Lavender and Sweet Orange Goat Milk Soap
Today’s Product Monday is not about a product that is available in the online soap store. I am making an announcement.
My 2010 plans include heading back into all natural, and mainly near natural soaps. I will be dropping soap recipes scented entirely from artificial fragrances.
After I began making soap in 2003, I drifted into adding fragrance oils to my products. Fragrance oils allowed me to bring scents into the products that were not available via essential oils, however, using fragrance is “bugging” me at this time. I purchase product supplies, including fragrances, that are skin-safe and very much quality minded…but that does not erase the fact that some of the fragrance is not entirely natural.
A business owner, and people in general, go through welcomed transitions in their lives. They end up doing what is best for their businesses, their lives, and their customers, and getting there means always remaining flexible enough to change! With this particular change, I see Annie’s Goat Hill returning to the original track, using essential oil and all-natural blends that I am very pleased with, blends that reflect the bounty that nature provides!
The featured soap in this post, by the way, is wonderfully scented with lavender and sweet orange oil. I cut the loaf into bars last night, lovely! I will post pictures today. I have also been muddling my way through the instruction manual that came with a new camera!
Have a wonderful day!
Annies Goat Hill Handcrafted Soaps 
Wise choice – natural scents are rarely overwhelming (other than skunk smell and we don’t need to explain that – someone hit a skunk on the road near us – aargh) and less likely to become cloying.
Best wishes in dealing with the camera manual – I’m occasionally frustrated and just go back to the fully automatic setting on our new digital camera – and get better pics than I’ve ever taken!
There is always a chance that something natural isn’t as pure as the label says either, but if it is a bottle of pure essential oil, from a good source, it should never contain chemicals.
I will be offering soap by the log, or even 1/2 loaves, made to order, if someone wants a particular fragrance oil, but, once they are sold out, I will no longer be offering soap on the website that is made 100% from perfumed fragrance (not natural).
It feels right to me.
After listening to what my customers want, they come to me because they are trying to avoid chemicals, I want to give them 100% what they are looking for.
fabulous!!! Good luck with that camera! What did you end up with? I still don’t have mine figured out… 🙂
Lynnanne, it is a simple Olympus. Simple are not the instructions. I took a photo of a soda can. Beautiful detail. I took a photo of soap. Blur. I have my work cut out for me!
Sounds like a good idea to me, although I do very much like all the soaps and fragrances I have ordered before..no complaints at all! However, I do think avoiding the chemicals will be better and your concern and passion for your product AND your customers are a reason I believe your soaps are the best!
Kathy, you purchased soaps fragranced with essential oils. I appreciate your support!
I consider none of the soaps bad for skin, instead, this is an effort to return to all natural, and, there is another twist that I have not announced yet. Something good under my hat involving fragrance!
You got a new camera?! Yay!!!
That stuff looks good enough to eat. Got a spoon?
You are right to get back to basics, if that is what is best for you. We must follow our instincts.
Would you prefer a bowl or a small plate with that spoon?