Winter Potpourri Scented Glycerin Soap in Scarlett, Green and Purple

I guess no one can accuse me of being too chatty online, but it is obvious that I need to blog more. So here we go again.

​At the beginning of 2024 I was seriously ill for 3 months. It actually came down to Hypercalcemia due to a high dose of supplements and my body not excreting the excess. My brain was stupid, and I stopped making soap. My sense of taste was so off, everything tasted terrible and I lost 30 pounds. Finally I landed up at the Conway Medical Center ER and Dr deSalvo figured it out and told me what to do. I has taken me a long time to become myself again, but I am back. My next show will be the Savannah Low Country Home Show in Jan 2025. I am not doing outdoor shows any more. I am getting too old for the hassle.
Now what new? These are exuberant bars cuz every once in awhile I cut loose and cause myself a lot of joy in the studio. I do like to play! I cast these skin loving bars in a Vert de Gris Green, Scarlett, and Purple and fragranced them with a Winter Potpourri. It is a mixture of bayberries and cranberries with a top note of freshly crushed cinnamon bark with hints of orange zests. It is zippy and a perfect wake me up.

5/23/23
​It has taken me a long time time to get over Covid and I never even got it. Why? Here ’s my boo hoos: I had three shows cancel without returning my prepaid fees of thousands of $. Sucks.


Then the small city where I live closed the Recreation Center, including the Pool where I was a lap swimmer. What’s a girl to do? How to fight the blues? become a couch potato for the first time in my life.


Since the rec center reopened I have become the Queen of the Rowing Machine. I usually set myself a goal like: Rowing  to Merrill’s Inlet, or Little River, or Georgetown or Charlestown. Hey, I am a “legend in my own mind.” 


And, I have been making new soaps again. So here is my new Lemon Verbena which my fragrance distributor describes This way: “A fresh, crisp scent of lemon verbena is delightfully blended with the zesty layers of a citrus complex, including juicy hints of grapefruit and orange. Tantalizingly tart!” And it smells good too. I don’t blend my own fragrances because I am awful at it. I rely on the people called “Noses” who have a superior sense of smell and know what they are doing.


Now color I know. I used gorgeous saturated turquoise, and orange, separate by a band of red-violet. I cast it in Shea Butter and just a tad of Glycerin. It is beautiful and very kind to your skin.