Handmade soap

[bigbill]

A bunch of orders left yesterday morning. Grand Teton NP got a resupply for the hardy winter travelers.

[bigbill]

Feel free to call the phone number on the website if you want something other than what's on the website. The shipping automatically gets charged when ordering online. Calling will likely get you a better deal with regards to shipping. Otherwise, my wife adds bars to the order to compensate for the shipping costs.

[donevwil]

Desert Rain may be our new favorite soap, granted this is only the third bar out of the eight purchased. Lemongrass is a close second. Washes off clean, no residue, no overwhelming scent, good stuff!!

[bigbill]

I like desert rain as well. My go-to is still peppermint scrub. I just returned from the post office after shipping around 400 bars to stores and individual customers. We thought we were done for the holidays with the large orders (stores, shops), but a bunch just came in. We're leaving town on Wednesday afternoon to return next Friday. We'll return through Phoenix and fill the truck with 5-gallon buckets of oils (palm, coconut, olive), shea butter, beeswax, and boxes of fragrance. My cousin's daughter just had a baby, we're giving her lavender soap for calming, and olive oil soap for moisturizing. The olive oil and tea tree soaps are good for eczema and other skin issues.

[bigbill]

A big batch was cut into bars today. The Dragon's Blood is especially nice with very artistic swirls. Nice enough for the guest bath, but you'll want it as your everyday soap.

Remember, you can call in your order and shipping will likely be less.

[bigbill]

New batches are being cut today. The olive oil and peppermint scrub are especially nice.

[ides1056]

I am still working through the gift pack you gave me. Do you make any Juniper/Cedar soap or the like?

[bigbill]

Sandalwood and Desert Sage will be the best bet on those fragrances. One of the things I like about living in NW AZ, is how the desert smells after rain. I ask my wife if she had ever done a creosote-scented soap and she has, but it didn't sell well. It wasn't the strong creosote that smelled like a railroad tie, but it was more subtle, like the fragrance of a wet creosote bush.

[bigbill]

We are heading north in a few days but this time we're hauling a bunch of soap and materials to make ten batches. If you want soap this summer, it should be no problem. We are also looking at a house in Wyoming to purchase that has a nice shop with 220V and room for the soap business. It also has a good shop area off the garage for all my bikes. Priorities.

[bigbill]

We're moving to Wyoming next weekend. My wife made several thousand bars to fill orders for some pharmacies and Grand Tetons Lodge. We're both moving our stuff in two Uhaul trucks and then she'll return to AZ to finish teaching the semester at the CC. She will make some more batches at the barn where we board our horses and she'll live in the travel trailer until the second week of May. Sometime in April, I will fly down to AZ (via Vegas) and haul all the soap making supplies to Wyoming. She'll keep enough soap on hand to fill orders. After May, all soap will come from Wyoming, but I'm pretty sure they have post offices.

As a reminder, you'll do better calling in your order instead of ordering off the website. Tell her you're one of Bill's virtual riding friends.

[9tubes]

I'm glad I received my order the week before last. I have enough to last through Christmas.

If she ever retires, give us plenty of notice.