Mater Soap pays homage to utilitarian objects that quietly serve our daily lives. ​​We create a variety of cold-process bar soaps and organic body products. Keeping our batches small and handmade, we strive to perfect the simple and subtle alchemy of soap-making and body care. The minimalist beauty of traditional soap formulation and the power of plant oils and extracts inform our craft.
We want to support and honor our bodies without judgement through all stages of life. In a world of excess, our aesthetic is minimal, as is our waste, allowing our bathers to be the full expression of themselves.
Enhance your ritual.

My name is Addison Walz and I started Mater Soap in 2016 with 8 bar soap recipes. Today we have 29 house-made skus of bar soap, liquid soap, body care and kitchen care products.
I spent my formative years in Rome, where I was raised to appreciate quality and simplicity in food, art, and ritual. My background in sculpture, textiles, and natural dyes inform the Mater aesthetic and ethos.
After washing with a 5-lb block of crude tallow soap on a farm in the Bolivian Amazon, I started making soap in my weaving studio in NYC. Mater was born out of a dedication to process, material exploration and the objects that quietly serve us. I love thinking about soap as an inert shape—so stoic and essential—that, on contact with a body, becomes this activated and jubilant object.
Mater seeks to make significant experiences out of the mundane acts of daily life.
Based in Brooklyn, NY, Mater works with makers, artists, and other like-minded businesses toward the shared goal of less waste and more joy—and reverence in bathing and washing.