Handmade gifts for Christmas — shop soaps, candles & more from Natchitoches, Louisiana
Stack of four handmade Cane River Soap Company bars on a weathered dock at sunset, with Spanish-moss cypress trees and water in the background
Handcrafted in Historic Natchitoches

Cane River Soap Co.

Cold-processed by hand with clean, simple ingredients — nothing you wouldn't put in your kitchen. No parabens, no GMOs, no shortcuts.

★★★★★ 5.0 (10 Google reviews) Est. 2010 Family-owned & hand-poured
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Customer favorites

The handmade favorites our customers come back for.

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All Natural Beard Oil
All Natural Sugar Scrub
All Natural Luxury Face & Eye Cream
Amazing Grace
Mike and Kim Walthall accepting the Excellence in Retail award for Cane River Soap Company at the Natchitoches Area Chamber of Commerce awards
Our story

A Crafted Christmas that became a calling

In 2010, Mike and Kim Walthall set out to make handmade gifts instead of buying them for the holidays. What started as a "Crafted Christmas" project turned into something bigger once friends and family kept asking for more.

Frustrated with what was in most store-bought skincare, they started making cold-processed soap the old-fashioned way — kept at a lower temperature to preserve its natural, therapeutic properties. Their rule has stayed the same ever since: you shouldn't put anything on your skin that you wouldn't eat.

Every bar is still made by hand in small batches, with clean ingredients and no parabens, artificial color, or GMOs.

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Mike and Kim Walthall
Mike & Kim Walthall
Founders, Cane River Soap Company
What people are saying

Loved on the bayou and beyond

★★★★★

"My favorite store... owners are amazing. Handcrafted soaps and body products."

Beth Prejean — Local Guide, Google
★★★★★

"Incredible selection of soaps, lotions, oils, and more... their store is always clean and well thought out."

Crit Williams — Local Guide, Google
★★★★★

"For me it's better than Dr. Squatch."

Opey Steele

★ 5.0 average from 10 reviews on Google — see our shop

Visit us in person

Stop by our shop on Front Street

Smell before you buy, meet the people who make it, and see historic downtown Natchitoches while you're at it.

558 Front Street
Historic Natchitoches, Louisiana
(318) 617-1510
Tue–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 11am–4pm, Mon closed
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