bodygoodies blog

hi guys! just got home from work .... today i shared a photo with you of a bulgarian lavender scrub i made on the fly as i was waiting for my soaping oils to cool down. since maddi has given me permission to post things to facebook now, im really having fun sharing things behind the scenes with you all!  anyhow, after i posted the photo -- i realized man heid, you do this all the time -- you make these little rando batches of stuff and you have a good time. lol BUT is it a good time for...

  man, this bar... whew, by now most of you know about soap needing a cure time...  and that technically soap can be safely used with a 2 week cure, the reason for the 4 week cure is to allow the bar to harden up so that you arent flying through your soap bars. every once in a while ( i think its happened three times total) we have had problems with a crud shortage, usually its short lived and we have fresh crud available for purchase with the understanding that you should wait until its full cure date for it to fully harden...

**** please please read this part **** I had to tweak the bug spray recipe. Just a TINY bit-- in fact, im not even sure you will notice at all …. But due to limited packaging and ingredient supply, i decided to take one ONE very special ingredient from our ticked off repellent and add it to the bug spray, and im sorry to announce our ticked off repellent will not be in production this year. Now, like i said, i highly doubt you will even notice the ever so slight difference in scent in the new bug spray, but...

finally.... sheesh. feels like forever since ive had more than one tiny little bit of good news here and there. im writing tonight about a few of my favorite things that are making their way back into the line up :) 3 of my favorite soaps are on their way. yes, and i am sooooo excited about that. one of them is already in my shower, one of them is made, cut and curing and the other is on my white board in my production schedule for this week. i want to chat just a bit about all three of...

hi guys! hope youre all enjoying this heat wave as much as i am!! i LOVE it. im totally one of those people that sits in the car with the windows up when its 90 degrees out for a few minutes before taking off. lol anyhow-- i could talk about summer all summer and winter too, but i think ive got a few more important things i actually need to talk about. so, as i mentioned in my last post.... we considered opening for retail shopping on our pick up days in the month of july. we decided to do...