Goddessite! A tribute to the Goddess Artemis

In my busniess at Amy's Organics I have become real good friends with her and her friend Howard. He runs a local amethyst mine here in Thunder Bay and has been helping Amy set up her Organic Shop. To make a long story short, Howard is very energetic and very excited about his amethyst and he has some beautiful crystals and landscape rocks. Howard is in the process of mining the clay deposits that are amoung the amethyt in the mine. This clay is soft and powdery and a bit like pumice stone, but finer.
Howard commissioned me to create a soap using this clay which he calls "Goddessite Healing Clay"
I have been busy the last couple of weeks in hopes to prepare a beautiful bar of soap for him. I wanted this soap to be pure and earthy!
I am very excited about ths soap. It has a hardness to it and exfoliating properties and smells Earthy from the clay. There is no other fragrance...just pure raw soap! I found this clipart on bing and it fits the description of Artemis to a tee!
I will use for my poster for our new soap. Stay tuned. I think this pic is beautiful!

Ray Linke 2010 Golf Invitaional

Here is my brochure I made for the Invitational it turned out really well. thanks Sandy for the Clipart! I made out 72 of these coupons to hand out to all the golfers hopefully they will come out and use them I am really proud of my efforts for this donation. My soap package I hope was a big hit! I haven't heard back from Tina about it but am sure it went over well.

Busy Busy Busy !

Well have I been busy with Soap Contracts. First of all I was contacted by a girl, Tina Morin,who was co-ordinating a golf tournament and was looking for donations. Its free stuff I gave her but sample bars that I had just lying around. The Golf Tournament was on June 25th and was in support of Shanti Village in Nepal. The money goes to the new school there.

Nepal is a poverty stricken country and only 1 out of 5 children get to go to school and mostly is boys. The girls there get no education as they beleive that the girls should be at home doing the chores. They want to change all that and give all the children equal opportunity. I think it is a wonderful program. For more information you can check the website http://www.shantivillage.org

I made up a box of a variety of sample soaps a nice brochure and 72 $1.00 coupons to hand out tt the players as gifts. This is also a good way for me to get my name out there. Here are some pictures of the Golf Package. It turned out real well.

Dead Sea Soap.....Update

So as it turns out this soap isn't so bad after all. I was really disappointed after I finished cutting these bars as they were crumbling and just sweating with moisture. My friend Sandy from Little Meadows told me that the activated charcoal may also bleed if I used too much.

These bars have been sitting for a week now, they are not sweating anymore and with soap the bars loose moisture as they sit curing.

In this recipe I used 2 pounds of Dead Sea Salt and 4 tsp. of activated charcoal. The batch made 6 pounds of soap. The more I check them they are holding their shape they are not crumbling anymore. My husband John loves the smell. (Satsuma...Manadrin and Jasmine) with the charcoal they are glittery and sparkly. I think after a good month they will be good enough to sell. I love the grainy texture of them too! The grains look wavy. Will keep you updated.

Dead Sea Soap ...Dissappointing

Well a few days back if you recall I made soap with Dead Sea Salts and Activated Charcoal. I let them sit for a coupel of days and cut them into bars this morning. When I took them out of the molds they were wet. I was reading on the net that this may occur with the salt. Also Sandy Wilson from Little Meadows emailed me and told me not to use too much charcoal as it tends to bleed and can be drying to the skin. Too Late! it was made before I got that info.

Also in my receipe I added 2 pounds of sea salt...as this was my first try at this soap it always is an experiment. When I cut the bars the morning they were crumbly, they are holding the soap bar shape and I don't know if they will get any better as they cure. Trial and error.
I am very upset about this this batch but what cha gonna do :-(

If anything I can try to rebatch the bars into something else. They smell so good with the Mandarin Jasmine Fragrance. Gonna have to order more of that F.O. and try making something else. I know now I won't use salt again.

My Dog Willy

I am so tired and need a break from soap making. Don't get me wrong but that is all I've been doing since January. My Dead Sea Soap is curing away i took a peek it looks good. Last week I went hiking in the backwoods with my dog Willy. He knows every swimmung hole down the path of theCurrent River, Here he is in one of his favorite spots and lo and behold there is a stick down there! I gotta get it!

Trowbridge Falls

Took a good day off from everything and went for a three hour hike to Trowbridge Falls. Here in Thunder Bay we are surrounded by such beautiful woodlands and this is where I grew up. It was my back yard on Black Bay Crescent.

Dead Sea Soap Recipe

So here is the recipe.

24 oz Olive Oil,
24 oz Coconut Oil 76 degree
38 oz Crisco w/palm
12 oz Lye
32 oz Distilled Water
4 tbsp. Activated Charcoal
4 oz "Satsuma" Mandarine & Jasmine Fragrance Oil from Saffire Blue
2 lbs Dead Sea Salts

Smells wonderful. I am a bit worried tho about how hard its going to be to cut the bars?
We will soon find out.

Keep tuned

Dead Sea Salt Soap

Before I started making soap, I was in Alberta visiting my sister, just this past Christmas. We went shopping at the Bauer Mall in Red Deer and came across a kiosk that was selling Dead Sea Salt Products. The girl at the booth was from Isreal I'm sure. She was beautiful and mesmerizing. It was like Donna and I just got hypnotized by her. To make a long story short we ended up falling in love with the Dead Sea Salt face mask and the hand salts. We ended up spending like $400.00 there!

The Dead Sea is so magical and since bible times people have been drawn to it for its healing powers. The Dead Sea water is full of minerals that just cleanse us.

So when I started making soap it was always in the back of my mind that I wanted to try to make some. Six months later here it is! I am very excited about it!

As you can see the soap is curing away in my molds. Now we have to wait at least 36 hours before we can remove it and then cut to bars.

Bug Off!

I wanted to make a soap that help ward off the mosquitos and flies for the summer season and the first batch is ready to go. Taking orders now @ 5 bucks a bar. Nice strong citronella lemongrass and litsea cubeba oils. Sure to be a hit with the campers down Lakeshore Drive and close to Amy's Organics where I am hoping to sell them all!