Yard & Shore

Natural Soap & Bodycare · Northern Ireland

Made between shifts.

Three brothers. One small workshop off the Belfast docks. Soap made slowly from natural ingredients and named for the places that raised us.

Three handmade soap bars in charcoal, cream and green on a granite surface
Natural Ingredients·Kinder Choices·Brighter Tomorrows

Our Story

Inspired by our city,
our coast, our people.

We're three brothers from east Belfast. Between shift work, night classes and a kitchen that smelled permanently of rosemary, we started making soap for ourselves — then for our mother, then for half the street.

Every bar is cold-process, poured by hand and cured for four weeks before it's cut. We keep the ingredient list short and honest: cold-pressed oils, oats, clays, and essential oils. Nothing that doesn't earn its place.

The three bars are named for the places that made us — the shipyard our grandfather worked, the coast road we grew up driving, and the glens we still disappear into on a Sunday.

— Seán, Fionn & Ruairí

Soap bar on a wooden dish beside linen towels and wildflowers

4 weeks

Cure time

100%

Made in Belfast

The Collection

Three places, one story.

Belfast shipyard cranes silhouetted against a golden sunset

The Yard

Cedar · Oat · Clay

Inspired by Belfast's heritage, built on hard work and brighter days. Warm cedar over oat and a slow, grounding clay finish.

£8.50100g bar
Rugged Northern Irish sea cliffs above deep blue Atlantic water

The Coast

Sea Salt · Lavender · Oat

Inspired by our rugged coastline, fresh air and new horizons. Sea salt and lavender, clean as a morning on the causeway.

£8.50100g bar
Tunnel of ancient beech trees over a misty Irish country lane

The Glen

Rosemary · Lemon · Oat

Inspired by our landscapes, quiet moments and a deeper connection to nature. Rosemary lifted with lemon peel.

£8.50100g bar
Black gift box holding three wrapped soap bars beside eucalyptus

The Gift Box

More than soap.
A story of place.

All three bars in a linen-lined box with a printed card telling the story of each place. The souvenir people actually use — light enough for hand luggage, and it still smells of home three weeks later.

  • Three full-size 100g bars — The Yard, The Coast, The Glen
  • Story card and cotton drawstring bag
  • Plastic-free, letterbox-friendly packaging

Why Yard & Shore

01

Natural ingredients

Cold-pressed oils, botanical clays, nothing needless.

02

Kinder to your skin

No palm oil, no parabens, no synthetic fragrance.

03

Small batch

Cured for four weeks in our Belfast workshop.

04

Made in Northern Ireland

Poured, cut and wrapped by hand, by us.

05

A brighter tomorrow

Plastic-free wrap and recycled paper cartons.

Find Us

Good things go further together.

You'll find us at markets around Belfast most weekends, and stocked in independent shops along the coast road. Come and smell the bars before you buy — that's the whole point of them.

Trade and stockist enquiries welcome. Tell us where you'd like to see us.

St George's Market

Belfast · Saturdays & Sundays

Coast Road independents

Carrickfergus to Cushendall

Visitor centres & gift shops

Causeway Coast · Titanic Quarter

Market days and stockists are placeholders — send us the real list and we'll put it in.