Fragrance Set Winner Choices

Yesterday I announced the winners of the fragrance sets.  I thought I'd let you know what they chose.  Two winners wanted fragrance #4.  That one is a very fresh Lavender Green Tea fragrance.  I don't care for straight lavender, but I do love this fragrance.  Bramble Berry has added Lavender Green Tea to their fragrance line. 

Look for more of this in the future.  I already have the fragrance in my shopping cart and have all kinds of ideas rolling around in my head for how I will use it.  So many ideas - so little time.  Sigh.

Although the second winner didn't get her first choice of fragrance, she will get her second choice, which is #3.  It's called Honey Orange.  It did not make it into the Bramble Berry lineup, but it's wonderful nonetheless.  I can smell the honey in it, but I just don't get the orange note.  The fragrance still smells purple to me. 

The third fragrance to be chosen is #7.  It's the one that smells like Hawaii to me. It's called Pikake Flower.  It is being offered by Bramble Berry as a limited edition.  If it proves to be popular, it may get added to their regular fragrance lineup.

I plan to offer some of the remaining sets on Etsy and in local retailers.  So if you're interested in any of them, please let me know.

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French Green Clay Spa Soap Cold Process Soap for Body and Face

This French Green Clay Spa soap is all natural.  By that I mean that no synthetic fragrances or colors are added.  I love color; I love fragrance.  I usually add synthetic colors and fragrances to my all natural cold process soap in order to get the results I desire.  But this one needs nothing more than the French Green Clay and the beneficial essential oils of tea tree and lavender.

During this photo shoot I felt like a little kid again.  But instead of playing with blocks, I was playing with soap.  In this photo the French Green Clay soaps are gymnasts making a pyramid. Welcome to my world of random and sometimes odd thoughts.  I will spare you the other four shots of the soaps making geometric patterns.

This French Green Clay soap is full of ingredients that pamper skin.  It’s a wonderful all-over body soap, but also makes a superb facial soap.   Here’s why.

It contains French Green Clay which is an excellent detoxifier and has up to 19 minerals that are believed to help prevent the appearance of premature aging.  Hmmm.  Maybe that’s why I felt like a kid during the photo shoot!  Anyway, the French Green Clay gives the bar a wonderful gentle exfoliating quality.  I love a little scrub in my facial cleanser.  But I don’t want to walk away with scratches on my face.  Hence the gentle exfoliation.

The soap also contains Tea Tree Essential Oil, which is well known for its various properties of treating problem skin.  Some things that tea tree is said to do:

Serve as an anti-fungal and anti-inflammatory agent. 

Provide relief from insect bites.

Soothe and clear rashes.

Reduce acne. 

Tea Tree Essential oil is also said to help relieve athlete’s foot and soften corns.  Those aren’t qualities I need in a soap I plan to use on my face.  But they can be quite beneficial when the soap is used as an all-over body soap.  Tea Tree Essential Oil even gets credit for improving dandruff, so this soap is also a wonderful head-to-toe soap.

If you want to read more about this soap, or if you would like to purchase your own bar, they are now available at the SoapArtOnline website. 

Don't forget to get your name entered as many times as you'd like in the Sweepstakes giveaway of some sets I made using the Bramble Berry S.O.A.P. Panel Test Fragrances.
You can earn entries by commenting on this blog post, commenting on SoapArt Facebook posts, Sharing SoapArt Facebook Posts, Pinning SoapArt products, and signing up for the SoapArt e-newsletter.  Complete rules are available here.  The sweepstakes ends March 20th, with a random drawing of three winners on March 21st.

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