Have you walked outside lately and felt a great big hug from the sun and let escape a "oooohh, it is so nice - I don't want to go back inside!"

I had a new scent that I loved but needed to come up with a new name.  It was fresh with a hint of flowers. A feel good...

In the soap making world there's been a lot of talk about a bill before congress that could affect soap and cosmetic makers.  It's called the Personal Care Products Safety Act. 

Without getting into the details of the bill, I did want to talk to you about some of the r...

A recent suppertime conversation may have sounded like this --

DH:  Dandelions, EVERYWHERE...we must KILL them...

Me:  Yeah, dandelions!  Do NOT kill them!

I've been waiting for this!  I'm making dandelion soap!

The first thing I learned is that there's a difference...

The Soap Garden

Welcome to the beginnings of our soap garden!  Here are tomato plants and chamomille - they've been started, had more soil added and now are "toughening up" by having a fan blow across the seedlings and creating tomato plants with super-strong stems....

Picking fragrances is stressful!  Faced with a catalog of hundreds of choices, how do you pick?

Some fragrances have quickly become customer favorites! 

Let's do a little Woot! Woot! for Lilac and Oatmeal Milk and Honey from Bramble Berry!  

Every self-respectin...

This month's soap challenge club is the DNA Helix Swirl.  That makes me think of high school - any one else remember the DNA models?  All in all, it just is not real soap-spirational.  I had to look other places for inspiration.

Spring Snow Goose Migration

Eve...

It's that special seed catalog time of the year!  Frozen outside, but thoughts of warm sun and gardening are running rampant to get us thru these South Dakota winters.  In the end, I'm hopelessly addicted to seed catalogs - mostly - Baker's Creek Seeds. 

But...

Aren't handcrafted soaps great?!

• Artisans formulate soaps for specific qualities - conditioning, bubbles, or cleansing. 

• The soap making process creates moisture loving, skin-friendly glycerin!

• And soap artisans care just as much about what doesn't go in...

I am often asked –

Do you sell glycerin soap?

The easy answer is YES my soap has glycerin in it!  But there is a little bit more to it than that.

What's so great about glycerin soap? 

Glycerin is a humectant – a “moisture magnet” that attracts moisture out of the air to...