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Tomorrow starts the next Flashback Friday sale! We are offering this beautiful bar at $5.00 each. The Country Rose Garden is one of our original bars ( we used to call it Rose & Geranium ) and it is also one of our goat's milk bars. Again, the goat's milk oil base is predominately olive oil with coconut oil added for hardness and castor oil for a bubbly lather. We naturally color this bar with rose kaolin clay and french green clay. We add a touch of mica to the top for a bit of sophistication. And the classic scent is created by the addition of rose absolute, geranium essential oil, rose hydrosol and a wonderful rose fragrance oil. This bar is gentle and balanced, the perfect facial soap bar. If you are a rose fan this is the bar for you! It will be $5.00 for one week only, so get it while you can. The next Flashback Friday bar offered will be our popular Lavender & Lemongrass! We make this bar with Bulgarian Lavender, ooh la la! One of my favorite essential oils! Just want to wish everyone a fabulous 4th of July, please stay safe and enjoy the day! 
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Our next Flashback Friday $5.00 bar will be the popular Goat's Milk & Oatmeal. This lightly vanilla scented bar is a customer favorite of all ages. We did make a couple of ingredient changes for this batch, but it did not affect the look or use. The two changes we made this time are the white swirl is achieved by adding zinc oxide. Zinc oxide is the active ingredient in the sun block you see life guards wearing on the bridges of the nose and atop the cheekbones to protect from sun burn, and it is used in diaper cream to protect from rash. This mineral is vital for immune function. It can be taken in other forms as a supplement. In this bar it acts as a mild exfoliant along with the colloidal oatmeal. This bar also has the wonderful benefits of two of my favorite essential oils, benzion and copiaba. We paired these with a fabulous vanilla & tonka bean natural fragrance oil that boosts the scent in it. I have had a lot of customers request a vanilla bar, maybe this will be it? So, starting tomorrow this bar will be $5.00 each, no limit but until current stock is exhausted. But this price is for only one week! Get them while you can. As always, stay safe, healthy and cool!  Yes, we have new batches of these two beautiful bars. July 1st both will be available on the webstore for purchase. First we have one of our summer favorites Mango Bliss. This creamy lathering bar starts with our coconut milk base. The oils we pair with the coconut milk in this bar are of course coconut oil, but also palm, olive, sunflower and castor. To make this bar non drying we add mango butter. It does not add a scent but really helps keep this bar from stripping too much oil from your skin, making it a less drying bar. We use a wonderfully fruity, tropical fragrance oil to scent this bar and naturally color it with orange wax, rose kaolin clay and paprika. This is surely the best pick for the summer months. Next up is one of our favorites from our goat's milk line, the Eucalyptus & Spearmint. This bar is made combining our goat's milk oil blend with fresh goat's milk. Our oil base in this bar has always been 70% olive oil blended with coconut oil and castor oil. Then we add an essential oil only scent combination of eucalyptus, spearmint, cypress and camphor. This essential oil is meant to open up the sinuses and allow you to breathe more freely. Kind of like a certain popular rub a lot of people use. The look of our bar came out a little different this time, but I do like it. Normally we use French green clay and mica. For this bar we used the French green clay for the green swirls, but I tried a colorant called Naturtint for the blue, which turned out a shade of purple. Still a beautiful bar though if you ask me! Next blog will be Thursday with the announcement of our Goat's Milk & Oatmeal as this coming Flashback Fridays $5.00 bar! Check it out!
The next bar available for our special pricing of $5.00 each will be our Just For Me. For one week this bar will be discounted. From June 17th until June 23rd you can get these bars for just $5.00 each, but supply is limited. This is our original bar that was called Peppermint & Tea Tree Oil. We updated the oil blend to include niaouli and rosemary essential oils, so this blend is cool, refreshing and uplifting! Get them while they are available! As of today there are only 5 left! Next up will be the Goat's Milk & Oatmeal on June 24th!  Now available are new stock of these beautiful bars. We have made changes to all of them, some scent and colorants and some basic oil ingredients. So check them out on our "Soap" title. Each one is unique and will be geared towards different needs and skin types. Whether you want your soap to address issues or you just love a certain scent we have something for everyone. And, check out this Friday for our very first "Flashback Friday"! Have a fabulous Sunday and a wonderful week!
Clockwise from top: Goat's Milk & Oatmeal, Smokin Good Soap, Cheers To Your Skin and Japanese Cherry Blossom.
