Stuffing Stockings and Giving Gifts

Lovely holidays await us! A time for giving thanks for our bountiful blessings and a time to show appreciation and honor to our Savior who came to this earth as a baby to save mankind from their sins! It's a fun, family time of gathering together and giving gifts.

It can remove the hassle and stress from the holidays if part of the gift-giving is a bulk order of customized guest-sized soaps, prettily wrapped in cigar bands, cellophane bags, and colored curly ribbons. At only $1.30 each, it's so easy to give a thoughtful gift to all those you care about without breaking the bank. 

 Bulk Guest-Sized Soap Favors 15/$20.00 on Etsy

These little artisan soap bars are the perfect size to place by the sink for your guests, in stockings by the hearth, in care packages, as part of a bath & beauty basket, or to give away to co-workers and friends.
 

They are such a loving, personal gift with beautiful essences, made of healthful, natural ingredients, and so very useful! 

Are You Getting the Quality You Paid For?

I am a lover of chocolate! Everything about it (except for the calories) is a delight to me! I love the creaminess, the svelte smoothness, the richness of the taste, and the way it makes me feel when I eat it. I will not be satisfied by cheap, waxy imitations! I even tried carob candy once, but it was no comparison to the real chocolate.

When I heard that a famous chocolate candy-maker was going to substitute vegetable oil for cocoa butter, I was aghast! How dare they mess with my luxurious treat!! One of the representatives for the company said that this change would save the company a lot of money as cocoa butter is much more costly than vegetable oil. He went on the explain that the consumer wouldn't know the difference. Hmmm.... does that make it OK to substitute an inferior ingredient to save them money... when the consumer can't tell the difference? I think not! By the way, I never noticed a reduction of price after this occurred.

What does this have to do with soap-making? Plenty! We soap-makers pride ourselves in choosing and buying very quality ingredients to make our beautiful soaps with. We know the difference in making a soap with the very cheapest oil/shortening and luxurious oils and butters such as coconut oil, palm oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, sweet almond oil, avocado oil, aloe oil, olive oil, and such like. We know that the more expensive oils/butters produce better lather, have more healing qualities, and last longer than cheap vegetable oils.

The cocoa Bean

Maybe we could make a soap to sell to the consumer made from inexpensive, poor quality vegetable oil. Huge soap companies get by with  it, after all, by extracting the glycerin from their soaps made mostly from questionable chemicals and ingredients that are drying to the skin. The soap-makers I know and I could never defraud the consumer that way!

Our handcrafted, artisan soaps may seem a little over-priced to some, but when you look into the skilled craftsmanship, artistry, scrupulous oversight of all ingredients purchased, research going into making very healthy skin-loving products, careful & precise blending of these ingredients, and all the beautiful wrapping that goes into making just one batch of soap, it's easier to understand.

Victorian Rose, handcrafted artisan soap

When you purchase artisan, natural, handcrafted soap made by a soap-maker who truly loves their business, you have purchased true quality and will not be disappointed as I am not when biting into a quality bar of great chocolate! :)