to reformulate or not...

If you're like me, you're constantly looking to improve, improve, improve on an already stellar product ;) Case in point, the chocoholic pucker pots lip balms. Yes they are lovely....a beeswax, shea & cocoa butter loveliness with lots of real chocolate but I wanted to make them MORE lip loving...... so off to the lab.

I love using oats in lotions, soaps, etc but this time I wanted to use an oat infusion in the lip balm base. What a difference! I am loving this new concoction! It's not as hard as a traditional lip balm, so this product would not fair well in a lip balm tube, but the little pot, perfect! It's creamy and stays on your lips for a very long time. My lips feel soft, supple and are seriously drinking this lip balm in! I'm the classic-need-to-drink-more-water person and my lips are constantly dry.... So the difference for me is noticeable.

Also made some more lemon poppy seed soap. Its nothing fancy, but is my best selling soap and is hard to keep in stock. It gets its lovely lemon color from the lemon & lemongrass essentials oils- no colorants or fragrance oils here. Just pure natural soap, plain & simple.


I'm also making the most adorable holiday lotion bars shaped like snow flakes and smelling like some yummy brown sugar & fig scent. Think I'll name this one 'Who needs mistletoe?!' and package it in a carry along tin. Pictures tomorrow dahlings....

AND I've made it before, but today will be a shower jelly, shaped in cute little stocking, Christmas tree and gingerbread man shapes. They are wiggly, like jello and hold scent well. They lather like soap and leave you squeaky clean. Lots of fun. Kids love them. Me too! And I found these little corn based eco-friendly containers to put them in. Gotta love that!

Until next time..XOXO

peace~love & always testing,

Rose Bud

Here are the latest soaps out of the soap kitchen. Handmade with olive oil, coconut oil and cocoa butter. A BIG hunk, weighing in at 6.5 oz and topped with rose buds. It smells so sweet, like a bouquet of roses. I am LOVIN' this!

Until next time, XOXO to you!

peace~love~and smelling the roses,

Simply Scrumptious!

So, it's Sunday and I have been in the mood to bake some cranberry pumpkin bread for some time now. A few weeks ago I posted the recipe that I've been making for years....a seriously good, no fail recipe I might add ;)

It's different than any other pumpkin bread recipe I've seen as this one has orange juice in it. The pumpkin spice is YUMMO! Can you smell it?!

Also made today, was more Hot Spiced Apple Cider, A Romp In the Pumpkin Patch and Fubar Soap! 24 lbs of soap cooling in the kitchen- My house smells interesting....to say the least!

BUT, the icing on the cake involved my 6 year old son....sitting in the kitchen with me, playing on the computer (online games) as he often does. Usually it's Disney.com or cartoonnetwork.com but today, somehow, he found another site.....something called bumarcade.com. So he says, "hey mom, look at what Mario is doing to the princess!" and I walk over and look at the screen and see Mario, albeit fully dressed, dry humping the princess! (jaw-drops) GASP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (eye's the size of saucers) and a further glance of the page I see barely dressed cartoon girls with big eyes and hooters to match bouncing around! WHAT THE ?!?!

I quickly changed the screen and decided it's time for the nanny software that blocks this type of trash. OMG!!!!!!!!!!

I know you can't keep your kids unscathed forever.....but I'm so loving the innocence he still has.....

It seems like the world is in such a rush to taint him. If I could only hold it off, just a wee bit longer.....
Can I get an AMEN?!

peace~love~and having a heart attack,

Yummy crew went to Disney!

This is what happens when the yummy crew heads to Disney. Two had birthdays today, and Disney now offers a free day pass to you on your birthday *if you sign up for it...... They give you pins that say Happy Birthday and every staff member wishes you a happy birthday while you are there! We had them wear tiara's too, because they are little princesses!! :)

We ate, drank, walked and walked some more.....went on EVERY ride, except Space Mountain which is closed until Jan 2011. :(
But overall it was a fabulous day and good to get out of the soap kitchen for some much needed playtime.

peace~love~happiness,

Latest yumminess

And so, of course, we have to share!! hee-hee



The first of our latest additions to our holiday line, a room spray. Holiday tree is a perfect blend of fresh Douglas fir, sweet musk, warm vanilla, crisp winter air and enchanting Christmas splendor. It's perfect for adding that fresh cut tree aroma throughout your house. You can also take it with you if you're traveling this season, taking a little of the holidays with you, or take to your office and spray that Grinch that sits a few cubicles down. (hee-hee)

This 2 oz bottle is very concentrated so a spritz will do...and this bottle will last you throughout the holidays.



Our next little scrumptious goodie is one of our Butter Me Up's Solid Lotion Pops....It's made with skin loving butters like: unrefined shea, organic cocoa, kokum and aloe butter as well as a blend of sweet almond, avocado and cherry kernel oils. We added just a slight shimmer to this one made it smell like sugar cookies.....yummy vanilla and buttery almond. Wow! It's hard to put down! ((drooling))

It comes in a nifty little take-along push up pop....that you can throw in your purse or gym bag. Perfect! And hey....smelling like a sugar cookie cannot be such a bad thing?! ;)


peace~love~happiness,