Well since everyone is suffering from our insanely high gas prices, we here are going to offer our original market price on select bars throughout the summer months of June, July and August. We have selected 10 of our original blends to be discounted to $5.00 each! It will be on a current supply basis. We will not be making any more batches of soap for our summer stock. This will include these popular blends: Fresh & Clean, Just For Me, Goat's Milk & Oatmeal, Country Rose Garden, Lavender & Lemongrass, Balsam, Orange & Clove, Lavender & Spearmint, Eucalyptus & Spearmint and last but not least our Mango Bliss. Some of these bars are priced at $6.00 to $7.00! That is a big savings, and they are delivered straight to your door. Our first bar to be offered will be our most popular scent, Fresh & Clean! This special pricing for the Fresh & Clean will start Friday June 10th and end on Thursday June 16th at 12:01 a.m. Each bar offered will be announced the Thursday before it starts in our blog, so check back for a reminder on our website blog "Soap Talk" each Thursday throughout these summer months to see if your favorite is discounted! Hope everyone is staying cool and enjoying their summer! Bless each and everyone of YOU!  With our Memorial Day behind us and our summer in full swing we now have that very special day that belongs to all our wonderful fathers out there coming up fast. Fathers bring a very special and important role to the family unit, strength & discipline but more importantly fun & spontaneity! Who doesn't love a dad who surprises the family with a fun day! Going fishing, camping or a sun loving day at the beach. Or a family going to the movies or for ice cream on a hot day. So kudos to all of the fathers out there, take your day and love it!!!! In honor of our love for all the dads out there we have some great scents that will treat them well and make sure they are clean and great smelling! We have a new batch of Cheers To Your Skin available Friday, we added an all natural combo to this new batch. It is scented with of course cedarwood atlas essential oil, but we added black pepper essential oil and an all natural vanilla & tonka bean fragrance oil, ummmm this smells so nice. Along with this we decided to go with zinc oxide as our colorant for the light color in the bar. Such a wonderful bar and so gentle for dry skin. Next up we have both our Smokin Good Soap and the Goat's Milk and Oatmeal available June 5th! Both of these bars are geared towards helping with skin issues. They are as good for your skin as they are beautiful. The Smokin Good Soap has birch tar essential oil which has been purported to benefit those with eczema and psoriasis. In our Goat's Milk & Oatmeal we added the same natural fragrance oil as the Cheers To Your Skin and the zinc oxide as well. We think these changes will make this a far better bar all around. All three of these customer favorites would make perfect gifts for that special dad in your life, or husband, uncle or son! So, check them out along with our other favorites like the Fresh & Clean, Just For Me (peppermint & tea tree oil), Balsam or the skin loving bar Three kings. We hope that your June is awesome and you stay safe and cool (especially here in Arizona)! And a very Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there!
 We are so glad to bring back one of our favorite florals! Island Plumeria is a beautiful floral with sweet fruity undertones. We created this bar to reflect the tropical goodness that you receive whenever you visit or vacation in some of the world's most beloved islands. This bar has an oil blend of coconut, olive, palm and castor with the added benefit of full fat organic non-gmo coconut milk. It has a silky lather and is naturally colored with rose kaolin clay. This time we added the golden mica swirl into the bar instead of on top so you will see it throughout your bar as you use it. What a treat! The next bar we have not had in stock for a while is our Lavender & Lemongrass. This customer favorite has both the essential oils of Bulgarian lavender and lemongrass only, no fragrance oils in this bar! We always use turmeric to color the yellow part of this bar which also adds the purported benefits of this amazing herb. The design on this soap changes with each batch, but the out come is always similar. The top always ends up with this beautiful frosty look. I am never disappointed when unmolding it. Just in time for Mother's Day we have added a trio of special pairings. We have very limited amounts of these available online, so when they are gone, they are gone. First we paired our new Elderberry Flower Goat's Milk bar with a bath tea. This is the perfect soak after a stress filled day! It contains epsom salt, Dead Sea salt, baking soda, floral petals, fragrance, roman chamomile EO and grapefruit seed extract. What could be better! Next is two pairings with our wonderful Honeysuckle & Calendula bar. We have our hugely popular body butter and some scented beeswax melts. Again, these are limited! I can't seem to make enough or make the body butter fast enough to keep in stock so I hardly ever put them on the website. The ingredients for the body butter are Shea butter, coconut oil, jojoba oil, beeswax, arrowroot powder, fragrance and grapefruit seed extract. Our Wax Melts contain beeswax, coconut oil, fragrance, calendula petals and Ylang-Ylang essential oil. Because we are so small we do not make large quantities of our products, but we are able to use the best ingredients for our customers. And when we ship we always fill it with shred and give a little gift note so the receiver knows it has been lovingly sent :) We hope that all of you are staying happy and healthy and you are enjoying all this incredible sunshine ( if you are located in the southwest of course! ). Blessings to all those fantastic mom's out there, enjoy your day!
 Introducing our new Elderberry Flower! This beautiful new bar is another customer inspired request. We chose to add this sweet, fruity floral to our goat's milk base, and just look how amazing it turned out! So for all of you that understand the awesome benefits of the elderberry flower and fruit you will appreciate why this is so popular. Both the fruit and the flower of this plant have been used for boosting your immune system. I for one have been making my own elderberry syrup for about three years now and always try to keep it on hand. At the first sign that I am coming down with something this is what I use along with lots of vitamin C. Always does the trick. The same can be said for the elderberry flower. I love it as a tea, and when I make my tea I will also add a few berries as well and some local honey. Yum! Our new bar is made with a fragrance oil as it seems impossible to find an elderberry essential oil, but when you smell this bar it will definitely remind you of this sweet berry and it's flower. We tinted the bar with an orchid oxide, purple mica, cobalt mica and titanium dioxide for the white swirl throughout. What a perfect gift or treat for someone special. This bar will be available April 2nd 2022 on the website. We also will have a pairing with this bar of a bath soak that will include elderberry flowers, just in time for Mother's Day. So check the website in a few weeks! We hope your weekend is fabulous, stay safe and healthy!  Finally our new batch of Fresh & Clean will be available for purchase on our webstore April 2nd 2022. We do more of this popular bar than any other soap blend we carry! It sells out 3 to 4 weeks after we list it on the website. I love making it because it always comes together nicely and is just a wonderful bar of soap. This bar has been on our product list from day one. It isn't for everyone as this bar packs a punch, literally! This special blend includes the essential oils of peppermint, spearmint, lemon, thyme, rosemary, litsea cubeba and wintergreen, wow! We also include coconut activated charcoal, Pascalite clay (a form of bentonite clay), French green clay and menthol crystals. This time we have added our new favorite ingredient, grapefruit seed extract! This extract has been used as a natural disinfectant and we are adding it as a natural preservative for the essential oils. But maybe it just might help combat all those nasty viruses and bacteria we deal with on a day to day basis. I love to always carry a sliver of this bar in my purse just in case I visit a restroom without soap, I just use it once and throw it away! If anyone wants to reserve a bar or two, just email us @ dbsaz20.0916@gmail.com and we will set them aside.  |
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