Looking for a funky, fragrant soap that will leave you smelling like a million bucks? Have you searched high and low for shower products that go beyond the garden variety soap bars from Dial, Oil of Olay and Coast? You have stumbled upon the right article.

The following suggestions by the staff at Woodland Hills Magazine will leave the competition in suds, while leaving you radiant with a clean, fresh scent and bubbly outlook on tackling the day. These are some of the best shops around Woodland Hills offering decadent soap and bath products, so get ready to take a foray into self-pampering…perhaps one that you’ve never experienced before.

Simply Handmade for You is the brainchild of a husband and wife team, Connie Veliz Smith and Chuck Smith, certified soap-maker and soap dish-maker, respectively. Their goal, from the beginning, has been to create the best products for sensitive skin as well as for the rest of the family, using quality skin-loving ingredients for a premium experience. Every product sold through Simply Handmade is personally crafted and tested by the duo, who now offer a myriad of items that the whole family can use, including the unscented Simply Naked line for customers that suffer with more sensitive dermatological surfaces. Indeed, Mr. and Mrs. Smith care about what we put on our skin – and believe that you do, too.

Zen Girl, headquartered at 21781 Ventura Boulevard #53A, offers unique crystal bracelets and aromatherapy products to help connect the mind, body and soul, the purpose of which is for customers to program them with a specific intention – i.e. manifestation, new beginnings, transformation and the like. The founder, Tara, created Zen Girl to help ease the challenges we all face in our day-to-day lives – whether that’s struggling to find our life’s purpose, finding new love or struggling through a spiritual awakening/journey. In the area of home and bath products, Zen Girl offers sea moss gel, bath soaks, candles, intention rollers and glisten ‘n glow scrubs.

Ash Bay Soap Co., located at 433 East Broadway in Long Beach, provides high-quality, smart and reliable online bath and body products comprised of essential oils and natural fragrance blends. The company does use pigments in some of its soaps, however, they are filtered to remove all impurities; for those who don’t appreciate scents and colorants, Ash Bay’s products are available in unscented and “naked” (i.e. no colorants) form – at no additional cost.  

Prostainable, located at 20969 Ventura Boulevard Suite 30, is San Fernando Valley’s first refill shop, allowing customers to bring their own jars and choose from over 70 refillable products. Their goal is to divert one million single-use bottles from waste and recycling streams. Female owned and operated, Prostainable has been described as a “low waste store for your zero waste intentions,” established in October 2019 by Laura Yochum, a sustainable lifestyle specialist with a design certification from The Permaculture Academy of Los Angeles; since that time, the shop has evolved to include hair, bar soap, face and body, garden, kids, kitchen, laundry and other products, becoming a one-stop-shop for Angelinos accustomed to a step-up personal hygiene experience.

The Well Refill, located at 120 South Topanga Canyon Boulevard #100 in Topanga, offers over 80 refillable products, so you can bring your own bottle or jar – or even an old plastic container – and as long as it’s clean, the business will refill it. Shop for home, bath and body, kitchen, cleaning, garden, kids, pets and other products at one of Woodland Hills’ most diversified businesses in the world of clean refills for the home and body. From Blue Chamomile and Sandalwood Grounding Bath and Body Oil to Palmarosa + Aloe Face Wash by Earth tu Face, Soap-on-a-Rope by terra-tory Skincare, Moon Body Balm Bars in tins and Rose Clay Facial Bars, you can find it all when it comes to bath and body products at The Well.  

Ready to smell absolutely scrumptious this summer? Head over to any of the shops we showcased in this article, and prepare to be wowed by these soap and bath products around Woodland Hills.