Sunday, October 28, 2012

Saponification Sunday.. Binge Soaping




Even without a web store I have been inundated with Christmas Soap orders. This week alone I've had four, count them FOUR orders for soap. I know...pretty impressive. Just imagine what I could do if I had a real on line store. I could have maybe five or even six orders.

Overwhelming.

Which is why I am still piddling around with a few bars here and a few bars there. Seriously though a couple orders were none too shabby. One for 15 bars and another for 25. Plus those pesky store customers think that just because I put a bar of soap in the farm store with a price tag on it that gives them the right to leave me moola and take the soap with them. The noive.

So each night for the past couple weeks I've been making more soap. Some night just a few bars and other nights a whooping 4 pounds worth. (yeah, I hear you pros out there with your master batching and your 200 pound molds laughing at me but you were amateurs once too you know...except for that handful of you BORN to soap. You know who you are )

Making a little soap more often has been more pleasurable than making lots all at once. It has been very relaxing and rewarding and the results are better or so I tell myself. The pics are just samples of all the different kinds I've made in the last 14 days. Some are HP (Hot process) some CP  (cold process) some LP (music from the 70's)



My personal favorite is the most plain of the bunch, my "Farmtastic Bar" above. It doesn't look like much and with the partial gel it looks like even less but it has tremendous intrinsic value. Crafted from Organic raw whole milk, raw honey, a free range egg and organic lard it has the faintest most delicate sweet smell.  No, it does not smell like bacon. When cured, if it performs as well as its predeccessors, it will leave ones skin extremely soft. For being unscented and uncolored it sure is a favorite with my customers.

All of  the above soap batches in the first picture are already sold but more is coming. One day I may get caught up enough to actually have extra to sell on that nebulous web store I keep yakking about. Only time will tell.

DON'T FORGET !  Bramble Berry is having a great deal this November. (For my original post about their generosity Read HERE )  Enter the code GIVEMBER200 on any order when you check out at brambleberry.com to be entered into a drawing to win a $200 gift card from Bramble Berry. This code is good on orders placed during the month of November only. Thank you Bramble Berry!

23 comments:

  1. Woo-hoo on your sales, you busy lady! Oh the noive of some people who don't simply admire it but want to buy it!

    Like you, the soaps I'm often the most proud of are usually the plain looking ones into which I've crammed an entire meal....I wonder what that says about us?!

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  2. It's so good to hear about your success stories...and I'm glad you brought up about ordering for Christmas. I think we will be added to your soap order Christmas list. I also have a couple of frozen tubs of lard if you think you or somebody here could use them.

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  3. Lovely soaps, Donna! I especially like the green and brown one with the pencil line in the middle of the first photo. The Farmtastic Bar sounds very nice, too. It's good to hear that orders for Christmas are coming in - I hope you get lots more!

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  4. Making soap is an art as far as I'm concerned. In small batches makes it even more so.
    Congratulations on the sales! :)
    Hugs,
    Zuzu

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  5. Amy. It must say we are hungry, or we grew up hungry, or we like to feed people or people like to feed us or or or...

    Doug. You know how I love to make soap for your two but WHY are you getting rid of your lard? One can never have another lard! (As long as it is in a bucket and not on my backside. There really is enough there)

    Jenny, the bar of which you speak is made with Spirulina which always fades on me. But the last couple batches wjere I used it I really went heavy with it. No fade yet and it's holding its fragrance really well.

    Zuzu Thanks so much for stopping by. And to the rest of you be sure to check out her web page. SO PRETTY!!

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  6. Your soap making activities are making me feel very enthused about having a go myself at some point in the future, when I have a few hours to spare! I am thinking particularly of when we our goats start giving milk!

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  7. you had me laughing at the bacon smell - although these days, it could probably sell very well.

    glad your orders are coming in fast and furious! but good luck keeping up!

    (and thanks for lurking!) :)

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  9. you had me laughing at the bacon smell - although these days, it could probably sell very well. glad your orders are coming in fast and furious! but good luck keeping up! (and thanks for lurking!) :)

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