First of all, a heartfelt thank you to my fabulous customers for making this Christmas shopping season the absolute best! I always wonder in the autumn when I am making this soap if I’m crazy for making so much but as it turns out –…
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Two of my summer best-sellers! Ebony & Ivory 🎼 (just kidding). It’s Apple & Sage Goats Milk soap and Activated Charcoal Facial soap with Tea Tree Oil. The combination of fragrances is fabulous! If you’ve never tried Goats Milk soap, you should…there is something special…
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Summer is officially here and in Muskoka that means – sun, water, hiking, boating, farm fresh gardens, flowers, fun and …..markets! As you can imagine I’m super excited about jumping back in to the Muskoka Market scene and selling my soap. Over the past few…
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I have always been interested in shampoo bars and after getting many requests from my customers I began researching and testing products early this year. Creating these fragrant, long lasting bars has been a super achievement for my little business as well as a wonderful…
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Unfortunately, there are still weeks of winter left (that’s a fact) but it doesn’t mean that we can’t have soft skin, a treat in the tub, a surprise for a friend, an irresistible fragrance in your shower or a piece of art in your soap…
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For me, it’s impossible to be a soap-maker and live with the status quo. There is always that next, great idea lurking on the periphery that becomes like a stone in your shoe and in time must be addressed! Now, with a solid two years…
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At last it’s time to announce my line of 2018 Holiday Soaps! The posting of this message has come with much anticipation and also some anxiousness on my part. As soap makers can relate producing the right amount of soap in late September for the…
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I love this picture – it’s all of the reasons that I love soap making! Each of these soaps are in my shop….check them out. From Top to Bottom: Rose & Pink Clay Raspberry Mint Pink Grapefruit Swirl Silky Lavender Pumpkin Pie Spice (coming October…
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Part II of my Summer Market Series Organization is not everyone’s cup of tea and I have seen, on occasion, market vendors seemingly un-organized that are clearly making sales. Case in point, a young woman last summer at a busy Vancouver market madly labelling her…
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From my perspective, it doesn’t take a small business owner long to feel like a veteran in the local market game. In my relatively short time as a vendor I have seen savvy marketers ‘killing it’ in sales and others literally sobbing as they pack…