Happy Hour Soap

Who doesn't like a Margarita? Close your eyes and take a deep breath, lime, salt, and hint of tequila. When I made this soap, the whole house smelled like a margarita, yum.

This soap is a true delight to your skin with a blend of olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, cocoa and shea butter. It starts with large bubbles and works it way into a luxurious creamy lather.

Tonight I think I'll have a margarita in the tub. I'm quite sure that this one is safe to indulge in any hour of the day.

Playing With New Fragrance

A couple of months ago I poured a batch of soap with a new fragrance. I test all new fragrances before offering them to my customers. I like to know the behavior and mostly the staying power of fragrances. There is nothing worse that a fragrance that starts out strong and then fades to nothing but a hint of it's former self.

I am happy to say that I will be adding Sun Kissed Laundry to my line of soaps. I love how this fragrance lingers on my skin after a bath, leaving you with a clean fresh scent. It smells like a pile of clean laundry, neatly folded and ready be put away. That image alone is one of my happy thoughts.

I hope that your Saturday is a cool safe one. 

Another Soap to Share

I have another soap to share today. It is call South Pacific. Why South Pacific? Well, it is a blend of tropical flowers with some orange blossom. It has a blue accord that brings a clean breezy note to the soap. It just smells like a warm tropical evening.

This soap is made with skin loving olive oil, coconut oil, and palm oil. It also has rice bran oil that is rich in many skin loving vitamins. To bring more lather to the soap I included castor oil and some silk to add a touch of luxury.

North By Northwest, New Soap

I have a couple of pictures of soap my new soap batch to share with you today. It is made with the trinity of oils, olive, coconut, and palm. The three oils combined made a great soap. To the trio of oils I added some skin loving rice bran oil, silk that adds a luxury feel,  and castor oil for lots of bubbly lather.

The soap is named after my favorite Cary Grant movie, North by Northwest. The scent's true name is Green Irish Tweed, a nod to the cologne made for Cary Grant by the very famous House of Creed. It is a very sophisticated, upscale scent. It is by far my most popular male scent that I make. It is up on a rack curing and the house smell divine.

Garden Songs, A New Soap

Just some new soap to share with you today. It's scented with a fragrance that has top notes of citrus and light florals, clean and effervescent. I'm naming this batch of soap Garden Songs.

Guess what my mom and mother in law are getting this weekend? I think that my mom and mother in law will love their new soaps. I have a few more that I'm putting in baskets for them both and will share later in the week how it all came together.

A Ray of Sunshine

A new soap that I cooked up this past week that is making my home smell delightful. It is a simple soap with five skin loving oils. It also has a touch of silk to add a creamy richness. It is scented with a fragrance oil - kumquat, bright, fresh, and uplifting. It brings a smile to my face with it's sunny disposition. I will have twelve bars that will be available July 1st.

I hope that your day is a sunny one.

Good Clean Fun

I make soap. Sometimes I make so much soap that I have it in every corner of the house. My favorite recipe is a simple one, olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil and castor oil. But as a soaper, I can't keep away from the fun and exotic oils. I love to play with shea butter, cocoa butter and mango butter. I love a rich bar that starts with an explosion of bubbles and follows up with a rich creamy lather. I like the scent to linger and fill the room with the promise of a wonderful shower.

Lavender is a favorite scent of mine. It is relaxing and evokes a sense of calm. I see hot summers in California when I smell lavender. What comes to mind when you get a whiff of lavender?