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B. Bayasgalan
Founder
B. Bayasgalan began handcrafting soap in her Ulaanbaatar kitchen for her own children. She registered Helen Made LLC in 2017, employed single and expecting mothers, and pursued EU export standards through Mongolia's cosmetics cluster — landing the first Mongolian cosmetic registered for sale in the EU in 2021.
B. Bayasgalan (Б.Баясгалан) began handcrafting soap bars and body butters in her Ulaanbaatar kitchen, wanting something clean enough for her own children in a market with no cosmetics safety law. She registered the company as Helen Made LLC in 2017 and pursued the EU export-standards path through Mongolia’s cosmetics cluster — landing Helen Made’s felt soap as the first Mongolian cosmetic product registered for sale in the EU in 2021.
From kitchen to registered company #
Bayasgalan began experimenting with cold-process soap-making around 2016, using Mongolian-sourced seabuckthorn, nettle, thyme, and sheep tail fat. She formally registered the business as Helen Made LLC (Хээлэн мэйд ХХК) in 2017, per the UNDP SDG Investor Platform. What specifically triggered the shift from home habit to registered company is not documented. As the company grew into what its retail partner describes as a “small manufacturing hub,” Bayasgalan began deliberately employing single and expecting mothers, building a livelihood structure around production.
The EU registration #
Bayasgalan’s most significant documented achievement came through Mongolia’s cosmetics cluster and the EU-funded TRAM project, which built shared export infrastructure — GMP training, ISO 16128 alignment, pooled registration costs — for a cohort of Mongolian producers. On 22 September 2021, business.mn and the Mongolian National Chamber of Commerce both reported, independently, that Helen Made’s felt soap (“Мянгат,” Myangat) had become the first Mongolian cosmetic product registered for sale in the EU — placing Helen Made ahead of better-known peers including Lhamour and Gilgerem in the same coverage.
What remains unknown #
Bayasgalan’s full name has never been published. Mongolian press and her retail partner agree on “B. Bayasgalan,” but the patronymic behind the initial sits behind an authenticated business-registry lookup open research could not clear. Her life before founding the company, and the specific decision that started it, remain undocumented.
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