About Us

Calendula Botanicals was founded in 2023 and is located in the Denver Metro Area, Colorado.

We specialize in a variety of hand-crafted soaps for body, face, and hair. We use a combination of oils, butters, liquids, and botanicals in the crafting of our soaps. Our primary focus is all-natural products, which means no artificial coloring or scents are used.  All Essential Oils are approved for use in soaps and used only in the amounts recommended for soap products.

Why Calendula Botanicals? What IS a calendula?

Calendula is an annual plant (occasionally a short-lived perennial) in the daisy family (Asteraceae), sometimes known as a pot marigold - not to be confused with the more common “marigold”.

Personally, we discovered and planted Calendula when we were searching for a flower to help deter pests in the garden. This hardy plant blooms early in the spring and keeps going all summer into late fall. On top of that, it can survive the crazy Colorado weather that occasionally sees snow on Memorial Day and Labor Day, with a combination of hail and wind throughout the summer - in between our 300 days of beautiful blue skies and sun.

In further researching Calendula, we learned that it has a long history - having been grown for centuries for a range of culinary and medicinal uses. Our curiosity was piqued when we discovered that the beneficial properties of some herbs, like calendula, can be leveraged by infusing them in “carrier oils”, such as olive oil. What can one do with oils? Well, lots of things, like body butters, lotions, salves, creams, and … SOAP! So there you have it… we started making soaps with oils infused with calendula, and since then our soap obsession has spiraled.

Someday we hope to offer other all-natural herbal products, such as lotions, body butters, bath bombs, and lip balms.