Soapourri Natural Bath and Body, LLC

Gifts, Gifts, Gifts!

We have 10 different gifts for lots of occasions starring gingerbread men, snowmen, Santas, stars and more, starting at just $7.50!  Hostess gifts, teacher gifts, mail carrier gifts, babysitter gifts, the list goes on and on!  And here's the beauty of some of them - they're winter gifts, not necessarily Christmas-specific.  We're giving you a $1 off coupon for all of them with no limit so that you can keep a stack in your closet!  But act now, the coupon expires 11/30/09!  Here is just a sampling... Guest Soaps A 5 1/2 X 3-1/2 oval plastic box, filled with green shred cradles 2 darling guest soaps, covered and topped with a pretty green bow. Price: $7.50 Ribbon Candy Soaps Three of our famous ribbon candy soaps, all dressed up, ready to give to someone that appreciates fine handmade products! Price: $12.25 Butter Bar/Guest Soap Someone that is always putting on lotion would appreciate this gift - a small butter bar and a cute snowman gift soap. Price: $11.25 Lilac Loaf Soap A beautiful true-to-life lilac fragrance in a striped loaf, featuring wisteria and powdery pink colored mica for shimmer. Price: $6.50 Travel Soap with Butter Bar Gift Set A great travel gift for anyone; a soap-to-go in a clamshell package and a large butter bar in a beautiful organza bag. Price: $14.95 Midnight Loaf Soap Back by popular demand,  Midnight is an incredible mix of exotic woods, fruit and spices softened by a touch of vanilla. To me, it smells like the perfume "Angel". Our Price: $6.50 All the best to you as we ramp up for the holiday season!  Please know how much we appreciate your business.  And if you are in the Des Moines area, please come see us this weekend at the Downtown Farmers Winter Market! Warmly,   Cindy Helgason Owner/Soapcrafter Soapourri Natural Bath & Body 515-222-0144 Save $1 Each of our 10 new gift boxes is $1 off with coupon code - no limit!  Coupon code is:  Gifts! Offer Expires: 11/30/09

10 New Christmas Gifts!

We have been working our fingers to the bone, getting ready for Christmas.  And we're almost ready to unveil our new all-purpose gifts, perfect for a hostess gift, teacher gift, etc.  Ten of them!  We're so excited to show you so stay tuned!

Swine Flu Soap is Here!

You have to admit - this little guy is adorable!  Oh, the big smile and the curly tail - just puts a smile on my face.  Of course, washing with him won't cure swine flu - but seeing his cute piggy face just might remind you to wash your hands frequently!

 

Here are four reasons why you should use our soap instead of an antibacterial product:

1. According to a study from the CDC, researchers found that antibacterial soap was not more effective than soap in preventing disease.
2. Our soap is far gentler on your skin - always a good thing, especially with children.
3. Using chemicals like the triclosan found in antibacterial detergents on your skin can be drying - when your hands get really dry, sometimes they crack, allowing germs to enter. Your skin is your protector and you want it to be as healthy as possible.
4. Our soap doesn't contribute to the growing problem of drug-resistance, as is suspected in the case of antibacterial products.

More here on the dangers of antibacterial soaps.

Royal Bacon Society

We are so honored to be mentioned on the Royal Bacon Society's website.  It is The Ultimate Resource for all Things Bacon, you know.

"We begin with a new product from Cindy at Soapourri. She has a variety 3-pack of Man Soap (scroll down a bit), including not only bacon, but also rum & lime (yum) and Dirty Boy, which includes coffee grounds, pumice and the scent of motor oil! Super inventive and exfoliating! Count my man in. And just so your guy doesn’t feel weird about getting soap in his stocking, it comes wrapped in manly camo paper, tied with minimalist twine."

Bacon Soap

Announcing a new "Man Soap" assortment from Soapourri!  Three different rectangular glycerin soaps, each in a very manly scent and color.

