Reviews To Come

The next 3 soap companies will be getting reviews this week.

Fraiche
- Soaps and Swizzles

Swizzle : Dewy Cactus Flower

Herbaria
- Soaps

Pink Grapefruit Soap

Raven Moon Soaps
- Whipped soap!

Whipped loaf ready for action

"Full Moon"

Sharon of Morgan street Soap sent me this picture of her soap shortly after the deadline of the soap photo contest. Sorry it couldn't be included in the contest, but it certainly gets my mention. I love the uniqueness of it. Reminds me of Mars or some far off distant planet not in our solar system.

Maybe she'll send me a bar and I can review it .... ;-D

And The Winner Is......

This was hard. There were lots of different kinds of soaps that were sent and considered, but I had to pick one. Kelly DeVries of Molly Coddle Etsy Store won the prize with her PEEPS! Here is a peek (below) from her etsy shop of some unusual goodies I wished were in MY house!





There were two other soapers in close second:

Stephanie M. from Playing With Soap
I have a love for her soaps, even though I have never tried them. This one speaks to my heart because of the coconut creamy topping. I almost picked this one!




Irena from Ginger's Garden
Nice glitter and swirl control. The butterflies are lovely and whimsical, too!



I have good news for the rest of you.....Crystal from Cute Indie Finds and I will be running a contest together as a team in search of the Yummiest Handmade Soap. See the contest rules on her site.

Congratulations Kelly DeVries of Molly Coddle Etsy Store.
I will be mailing the oils and butter to you on Tuesday. I hope you use them well... :)

How DO you make those peeps anyway!? They look edible!

Last Night For Contest Entries!

jo(at)productbody(dot)com

Come on, go take the picture of it. It IS beautiful and unique! Don't second guess yourself!!!!

Pretty Soaps on Trunkt

Found these on Trunkt and couldn't resist putting up photos of the works of art.(above) Roses Love Patchouli soap Flower Peddler

Clary Sweet

Jelly Bean

Twilight

above 3 soaps by Mickey Byrd Soap

Black Raspberry Vanilla

Sweet Pea

(above) These 2 by Morgan Street Soap

Reindeer Poop

Simply Soap didn't send any poop to me, unfortunately, but they are in the holiday spirit, yeah?

Review: Simply Soap

I was so pleasantly surprised when Carol Ochs of Simply Soap sent me these. Can you believe how beautiful it all is? The packaging is great. Simple. Colorful. The paper was so well printed I even squinted to see pixels or something, but it was seamless and the artwork was so nicely done.

Three bars from the Wild Faerie Soap Collection

Two triangle hunks from the Rustic Soap Collection

Rustic wedge-chunk soaps are cut into large triangle chunks - made in the tradition of Old European soapmaking....100% natural, and made with 100% Certified Organic virgin African shea butter! Notice that this block is made of 2 large triangles.

I have been using the Wylde Jasmine & Orange Blossom Faerie Soap for the last few days and the overall experience has been lovely. The soap itself is stunning to look at, but when I take the paper of rub it on in the wetness of my shower, it performs like a trooper. Scent was balanced, sweet and soft like the outdoors and the lather was what you'd expect from a soap that has come from a woman making soaps since 1994. That is a long darn time ago.

The soap is a dream.

She also makes artwork (Wild Oaks Art) which is used on the soap wraps and sent my daughter a bookmark with this image on it. Nina flipped! "Oh, mommy, she is so beautiful! This is for me??" My daughter reads about a novel or more per week and the bookmark is constantly found throughout the house where she has been reading.

Thank you, Carol, for a truly wonderful soapy experience!!

Soap Contest Update

You may send as many photos as you like. They will all be considered. Each soap will be an entry, not each person.

The only rules? That the soap be yours.

Send send send!

Soap Photo Contest

For Soapers and Bath and Body folks: a give-away for your formulations, maybe....?

Send me the most unique soap creation of yours in photo form. The most unusual will get these fragrance and essental oils along with 4 oz. of coffee butter and I will post your creation on my blog for all to see.

Here is what is included in the give-away:

• 1 oz Cinnamon Leaf Essential Oil from Majestic Mountain Sage aka MMS (smells nothing like cinnamon fyi if you didn't know that)
• 1 oz. Kailua Bay fragrance oil from MMS
• 1 oz Lemongrass Essential oil from Snowdrift Farms
• 1 oz. Plumeria fragrance oil from MMS
• 1/4 oz or 1/2 oz (?) of Rosehip & Jasmine fragrance oil from Brambleberry
• 1 oz Tea Tree Essential Oil from Brambleberry
• 1 oz. Carrot Seed Essential Oil from Brambleberry (smells nothing like carrots if you didn't know)
• 1 oz Tea Ceremony fragrance oil from Brambleberry
• 1 oz. Black Tea fragrance oil from Brambleberry
• 4 ounces of Coffee Butter from MMS (smells just like coffee butter)
  

Here are close ups of the oils:


Send the pictures to me in digital form, please, to jo(at)productbody(dot)com - I hate writing that out, but I guess those nasty computers will pick up my email addy and spam the heck out of me.

Good luck and get me those photos. I can't wait to see what you've made!!

Contest ends November 10th and I'll post the winner on the 11th. Good luck!

xoxojo

Review: Lote Tree Chocolate Cake Soap

The Lote Tree. One of the best bars I have tested so far. Let's put the scent aside for a moment and look at the bar. Nice soap stamp. I love the whole soap stamp thing and I'll tell you why it is a good marketing idea. Once I am in the shower and I have used the soap a few times, the name has been winking at me all week, yeah? ...when it gets time to wanting another, I think, "who made that bar?". If you are faced with the stamp for a few days, you are more likely to remember the soap-maker. So stamps are not just beautiful if they are done right, they also make a good selling tool, so your hard work gets remembered.

OK, back to the bar. I get in the shower, as I do every morning, and I take my chocolate cake with me which has been sitting there waiting for me to try it. She was-a-calling on Halloween, so I say (out loud, no less), "Lote, come with me!" I get in, get wet, and when the bar touches my skin ... BOOM, it instantly is lathering, the foam encompassing my body as I rub rub a dub. Great, big lather.

I couldn't place the scent, though. It was chocolate-y but not quite like chocolate cake. I sniff, I lather some more and then it hits me especially now that the candy season of trick-or-treating is upon us. It smells like a big fat Tootsie Roll!

The best part: it has exfoliating bits (exfoliating coffee grounds) throughout the whole bar for a truely invigorating experience.

So Halloween morning I lather with the yummiest soap filled with Tootsie Roll power and instantly I am in the spirit of the Day Of The Dead. Lote, oh yummy bar, you are so sweet! This one gets a thumbs up. Go to Jessie's Etsy shop and shop.

Jessica Booth: soapmaker