TILI Handmade Studio is small-batch soap, rooted in the language of flowers.
Hi, I'm Torrie.
I’m a florist, turned soap-maker.
I spent years in Toronto flower shops, where I led creative direction and learned what flowers can say when you let them speak. I loved the work. I also learned what long days of heavy lifting, cut stems, sharp rose thorns and constant handwashing can do to your hands.
In 2019, I started making soap by hand. I was drawn to the traditional cold-process of soap making for its ability to create a beautiful products for your skin with easy to identify ingredients.
What began as a small project has grown into TILI Handmade Studio.
TILI is made for florists first. It’s also for gardeners, growers, gift-givers, and anyone whose hands need some tlc.
Our Why
Much of the floral industry runs on flowers grown with pesticides, shipped long distances, and handled by people who rarely get asked how it affects them.
Researchers in Belgium tested bouquets of roses, gerberas, and chrysanthemums and found pesticide residues on them. A follow-up study had florists wear cotton gloves while they worked to measure what transferred from the stems onto their hands. The researchers concluded that florists who handle flowers every day are exposed regularly, and they called for safety standards on residue levels in cut flowers.
At the end of a long day, the soap at your sink shouldn’t be one more thing to worry about. I can’t change how every stem is grown, and I won’t tell you a bar of soap can undo any of it. Soap is soap. What I can do is take one question off your list.
Every TILI bar is made from olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, and canola oil, coloured with natural clays, and scented with essential oils or fragrance oils. Every ingredient is listed on every product page. That is one less thing to wonder about.
