Please take a few moments to donate $1 (or more if you wish) to the Plant A Billion Trees Campaign. The trees will be planted by The Nature Conservancy staff and partners working in The Atlantic Forest of Brazil. The Atlantic Forest is considered one of the world’s most endangered tropical forests — only 7% [...]

Tuesday is Earth Day. Will you celebrate in some way? I hope that you will. This week all posts for this blog will be about Earth Day and the many ways we can do our part as business owners and citizens of our planet.
Today I encourage everyone to add recycle symbols to their products if [...]

I ran across a blog for moms that work at home. It’s a great read for anyone with a craft business needing ideas on how to make money when business is slow.
10 Ways to Diversify Your Income as a Crafter or Artist

Regardless of whether or not you like Lush, some of their scents are fantastic! I personally am nuts about their Karma and Honey I washed the Kids scents. Daystar has a Lush Dupe line that has gotten great reviews in the forums.
You can find most of their Lush fragrances here: http://www.daystarsupplies.com/lushies.htm
Karma-Kazi can be found here: [...]

There are many arguments on both sides of the palm oil debate. Some feel that the impact made by the soaping industry is negligible where others feel it impacts in ways that have nothing to do with how much oil is used in soaping. No matter what side of the fence you fall on with [...]

Black Raspberry Vanilla Handmade Soap
The swirls and base of this soap remind me of cheesecake and if it were a cheesecake - I would eat the entire batch! It’s bad enough that as soap I want to melt it down and roll around in it. Made with unrefined shea butter, coconut oil, castor oil, sunflower [...]

Ginger Appletini Handmade Soap
This soap absolutely transports me to summer days spent at the cabin on the lake. It’s an evening spent on the beach in a tie die t-shirt, cutoff jean shorts and flip flops while sipping apple martinis. It doesn’t get any better than that.
My pal Faye Sowers from Magnolia Lane Creations made [...]

I’ve added five new soaps to the Soap Porn Board on the blog located at the top of the home page. This month we have soaps from ZAJA Natural, The Polly Wog Patch, Alkali Soap Studio, Burnt Mill Candles & Soaps and Magnolia Lane Creations. You can view the soap and read about the soapmaker [...]

Pumpkin Pie Handmade Soap
There’s something about Pumpkin and Shea that keeps me in the shower until all the hot water is gone. I am nuts about pumpkin in soap but add shea butter and I’m a goner. This bar looks fantastic too with no added colorant except the natural goodness of pumpkin, oils, cinnamon and [...]

Georgia O’Keefe Handmade Soap
Mary and Jon from the Alkali Soap Studio have so many freakin’ gorgeous soaps I had a hard time selecting just one for this article. I finally selected the Georgia O’Keefe soap because the real Georgia O’Keefe is one of my favorite artists and the soap actually captures the essence of her [...]