We will be at the Avocado Nursery's Creative Market this Saturday from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. This is one of our local markets that we attend so all you locals come out and support these fine people and vendors! The weather should be more enjoyable than the last one, I think it was about 104 degrees last time, so if you are in the area please stop by! There are some really neat vendors at this market and of course everything that is available at the nursery also. They have such a great variety of plants to chose from. So come on out!
     On another note, we just finished making our new batches of Festive Eggnog and Hunter's Soap for our holiday blends. So next week we will blog each of these and post a showcase of them. They turned out beautiful and we can't wait to share them with you! So, be on the look out!

      We are just so excited to be at this farmers market! It is located at 9098 W Pinnacle Peak Road in Peoria. It will be from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. Saturday October 6th. It should be a beautiful day! We are looking forward to seeing what all the other vendors are offering and meeting all of you! Hope to see you there!
       As promised we are showcasing another one of our seasonal scented soaps. This one is our Old Fashioned Oatmeal. We recently changed back to our blend that included a vanilla creme fragrance oil. This oil is phthalate free and has a very creamy vanilla scent which pairs perfectly with our cinnamon, nutmeg and clove essential oils that make this such a wonderful fall scented soap. It has a goat's milk base and gluten-free oatmeal as a mild exfoliant. This has been a customer favorite from our beginning. So, come on down and check it out at this weekends Campbell's Farmers Market!

October is already on the horizon, can you believe our holidays are fast approaching? Are you ready? We have been busy creating our holiday inspired blends and this will be the first of our blogs showcasing those bars. We are starting with the Orange & Clove. This silky lathering soap has the sweet scent of orange along with the deep, spicy scent of clove. Such a beautiful blend to start the season with. This soap makes a wonderful gift addition to a custom basket or placed in a kitchen or bath for holiday entertaining. There are only essential oils in this soap to scent it, it does not contain man-made fragrance oils. As always our soaps are cold process and retain all naturally occurring glycerin. Doing cold process helps us control the type and freshness of the oils going into the base. So check out this and our other seasonal scented soaps available. So, keep calm these next few months and soap on!
Our next announcement is our acceptance to the Campbell's Restaurant Farmer's Market located at 9098 W Pinnacle Peak Road, Peoria. We are so excited to be at this location! We had a very sweet customer tell us about this market and we are so happy she did! Thank you Stacie :) The next one is on October 6th and we hope to see you all here. You will want to check out their menu at the restaurant it looks absolutely fabulous! So come on down and check out the restaurant and the local Arizona vendors!

Introducing our new soap blend Honeysuckle and Calendula! This soap has a sweet and floral scent and we added it to the same moisture promoting oils that we use in our Mango Bliss. We top the bar with a little gold and copper swirl for added beauty. The olive oil used in the base is infused with calendula petals. Calendula has been known for its anti-inflammatory and wound healing benefits, so what a perfect pairing with the butters shea and mango! A perfect gift for the floral scent lover in your life, it may even be you! These bars will be available October 11th for purchase and also at the next Creative Market on October 13th.

    We are now in the process of making new batches of our holiday blends. We will post them in the coming weeks with a re-introduction of them. Some of them have been reformulated and redesigned so if you would let us know what you think by leaving a comment when we do our individual blog for each one, we would love to hear your thoughts.
     We would like to also take this moment to give a big thanks to our friend Dianne that we met while doing our Pinewood Farmers Market as well as Lisa and Mary Ellen the coordinators of the event. Dianne came to our booth every single weekend and brightened our day! And she gave us a little advice on our Old Fashioned Oatmeal, and your advice turned out to be a winner! Hope to see you next year lady!
     To Lisa and Mary Ellen, I just want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to be apart of this fantastic community market. All the vendors were so helpful and friendly, you felt like you were part of a family. We are truly grateful.
    We are so excited for the cooler temps and the upcoming holidays and of course our personal favorite, Christmas! In November we will post our new gift baskets and our new web specials, including Black Friday savings! So keep an eye out for these and other announcements right here on Soap Talk!

Clockwise from top right: Orange & Clove, Peppermint & Vanilla, Frosted Evergreen, Old Fashioned Oatmeal and Orange & Clove and Old Fashioned Oatmeal together.

Our first local farmer's market for the fall season! We will be at the Avocado Nursery's Creative Market tomorrow from 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Come out and support our local small businesses and artisans at this growing market. We will have our new fall and holiday scents available along with the favorites too! If you mention that you saw this blog on our "Soap Talk" we will give you a free gift! Please only one free gift per person. The nursery is located at 6855 N Overfield Road on the outskirts of Casa Grande. So come on out and walk the beautiful grounds and check out the vendors! We would love to see you all.

We now have added our Lavender and Lemongrass bar to our product line on the webstore for online purchase. So, if you love these two great essential oils you are going to love these bars! We will also have them available this weekend at the Pinewood Farmers Market in Munds Park. Yes! We will be up north again, love this market!

We have a new batch of our Milk and Honey that will be ready on July 20th! Of course it now is made with goat's milk and local Arizona honey. A perfect blend for all the family. This soap has such skin loving oils as olive, sunflower and sweet almond, and on top of that we add shea butter. Such a nice unscented bar now with the added benefit of goat's milk!
     We are also adding to our line Lavender & Lemongrass. These two essential oils are such a classic blend. We were asked to make these bars as a special order and they have been such a big hit we are now going to add them to our product list. We will have this bar along with our new batch of Fresh & Clean at the Pinewood Farmers Market this weekend. 
     Speaking of the market, we have some photos from last weekend we would like to share. We are enjoying being up in this area so much. Friendly customers and wonderful vendors makes for a fabulous weekend! If you are up in the area stop by and check it out. It is right off the freeway and just a 25 minute drive from Flagstaff and then you can get right back on. The food is so good! You will want to check out the shrimp tacos, they are awesome!

We now have two more blends available made with goats milk instead of cows milk. The Just For Me and the Lavender and Spearmint. These two powerful scents are now made with goat's milk and will be available tomorrow at the Pinewood Farmers Market in Munds Park. If you are headed up to Munds Park or Flagstaff for the weekend stop by and check out this great little market. We have an awesome group of vendors there and wonderful staff that put this nice community market on. So take a trip up north and cool off a bit, hope to see you there!

 We would like to let you all know we finally added our new Arizona Citrus to our online store! We are now making this with a goat's milk base, so if you are a citrus fan and a goat's milk soap fan you are going to love this blend. We will also have this available at the Pinewood Farmers Market this Saturday, so come on up and beat the heat! This market has easy access and some awesome vendors.