Saturday, December 31, 2011

Discount Soaps!

It's that time of year for cleaning out and making room for new soap! Here are some great soaps at discount prices.

Lemon Verbena 2nds Same delicious fragrance as our regular Lemon Verbena soap, with a great creamy and silky lather. When I first made this soap it was a little too cleansing (aka drying) so I let it sit for several months on our curing shelf, allowing the ph to come down with age. Now it's a wonderful, hard, long lasting soap, still strong in fragrance, perhaps a smidge more cleansing than our usual, but still gentle on the skin.

Many Man 2nds Same wonderful fragrance as our regular, best selling, Manly Man soap slices. This was a botched batch of soap that I rescued by remelting the soap and adding yummy avocado oil and cocoa butter. The soap has great scent strength and lathers into a silky, creamy lather. Very rustic in appearance.

Creamy Coconut 2nds Same coconut fragrance as our regular, great selling, Creamy Coconut soap, although a little lighter in scent strength than our regular. Like the soap above, this was a botched batch that I rescued through remelting the soap and adding yummy avocado oil and cocoa butter. This soap has a fluffy, creamy lather.

Pomegranate & Citrus Experiment #1 This is a sweet/tart citrus combo, an experimental blend that actually turned out really nice. However, I also tried to experiment with the looks of the soap by imbedding pomegranete red colored soap curls. Long story short, it came out UGLY, as in, sick to my stomach, win the prize for ugliest soap ever ugly. I ended up remelting the soap and remolding it into my round molds. Though still not beautiful, it's a major improvement over what it originally looked like (trust me;). Delicious scent with creamy, silky lather. Pomegranate & Citrus Experiment #2 Same sweet/tart fragrance blend as above, but this time I colored a portion of the soap with what I thought would be a beautiful pomegranate red color. I was hoping it would combine nicely with brown tan color of the rest of the soap. Instead I got a tan soap with a bubble gum pink accent. It still smells great, with the same silky, creamy, lotion like lather of the rest of my soaps.

Lavender Orange Experiment With more lavender than orange, this soap smells stronger when wet than dry. In fact, I was going to originally write that this soap has very little scent that was until I washed my hands with and the smelled the fragrance come alive. This is another one of my experiments in color. Hard bars with silky creamy lather. Note: Each bar is slightly different in look as some have more yellow/pink imbeds than others.


Apple Jack Spice Unstamped (formally known as Apple Jack Peel): I made way too many of these soaps for the Holiday season, so many that I still had a good sized batch sitting on my curing shelf waiting to be stamped. So rather than stamp them I placed them here in clearance section and priced them to sell! With a spicy apple fragrance, this is one of my personal favorites that I like year round, but then I like spice scents like clove and cinnamon not matter the season. These can also be wrapped in paper (helps retain the scent) and stored in dark, dry, room temperature place for next fall season. The bars will shrink a little, but will be rock hard, long lasting, and extra, extra, gentle on the skin.
Cinnabear I made too many of these and need to move them. Like the Apple Jack Spice, these soaps can be stored, wrapped in paper, in a dark, dry, room temperature place for next fall. These will stay nicely fragranced and be extra hard, long lasting and mild with extended cure time.