Sea Blossom Soap News

Sea Blossom Spring!

So excited that Spring is finally here!  All my new hand made soaps are ready to go, and I can't wait to show them to everyone.  Here's my new Margarita Lime Tropical Drink soap.

Watch for its mates, Peach Daiquiri and Pina Colada soaps, and a bright Soap Trio gift package of all three! 

It's been so much fun figuring out how to make these soaps - I started trying to do a "jelly roll" of the two colors but didn't like the result as a finished soap bar.  So I sliced up the jelly roll and embedded the slices in individual molds.  Then I covered them with clearer soap.  Now you can see the 2 layers inside the clear soap. 

Of course the whole thing is made of my natural vegan soap base.  The only things added are a pinch of natural pigment color and a lovely Margarita Lime fragrance oil.  Voila!

Find them at Seablossom.com!

Mah Jongg is Hot!

I have been advised that Mah Jongg is the hottest thing going.  This was interesting news as my mother played with her friends and I had always assumed that Mah Jongg was strictly a passtime of the "older" generation.  Of course now I could be considered the "older" generation, but never mind.

It seems that all generations are now playing! 

Last fall I found out that there's a Mah Jongg tile called the "Soap Tile."  So my friend Shelley who organizes Mah Jongg tournaments asked me to make Soap Tile Soaps for a door gift for her tournament.  I did and they were a hit!

Hoping that the Mah Jongg craze is real, I've added three Mah Jongg soaps using a new technique.  Here's the Green Dragon.  The image is printed on water soluable paper and embedded in my natural handcrafted soap.  The scent is warm and woodsy.  It took many tries to get these soaps just right but finally the Mah Jongg soaps are here!

Look for them soon on Seablossom.com -

Sweet Dreams Body Butter Creme - NEW

Sweet Dreams Body Butter Creme is the newest product I'm making with this fabulous scent.  Can't get enough of it. It's an all natural blend of Lavender Essential Oil and Vanilla Essential Oil. I think the combination is better than each would be separately.

So I put it in my Body Butter Creme. If you have dry skin this creme will save your skin!  I make it with everything you need for relief - 10% Shea Butter, Almond Oil, Avocado Oil, Cocoa Butter, Jojoba Oil, and Calendula Extract (Calendula is a healing herb) for extra soothing power.  And despite my love for the fragrance, I don't put too much in the creme so you don't need to worry about "wearing" too much scent.

Making the creme was easy, but getting the picture up on my website took a while due to technical difficulties.  But now it's finally there!  Check it out - Sweet Dreams Body Butter Creme.

I can't go a day without using this creme, and now that I've got it in Sweet Dreams, it's even more heavenly to use.  I hope you think so too.

Yummy Vanilla Milk & Honey Soap

Soaps for my use tend to be the old, wounded and battered leftovers or the failed experiments that will never be sold.  So I had this wizened looking Vanilla Milk & Honey leftover bar, and opened it up for my shower today.

Wow!  It was fabulous!  Rich lather, creamy but super moist with the honey it's made with.  And the fragrance was heavenly - rich vanilla tempered with almond.

It had been a long time since I got to use one of these, and it's nice to know it's still great!

Chocolate Goat's Milk Soap returns to seablossom.com!

I just got a huge order of soapmaking supplies, including 440 lbs of soap base.  Quite a lot for me, as I make very small batches of soap.  Also got some pretty new cosmetic-grade colors from TKB and lots of other supply goodies from Wholesale Supplies Plus.  Now I can concentrate on the best part - making my soaps.

So now the fun begins - today I am making Chocolate Goat's Milk soap so it can be restored to my website.  (That's it in the picture.)  By Monday it should be back in, so if you missed it just check out seablossom.com.

Soap for the Spring Season

Just ordered my biggest supply of soap base ever - 400 pounds!!!  Plus a 5 gallon bucket of a natural liquid soap (will be a new product.)

Since I make my soaps in a small apartment (you wouldn't believe the space) this order will be quite a challenge to store.  So I will just have to get busy right away and make tons of beautiful Sea Blossom soaps for the spring season.

This soap base order is coming from California by truck and will be delivered as a pallet load.  So I can't take delivery as I live in an apartment building and don't have a loading dock let alone a factory.  I will be picking it up in New Jersey at the freight company's warehouse, in my Subaru wagon. 

