Last day to enter our Instagram giveaway!

For a chance to win a bar of Our Secret Stash no 1 Soap -

1) Like is on Instagram
2) find the "Giveaway" photo below and like it (link in photo)
3) tag a friend for an additional entry!

Five Winners will be randomly chosen June 5th 2015, winners announced June 6th

This is our first in a series of "Secret Stash" soaps that we will be offering first as Instagram Giveaways, then for sale. The soaps in the series are the soaps that I make for personal use for me and my family. They are labor intensive and filled with luxury ingredients that honestly would make them very expensive to sell. To make this "Castile" soap, 17 weeks ago I started double infusing Organic Olive Oil with Bay, Elder, Hops, Fennel, Lavender, Lemongrass, Calendula, Peppermint Chamomile and Cinnamon. 

3 weeks later I made a limited edition soap scented with a light blend of herbal essential oils and a small percentage of Organic Virgin Coconut Oil to boost the lather and cleansing properties. This soap has been curing for 14 weeks! To put that in perspective our soap bars cure for 3-4 weeks but the high percentage of olive oil in this soap makes a very soft bar of soap out of the mold and requires a longer cure to harden. The resulting bar is ultra moisturizing and gentle - I love it as a facial soap! 

Natural Selections

I have been brewing up essential oils combos like crazy for the past few weeks! I was inspired by a lecture I saw at the HSMG Conference by Robert Tisserand, an expert in aromatherapy, and got to work revisiting my essential oil books and formulating up a storm! My goal is to expand my all natural line of soaps to give customers additional all natural options while still striving for a unique look! Soaps made with essential oils hit your body differently than soaps made with fragrance oils. They have the power to soothe, relax, calm, get you energized, - the benefits are physiological and psychological! Now, I am not dogging fragrance oils. Sometimes I want to wake up to the smell of fresh baked blueberry muffins or strawberry cheesecake, or a soap that smells like a far off place from my childhood that a particular fragrance oils has perfectly captured. Everything has a place. Right now I am mesmerized by essential oils and I hope you enjoy what I have come up with! FYI - I am showing some love to the gentlemen with a new beer soap with orange and spices that the ladies will love too,  and a woodsy spruce combo with a touch of citrus! The beer soap is made and pictured below and the Spruce is in production next week as soon as my larger sizes of the oils arrive!

I hope you enjoy the pics and welcome any suggestions you might have for future all natural soaps!

Natural collection from front to back: Lavender Lime Italian Soda, French Lavender, Lemongrass, Rosemary Mint, Bath Tub Brew

Castile soaps made with 100% olive oil, essential oils, botanicals and clay. I sell these as facial soaps but they are lovely for the whole body! from front to back: Unscented Castile, Tea Tree, Lemon Geranium

New Lavender Lime Italian Soda available at the end of June:

New Bath Tub Brew available at the end of June, made with organic fair trade red palm oil, Stone IPA, and a warm spicy blend of essential oils - ok, it smells like a pumpkin pie!

The newly redesigned Rosemary Mint!