A whole new line of soaps!

I have been for a long time now, wanting to break completely away from Fragrance oils in soaps. I have been wanting to build a clientele and do my original dream, make nothing but real handmade 100% all natural soaps! So about a month ago, I started talking to some of my soap buddies in 'the soap makers forum' and after a few hints and some new inspirations I started to wind my products down to, mostly soaps and candles. That is when the real inspirations started to surface, I started looking in the freezer section at the store, looking at my neighbors gardens like I was some new wildly crazed person. All in all it paid off, I started to come up with some new ideas and focusing on strictly soaps and candles, well, that just REALLY helped my work load! I started tinkering around with a new formula that I had stumbled across in 'the soap makers forum'. In the spirit of keeping my soaps completely all natural, means the use of essential oils, for fragrance, true aromatherapy at work, we all gotta love that! But it also meant I was going to have to start really applying myself to the basic fundimentls of soap making, stop being such a ridged soap maker and start spreading my wings and having some fun with the whole experience. Fun is what I started to do! My first venture was to the store, to buy me some goats milk, yeah I know not too adventerous there, people make goats milk soap all the time..... Well, hold on I'm not done explainig yet! Along with the goats milk, I purchased a huge tub of Whole Fat Plain Yogurt! Yep you heard me! I wanted to start to make me some Yogurt soaps! Now I have read that using yogurt as a mask on your face is an excellent way to get rid of that old skin since the nzymes in yogurt eat away at the old dead skin on our face. WHELLA! A new soap was born! Goats Milk and Yogurt soap, what an experience that was to make, it ws fun! the soaps fel good, I mean silky smooth good!, these bars are rock hard long lasting bars of soap that are so silky smooth going on your skin and even silkier after you rinse them off, I have never felt so good after taking a bath! These bars are so nice, no milky smell, just plain smooth skin, no dyes, no fake fragrance to hamper that wonderful skin feel, pure soap that is incredibly smooth and soothing to my skin! Well, do yu think I could stop there? Heck no! I went onto to making a batch of soap out of pumpkin puree and goats milk, I started looking all around my kitchen for things to make soap out of, FINALLY THE JOY OF SOAP MAKING HAD COME BACK! I got real courgous one afternoon and took a cucumber, yep a cucumber fresh from the garden! peeled it, hold on I'm not done...... finely ground some organic oats and made soap out of a pureed fresh cucumber, then while I still could I took it one step further and added the finally ground oats to the whole mix. What I got back I honestly never expected! This bar is SO SKIN SOOTHING! You know how good your eyes feel after you have had the opportunity to slice a few cucumbers up and place them over your eyes....... now take that feeling and spread it ALL OVER YOUR WHOLE BODY! Yeah!!!!!! This bar has no hear me NO FRAGRANCE OILS OR ESSENTINIAL OILS OF ANY TYPE IN IT! Why did I not fragrance it? Simple, why alter an already perfect bar of soap? This soap ANYONE can use! It is that mild! My pumpkin soap is incredible also, turned out amazing! So soft and soothing feeling on my skin, pumpkin is excellent for aged and sun damamged skin, packed full of betacarotine, and lots of vitamin A, this is one bar your face will be begging you for. You can rest assured that there is no yeah that's right NO FRAGRANCE OR ESSENTIAL OILS IN THIS BAR EITHER, one smell and your nose will tell you, 'IT'S THE REAL DEAL', smells just like REAL pumpkin pie, I added some of the pumpkin pie spices to the mix to help. My son nearly ate the bar, yeah he is a die hard pumpkin fan! This abe is going to be your favorite this winter, and our skin is going to thank you for this bar also! Totally new venture to my soap making venue, 'GRANDPA'S OLD FASHIONED SOAP'! Now you are probably thinking, yeah yeah, handmade soaps are the 'old fashioned soaps' but this one ws created because I wanted to remind my grandfather and grandmother of their childhood. I used lard in these, yeah I know what your going to say here, ewwwwwwwwwww..... But did you know that lard is the oldest way of making soap! Not to mention Lard is very good for your skin! Now I know most all of you are going to say ew! still, and that is okay! But most of you like the way Goats milk feels on your skin, and a lot of you are going to like the way yogurt feels on your skin in a bar soap, why not lard too? Is it because you only use vegan? If you use goats milk or yogurt in soap your not using a 'vegan' soap anyhow, it is still animal fat based, oh and that is the kicker, the animal fat is what makes all of these soaps so incredible feeling on you skin, it is what leaves your skin feeling 'Oh, So Soft!' All I have to say is, next week I am making a batch of Banana Split Soap, 3 layers..... one layer of chocolate & cocoa butter soap, the next layer of strawberry pureed soap, then a layer of pureed banana's soap to top it off...... come and look for it the second week of November, just in time for the Holidays!

