We are all busy with life.  I know it now more than any other time in my life.  Starting Mad Oils has been the hardest and most challenging...

It has been way too long since I posted here.  I've been so so busy getting my business reconfigured with the new website, new all natu...

My true love is soap. Thanks to all of you for that.  I really mean it.  First of all, I didn't know one thing about soap when I st...

Last week there was a soap blog contest and so many wonderful blogs were nominated in six different categories and this blog won overall co...

The following was written by Erin of Inner Earth Soaps and I think it's an industry issue that might be of interest to you. I have cop...

South Mountain Rd, New York, 2002 Personal archives. We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human jou...

I know I could be bringing more interesting things to the table right now, but with my children being home for the summer and I mean HOME an...

I am working on getting some interesting people to guest blog here to change it up so I don't bore you to tears all summer. I have very...

Creature Comforts Blog had a post today about the dilemma of having one's work being copied - copyright infringement, intellectual pro...

It's so hard to know how much soap to make, really. I just haven't been doing it long enough, but I'm guessing that if you are ...

Wrapping soap is a dilemma for me and probably for many other soap makers. It's a constant tug-o-war between style and practicality. ...

I forgot to mention on this blog that I was taking a week long vacation from everything. Sort of stupid, being that I just asked everyone t...

I love to write this blog. I really do. It gives me great pleasure and every time a comment is left, I get excited, like when I was a kid ...

When I first got into reviewing handcrafted soaps for this blog, I went searching on the internet to find soap makers. I remember thinking ...

photo credit - Sumatran Orangutan Society http://orangutans-sos.org/ With fewer than 7,000 surviving in the wild, it is predicted that the S...

I have been getting a lot of I'm scared to send you soaps comments from soapers on Twitter . Why? Am I scary? I don't write bad...

I know better and yet, I'm compulsive and think I have a great memory, IN THE MOMENT. But I don't. I have the worst memory of all ...

My big fat brain has been thinking about a soapmaker's retreat location for well over a year now. Way back when, I had hoped that I cou...