a grateful mother

this is my youngest son jory, one of our master soapmakers, showing off a partial day's work. not bad huh? this is about 150 lbs. of soap. an average day for soap making. these loaves will be cut into small one ounce sampler sized soaps. that's a lot of cuts! i could never do this without jory. so here's to you kid! you are absolutely the bomb!!!

now this is our other son cael. he helps out sometimes on the weekends and we're always glad to have an extra set of hands. big hands too. he cuts labels, washes soap rocks, makes soap sample boxes . . . or whatever we need. it's great to have your kids nearby and to be on good terms. i realize that not every mom has that good fortune. i've gotta be one of the luckiest mom's in the world.

happy mother's day to all.

national pet week may 4-10

in honor of national pet week, join pets for the environment as they work to make this world safer for pets and their humans. and don't forget to join eddie's wall of cute. our 3 year old super spoiled rat terrier daisy did (shown here).

then try our WooF WiLD natural dog shampoo bars and balm. greats for dogs with even the most sensitive skin! ditch the plastic bottles and synthetic ingredients. daisy had her bath last night and she smells fantastic and her coat is sooooo soft now.

fake organic bodycare companies sued

dr. bronners sues the makers of fake "organic" liquid soaps, bodywashes, shower gels, shampoos and conditioners stating that their products are made with harmful petrochemicals and non-organic conventional agricultural products while being falsely labeled as "organic" or "organics" on their principal display panels. you go dr. b! it's about time somebody exposed these unscrupulous companies who are intentionally deceiving customers and reaping huge profits! among those listed in the lawsuit are:

The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. (JASON Pure & Natural Organic & Avalon Organics)
KISS My Face Corp. (Organic and/or Obsessively Organic)
Levlad, Inc. (Nature's Gate Organics)
Florestas Organic Botanical, Inc. (Ikove Organic)
Juice Beauty, Inc. (Juice Beauty Organics and/or The Organic Solution)
Stella McCartney America, Inc. (CARE)
Giovanni Cosmetics, Inc. (Giovanni Organic Cosmetics and/or Pure Organic Technology)
Cosway Company, Inc. (Head Organics)
Country Life, LLC (Desert Essence Organics)
Estee Lauder, Inc. (plans to label Aveda Organics based on weak OASIS standards)
Organic and Sustainable Industry Standards, Inc. (OASIS - the new industry pseudo organic standards being pushed by Estee Lauder)
Ecocert France (SAS) (for improperly certifying products as organic)
Ecocert, Inc. (for improperly certifying products as organic)

read more about it here. get informed. boycott these companies. make a difference. buy real organic soap.

soaps du jour

introducing soaps of the day! fragrant, fanciful, delightfully decadent . . . natural soaps from the soapmaker's heart. these are the soaps that soapmakers dream about! stirred in super small batches just to please their fancy.

this 6 oz. rich, creamy hunk of heaven goes by cocoa bean. with fair trade cocoa, moisturizing cocoa butter, fair trade coffee, and real vanilla; topped with fresh whole coffee beans to tempt your senses. it's on the drying rack. get ready. it's coming. i promise you won't be disappointed.

floating island

Taking recycling and sustainability to a whole new level!

earth day free offer! apr. 15-22

earth day rolls around again on apr. 22 - a day to honor mother earth and think really hard about how we can take better care of this planet we all share. after all, it's the only one we've got. so to pay our respect, we're offering a FREE bar of organic baby soap now through apr. 22 to anyone and everyone who places an order at a wild soap bar and types in reduce reuse recycle in the special comments section at checkout. (not in the discount code box, i said in the special comments section!) the shopping cart won't include your free bar, but don't worry, the humans will. this free offer is in addition to the free bar of soap that goes out to every order of $30 or more on a daily basis. so what are you waiting for? get your free bar(s) of wildly aromatic natural soap and be clean. be green.

NOTE: free offer applies to online orders ONLY, and we do not ship outside of the US & Canada

heal your home

it's time to tidy up, freshen up, and get rid of all that winter clutter... but instead of just your normal spring cleaning... why not go one step further and actually heal your home? find out how to make your own earth friendly green cleaners or approach that do-it-yourself home project with an eye toward sustainability. then after you've tackled some of these jobs, wash up with your favorite wildly aromatic natural and non-toxic bar soap. we make it easy to be clean AND green!

p.s. in case you're wondering, that's our little log cabin in the woods that we built with our very own hands over 20 years ago! it ain't perfect, but it's paid for! :o)

silly tax diversion

for all you law abiding american citizens slaving away on the dreaded T word today ("taxes" ugh!) . . . here's a light-hearted diversion that's so quirky, so bizarre, it's bound to pick you up if you're feeling blue. i mean where else can you see the leningrad cowboys performing sweet home alabama backed up by the soviet red army choir? we're talking seriously off the wall here folks. come on, sing along!!!

are you gellon?

sorry to alarm you, but this is one of THE most disturbing things i've read in a long time. it gnaws at the very core of our existence, and if true, the implications are so far reaching, i shudder to think what horrors lie ahead of us. could genetically modified foods, also known as frankenfoods, be causing the debilitating condition known as morgellons disease that causes the constant sensation of insects crawling under your skin and strange multi-colored inorganic fibers to emerge from painful skin lesions? it wouldn't surprise me in the least. thank you monsanto! read all about it here . . but i'm warning you . . . this is scary scary stuff.

melter smelter

yesterday was quite an adventure using our brand new commercial wax melter for the first time. (ok, so we don't get out much) after we got the darned thing filled with over nine gallons of water (thought it would never stop guzzling water) one of the fittings leaked because we hadn't sealed it properly to begin with. go figure. so we had to dump all the water back out by hand (since of course we couldn't get the drain plug unscrewed) and fix the leak with plumbing goop and start over. then it took forever to get the wax melted (several hours).

next challenge was to get the beeswax based bug balm to flow through the unheated ball valve spigot, but once it finally did it was fine. it even formed a little bug balm stalagtite by the end of the pour which we thought was kinda cool. (again, we don't get out much) regulating the flow was a little tricky though since this is a much bigger spout than our old little melter with more force behind it. but i'm sure practice will make perfect. (i was afraid we were going to have to resort to the $1000 heated hose attachment right off the bat . . .but luckily we can lust for that later!)

i think we're gonna love this new piece of equipment! we can make 10 gallons of balm at once and that's a LOT of little 1.3 oz. tins. i especially like the even heat that the water jacket provides. i had to stand on a step stool to see inside and i felt like charlie in the chocolate factory stirring this big stainless steel vat of melting wax with temperature gauges and all. fun stuff. (did i mention we don't get out much?)

if you're interested, you can buy one here.