New Soaps!

Chocolate Orange

Love Potion

I have some new scents appearing soon, some by customer request, others just because they sounded good to me!

Return of an old favorite is Tres, which is available now. This is the soap made with goats milk, cream, and coconut milk, so it's extra moisturizing. A great choice for dry winter skin.

In just another week (September 14) there will be two more new choices, Love Potion and a bar with a nice Frasier Fir scent (unnamed yet, I'm still figuring that one out). I've been working with a customer for a good year and a half trying to get just the right "woodsy" scent he wanted, and I think we've finally got it! Now we just need to come up with the right name for it. Love Potion was a customer request (she makes candles with the scent and wanted soap to match), and I'm glad she requested it. It's a very exotic, sensual fragrance. The description is mostly fruits, but it doesn't smell like fruit to me. I tend to like the more earthier, muskier scents, and I've certainly fallen for this one. It's very hard to describe though, because it's not really earthy or musky....just very, very nice.

Carrot Cake

Then, a few weeks after that (October 1, which really is just right around the corner), both Chocolate Orange and Carrot Cake will be available. I can tell you, my soap curing room sure smells heavenly right now. They're both wonderful, and again, the Chocolate Orange was a customer request.

Some of the soaps I do are a limited edition, and if you're at all interested in them you should snatch them up while they're available. Sometimes it's a matter of mixing scents I had on hand to try something new, like Summer Escape. Other times, like with the Lemongrass & Olive, the fragrance oil was so hard to work with I won't be repeating it again. Whatever the reason, if it's marked Limited Edition Soap, once it's gone it's gone.

September is a very busy month for me, I start back to my full-time job at school tomorrow. Looking ahead to my schedule, I have one day off in September between my "real job," the two Farmer's Markets I still do after school each week, and the weekend shows coming up. There's even one day I had to recruit my daughter to help, because I'm supposed to do two shows in one day (I was invited to be part of a historical re-enactment show, so I get to dress the part too)!

But you know, when I get emails like these, it makes it all worth it to me:

"I wanted to send you feedback on the bars of handmade soap I purchased. I was skeptical at first, thinking how could handmade soap be any different than commercial soap bought at the store. I would normally buy it and then let it sit in a bathroom just for "show". Wow, was I surprised, not only does it smell GREAT, but it lathers wonderfully and it leaves my skin....oh-so-soft!

I can't see myself ever going back to store bought soap, your handmade craft is wonderful! I can't wait to use the other scents.

Thanks again,
Michelle P."

"My order arrived yesterday and thank you so much for the extra sample soap! I have two kids and younger one is 10-month-old baby and she has down syndrome. My dear friend looked very hard to find a special gift for her sensitive skin and she sent us your soaps. We loved your soap and we have been using yours for her & also for us too. : )

As the child with down syndrome tends to have more sensitive and dry skin, your soap is very gentle and works perfect on her skin. I bought couple of Bare Naked this time and plan to share with my friends who just had/going to have a baby to see if they like those too! Thank you so much for making such wonderful products and I like your personal touch correspondence on your business.

~Emi M., California"

Now that makes me smile!