We love a nice long hot Summer’s day at The Candle Tree and there’s nothing more refreshing than jumping in a cool shower at the end of balmy evening and using a lovely refreshing cleansing soap bar. Equally important is an invigorating shower with a favourite soap bar first thing on a warm day which can really set you up for the day ahead.

Refreshing Summer soaps are designed to invigorate and cool the skin, making them perfect for hot weather. These soaps often feature vibrant scents, natural ingredients, and refreshing properties that leave you feeling revitalised. Refreshing summer soaps are a fantastic way to invigorate your skincare routine during the warmer months. With their cooling properties, hydrating ingredients, and uplifting scents, these soaps not only cleanse but also refresh and revitalise the skin. These soap bars perfect for as part of your daily routine or as a thoughtful Summer gift, they bring a touch of luxury and refreshment to your daily routine.

Refreshing Summer French Soaps are a luxurious addition to any skincare routine, offering high-quality ingredients, elegant scents, and a touch of French sophistication. Known for their craftsmanship, French soaps are typically made using traditional methods that ensure a rich lather and gentle cleansing. These French soaps are an exquisite way to elevate your skincare routine during the warmer months. With their high-quality ingredients, luxurious formulations, and invigorating scents, these soaps provide a refreshing and rejuvenating cleanse. Perfect for personal indulgence or as a sophisticated gift, they bring the elegance and quality of French skincare into your daily life.

We are proud stockists of a large range of French soaps, Savon de Marseille 125g cleansing bars, French soap on a rope, luxury soaps and a collection of speciality soaps. Below we have picked a few Summer favourites which are bound to inject some vitality and freshness into your daily cleansing routine. Take a look at The Candle Tree online for the full collection or visit our Gloucester based shop.

125g Savon de Marseille Seaweed Soap

125g Savon de Marseille Seaweed Soap, enriched with BIO Shea Butter. Artisanal vegetable French Soap, certified without animal fat and made in Marseille from rigorously selected raw materials. This rejuvenating seaweed enriched, French soap brings nourishment, exfoliation and a natural source of nutrients to your skin care routine. The natural beauty of seaweed really does provide everything truly beneficial for your skin. Seaweed is full of lipids, proteins, minerals and vitamins, which are easy to absorb to deeply moisturize and nourish the skin. Seaweed has therapeutic properties in the treatment of sensitive and allergy prone skin. Seaweed is high in vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6 and B12 which is useful in protecting the skins surface and reduction of inflammation. It is a used as active ingredient for many in modern skin care products because of its natural tendency to reduce excessive irritation and redness. Research also shows that nutrients from seaweeds are better able to penetrate deep into the skin more efficiently than other skin care ingredients to help your skin maintain its firmness and hydration. Seaweed is packed with high concentrations of minerals such as fluorine, magnesium and calcium which will enable you to achieve and restore a radiant skin complexion. The minerals contained in seaweed help to maintain the skins natural moisture balance leaving it neither too dry or too oily. Overall, a thoroughly refreshing and revitalising soap bar for the Summer months.

240g Ecolier Oval French Soap - Crushed Lemon

This artisanal French soap makes a lovely practical Summer shower essential. The lemon fresh scent of this soap is also highly beneficial to your mood and well being. What better and invigorating way to start your day than this soap with it's distinct lemon fresh aroma. It is also brilliant as an uplifting cleansing bar after your daily workout. The citrus in this all-natural lemon soap gently exfoliates to slough away any dead and dry skin. Enriched with organic Shea butter, it is ideal for dry or damaged skin, as the shea butter provides rich moisturisation. Wash with this bar soap daily, and enjoy beautifully soft skin. This citrus soap is packed full of beauty-boosting vitamin C, which tones and detoxes while it cleanses. As a natural astringent, lemon will work to heal acne, cuts, and minor skin abrasions. Suitable for most wall-mounted soap holders. It comes with a rope to hang it in the shower, and also perfect for bathroom decoration. It is very practical as slipping it around the wrist avoids dropping it in the shower., this also helps the soap to dry between uses, making it last much longer.  A beautifully refreshing rejuvenating soap that is guaranteed to lift your mood whilst offering skin benefits.

125g Savon de Marseille Lemon Verbena Soap

Our Lemon Verbena Soap is French and is made by Savon de Marseille, the ingredients are 100% natural and have not been tested on animals. The soap is enriched with soothing shea butter.  Lemon Verbena is known for its therapeutic skin properties today. It breaks down cellulite, and hence, offers a healing, toning and relaxing effect to the skin. That is the reason this herb is often used in the preparation of natural soaps. Lemon verbena’s fresh citrus scent has made it popular for inclusion in fragrances and scented products. Lemon verbena oil is richly aromatic and has been made use of for centuries and it was a well-known therapeutic oil throughout the Victorian era. Particularly for healing muscle spasms, inflammation, skin infections and also as a sedative. Lemon Verbena soap suits all skin types and makes the skin feel soft and toned. The essential oil of this herb is gentle on the skin and helps maintain the proper balance of the skin’s natural oils, the soap also helps to give the skin an even tone. The Lemon Verbena oil present in the soap gets rid of excess sebum and pollutants from the skin without causing excessive dryness. It also aids in repelling the bacteria that cause acne, and blocked pores, thereby helping provide you with blemish-free skin. Its plant-derived oils help in giving the skin a nourished and clean feeling. It offers smoothness to skin and uplifts it after every wash. The soap contains the goodness of flavonoids that soothe and nourish the skin, thereby giving it a radiant appearance. A delightful uplifting scented soap to use all year round especially during the Summer months for that extra injection of refreshment.