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Very excited with my new shaving bars... One of my goals for the year was to create 3 great new products.  I think this is one of them.   (Bar 1 - With goat milk, organic extra-virgin olive oil, castor oil, cocoa butter, avocado oil, coconut oil and fuller’s earth. Scented with essential oils of spearmint, patchouli, lavender and vetiver…) Round works for me for a shaving bar as it fits so nicely in a shaving mug... (Bar 2 - With organic extra-virgin olive oil, castor oil, cocoa butter, argan oil, coconut oil, fuller’s earth and silk. Scented with bergamot, cedarwood and frankinsence…) I like both of the aromas, but I LOVE the Bar 2 aroma. A question for those of you who either make or use shaving bars: We always recommend a good, draining soap dish for our soap... so what's up with the shaving bar that sits in a non-drainable mug?  Do you recommend that users simply drain after each use?  If not, doesn't it get soft and mushy?  (This is what I do.... I pour ...

  Packaging Room   Front Room Not finished yet! But here are some of the latest photos.  Spaces are all divided up.  Painting, cleaning and moving things in.  Trying to use as many things as I already have and adapting to the purpose... to keep costs down.  The packaing area is outfitted for the moment with an old bedroom set of my daughters!  Production area had to be tiled (walls) and stainless steel work tables which were donated by friends in the restaurant business.  It seems to be coming together but still a long way to go!!  Production area (not finished, currently organizing) Sometimes I drool over those beautiful photos on Pinterest of the perfectly decorated and organized work-spaces... but then I realize that they are photos.  This is real. And usable.  And practical.  And within my budget. And my dream is coming true. One of the storerooms Working together with the technical architect and the per...

For the International Soap Swap organized at: http://soapartists.blogspot.com.es/2012/02/intercambio-internacional-international.html I was paired with:   Suzanne from Somerset Garden at:     http://www.somersetgarden.co.uk/ I am in love with her soap!!    We have similar soaping philosophies - only natural & mostly local ingredients.   I also believe that like me, she doesn’t use any palm oil. I am loving the Spring Floral soap she sent me! The essential oil blend (orange, geranium & frankincense) is out of this world!   I keep going back to sniff and sniff again.   The scent also lingers on my skin.   The soap is nice and hard, the suds are amazing and my skin feels wonderful after using it.   And what lovely packaging! That box!!    I look at it and fantasize about my own packaging process getting quicker somehow, yet being as simply elegant as Somerset Garden’s. Thank you Suzanne for this awesome op...

  What a wonderful trip it has been!     a great soap shop I stumbled across After growing up in a city, I became more and more attracted to smaller towns when I backpacked around Europe for a year in 1990, before university.   But this past week, I have fallen head over heals in love with Barcelona. What a city. eclectic, colourful, lively, architectural contrast, melding of old and new, liberal, fairy-talesque, amazing food, helpful people, accepting, artistic, innovative… Some of my favourite balconies & doors I went crazy with my new camera. The architectural and artistic wonders of Gaudi colourful characters    a mask maker at work in her studio Vibrant shops and storefronts another soap shop and candles street art Mum, Aurora and I No doubt I will return to this marvelous city that captured my heart…   We went on from there to Salou¸ a coastal town with on of Spain’s largest theme parks – Portaventura.   I ended up on a lot more r...