Dock and Aloe

New Laundry Stain Bar 🧺🫧

Not just a bar of soap — there’s a bit of chemistry behind this little stain-fighting powerhouse.

Our fragrance-free Laundry Stain Bar combines 40% coconut oil, 35% olive oil, 20% shea butter and 5% castor oil, with bicarbonate of soda added for an extra boost.

🧪 So how does it work?

The soap molecules are surfactants. One end is attracted to water, while the other is attracted to oils, grease and dirt. When you work the damp bar directly onto a stain, those soap molecules help loosen oily and greasy particles from the fabric so they can be carried away in the wash.

🥥 Coconut oil gives the bar strong cleansing and stain-lifting properties.

🌿 Olive oil helps balance that cleansing action and gives the bar a smoother, gentler feel.

🧈 Shea butter gives the bar hardness and durability.

✨ Castor oil helps create a rich, workable lather so you can really work the bar into the fabric.

And then there’s bicarbonate of soda — a mild alkaline ingredient that gives an additional helping hand with lifting everyday dirt and stains.

How to use it: Wet the stain and the bar, rub the bar directly onto the mark, work it into the fabric and leave for around 15–30 minutes before washing as normal.

Simple ingredients. Solid soap chemistry. No fragrance. No plastic bottle. Just a little bar designed to earn its place in the laundry cupboard. 🤍

Dock & Aloe Laundry Stain Bar — coming soon.

⚓️ DOCK & ALOE IS HEADING OUT AROUND LIVERPOOL… 🧼🌿

The soap is made, the stock is packed and the market bags are getting a serious workout! 😂

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be popping up at four brilliant Liverpool locations, each with its own little bit of history. So here’s where you can find me:

🏛️ 27 AUGUST — PORT OF LIVERPOOL BUILDING
🕙 10am–2pm

Down at the Pier Head, surrounded by Liverpool’s famous Three Graces.

The Port of Liverpool Building opened in 1907 and became the headquarters of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, helping oversee the huge amount of trade passing through Liverpool’s docks.

A rather grand setting for a little handmade soap stall! ⚓️🧼

🏛️ 28 AUGUST — ST GEORGE’S HALL
🕝 2:30pm–8:30pm

One of Liverpool’s great architectural treasures.

St George’s Hall opened in 1854 and is famous for its enormous neoclassical interiors, grand columns and magnificent Minton tiled floor.

And this one is an evening market, so I’ll be there until 8:30pm — soap shopping after dark! ✨😂

⚓️ 6 SEPTEMBER — ALBERT DOCK
🕚 11am–4pm

Albert Dock opened in 1846 and was hugely innovative for its time, with fireproof warehouses and hydraulic technology making the movement of goods much more efficient.

These days it’s home to museums, galleries, restaurants, shops… and, on this particular day, Dock & Aloe Soap Company! 🧼⚓️

🌿 13 SEPTEMBER — LARK LANE MAKERS MARKET
🕚 11am–4pm

Finishing the run on Lark Lane — one of Liverpool’s best-known independent neighbourhoods.

Cafés, food, independent shops, makers and plenty of character. Basically, the perfect place for a Sunday afternoon mooch!

And just in case anyone thinks I spend my days leisurely making soap… 😂

I’m doing all of this alongside being a full-time classroom teacher, while also currently buying and selling a house.

So the current schedule is basically:

👨‍🏫 Teach a full-time class
🧼 Make soap
📦 Pack orders
🏠 Buy a house
🏡 Sell a house
🏛️ Set up markets
🛍️ Sell soap
📋 Deal with approximately 47,000 bits of paperwork
😴 Cue the eyebags

Honestly, at this p

🧼 SOAP SCHOOL: The boring-but-important bit nobody sees…

You see a gorgeous bar of handmade soap.

I see… THE PAPERWORK. 😂

Before a bar of soap can legally be sold in the UK, there’s a whole side to soapmaking that has absolutely nothing to do with swirls, colours and pretty packaging.

One of the big ones is the SCPN — the Submit Cosmetic Product Notification.

Every cosmetic product placed on the UK market needs to be notified, and yes… each variant matters.

🌿 Sefton Park isn't the same notification as Penny Lane.

🌹 Different fragrance? Different formulation? Different concentrations?

More paperwork.

And this is where it gets particularly fun (for people like me who apparently enjoy spreadsheets 😆):

Your product information needs to accurately reflect what's actually in the bar — including the exact formulation and concentrations of ingredients, fragrance/essential oil usage and the relevant allergen information.

You can't just think:

"I'll put roughly 2% lavender oil in this one."

