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Live streaming video from Times Square! :) Enjoy!

May your lip balms be smooth, your bath bombs be fizzy and your soaps be sudsy!

peace~love~and to another great year,

yummy post holiday sale!

All of our holiday inspired products are buy 1 get 1 FREE! That is, until inventory is gone. Everything from organic bars of soap, to sugar scrubs, lips balms and gift sets! :)

Hop on over to our etsy shop and check it out! We've labeled all sale items with (HOLIDAY SALE ITEM) to make shopping a snap!

Here's to a fabulous New Years!

peace~love~happiness,

gingerbread house party!

Our 3rd annual family gingerbread house making party was last night. The ladies brought their best ideas, candy and a smidge of trash talk! Facebook was ablaze with the "BRING IT" posts! :)

After three hours of serious decorating, we ended up with some very lovely houses and I wanted to share them with you!

First Place Winner- Jenny



Second Place Winner- Nichol



Honorable mention- Stephanie

This is SO MUCH FUN and a great tradition for your friends and family! Happy holidays :)

peace, love, happiness,

...the ugly

the good, the bad....and this is just plain ugly!
Was supposed to be my nemesis......copacabana...a luscious pineapple, coconut smelling multi-colored soap that I had made previously, several times....and broke the FIRST cardinal rule of soap making.......----> WRITE DOWN YOUR RECIPE. {A DUH blonde moment}
Did I? Nope....and so, trying to remake that same luscious wonderful soap months later I ended up with 8 lb vat after 8 lb vat of disasters! Horrid batches that looked like something that someone threw-up! Not yummy AT ALL!
So I thought I was clever and just "KNEW!" which FO was the culprit....and so I removed it from the blend of FO's.....and made another 8 lb batch.

{play dreadful sounding music}

I pour the lye water into the oils.....and stick blend......it wasn't curdling like all the previous batches...so I thought, Great! :) {ignorance is bliss}

30 minutes later :( Seperation! AHHHHHHH! About 1" of oil floating on top of the soap in the mold. It's in the over...as I do mostly CPOP....and I decide ---> NOT AGAIN!
{Dun-Dun-Dahhhhhhhhhhhh!}This batch WILL make it...and I think "what can I do?" so I grab my stick blender and with the oven door open...I'm blending the soap, in the mold, in the oven. Saying goodbye to the lovely yellow, green and blue swirls that I had previously created :'( This was a last-ditch effort to SAVE THIS SOAP! I figured, I'd force the oils back into the soap and cook the cr*p out of it...and see what happens. {serious rocket science} Who knows right?! {thinking to self} Post-it's were created accidentally....maybe this would be some strange new soap creation?? I'm stick blending and 10 minutes later....still blending.....bent over....head partially in the oven. A site to see.

So it cooks.....I check the pH...it's neutral....it cools and this is what I end up with.....A very strange, sci-fi looking soap!





It's rubbery and you can squish it. You're in the circle of trust...and we are honest in the soap kitchen...... I am so tempted to slap a label on it and call it The Grinch Soap. May be a hit with the kids!

Anyways.......I figured I'd share this because we all have the good, the bad and well, there's just the UGLY!

Happy holidays to you all! XOXO

yummy organics

We've made this rose bud soap previously, but this time decided to re-create the soap using mostly organic oils and coloring the soap naturally.

We wanted this soap to be creamy, so we made it with coconut milk. It's also made with organic soybean oil, organic coconut oil, organic olive oil, organic cocoa butter and palma christi oil. At trace, some ground rose hip and elderberries were added. The fragrance is fantastic, using rose absolute and a smidge of one of our most favorite fragrance oils that smell like a big bouquet of lush red roses!

It turned out nicely. :)

peace~love and petal power!