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Yearly Archives: 2021

Thinking about Valentine's Day — Now that Christmas is over and the new year is right around the corner, it’s time to look ahead for production. Valentine’s Day is the next holiday coming up, and now’s the time to get started if you plan to add some special design soaps to your inventory. Right now […]

Time To Soap For Valentine’s Day

December 29, 2021 in Calendar / Soap by Denise

Recently I made a lip balm using Lanolin and Emu Oil. I called it Luscious Lip Balm because it truly is! After using it for a couple of weeks, I decided the combination of oils might be wonderful in lotion, too. To create the lotion formula, I used all the […]

Luscious Lotion With Emu Oil & Lanolin

December 23, 2021 in Lotions and Creams by Denise

The first revision of Lemon Créme Shea Butter turned out too greasy. I liked the texture other than that, so lowering the greasy feel is my focus on this revision. While I could add a different ingredient (such as Isopropyl Myristate) to address the greasiness, I’m sticking with the ingredients […]

Lemon Créme Shea Butter Revision #2

December 22, 2021 in Lotions and Creams by Denise

Last week I made an attempt to recreate a product I purchased and really enjoyed. It was a thick, rich lemon-scented shea butter cream. The initial attempt turned out to be too waxy, so I went back to the drawing board to revise. For the first revision, I eliminated the […]

Lemon Créme Shea Butter Revision #1

December 21, 2021 in Lotions and Creams by Denise

This is one of those fragrances I can’t get enough of when sniffing right out of the bottle. It smells fantastic and so realistic. Clean apple top notes make for a delicious treat in Enchanted Apple Fragrance Oil. Apple opens the way for green, juicy pear with jasmine overtones and […]

Fragrance Friday: Enchanted Apple

December 17, 2021 in Fragrances by Denise

To celebrate the release of our new 6″ Tall & Skinny one-pound mold, I wanted to make a fun soap! This design, the Tall & Skinny Shimmy, was featured in the April 2020 Soap Challenge Club. The Tall & Skinny Shimmy is made with 7 different colors (or 7 shades […]

Tall & Skinny Shimmy In Our 6″ T&S Soap Mold

December 15, 2021 in Cold Process Soap / Color by Denise

Many years ago I bought a jar of something called Lemon Créme Shea Butter. The label touted its age-defying, ultra-moisturizing properties. Using it hasn’t made my skin look any younger, but it sure is a good moisturizer, and I love the lemony scent. I asked our Technical Support folks to […]

Recreating Lemon Créme Shea Butter

December 14, 2021 in Lotions and Creams by Denise

We’re so excited to debut our newest fragrance, Rainbow Beach! This is no ordinary beachy scent. From our catalog: “Take a trip with me to visit the cool and rocky Pacific coastline stretching from Monterey, California, up to Vancouver, British Columbia. This fragrance is a complex blend of chill ocean […]

NEW! Rainbow Beach Fragrance Oil

December 9, 2021 in Fragrances by Denise

Do you ever chew on your lower lip? It’s an unfortunate habit of mine, and as I was considering what to make next for the blog, I was peeling dry skin off my lower lip with my teeth. It only took me about 15 minutes of this activity to come […]

Chocolate Cream Luscious Lip Balm

December 8, 2021 in Lip Balms by Denise

Watermelon is a popular flavor no matter the time of year, and you can enjoy it even more when mixed into our Shea Butter Lip Solutions! Our most popular Lip Solutions variety, Shea Butter Lip Solutions is available in 5-lb bags as well as jars and buckets. For our samples, […]

Watermelon Shea Lip Balm

December 2, 2021 in Lip Balms by Denise

We are excited at The Sage to be the December sponsors for Amy Warden’s Soap Challenge Club! This month’s challenge is Back to Basics. The primary goal is to create soap that is uniform in color with completely smooth texture and crisp lines between colors. The secondary part of the […]

We’re Sponsoring Soap Challenge Club in December

December 1, 2021 in Notices and Alerts / Soap by Denise

The idea for this soap was born when Andee texted me a fragrance blend she’d created for one of our customers. The idea the customer wanted was a citrusy, oceany fragrance. Andee combined 2 parts Lemon Zinger Fragrance Oil with 1 part Sea Salt Fragrance Oil, and the result was […]

Citrus By The Sea Soap

November 30, 2021 in Cold Process Soap / Fragrances in Cold Process Soap by Denise