My name is Lisa...

My name is Lisa...and I am a soap hoarder!   After last weekend I came home and looked at what I had leftover and I was sad.  Then after making a portable display of soaps to put into the Carousel Horse Antique store in Locust I was even sadder.  All of my stacks of beautiful soaps had dwindled to a pitiful sight!  I instantly went into a crisis mode. What would I make next, do I have the right oils, could I make a summer "line" of soaps before summer, would I be able to continue to sell different ones?  All of these questions were whirling through my head.  I don't know what I thought would happen to the dozens of bars that I had once had, I guess I thought I would have them to keep and look at!  I am happy and grateful to have sold the soaps at the Green Goats festival, but I was in great need of replenishing my stock.  Something about rows and rows of creamy luscious goody bars makes me feel like I am on top of the world!  In my previous life (when I worked outside the home full time) I never had a personal hobby.  All my time and energy was put into getting meals made, kids to ball practices, grocery shopping, and chores around the house and farm.  Now that I no longer work a full time job,  I have time and patience to do something I enjoy.  I went online and ordered a huge supply of fragrances and oils to get a summer line started and then I ordered some samples for autumn and Christmas soaps.  I ordered everything Monday and thought it may come by early next week.  To my surprise it was delivered early Thursday and I was so giddy I didn't know where to start.  I opened the box, paced back and forth, and had an extreme case of choice congestion!  I finally calmed myself down enough to get a recipe together and start making more soap!  So with all that said, I have made over 20 pounds of soaps in 5 different flavors over the last 6 days!  Now comes the hard part...we have to wait 4-6 weeks before the soaps can be packaged and sold.  They have to dry out and complete their saponification process.  That leaves me time to design and implement a package for each one of these new little nuggets of sunshine!Here is my expected plan to be available at the beginning of June:

Lavender Basil Soap

Peaches&Cream Goat milk Soap

Orange Spice Goat Milk Soap (back by popular
demand)

Coconut Lime Verbena Goat Milk (I previously had a non goat milk version)

Strawberry Lemonade Soap (Mmmm...Will make you want to kick back on the front porch and watch the kids play in the sprinkler)

Sun&Sand Soap (Find your flip flops baby!)

Hawaiian Rain Soap (can't get to Hawaii, so we will just pretend)

Eternity for Women(haven't decided if the hoarder in me will share this one, will wait and see...)

There may also be some surprises, so stay tuned!
Until then visit the Carousel Horse in Locust (beside Southern States) and see if you find some soap that suits your fancy.  It's almost Mother's Day, and any mom would love to have a special soap! 


Goat Milk & Honey with Oatmeal



Coconut Lime Verbena Soap



Colombian Coffee Soap



Energizing with Goat Milk Soap



Sneak Peak down into the basement.  Soaps have been cut and are drying