Nope. 😂

You need to know what went into the product and be able to demonstrate that the finished formulation is safe and compliant.

Then there's:

🧪 Cosmetic Product Safety Report (CPSR)
🏷️ Correct ingredient/INCI labelling
⚠️ Declaring relevant fragrance allergens
📋 Product Information File (PIF)
🇬🇧 SCPN notification
🧼 GMP / good manufacturing practice
📦 Correct packaging and required information

And THEN… we get to actually make the soap. 😂

So when you buy a little handmade bar from Dock & Aloe, you're not just buying oils + fragrance + pretty packaging.

There's a LOT happening behind the scenes to make sure that little bar can legally and safely sit on a market stall and be sold to you.

Handmade doesn't mean homemade.

And definitely doesn't mean "I made it in my kitchen so I'll just stick a label on it." 😂

That's tonight's SOAP SCHOOL lesson!

Did you know there was this much legal and safety work behind a bar of soap?

👇 Tell me what surprised you most!

🌲👀 SNEAK PEEK… SOMETHING NEW IS COMING 👀🌲

A little clue for you…

💚 It’s green
🐿️ There’s a red squirrel
🌲 And plenty of pine trees…

Can you guess what the next Dock & Aloe soap is inspired by? 👀

I’ve been working on something new behind the scenes and I can’t wait to reveal it.

Drop your guesses below! 👇

An apology from Dock & Aloe 💔

I’m so sorry.

I know this news is going to come as a shock to some of you, and I haven't made this decision lightly.

But I have to do what feels right for Dock & Aloe.

Tonight, I poured the final batch of Lime Street Soap for 2026. 😭🚂

Lime Street has officially left the station.

Our fresh, minty, exfoliating summer bar is heading into a little semi-retirement while we make room on the curing racks for some brand-new Liverpool-inspired additions.

BUT PLEASE DON'T PANIC. 😂

Lime Street isn't gone forever. It'll be pulling back into the station for Spring/Summer 2027, just in time for sunshine, holidays and scrubbing off several questionable layers of fake tan. ☀️😂

And as for what's replacing it…

Let's just say there's already something rather special curing on the racks. 🌲🐿️🌲

Any guesses where we're heading next? 👀

Sorry again for any distress caused at this difficult time. Thoughts and prayers appreciated. 😂💔

✨ DOCK & ALOE 2.0 ✨

Bigger bars. Better branding. More Scouse than ever. 🖤

Dock & Aloe is getting a bit of a glow-up! My new bars are around 20% larger, giving you a longer-lasting soap, even better value and plenty more of that gorgeous, creamy lather.

I’ve also refreshed the branding and added more Liverpool-inspired visuals to the labels, so every bar now feels even more connected to the place that inspired it. I want Dock & Aloe to be unmistakably Liverpool — natural, handmade and full of local character.

As a small business, I think it’s so important to keep learning, improving and evolving. I’m incredibly proud of how far Dock & Aloe has come, but there’s always room to make things bigger, better and more beautifully Scouse.

There are also SEVEN new Liverpool-inspired soaps that have been fully safety assessed and are ready to join the collection! They’ll be made on a rotating cycle, meaning there’ll regularly be something different to discover — but it also means a few familiar bars may occasionally need to enter semi-retirement.

The first will be Lime Street. Its fresh, minty scent makes it the perfect summer essential, so I’ll be shelving it for now — but don’t worry, it’ll be back next summer, just in time to scrub all that fake tan off. 😂

Welcome to Dock & Aloe 2.0: bigger bars, a better look and proudly handmade in Liverpool. ❤️

🎶 LET’S GO TO THE BEACH-EACH, LET’S GO GET A WAVE 🌊🧼

CROSBY BEACH IS RESTOCKED! 🌊

Fresh batches of one of your absolute favourites are back — Crosby Beach, scented naturally with Eucalyptus & Peppermint essential oils for that fresh, breezy, just-been-blown-about-on-the-prom kind of feeling. 🌿🌊

And while we’re talking restocks… I just want to say a HUGE thank you. 🥹

This has officially been my best week for online orders since starting Dock & Aloe. Every time an order notification has popped up this week I’ve genuinely been a bit like… ANOTHER ONE?! 😂

For a tiny handmade soap business, every single order makes a difference. Every bar is made, cut, cured, labelled and packed by me here in Liverpool — so seeing so many of you choosing my soaps honestly means the world.

Thank you to everyone who’s ordered, reordered, shared a post, recommended me to someone or just quietly followed along. 💚

Now… Crosby Beach is back. Who needs a bar? 👀🌊