7 stores · curated ORBIS register
Banff Avenue, Banff
Founded in Alberta, Rocky Mountain Soap Company makes 100% natural, plant-based soaps and skincare. Its Banff Avenue store is among the best known for the maker's handmade bars.
Best for Natural handmade soaps and skincare
8 Mill Street West, Elora
The Elora boutique of a Niagara lavender grower, stocking essential oils, blends, soaps and skincare distilled from lavender grown at its farm near Niagara-on-the-Lake. The Mill Street shop carries the full range of scents and dried blooms.
Best for Lavender skincare and essential oils
Villeray (300 Villeray Street) / Online
Independent Montreal multi-maker shop presenting pottery, jewellery, skincare, art and gifts from Quebec and Canadian artisans.
Best for Products from nearly 100 artisans from Quebec and Canada — pottery, jewelry
Online
Toronto skincare brand launched in 2016 by DECIEM founder Brandon Truaxe, offering single-active, plainly labelled formulas at low prices. Part of DECIEM, in which Estee Lauder acquired a minority stake in 2017.
Best for Single-active basics.
The Ordinary was launched in 2016 by DECIEM, the Toronto beauty company founded in 2013 by Brandon Truaxe (born Ali Roshan, an Iranian-Canadian former computer scientist). Truaxe conceived DECIEM as an 'Abnormal Beauty' company reacting against what he saw as a lack of transparency in the skincare industry, and The Ordinary became its best-known line, built around clearly labelled, single-active formulas sold at prices well below typical prestige skincare. Estee Lauder acquired a minority stake in DECIEM in June 2017. Truaxe was removed as CEO in October 2018 following erratic public behaviour, and died in Toronto in January 2019.
Bonavista
East Coast Glow is a natural apothecary in Bonavista making plant-based bar soaps, sea-salt bath bombs and balms with wildcrafted island botanicals such as fir needle and fireweed and distillations of pure iceberg water. Founders Karen and Roger run the line as a refillable, mail-back-for-recycling operation rooted in Newfoundland ingredients.
Best for Handmade Newfoundland soap and skincare
Squamish / Canada
Nootka and Sea is a Squamish apothecary and home goods shop making its own natural skincare, candles, and aromatherapy mists inspired by the West Coast since founder Mikki Bernier started the business in 2013. The cozy neighborhood shop sells in-store and online, including local flower arrangements and gift boxes.
Best for House-made natural skincare, candles and aromatherapy mists
Fan Tan Alley/Chinatown, Victoria
Saltspring Soapworks has made natural skincare products since 1979, beginning with an artisanal soap bar that grew into a four-generation family legacy. The company's liquid soaps are made with all-natural, sulphate-free ingredients.
Best for Natural handmade soap
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