Bottle City Soaps

We’re running a sale at the moment for Black Friday/Cyber Monday:

blackfriday25 gets you 20% off $25 and up

blackfriday50 gets you 30% off $50 and up

blackfriday100 gets you 40% off $100 and up

Getting excited, not gonna lie. Tomorrow is the re-launch of the shop and I’ve got so much spiffy stuff on the curing rack, including some coconut-free soaps for folks with allergies and a couple of Justice League-inspired soaps that were lots of fun to make.

So it turned out that the site I’d picked to handle my shop was missing a few features. A few big features. Hence why, if you head to http://bottlecitysoaps.com at the moment, you’ll be greeted with a locked up page.

It shouldn’t be for too too long, I think. I should have everything migrated over in a day or so, but for now... we’ll, let’s just say it could have been better but I’m also glad I’m finding this out now instead of having no idea until it would be an even bigger hassle.

I’m a silver lining sort of girl, if you couldn’t tell.

Up above, you will see something of my other little stumble. Because, note to self, make sure you aren’t exhausted from the heat due to a broken AC unit when you decide to cut your soap.

One turned out great, but the other is, well, going to be some really great travel size soap. Or sample soap. It’s a little small, is what I’m saying, but still gorgeous. I originally cut it in the wrong direction in my stupor until literally the last chunk and then, like the light of revelation, I remembered what I was doing.

The nice thing about stumbles, though, is that they help make sure you don’t fall in the future. So I’m going to take these as my due knocks for trying something new and keep trucking.

First post and I’m just gonna dive in: this was yesterday’s work, my first venture into the land of large batches (that one on the left is 5lbs, which is almost double what I’m used to making at a time) and using dividers. 

Gotta say, I loved both, though finding containers to mix all the colors and a spot for this thing to firm up proved a little troublesome. Experience! 

Also experience: remembering that I don’t need to put together 5 lbs of oils to make that much soap. …hence the extra mold there with a swirl of that else was still in the pot.