Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New year! I have been busy busy trying to catch up on soaping and updates. Almost there (I hope!) :)
Where to start.... I guess, first, thank you for a fabulous fall leading into Christmas. I completely underestimated sales and ran out of soap before December. Sorry to those who tried to order closer to Christmas. I am working on a 3 month inventory and planning for a big fall!
If you've looked through the soap section, you'll see a bunch of new faces. A couple of Cowgirls rode off into the 2011 sunset but were replaced with a few OUTSTANDING new ladies. You probably noticed not all of them are *human*. Shirley, our "Ugly Goat Milk Soap" model, became very popular. So popular, I had to switch soap bags on more than few occasions. So we gave her some goat company. I did not intend on adding a bunch of new scents- but oh my... I am really pleased with the new stuff. I think my new favorite is Coconut Lime Verbena. Love it! I will talked more about the new scents later...
I am doing a little experiment and tweaked "the recipe". Soap is measured by a few different things (I will talk more about that later too). There is a whole big algorithm on how different oils/ butter interact with each other and become soap. I constantly play with this algorithm and pay close attention to conditioning (moisturizing) and lather. Well, in all my playing, I found a slightly different version of my recipe that went up a point in lather (stayed the same in conditioning). 1 point is not a big deal, and I was very pleased with my soap- but if I can make it even better, why not try? So, I experimented and made a few batches of soap with this recipe. I love it! It is creamier. So I am throwing it out there to see if y'all love it as much as I do. Hopefully so, because I have made every bar of soap using this recipe. :)
Now on to bad news. :( I had to go up on prices. I held off longer than I should of. Every single thing I use in making soap has increased in price, especially the cost of feeding the goats, which provide the goat milk. Using 100% goat milk as the liquid portion of soap makes a HUGE difference. It is difficult and more expensive than water and powdered milk- but the difference it makes in soap is hugely wonderful (lol, not sure that makes sense). Because of our Texas drought, my monthly hay bill has increased from $45 a month to nearly $300 a month. Pray for rain! :)
I have a great friend named Joan, who always says, "Why say in 50 words what you can say in 500 words."- and I have definitely done that in this post. :) I will come back later and write more about the different scents and soap standards. Off to make more soap! :)
Where to start.... I guess, first, thank you for a fabulous fall leading into Christmas. I completely underestimated sales and ran out of soap before December. Sorry to those who tried to order closer to Christmas. I am working on a 3 month inventory and planning for a big fall!
If you've looked through the soap section, you'll see a bunch of new faces. A couple of Cowgirls rode off into the 2011 sunset but were replaced with a few OUTSTANDING new ladies. You probably noticed not all of them are *human*. Shirley, our "Ugly Goat Milk Soap" model, became very popular. So popular, I had to switch soap bags on more than few occasions. So we gave her some goat company. I did not intend on adding a bunch of new scents- but oh my... I am really pleased with the new stuff. I think my new favorite is Coconut Lime Verbena. Love it! I will talked more about the new scents later...
I am doing a little experiment and tweaked "the recipe". Soap is measured by a few different things (I will talk more about that later too). There is a whole big algorithm on how different oils/ butter interact with each other and become soap. I constantly play with this algorithm and pay close attention to conditioning (moisturizing) and lather. Well, in all my playing, I found a slightly different version of my recipe that went up a point in lather (stayed the same in conditioning). 1 point is not a big deal, and I was very pleased with my soap- but if I can make it even better, why not try? So, I experimented and made a few batches of soap with this recipe. I love it! It is creamier. So I am throwing it out there to see if y'all love it as much as I do. Hopefully so, because I have made every bar of soap using this recipe. :)
Now on to bad news. :( I had to go up on prices. I held off longer than I should of. Every single thing I use in making soap has increased in price, especially the cost of feeding the goats, which provide the goat milk. Using 100% goat milk as the liquid portion of soap makes a HUGE difference. It is difficult and more expensive than water and powdered milk- but the difference it makes in soap is hugely wonderful (lol, not sure that makes sense). Because of our Texas drought, my monthly hay bill has increased from $45 a month to nearly $300 a month. Pray for rain! :)
I have a great friend named Joan, who always says, "Why say in 50 words what you can say in 500 words."- and I have definitely done that in this post. :) I will come back later and write more about the different scents and soap standards. Off to make more soap! :)
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