Family-run skincare and soap maker that began at Fremantle markets in 1995 and now makes most of its range in-house in Dunsborough.
In 1995, in Fremantle, the first Corrynne's soaps were poured into repurposed milk cartons and sold at local markets. That is the origin story the business tells about itself, and it is a good one: a natural soap company whose first moulds were milk cartons.
More than 30 years on, by its own count, the business is still family-run, and most of what it sells is now made in-house in Dunsborough. The Dunsborough facility uses solar panels. There are shops in both Dunsborough and Fremantle, so the business has kept a foot in the port city where it began while making its home in the South West.
The ingredients across the range are simple to state: plant oils, nut butters and essential oils. The essential oils get more scrutiny than you might expect. The company says it tests them using optical rotation and refractive index, two measures of how a liquid turns and bends light, as part of its quality checks.
Soap is still here, in bars and as liquid. Around it the range has grown to bath salts, body brushes, face products, face oils and serums, lip balm, a men's skincare line and candles. It is the kind of range that fills a bathroom shelf by degrees: a bar of soap first, then a lip balm, then a serum.
In this guide we describe skincare by what it is made of and how it is used, and we leave it there. For the ingredients of any single product, go to the maker's own page. If you are in Dunsborough or Fremantle, the shops are open to visitors; check the maker's site before visiting.