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New Orleans creole Authentic and Heritage Soap, we historically share with Marseilles and Authentic and Heritage Candles, we historically share with Spain, Mexico, Columbia and Germany.

Our contact information

By email:webmaster@ucmdesigns.com
By standard mail:
UCM Designs.
Kenner, Louisiana, USA, 70065

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For wholesale orders, we have limited orders for retailers and manufactures for more information please email @ webmaster@ucmdesigns.com
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When Urjani was a petit girl, around 4 to 5 years old, her Poppa would take her on what her Maman would call excergions all throughout this vastly diverse beautiful place you know as New Orleans. Urjani’s father comes from along family line of business owners which he was a co owner of a business located in New Orleans named Paradise, however it is befitting since the discover of New Orleans by , he named New Orleans as Champee Élyséen, in English Elysian Fields and has the meaning Paradise.



Savon de Nouvelle~Orleans:

One soap with multiple purposes!!!

Our savons are the very same heritage soaps famously made in Marseille, France. We handmake our savons in stainless steel pot in a slow cooked format widely known as the cauldron method of Marseilles. The Marseilles cauldron method of slow cooking hot soap had been a method of cooking soap, in New Orleans since the Provencial French settlers arrival and dwell amongst the Muskogeen Native Americans. We have modernized our process of the Marseille method of cooking soap by reducing the amount of water we use to slow cook our historically New orleans soap. This decision was made to work along with New Orleans Officials celebrated plan to update New Orleans infrustructure. Eventhough, the soap we make are what the world has come to know as or would refer to as Marseille soap, the soaps made in New Orleans have never been identify or refered to as Marseilles soap, savon de Marseille. Throughout the history of the Marseillen French soap made in New Orleans were always known as Savon de Nouvelle~Orleans, in English New Orleans Soap.



Our Green Soap is made with All Natural Pomace Olive oil, a touch of Organic Black Cottonseed oil, Organic Coconut oil, Sodium Hydoxide (which is cooked out at the very end of the hot soap cooking process), water and salt. Olive oil and the large historic aged ceramic vessels from Ibernian Spain and imported to New Orleans by the French of France and Spainards of Spain, our ancestors (a custom we continue to adhere to to this day) and used for daily household and gardening purposes. The Spainish olive oil which were packaged in Ibernian pots which most identify these vases as Provencial French pots had bits of olive included in the oil. These beautiful pots, an identifier of New Orleans creole culture, can be founded throughout View Carre and reknown gardens of New Orleans. Not that soon after Napoleon sold New France to Thomas Jefferson, in the 1800s, olive trees were grown in Mississippi and produced olive oil in hopes to sale in New Orleans, producing a New Orleans Olive oil production to compete with European Olive oil producers. Cottonseed oil was made after the success developement of the cotton industry in the United States of America. The success of the cottonseed oil industry was developed in New Orleans. New Orleans soap were soon made with cottonseed oil which was known as a imitation to Marseille soap and Castille soap which had been both noted as widely used by Creoles of New Orleans, Creoles outside of Orleans parish, such as Natchoches Creoles and Breville Isle Creoles and Creoles of St. Louis Missouri. As more people who had the same habits and religous background as New Orleans creoles that call New Orleans home before their arrival began assimilating into New Orleans creole culture and community, such as the Italians and Sicilians of Italy, we began using imported Italian pomace olive oil and Virgin Olive oil. At the same time in history, in France, Italy and Levant, were having a shortage of olive oil and began importing cottonseed oil which has the same soap properties as olive oil from New Orleans. Marseilles and Avignon soap makers of France were not satisfied with the cottonseed oil they had been importing from England, India and Egypt years prior. These French soap makers often referred to American Cottonseed oil has superior quality to the cottonseed oil they received from England. Olive oil in this time period had been adulterated with cottonseed oil and intentionally sold as olive oil both in Europe and in America such as California. Because of the growing competition to olive oil, tarrifs were imposed on the importing of Cottonseed oil from American which was largely exported from New Orleans.



Our White Soap is made with Organic Cottonseed oil, Organic Coconut oil, Organic Coprah (Unrefined Coconut) oil, Organic Peanut oil, Organic Rice bran oil and Organic Oleic Sunflower oil. Cottonseed oil soap was made in Marseille and Avignon to provide their community with soap to those who didnt know about olive oil soap and where in the area that olive oil wasn't available. Rice oil was first made in Louisiana for the bases for soapmaking. New Orleans Creole culture and Louisiana Creole culture is a rice eating culture. Most of our creole dishes are of rice grains such as Jambalaya, Ettouffe, Red beans and Rice and Gumbo with Rice. We consume two varieties of rice, wild rice which is native to the Americas and Asian rice which comes to our culture through the Cantoneses (referred to as Cuban Cantoneses) who came to Burnside, Donaldsonville parish via Cuba to work on Plantations before other Cantonese came to Louisiana to help lay down the metal rails for the railroads. As with most industries that started and developed in Louisiana, the rice oil industry failed and were years before its time. Rice oil has the same skin and soap qualities as palm oil. Palm oil during this time in history, palm oil use is under fire due to the vast numbers of deforestation of trees in Amazon rainforest and reports of rapes on Palm oil production plantations. Palm oil is used heavily in the food we consume and in a small party of soapmaking.



Shipping Information:

We ship our soaps and candles using UPS and USPS. Since our products are handcrafted in Kenner, we use eco-friendly packaging that correlates with Kenner’s original name, Cannes brulees. Cannes Brûlée meaning burnt canes. When the French Canadian La Salle sailed towards this country land, he and his crew witness the Native Americans burning cane to clear this area. Our packaging and shipping packaging, other than UPS and USPS official shipping packaging, are made of material 100% from sugar cane. Here in Louisiana, like in the Middle East call sugar cane materials, bagasse. Using Sugar Cane packaging and shipping materials safes more tree to help us breath clean air and also helps our gulf coast fight of Hurricane Winds. Trees on the Gulf Coast Barrier islands are our First & Natural line of defense from Hurricane destructive winds.
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