Oglala Goods
Soap, candles, and beadwork made by hand in Wisconsin, carried forward from the Oglala Lakota way of working with your hands.
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Soap, candles, and beadwork made by hand in Wisconsin, carried forward from the Oglala Lakota way of working with your hands.
Oglala Goods started at a kitchen table with cold-process soap and a few borrowed molds. It has grown since into candles, lip balm, and beadwork — each piece still made in small batches, by hand, one at a time.
Every item carries a piece of that same intention: nothing rushed, nothing mass-produced. This is a record of learning old skills — soap making, beadwork, and eventually moccasin making from scratch — and carrying them forward as genuinely Native-made work.
"Every piece is made the same way it's always been done — slowly, and by hand."
Soy wax, cedarwood and lavender oils, raw coconut butter, beads, and natural fiber — sourced with care and worked in small batches, never in bulk.
Each skill — soap, beadwork, moccasin making — is learned the traditional way, from scratch, not from a kit. That's slower, and that's the point.
This work is part of a longer-term vision: building something rooted in the Oglala community, with proceeds eventually supporting recovery and sober-living resources for the community.
Right now, everything is made to order in small batches. Reach out directly and we'll figure out what fits.