Clean Living
Starts at Home
Handcrafted natural products for your home and body — made by Marilyn Nicholas the way your great-grandmother would have made them. Simple. Honest. Effective.
Our Most Loved Products
Everything you need to clean your home, care for your body, and live a little closer to the land — without a single ingredient you'd be afraid to look up.
Handcrafted Soaps
Cold-process bars made with simple, skin-loving ingredients.
Tallow Moisturizer
Grass-fed beef tallow — the original skin cream, reimagined.
Natural Toothpaste
Fluoride-free, clean ingredients you can actually pronounce.
Laundry Soap
Powder laundry soap that actually cleans, without the chemicals.
Made by Hand.
Made with Purpose.
Marilyn Nicholas started making her own products the way most people do — out of necessity. She wanted soap that didn't dry out her skin. Toothpaste without a list of unpronounceable ingredients. A laundry soap that actually cleaned without leaving residue.
What she discovered was something her grandmother could have told her: the old ways work. Simple ingredients, made carefully, do the job better than anything manufactured in a lab.
Monroe's Prairie Living is that discovery turned into a business — so more people can have access to products made the way they should be.
Why Prairie Living?
Because the average American home contains over 60 synthetic chemicals. Monroe's uses zero.
No Synthetic Chemicals
Every product is made with ingredients that exist in nature and have been used safely for generations. If we can't explain it, we don't use it.
Handcrafted in Small Batches
Small batches mean nothing sits on a shelf too long. Each batch gets Marilyn's full attention — from mixing to packaging.
Ingredients That Work
Tallow has moisturized skin for thousands of years. Castile soap has cleaned homes for centuries. These aren't trends — they're time-tested.
What Our Customers Say
"The tallow moisturizer completely changed my skin. I've spent years and hundreds of dollars on creams that never worked. This is the first thing that actually does."
Amanda K.
DFW, TX
"I switched my whole house to Monroe's products and I genuinely cannot believe the difference. My skin stopped being itchy, my whites are actually white, and it all smells amazing."
Rachel M.
Fort Worth, TX
"Marilyn's soap is the only bar soap I've ever used that leaves my skin feeling soft instead of tight. I buy a dozen bars at a time now so I never run out."
Tom B.
Arlington, TX
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