Andee

About Andee

Director of Happiness. I'm a thirty-something soap snob. I've grown up with handmade soaps, and I love them! I really like making lotions, soaps, and perfumes. I adore mixing scents to come up with something new. My favorite scent is either Wicked or Cotton Candy. I tend to hoard fragrances, I even have an Earl Grey Tea from the MMS catalog. I won't tell you how old it is, but it sure is good!

Back on May 10th, I posted my thoughts and observations about salt soaps. Following the lively discussions here on the blog and on our Facebook page, I asked a few people to help guest write a blog post about making salt soap. Tess volunteered to share her recipe and some […]

Salt Soaps: A Perspective from Tess

June 25, 2010 in Cold Process Soap / Soap by Andee

Strawberries & Cream Soap

June 23, 2010 in Cold Process Soap by Andee

Back on May 20th, we were lucky to have Rebekah give us a guest post about Infusing Herbs into Oil. This topic on infusions has still been hopping on The Sage Soapmaker’s Forum. Today, I have another fun guest post on infusing Carrots and Mango. Pat wanted to make an […]

Creating Oil Infusions with Carrots and Mangos

June 22, 2010 in Lip Balms / Product Assistance / Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Since we have just moved, I have a new map to our new location Directions from Salt Lake City: Follow 1-15 North to Brigham City. Take Exit 362 (1100 South) into Brigham City and take the right fork of the exit. This will put you on Highway 89. After you […]

Finding MMS in Nibley Utah

June 16, 2010 in Thoughts from The Sage tagged location by Andee

I have two announcements of importance that may be useful for you. 1) Our bases are all back in stock! If you were waiting for one of our Moisturizer Bases or the Extra Thick Shower Gel, now is a fantastic time to stock up again. We’ve been waiting for these […]

Two Notes of Importance

June 14, 2010 in Notices and Alerts by Andee

As I mentioned on May 4th, our new building uses Insulated Concrete Form walls which gives us insulated walls about 14 inches thick. There are 3 inches of insulating foam on the outside, then 8 inches of concrete and another 3 inches of insulating foam on the inside of the […]

Cool Facts about Our New Building

June 11, 2010 in Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

I am excited to tell you we are finished moving! We moved in the equivalent of 26 trailers that were 53 feet long. Whew! I am glad that is over. Thank you for your support during this move. We are shipping orders, so keep an eye out for packages headed […]

The Move is Finished!

June 8, 2010 in Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Recently on The Sage Soapmaker’s Forum we have been discussing botanical infused oils, particularly calendula. Rebekah was kind enough to take pictures of her infusion project and share them with us. Infused oils are wonderful to use and add a little something special to your soaps, lotions or balms. You […]

Creating an Herb Infused Oil

May 20, 2010 in Challenges and Q&A by Andee

As I was cleaning out the testing lab, I found 2 MMS Perfumer’s Kits. One dates back to 2003-2004 and the other dates back to 2000-2001! Both kits had discontinued fragrances that I remember using sparingly because I wanted to hoard every single drop. Do you have favorite MMS Fragrances […]

Old Fragrances

May 19, 2010 in Fragrances / Thoughts from The Sage by Andee

Most of us have eaten something is both sweet and salty at the same time. Sea Salt Caramels, Kettle Corn, Caramel Covered Popcorn, Oreos dipped in Peanut Butter, Strawberries with cheese, and many more! Today I thought we could make a scrub that uses the finer sugar along with a […]

Sweet and Salty Sugar Scrub

May 18, 2010 in Scrubs by Andee

I have more Cyclomethicone Testing results for you. I have a list of requests that I will test later this week and I hope to release those results next week. Today, I tested Coconut Milk, Cool Water (type), Cotton, Dragon Fruit, Eastern Amber and Gardenia Fragrance Oils. All of these fragrance […]