First - a reddish-brown bacon soap.  Not made from bacon, just bacon-scented.  Next, a camo-green bay rum 'n' lime scented soap.  Bay rum 'n' lime is a very old-fashioned, classic manly scent.  Might just remind you of your grandpa.  And last but not least, dirty boy soap.  Black in color, motor oil scented, with coffee grounds and ground pumice to really scrub the dirt off!

The Man Soap Gift Pack is all three wrapped up in camo gift wrap, tied in a manly fashion with twine.
You can find it here - and on Ebay!

Looking for Testers

A customer approached me at the Winter Farmer's Market in December and asked if I had some portable soap.  This is something I've played around with before, but never actually produced for the web site.  She explained that her job required her to visit different schools' cafeterias every day, and the soap there was very harsh on her skin.  And of course, she had to wash her hands frequently. 

I can relate to this - at the last job that I had before I started Soapourri, my hands had never been in worse shape because of the soap that they provided in their bathrooms.  I remember leaving the bathroom feeling like my hands were claws and rushing for the lotion that I kept at my desk.    Since I work at home now, I don't have this problem as often, but I do dread using public bathroom soap because I know what will happen.

So I decided to use our new butter bar rollup containers to test out some "soap-to-go".  And I need a couple more testers.  Here are the qualifications - you must work outside the home at a place that has soap that leaves you running for your lotion.  Easy, huh?  You can take this soap to work and keep it in your desk or purse for use in the bathroom. 

If you'd like to be a tester, please email me at cindy@soapourri.com.  Thanks!

Now you can have your own Clean Slate!

A few months ago, I wrote about a very cool tool that changed my life for the better.  I'm so excited to offer it to you, because I very much want you to try it!  Click here to go to the page where the Clean Slate is shown!

My Coolest Tool

I discovered a very sweet, cool new organizational tool a while back.  And it is super low-tech!

It is a slate.  A diving slate. 

I was talking to a wonderful person at a NAWBO-CI meeting and telling her that I got all my good ideas in the shower, and was bemoaning the fact that all my ideas just fluttered away like little birds as soon as I stepped out. She suggested using a diving slate that scuba divers use underwater to write on.  I found one and it has changed my life. 

And now, I am so excited to be able to offer them to you, my wonderful customers!  Soon I will be getting a shipment of these little gems on my doorstep!  And I will sell them, of course, with my adorable little hooks.   

So this is how it works - you have great ideas in the shower, you write them down with the special pencil - then when you get out of the shower you simply take the slate with you.  Then you write down the great ideas into your planner, hang it back up in the shower and then clean it off the next time.

I like to use my soap sack to clean it off with on a routine basis.  For more serious cleaning, the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser works really well. Look for them on the web site soon!

Sports Car Soaps

I can just imagine a cute little boy zooming around the bathtub with this soap.  Or racing to get to the sink before dinner to wash his hands.  At over 5 ounces, this is no teensy little soap!  Your child will love using these sports car soaps, in 3 colors and scents.

The Brown Soap Story

About a year ago I started thinking about all the new customers that we had (thank you Midwest Living!) that were solely buying soap as gifts for others.  Since I very much wanted them to try the soap themselves to see how good it was, I offered all my customers a bar of free soap; all they had to do was send me their address. Well, it worked!  We sent out a whole bunch of free soap bars.  We purposely made it light brown with some flecks from oatmeal and coffee grounds - we knew that a lot of people are reluctant to take "pretty" soap into the shower.  It had a nice fragrance, spicy and warm, that I created for fun.  I made it in a bunch of different shapes, whatever molds I could get my hands on.

Well, the joke was on me, because people started requesting it.  In my mind, it was a one time thing - after all, who would want to use brown soap on a daily basis?  Lots of people, it seems. 

So I caved into the pressure and am now carrying it as a regular product.  Here it is, along with its big brother Big Man Soap -

I was calling it Sugar 'n' Spice Soap - but I think I'm going to change the name to Brown Soap - 'cause that is what it is!