Wow it's been a long time but I'm back with lots of news. Sea Blossom will be in some new stores this year and we've created some fabulous new soaps.
Our newest Goat's Milk soap is Chocolate Raspberry Vanilla Truffle!
It's a yummy confection of three delicious fragrances layered in creamy goat's milk soap. Fantastic on your skin (not so good to eat, though you'll be tempted!)
Sea Blossom's been busy getting ready for Nautical Soap season!
Here are my little Seahorse Soaps before they go inside the soap bars - aren't they cute?
Ahoy mateys! I've been busy creating new Nautical Soaps for Spring!
My first new soap is Dolphins. I must thank Denise Marks at Mold Market who brilliantly provided the basic idea. In my version, the Dolphins and "ocean waves" are embedded inside the clear soap, with an aqua blue soap background. The fragrance is Ocean Breeze, as in our best-selling Lotion.
My next new Sea Blossom soap is Golden Anchor. I made little gold soap anchors and put them inside a dome of clear soap, and put navy blue soap underneath. The fragrance is a new one for Sea Blossom, and I think it will be a big hit with men as well as women.
I hope you'll check out Dolphins and Golden Anchor soaps at Seablossom.com!
If you saw me at a holiday fair, you got the first look at the redesigned Sea Blossom Chocolate Goat's Milk Soap. It's one of the creamiest, richest, yummiest soaps I make, but it's plain brown bar appearance caused it to sometimes be overlooked. Next to my beautiful, colorful designs it just didn't stand out.
But now, voila - a new look. I gave it a top squiggle that gives it just the right panache. The bar is also larger, so you get more soap to enjoy.
If you've been a fan of Chocolate Goat's Milk all along, don't worry, the formula is unchanged - still natural goat's milk soap with added goodies, like liquid silk, vitamin E, extra goat's milk and Hershey's cocoa.
It's still a joy to use - rich and lathery, gentle to your skin and that chocolate scent is heavenly. But now it's getting a lot more attention. If you overlooked it in the past due to the plain looks, I hope you'll take another look and give it a try.
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!
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 -
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!
It's great weather for soapmaking! Four simmering pots of melting soap make it extra toasty on these freezing days.
Here's a picture of the curing White Tea & Ginger Goat's Milk soap in the shell shaped molds.
The best part is my whole apartment smells delightfully of White Tea & Ginger!
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.
