01 Apr
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I recently had a customer at market remark that a certain scent triggered an, "olfactory memory" of her grandmother's house. She fondly recalled a childhood time frame in her life, and her beaming smile said it all. She said, "I'll have to look up just WHAT scent the soap was she used...but this scent is the same." Scents are fun things. The can be pleasant, pungent, and at times, unappealing. It's interesting to watch people sniff through the display when...
22 Mar
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My ego would love to take credit for every last bit of soapy work that goes on here. While I do personally batch each bar of soap, there's no way possible that I could count, trim, box, and label the soaps, too. Enter my employees. They save my ass, weekly, in countless ways. As newbies, they struggled to learn each scent, each shape, and the flow and process that takes place from raw batch to finished box. Given a few...
09 Mar
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As May approaches, there's a looming end to the availability of soapmaking classes. It would be ideal to teach the classes year round, but spring and summer events are all consuming. Inventory creation, boxing of product, and the physical act of being present at events makes scheduling tight. I don't think I could squeeze another minute out of any Thursday-Friday-Saturday from May through October! The good news is that now through May I plan on hitting the soapmaking classes hard! ...