the back, so items are most likely to be fresh and still packed with a lot of scent when you buy them.
The staff are really great and helpful. The girl on shift showed me the small upper loft, where they are currently working on a holiday display with their new home decor items. These include things like frames, candles, and pillows. I really liked one particular piece, a mat that was woven out of pebbles. How cool is that?
I'd say anything in this shop makes for some wonderful gift ideas, for friends who like spa products and pampering themselves. -
Review from Nicole B.
Edmonton, AB
10/20/2009 1 photo
This was quite a nice shop. I don't usually venture down this far on Whyte Ave so I was pleasantly surprised when I came across Wild Prairie.
It is a beautiful little soap and bath shop. The girl working was incredibly friendly and we had a great round of small talk as I browsed the store. The smell of the store was great because it wasn't overpowering like a lot of soap stores that I can barely stand to be in for more than 30 seconds.
They had some really cute gift sets and some very tempting bath salts.
The bath robes are amazingly soft - I couldn't believe it! The lotions and natural soaps are all fantastic. The few home decor items they have are really nice too. And the Poo-Pourri is awesome! What a great name! I wonderful spray to make your bathroom smell beautiful after . . . well, you know.
Great store! -
Review from Jennifer P.
Edmonton, AB
9/30/2008 1 photo
Beautiful scents waft to your nose as you step into this lovely shop. Row upon row of handmade natural soaps draw you in, making you want to touch and test every piece of merchandise. It's a good thing there are lots of test bottles of lotions and sprays on every shelf. There's even a test sink where you can sample their homemade body scrub. Their signature product: Poo-Pourri. Yes, a bathroom spray so you don't have to smell your spouse or your guests don't have to be embarrassed when they stink up the loo. Smells like lemon grass, which is much more pleasant. Besides this, there's a great selection of products to soothe, calm or exhilarate the senses. If you take issue with spending $5 on a block of soap, as I do, it may help to know they use 50% olive oil, which most commercial soaps don't do, so they're harder, last longer, chemical-free, biodegradable and won't dry or harm your skin. It's also made right here in Edmonton, whereas Zest and Dove aren't, so you can stay clean AND support your local economy.
Specialties
Handcrafted Soap, Natural Bath and Body Products, Eco-Friendly Packaging
Meet the Manager: Carley-Jane S.
Carley-Jane is who you're most likely to meet if you stop into Wild Prairie Soap Company's Soaperie during the weekend. She's a farmers' market-er, a advocate of local living, and is dedicated to personal fulfilment through simplicity-- whether that's in cooking, transportation, or, of course, skin and body care. She believes firmly in finding simple, local solutions for every aspect of living, and hopes Edmontonians will find the same joy in locally-produced, environmentally-friendly bath and body products as she has.
Wild Prairie Soap Company was a natural (no pun intended) match for Carley-Jane, and with her apron tied, she has handcrafted several thousand pounds of natural soap, hundreds upon hundreds of Lotion Bars and Lip Balm, and countless kilograms of Body Polish and Soaking Salts. Her favourite soap scents are Patchouli Lime, Spearmint Tea, Daily Facial Cleanser, and Hempster's Passion.
She looks forward to meeting you and chatting about simple alternatives to skincare!
