Last Updated on January 27, 2026
Chilly winter days at home are the perfect time to get a jump start on one of our favorite annual traditions: spring cleaning. Keeping a healthy home is an important way to manage your stress and prevent sickness. What’s more, putting a little elbow grease into cleaning your home may be your best alternative to a session at the gym. And did you know that you can keep your home clean and support local small businesses while you’re at it?
The products below can be found at local grocery stores, farmers markets, their own storefronts, and online. Here are five soap companies based in Western North Carolina offering products that will make you excited to clean your home!
Appalachian Natural Soaps
Based in Downtown Asheville, Appalachian Natural Soaps focuses primarily on natural soaps (as promised), as well as other bath and body care items. However, they also carry home items, as well. Their all-natural soy lotion candles feature scents designed to refresh and reinvigorate your home, as well as keeping chapped hands moist after a hard day of cleaning. Check out their Cold & Flu Natural Soy Lotion Candle, featuring a proprietary blend of pure detoxifying essential oils specially designed for cold, flu, and allergy season.
21 Wall Street, Asheville | (828) 665-0810 | appalachiannaturalsoap.com
Essential Journeys
Essential Journeys specializes in a wide array of soaps, lotions, bath soaks, lip balms, body salves, body butters, and soy candles. From soap by the slice to salt for the tub to anti-chafing crotch grease for cyclists, they have what you need. Their everyday soap is great to keep in the bathroom or the kitchen. Or keep a slice outside to wash up after a long day working on your home’s exterior or in the garden. Don’t forget to check out their craft beer soap while you’re shopping online. A portion of the proceeds supports bee, dragonfly, and monarch habitats.
Asheville | (828) 350-0395 | essentialjourneys.com
Green Bee Cleaning Company
Founded in 2008, Green Bee Cleaning Company specializes in cleaning your home or workspace with your health in mind. Since the beginning, they have produced and offered an in-house line of readily biodegradable, environmentally conscious cleaning products. Find all-purpose cleaners, floor cleaners, shower sprays, and more. All products are usually available to ship throughout the U.S. If you’d like to pick up some in person, you can do so at Foothills Grange in Black Mountain.
655 Catawba River Road, Old Fort | (828) 450-0846 | greenbeeclean.com/shop
Hazelwood Soap Company
Hazelwood Soap Company may be known for their extensive line of bath and body care. But that’s just the beginning of their offerings. This family-owned business uses only the finest natural ingredients and essential oils in their handmade, small-batch products. Check out their room and linen spray to freshen up spaces in your house or your sheets. Prepare now to be outdoors later this year. Don’t miss their Bug Be Gone lotion, a natural alternative to Deet.
435 Hazelwood Avenue, Waynesville | (828) 456-3385 | hazelwoodsoapcompany.com
Nood Clean
Get back to nature with Nood Clean, dedicated to providing natural and safe (for you and the environment) cleaning products. This family-owned company offers stain removers and oxygen boosters, dish and dishwasher soaps, floor soaps, pet accident cleaner and deodorizer, and much more. Their laundry soaps even have built-in softeners, eliminating the need for dryer sheets or fabric softeners. Though based in Upstate SC, Nood Clean can be found at some WNC farmers markets, as well as Ecusta Market and Cafe in Hendersonville.
(864) 498-8500 | noodclean.net
Live near your favorite Western North Carolina businesses
Western North Carolina is a mosaic of warm, welcoming communities. That’s one of the reasons why the region has soared in popularity in recent years! It is just as easy to discover a private rural community in Waynesville as it is an urban condominium building overlooking bustling Asheville, an artfully-designed master planned golf community in Henderson County, a home just off the upcoming Ecusta Trail in Brevard, or an historic neighborhood like Biltmore Forest.
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