With the arrival of the understandable and necessary strictures put in place throughout much of the world and in our corner of it as well we have had to close the monastery down to visitors and guests for a while. However, we are still conducting our coffee business and our online store continues to operate as usual. Furthermore, we have a few new items available (once again, in limited supply) for purchase as well!

One of these items we are making available as a trial run is Beard Oil. Originally this was inspired by some young pilgrims to the monastery some months ago who liked the handmade scents we use in our soaps, and asked if we could offer it mixed with a traditional beard oil recipe. Here is our attempt!

Also, we have two new soaps we are pleased to make available – now more than ever washing one’s hands with soap and hot water is important! We have Lilac soap and White Magnolia now available.The lilac soap is a pastel lilac in color, and very authentic and rich in scent. It is a rich luxurious soap, with avocado oil and shea butter added for a rich and conditioning feel along with our usual trinity of oils: Olive, palm and coconut. It is handmade in small batches. Our white magnolia soap is a pure white with yellow mica swirls on top, it is extremely popular for it’s complex floral scent: notes of magnolia, lily of the valley, freesia, grapefruit, and plum. Made with our luxuriously conditioning combo of avocado oil and shea butter added to our usual trinity of oils: Olive, palm and coconut. It is handmade in small batches.