The Seedsquatch Story
It started with a farm. A few very happy pigs. And a creature in the redwoods that nobody could quite explain.
The Origin Story
Born in the Trees (and the Soap Was an Accident)
Somewhere along the misty, fog-draped edge of the Northern California redwood forest — just outside Carlotta, CA, deep in Humboldt County, where Bigfoot sightings aren't "weird," they're just Tuesday — there is a small farm.
On that farm lives Grace. She grows things. She cooks things. She feeds people for a living as a cook supervisor at the California Conservation Corps, where she teaches youth to cook and garden while keeping 80-something corps members well-fed and very much alive. (No small feat.)
Next door, her parents run a farm. And because Grace brings home surplus food from work, their pigs eat extremely well. We're talking happy, healthy, free-range, practically spoiled pigs. When it came time to butcher, the family found themselves with a situation that most people would call a problem, but Grace called an opportunity:
An enormous surplus of lard.
Most people would have stopped there. Grace made soap.
*Handcrafted in Carlotta, CA. From our farm to your shower.*
The Legend Behind the Brand
The Squatch Was Already There
Here's something you should know about Seedsquatch Soaps: the Seedsquatch isn't just a marketing mascot slapped on a label to sell product. The Seedsquatch came first.
Long before the soap business, there was the music. Grace is also a musician, and over the years the creature of the redwood forest — that giant, elusive, wildly capable, deeply misunderstood being who pops seeds, grows trees, crosses strains, and generally does things his own way — became a character in song. A legend. A symbol.
The Seedsquatch crosses strains and breaks branches. He grows trees. He starts avalanches. He uses CBD for curing cancers. He lives by his own rules deep in the 707, and if you want to find him, you better know where you're at.
(Listen to "Legend of the Squatch" — it'll make a lot more sense, and it absolutely slaps.)
When the soap was born, there was really only one name that fit. Because what isSeedsquatch Soap?
It's the thing that was living in the forest all along, wild and natural and more powerful than anything you can buy at a chain store, that most people just hadn't discovered yet.
We're here to make sure you find it.
About
🥥 The Good Oils
Organic extra virgin coconut oil. Organic castor oil. These aren't cheap filler ingredients — they're the reason your skin feels human after using our soap instead of that parched, squeaky, what-did-I-just-put-on-myself feeling you get from the drugstore stuff.
About
🐷 The Happy Pig Lard
Yes, lard. Free-range, farm-raised, genuinely-happy-pig lard from the farm next door to Grace's place in Carlotta. These pigs eat better than most people. Their lard produces a bar of soap with a rich, creamy, conditioning lather that plant-only soaps have a hard time matching. We're not sorry about it
About
🌸 The Scents & Colors
All scents are made from essential oil blends and only the cleanest, safest fragrance oils available. Colors use skin-safe mica — nothing synthetic, nothing harsh. The result looks as good as it smells. Which is saying something, because it smells legendary.
Here's a thing Grace learned while going deep into the rabbit hole of soap-making research, and now she cannot un-know it, and neither can you:
Most commercial "soap" is not actually soap. It's a detergent bar. Loaded with synthetic surfactants, preservatives, petroleum derivatives, and chemicals that were designed to clean dishes and industrial equipment — not human skin.
The FDA even has a specific definition of "true soap," and the vast majority of major brand products on the shelf don't qualify for it. They're regulated as cosmetics or over-the-counter drugs instead. Read that again.
We make real soap. Handcrafted using the traditional cold-process method with food-grade lye (sodium hydroxide — which, for the record, is not in the final bar; it reacts completely during saponification), real animal fats, real plant oils, and real botanical ingredients.
There's nothing in our bars you need a chemistry degree to pronounce.
We think soap should be food-grade clean, forest-creature strong, and fun enough that your kids actually want to use it.
That's not a tall order. That's just the standard.
Each bar is handcrafted in small batches. No two are exactly alike — just like the Squatch himself.
Meet Grace
The Human Behind the Beast
Grace Schellhous is the founder and owner of Seedsquatch Souvenirs LLC — yes, we're fixing the spelling, thank you for your patience, even the Squatch makes typos.
Grace wears approximately seven hats on any given day. She's a cook supervisor at the California Conservation Corps, a farmer, a musician, a soap maker, a souvenir curator, and a deeply devoted person to the idea that the community you build around you matters more than the profit margin you protect from it.
She started this company as a themed resale shop and ended up accidentally creating a line of artisan soaps that friends and family straight-up refused to stop talking about. The lather was richer. The scent lasted. The skin felt different — genuinely better.
So she started selling them.
Seedsquatch Soaps is still a small, farm-rooted, handcrafted operation in Humboldt County, CA. And Grace would like to keep it that way — honest, human, and just a little bit wild.
Values this brand will never compromise on:
We Value
🌿 Transparency
Every ingredient is listed, explained, and chosen intentionally. No mystery chemicals. No fine-print surprises. You deserve to know what you're putting on your body, and we'll always tell you.
We Value
🤝 Honesty
We're not going to tell you our soap will cure diseases or make you taller. We will tell you it's made better than almost anything else you can buy, with ingredients sourced as close to the ground as possible.
We Value
🏡 Community First
Profit is not the point. People are. We're here to make something genuinely good, share the knowledge behind it freely, and let our neighbors (and the internet) decide if it's worth their money. We think it is. We hope you do too.
Our Mission (In Plain English)
Educate people about what real soap actually is. Make it accessible, affordable, and fun for literally everyone. Bring a little Squatch-sized magic to bathtime.
Vision: We're building toward being the most creative, artistic, fun, healthy, and affordable soap brand on the market — one handcrafted bar at a time, from a farm on the edge of the redwood forest.