New soaps on the cure rack!

I've got some awesome new soaps on the 'cure racks' that will be ready to go here in a few weeks! Here is a list of new fragrances you can start to look forward to seeing on etsy from Earth's Essence... Pomegranate & Sandalwood - An incredibly exotic fragrance filled with sweet tangy pomegranates, followed by the lofty and sexy fragrance of Sandalwood. A very seductive blend of fragrances. This bar is not only sensual to smell, one look at it and you will notice its sensual to look at a fluid bar of pink and tan swirls, made up of kaolin clay and powdered Sandalwood. This bar screams SEXY! Pink Grapefruit & Wintergreen - This one is incredibly invigorating. The crisp clean scent of Pink Grapefruit combines well with the sweet mentholated fragrance of cool wintergreen. These two scent together are remarkable, I would have never of known how well they do actually combine until I combined them> A very invigorating blend of scents, slightly intoxicating, but always fresh and clean! These are wonderfully blended and swirled with pretty pink kaolin clay to help soothe sensitive skin types! Lemongrass, Basil & Rosemary - A wonderful medley of herbs. Slightly mentholated but always pure exilleration when you smell this bar it's sure to whisk you away to a land of fresh herbs. A 'green' fragrance at best, refreshing and invigorating, basil being a middle note that helps to 'ground' this scent. This bar is made up of pure essential oils, making this a completely 100% all natural bar! We added to this already herbal green bar 'fullers earth clay' to help make this bar an incredible 'cleaning bar' cutting through tough grease and dirt, leaving your skin feeling very soft. This would make an incredible kitchen bar, helping to eliminate offensive scents, and/or helping on those days when you get a little 'dirtier than normal' from the garden, garage, or kitchen catastrophes! Carrot Seed & Palmarosa Facial Bar - This bar has been designed to help reduce the signs of aging from mature skin and sun damaged skin. We formulated a soap made up of the following oil: Hemp seed, rice bran and soy... We then added the essential oils of carrot seed and palmarosa known to help aged and problem skin types. As if this wasn't perfect already we also included the clays of kaolin and french green clay to help pull toxins from the skin while cleaning pores, removing dead skin and gently cleaning the skin mantle to produce a brighter and tighter complexion. CASTILE SOAPS: Violets & Lime - A medley of lofty and highly fragrant violets together with the tart fragrance of lime. In a very mellow bar that is great for sensitive skin types and purely made completely from Olive oil! A true keeper, Swirled with beautiful purple pigments to help make this bar such an eye appealing bar. This scent is truly a unique and incredibly sensual blend of fragrances. Wake me UP! - I named this bar after blending the fragrances and then pouring them into the soap. A unique blend only known to Earth's Essence: Essential oils of Eucalyptus, Spearmint & Tea Tree, we also added poppy seeds to this bar. We thought it best to not only awaken your senses first thing in the morning, but also awaken your body with the gentle exfoliating action of poppy seed. This one is going to be a quick favorite! Our Castile soaps are expected to be finished in 8-10 weeks. Because they are made up of Olive oils alone, they are a softer bar of soap, there for requiring more time to cure. These bars are going fast, and wont last for long, reserve your bar(s) NOW! Please feel free to contact me for further questions and prices. i can be emailed at: hawk3104@yahoo.com or you can come and visit my little shop on etsy at: earthsessencellc.etsy.com Come by check out what other neat and wonderful skin soothing and soul stimulating products we have! Grab your cup of tea, sit back and feel free to shop!