Thoughts from The Sage


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Tomorrow is the launch date for a wonderful program, Letters for Lyrics. Let me tell you about this program and why it is so wonderful. It is sponsored by Chrysler Group LLC, Zac Brown Band, and Soldier’s Angels. The goal of this program is to send 1 million letters to […]

Letters for Lyrics



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I’m back from Denver and just in time to release this very important note about our move! As I had mentioned on April 23rd, we will be moving Majestic Mountain Sage. I now have more details for you! We will continue processing orders until Wednesday, May 12th. On May 13th […]

More Moving News








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Vanilla stabilizers….. do they work? The answer is yes, sort of. Vanilla stabilizers do not fully stop all browning of a soap. While they make slow the progression (long enough for your customer to take home the soap) they will not stop all browning. Check out this soap. This soap […]

Vanilla Stabilizers


Yesterday it snowed and I just had to share this beautiful picture with you. Even though the calendar says it is spring, we aren’t in the clear just yet. Here in Northern Utah we have seen snow as late as June and our high mountains have had snow on the […]

Snow and Other News



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Dirk, one of our web programmers, wrote this excellent tutorial on making a simple soap mold. This tutorial allows anyone to make a mold just with lumber scraps! Enjoy! Making your own handmade soap is a great example of chemistry in practical use. You are mixing fats with a solution […]

Guerrilla Soap Mold


I’m so excited to share our latest additions to the catalog with you! We just released the Daisy Lip Balm Pots and they are just so much fun. These pots are easy to fill and a wonderful bonus is that you can stack several pots and have a collection of […]

New Containers


This is a question that comes up for everyone learning to make soap. I recently stumbled across this cute illustrated explanation of saponification. This is a fun way to enjoy learning about saponification without covering several whiteboards with chemical changes at the molecular level. I wish all confusing questions could […]

What is Saponification?