about us

Hi. My name is Steve and I am the founder of duross & langel. The idea for D+L was born in the mid nineties with my love of all things bath and skin care. In 1999, I opened the Philadelphia Soap Company with two friends. Sadly it closed a few years on. Regrouping in 2004 and building upon lessons learned, I opened duross & langel. Today, I am blessed to have Sarah and Allison as my partners. Together we are responsible for formulating, producing and selling every duross & langel experience, and while making soap might never bring us billionaire status, we spend our days doing what we love within a community we adore. That alone makes us rich beyond measure.

At duross & langel we make clean skincare. That means our ingredients are simple, natural and easily understood. D+L is an alternative to mass produced bath and spa product brands at a price that won't break your budget. The three basic tenets of our product formulation are hydration, nutrition and anti-inflammation. Our formulas are designed to keep the skin and its microbiome strong and healthy. Utilizing sulfate-free technology and pH balanced ingredient formulation, we design our products to keep your cells hydrated and in optimal health. This maintains skin's acid mantle, firms and tightens tissue, and keeps unnecessary chemicals from being absorbed. PETA certified as vegetarian cruelty-free, our in-house work space next to the store is where you'll find us creating and improving our line.

We also blend an array of natural perfumes the way old school perfumers have been creating scent since the fourteenth century. Unlike the designer brands made from synthetics and chemical binders, our perfumes are blended with oils that make up the notes of each perfume and so that the final result is a personalized scent that melds with your body's natural chemistry.

If you've never experienced our clean burning candles, we invite you to see why so many people come back to refill their candles. Made with US farmed soy and scented with the finest prop-65 compliant fragrance blends, we fill your room with complex aromas that are never cloying or overpowering. Our candles are aged and cured for the best results.

We continue to grow our solid options and compostable packaging offerings. We offer 24 ounce mylar refills of most products, and also offer liquid products in refillable 64 ounce jugs that you can bring back to be repurposed to diminish your single use plastic consumption. Everything in store is recyclable, and our bags and boxes are made from post-consumer recycled paper.

We hope you will come by for one of our in-store events and check out our daily and seasonal specials. You can always check in on Instagram and TikTok to see what's happening in-store, in the workshop, watch us making stuff, learn about ingredients and skincare, and generally getting up to all sorts of shenanigans