PSA: New Product Line Inquiry

If I were to offer a set of sugar and/or salt scrubs made with locally grown fruits and veggies, would you be interested?

Here's the skinny:

--They would be available for a limited time only, as I want to use in-season produce for this line. I might (might!) be able to freeze enough produce for use in off-season product should they be in demand.

--Each batch would have either no preservative (the salt scrubs) or the minimum amount of broad-spectrum antimicrobials we could get away with.

--Each batch in its original form would be scented only with the produce in its recipe. However, your choice of available scent or essential oils could be added right before shipping.

--I would have to limit the shipping on these to the East Coast only, unless I bit the bullet and added preservative/antimicrobials to ALL batches. Subject to change as this little experiment plays out.

Thoughts?

Long-Ago Promises

I told you guys a long while back that I would do a write-up on hosting your own soapmaker's home party, like the one John and I hosted last November. Well, I'm going to make good on that promise in the next several days. Writing normally is not this difficult for me, but for some reason it hasn't as naturally as usual. The hardest part has been trying to stick to the outline I've created and not get long-winded and boring.

Anyway, it will probably be a two-post series at least, if not three or more. Planning a shindig like this is a bit of an undertaking, and there's more involved than you might think.

Soap Geeks of a Different Sort

Giving credit where credit is due. Digital Soaps on Etsy combines two of my favorite things: soap and video games.

For years I have tried to make something this awesome, but to no avail. From old school NES controllers to new-school Wiimotes, these people make washing up fun again.

(P.S.--They make soap replicas of other bits of techno-geekery, too.)

Twitter

I almost forgot: I am now on Twitter. Come watch me be boring and mediocre in a new format. ;)

Username amandadadesky over there, if you're interested. That is all.

Announcement: Bar Soap Takes a Holiday

We are currently having problems keeping some of our from-scratch soapmaking materials from going rancid in the warehouse. I'm frantically re-ordering supplies as the funds become available and rearranging things so the new shipments will be better protected against temperature fluctuations.

All of this is going to take time. As such, the following bar soaps (in their current form) will be cut from the catalog for the time being:

-Sunny Disposition
-Oatmeal Cookie
-Vanilla Cake
-Rosewood & Amber
-French Lavender
-Aloe & Vitamin E


All of the above scents (with the exception of Aloe & Vitamin E), will be made available in the form of shaped soaps. For the unfamiliar, my shaped soaps are clear and opaque cold-process soap formulated to allow use in the melt & pour technique. It is made with the following ingredients:

Coconut Oil
Palm Oil
Safflower Oil
Glycerine (kosher, of vegetable origin)
Purified Water
Sodium Hydroxide (saponifying agent)
Sorbitol (moisturizer)
Sorbitan oleate (emulsifer)
Soy bean protein (conditioner)
Titanium Dioxide (mineral whitener used in opaque soaps)

Stay tuned for new updates as things develop.