About Essential Journeys LLC

Essential Journeys® is an Asheville, North Carolina Company that designs and creates small batch soaps and body care products. When Kimberly started Essential Journeys® in 1999 it was to create handmade soaps for sensitive skin. By 2004 Essential Journeys® pushed the limits of soap making from being merely a chemistry project into “Soap as Art Sculptures” inspired by journeys around the world. Today Essential Journeys® offers a comprehensive line of body care products including bath soaks, body lotions, candles, butters, salves and lip balms. Created by the synergy of design, form, and function, Essential Journeys® products are safe and natural. They combine scientific research, tried and true ingredients with cutting edge concepts, homeopathy, aromatherapy, and natural botanicals. By shopping at Essential Journeys® you are supporting an independent business venture. At Essential Journeys®, founder and creative designer Kimberly Masters has discovered a way to combine her passions – bicycling, traveling, and creating – by handcrafting soaps and body care products inspired by scouring the planet, mostly on the seat of a bicycle. Kimberly has always been intrigued to follow her nose, whether it is getting lost in the fragrance filled souks of the Marrakesh Medina, cycling through Argon Tree orchards along the Moroccan Coast, visiting cosmetic seaweed farms in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, hiking through wild arnica flowers blooming throughout the Dolomites in the Italian Alps.Read their story