It's my first time buying soap base like this, but it makes sense as I'm buying directly from the manufacturer of the best all natural soap bases out there. 

To get an idea of what this soap base will become, take a look at my online store, seablossom.com!

Lotion Fragrance - What's the difference?

Oohing and aahing as they try on my Hand and Body Lotion at craft fairs, customers often ask lots of questions about it, particularly about the fragrance, so here's the scoop -

My four handmade Sea Blossom lotions are the same except for the fragrance.  Two are scented with Essential Oils, two with Fragrance Oils.  Essential Oils are distilled directly from botanical plants and are a pure, natural plant product.  Fragrance Oils are artificially produced and may or may not contain some actual Essential Oil. Some people have sensitivities to one or the other (if you are allergic to a plant, don't use its Essential Oil) but most of us do just fine with either one, or a mixture.  Sea Blossom products are labeled clearly as scented with Essential Oil or Fragrance Oil so you can know which you are choosing.

I like to fragrance my lotions lightly, just enough so you can enjoy the scent as you put it on, but so it disappears as the lotion absorbs into your skin.  That way you are not "wearing" it all day long.  And you can use a lot of lotion if needed without "stinking."

Sometimes Essential Oils are a little bit stronger, so I would say my Lemon Meadow Lotion has the strongest scent, followed by Lavender.  Lightest are White Tea & Ginger, and Ocean Breeze, which are Fragrance Oils. I think Ocean Breeze is lightest of all, definitely a unisex scent.  But every nose is different, so your experience may be different.

Check out my lotions at seablossom.com!

Thanks for coming to the Fair!

The Holiday craft fair season is finally over and it was great!  I traveled all over to many new venues - Poughkeepsie NY, Wayne NJ, Hoboken NJ, Ridgefield CT.  It was the busiest season ever for Sea Blossom and I had a wonderful time.  That's part of my display on the left.

Thank you to all who came out and shopped.  It's my greatest pleasure to show and tell all about my Sea Blossom soaps and spa products.  I'm so proud of them and just love it when you enjoy them too. 

If you didn't get yourself onto my email list, you can do so anytime - just email me at mail@seablossom.com to be included in my monthly email newsletter.  I will try to have a special discount every month for my email customers.  And as I always say, I won't send more than one per month, so don't worry about being bombarded.

For now, the extra early mornings and long drives are behind me (till Spring shows) but I'm already starting work on some exciting new products.  Stay tuned---

Seablossom.com Upgrade

This summer my online store, seablossom.com, has been getting an upgrade.  Most of it is technical, so you won't really notice much difference. The biggest change is more information via links and boxes on the left side.  Also ideas for matching one product with another appear on the product pages. 

Best -You can now review all the products.  I hope you will!  Just look at the bottom of each product page - there's a link to do reviews.  Right under that link you can see what other customers bought along with the product you're viewing.

Downside of upgrades - problems.  I've been ironing out all the problems that came up from this upgrade.  Biggest one -the shopping cart has a glitch and doesn't work.  I couldn't fix it.  As a non-techy, non-wizard, I can't fix much. So it's in the hands of others, hopefully to be resolved sooner than soon. 

If you try to buy but can't, please email me at mail@seablossom.com. I will take your order another way. 

April News and Sales at Sea Blossom

I'm so excited that Spring is finally showing up!  My tulips are peeking up from the ground and some are budding.  Not like the city tulips which are actually blooming, but it's so encouraging!  Here's a past picture to show what they'll soon look like -

My first Spring craft fairs - in Huntington, Long Island and Stonybrook, Long Island - were a great season opener, and I was so happy to introduce myself and my Sea Blossom products to lots of new customers.  My next fairs are in late May, in White Plains, NY, and in Westhampton in June.  Come see me if you can!

So until then I'll be gardening and getting ready for the Nautical Soap season at the beach resorts.  Lots of fresh new Lighthouse Soaps, Sailboat Soaps, Beach Glass, White Tea & Ginger Shell Soaps, and new Starfish Soaps are ready to go.  Not to mention the Flip Flops!

I've kept the  Body Butter Cremes - Serene and Springtime fragrances, on Sale till the end of April - at just $12, (20% Off), this is a great time to try them!