VIKING ICE – PEPPERMINT, BIRCH, SEA SALT
.Cold, sharp, and a little bit fierce — Viking Ice is peppermint and birch turned up to eleven, with sea salt for grit. This bar doesn't just clean you, it wakes you up.
• Key ingredients: Peppermint, Wintergreen/Birch, Sea Salt
• Scent: Icy, Minty, Woodsy, Intensely Cooling
• Texture: sea salt adds a satisfying, lightly gritty feel
• Format: hot-process bar soap, handmade in small batches
THE LORE
Contrary to their reputation, Vikings were surprisingly fastidious. Norse men and women bathed regularly (weekly, at minimum — more often than most of medieval Europe), combed their hair daily, and carried grooming kits of bone combs, razors, and ear-cleaners wherever they went. Combs turn up constantly in Viking Age graves, right alongside the swords.
A medieval English monk, John of Wallingford, complained about this at length — griping that Danish men were combing their hair, bathing every Saturday, and changing their clothes, and that English women found this charming. Fragments of Norse soap have actually turned up in the archaeological record, with recipes passed down for generations across Northern Europe. Viking Ice is my tribute to that cold, clean, no-nonsense Norse spirit.
Menthol and wintergreen have a long history in old-school muscle rubs and liniments — the sort of thing you reached for after a hard day, a long march, or, presumably, raiding England.
Bathe first, then go raid the coast.
VIKING ICE – PEPPERMINT, BIRCH, SEA SALT
.Cold, sharp, and a little bit fierce — Viking Ice is peppermint and birch turned up to eleven, with sea salt for grit. This bar doesn't just clean you, it wakes you up.
• Key ingredients: Peppermint, Wintergreen/Birch, Sea Salt
• Scent: Icy, Minty, Woodsy, Intensely Cooling
• Texture: sea salt adds a satisfying, lightly gritty feel
• Format: hot-process bar soap, handmade in small batches
THE LORE
Contrary to their reputation, Vikings were surprisingly fastidious. Norse men and women bathed regularly (weekly, at minimum — more often than most of medieval Europe), combed their hair daily, and carried grooming kits of bone combs, razors, and ear-cleaners wherever they went. Combs turn up constantly in Viking Age graves, right alongside the swords.
A medieval English monk, John of Wallingford, complained about this at length — griping that Danish men were combing their hair, bathing every Saturday, and changing their clothes, and that English women found this charming. Fragments of Norse soap have actually turned up in the archaeological record, with recipes passed down for generations across Northern Europe. Viking Ice is my tribute to that cold, clean, no-nonsense Norse spirit.
Menthol and wintergreen have a long history in old-school muscle rubs and liniments — the sort of thing you reached for after a hard day, a long march, or, presumably, raiding England.
Bathe first, then go raid the coast.
