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Gentle Castille Soap Its easy to overlook a fragrance-free and color-free soap but the natural oils and cold process soaping creates a nice gentle bar that’s sure to impress. This Castille (olive oil!) soap bar lathers and performs extremely well and has it’s own natural scent. Great for those with or without skin or scent sensitivities… young or old this bar will treat your skin great, no discrimination.

“Lye-free soap” just doesn’t exist. All soap is made with lye. That is like trying to make a baking soda and vinegar volcano without the vinegar. No vinegar and you’ve just got a pile of baking soda. No lye, and you’ve just got a bucket of fat.Soap is an alkali (like sodium hydroxide=bar soap or potassium hydroxide=liquid soap) combined with fats. Now, every fat requires a certain amount of lye to turn it into soap. That is where your knowledgeable soapmaker comes in handy. They know the different fats that make a wonderful bar of soap and how much lye...

Research, Develop, Make! We’ve been working hard in researching & developing some new essential oil combinations. At Normal Soap we use our aromatherapy and botanical expertise to blend wonderful scents from our essential oil collection. Come sniff these new creations at our next market! Blending Essential Oils Drop by Drop – great article on blending your essential oils from the American College of Healthcare Sciences.  “It’s well-known that we’re all wired so aromas trigger emotions and memories. In fact, the postage stamp-sized olfactory lobe, which is in charge of smell, is also part of the limbic system, which manages emotions and long-term memories.”...

Handy Dandy Maps for this weekends Markets! Athens Farmers Marketon Sat. from 9-noon and Indie South Fair Sat. & Sun. 10-6 p.m.‪#‎indiesouthfair‬ ‪#‎holidayhooray‬ ‪#‎athensfarmersmarket‬   From the Indie South Fair website: Hoo-boy, our Holiday Hooray sure has gotten big this year–it’s going to be our largest event ever with over 110 individual booths. Vendors will be selling bath and beauty products, jewelry, apparel,  prints, home goods, artisanal food, furniture, original art, photography, handcrafted toys, candles, crystals, ornaments, pottery, vintage clothing, textiles, knits, collectibles,  and everything in between–all handmade or collected.

Expect no less from your local maker of goods! We might be a small business making handmade products but we believe in following Good Manufacturing Practices for quality assurance. We aim to ensure that our products are consistently manufactured to a quality appropriate to their intended use. This makes them safe and of high quality for all our lovely customers!This means:– keeping good records– a dedicated and clean workshop– adequate lighting and ventilation (lye people!)– clean and sanitized equipment– raw ingredients labeled and stored appropriately– transparent truthful labeling following the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act– we wear appropriate outer garments,...