What Can WARHORSE Do For You?

Maybe you don't need a cabinet full of confusion to keep your life clean. WARHORSE is made

  • for busy parents, dog owners, farmers, barn managers, minimalists, cleaning crew leaders.

  • for people who want something simple that works without the confusion, the chemicals, the lengthy caution statements.

  • for mammals with sensitive skin and need washing often, or just once a year.

  • for parents and grandparents who need the kids to clean

  • lab testing to no glyphosate or pesticides

  • for people who travel light and need one multi use clean—vacation house, boat, coolers, clothes, dogs, kids

I make a one soap recipe with these features:

  • Safer with 6 core ingredients that you have probably eaten, and probably your dog or horse too.

  • One bottle for everything. No cabinet full of confusion. No reading dozens of labels.

  • Your WARHORSE, Your Water. Use it straight from the bottle or dilute it as you need. Find your sweet spot. You can't mess this up.

  • Spray and Walk Away. Dilute it in a spray bottle. Spray surface. If it’s a lot of grime. add more soap to the water. Walk away for 10 minutes or the next day, whenever you fit it in your schedule. Let it work. Come back. Wipe or maybe even just Rinse. Some people clean the shower while they are taking a shower.

WARHORSE Story: Soap from a 55-Gallon Fire Kettle

I started 20 years ago

  • I love to learn and like challenges. While teaching high school, I discovered from a student’s chemistry project that I could learn to take restaurants’ used kitchen oils and turn it into biofuel for vehicles with diesel engines.. After 6 months with lots of chemistry, building a biofuel setup with the help of my husband, and a local mentor, I was making 40 gallons of fuel per week from used restaurant oils. Woohoo. I pumped biofuel into my family’s diesel cars, truck, tractor, and lawnmower. This process left me with lots of buckets and containers to clean.

  • Then I learned I could make a good cleaning soap from the biofuel’ leftover fats (lipids) and glycerol . The glycerol backbone is a universal "building block" for lipids in humans, other mammals, and plants—used for storing energy and building cell structures. These fats and glycerol can produce a good soap that my hands enjoyed using. I made a lot of this soap. I called it WARHORSE—fierce clean, gentle care.

  • I gave away my free cleaning soap because I made soooo much soap because I had soooo much leftover cooking oils → schools, vets, neighbors, horse farms asked for more. Over the next few years, I gave away hundreds of gallons of this soap.

  • Since I learned so much about soap saponification of oils for a good cleaner, I decided to make a new recipe with better plant oils that would work for cleaning mammals and their stuff. Just one soap to do it all.

  • My new recipe cleaned so well, locals asked for cleaning themselves, dogs and horses. I bottled WARHORSE, got testing, certifications, bar codes, and some sales. I took a leave from teaching, scaled to a bigger soap kettle in a rented industrial building, got my husband to help me build a bigger setup, got some help and started cooking soap in 300 gallon batches.

Several years later, I tried to grow more. Teamed up with more key people. Sell, Sell, Sell. Marketing brochures, new bottle labels, exporting, free samples, social media gurus.

I traveled too much, grandchildren on the way. Tired. All money went back into the business to grow more. Came home. Done. Closed up the WARHORSE shop, all manufacturing, all sales. This took several years to tie up all loose ends.

Now? I cook every batch myself over an open fire on my North Carolina farm, the way I started.
Same focus on legacy, functional ingredients. Same fierce clean, gentle care.

So, I am back to one clean about anything soap. One bottle. Everything clean.

  • Skin, dog, horse, dishes, floors, barn

  • No glyphosate or pesticides. Random Samples Lab-tested. In a world where even "organic" products can contain contaminants, it’s important to test.

  • Proven ingredients (sunflower, coconut, glycerin, castor, pumpkin, flax) that have a historical use for human, hound, and horse.

  • Handwritten note in every box and a sample to share with someone.

Try it. Love it. Or I’ll refund you.
Shop Now → WARHORSEsoap.com

Proof? The Journey in Pictures and Old Press

If you're curious about the biofuel days, the high school program, or how all this began, here are some pieces of the story:

[Links to TED Talk, news articles, biofuel program documentation, photos]