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There are few gifts more appreciated than hand-made, gourmet soap. People love getting all natural, sweet smelling bath and beauty products to use for a little...
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April 10, 2019
Your Body Can’t Afford Not to Buy Homemade / Handmade Soap As the recent Netflix documentary, Stink!, pointed out, our homes are full of untested and potentially harmful chemicals which threaten our health. Among them, surprisingly, is the humble…
March 22, 2018
As I go out to sell my soap, I often have people ask, “What makes your soap so special?” First and foremost, it is all natural. The ingredients that I use are: vegetable shortening, olive oil, coconut oil, water, lye…
February 17, 2018
The history of lye is actually rather short, even though soap has been in existence since 2800 B.C. Lye, as we know it, was not created until sometime in the early 1800’s by a chemist named Nicholas LeBlanc. He synthesized…
February 10, 2018
How often have you gone to a craft fair or festival and there was someone selling soap with some plant material in the soap. These materials are called botanicals and are found in many varieties and fragrances of soaps. It…
February 3, 2018
This week I made a batch of soap using our new fragrance that my wife and I developed. We call it AEGIS. It will be ready for sale in about 6 weeks. How did was it developed- We have a…
January 27, 2018
The great controversy of today’s society is to either use a bar of soap or use liquid soap. I, for one, prefer a bar of soap. Have I tried liquid soap? Yes, I have, and have thought it wasteful. I…
January 18, 2018
As I have sold soap at craft fairs over the last couple of years, people have told me about some of the things that they have used soap for. So I thought that I would get a list of them…
January 5, 2018
Lye is a caustic product that can burn holes in clothes and skin. Sounds pretty scary! So, you may be wondering if lye is truly natural for organic soaps and whether this is a product you would want to use…
December 29, 2017
Humans have been using soap since at least 2800 BC. We know that the Babylonians and Egyptians were mixing fats, oils, and salts to create cleansing soaps for washing dishes and medicinal purposes. While there have been some innovations in…
February 12, 2016
As I have started making soap and looking at what others are doing, I find myself amazed at how fancy people make them. They have beautiful swirls or multiple layers or can be cut and put side by side to…
July 30, 2015
This is the next craft fair that I will be attending. It looks like a great event with lots of crafters and vendors. I will be outside in my cnopy. Come and see all of the new soaps at the…