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Auction Basket for Food Bank!

Auction Basket for Food Bank!

Suds and Lather keeps the good karma flowing and supports your community. This basket-o-goodies will be auctioned off in canned goods to support the Athens Area Emergency Food Bank! Want to help out? Simple. Visit Food Bank of NE Georgia website to learn how you can take action. It’s easier than you think to arrange a canned food drive, volunteer, or organize a fund raiser.  Supporting your local businesses and community builds a healthy and vibrant town.

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Fall Folklife Festival

Fall Folklife Festival

Normal Soap Company will be there to share the traditional craft of cold process soap making! We’ll have all your favorite soaps, lip balms, botanical salves, bath salts, and shave kits for sale! Traditional crafts, Southern Foodways, and environmental sustainability are at the center of Atlanta History Center’s Fall Folklife Festival. Guests enjoy the sounds of local musicians performing bluegrass and folk music, and sample local fare from Atlanta-based food trucks. This year’s festival highlights the contributions of African American chefs and home cooks to Southern Foodways. Features include cooking demonstrations by Michael Twitty and a culinary conversation featuring Erika Council,...

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A few words on shave soap: Know your product and soapmaker!

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A few words on shave soap: Know your product and soapmaker!

A few words on shave soap: Know your product and soapmaker!It takes more than the addition of bentonite clay to make a soap bar into a shaving soap bar. Often we hear of independent soap makers adding bentonite clay to their recipe to *voila* make it into a shave bar because it adds some “slick” to the shave. If only it were that easy! A true shave soap will be carefully formulated with shaving as its true nature, not bathing. This is created with a mixture of KOH and NaOH bases and careful use of oils. We love Olive Oil...

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Suds and Lather will be at Athens Farmers Market-Sept. 5th!

Suds and Lather will be at Athens Farmers Market-Sept. 5th!

Cool weather veggies might start showing up at this great event that supports local farms and food vendors. Suds and Lather will be there with all our handmade natural soaps, lotions, lip balms and other goodies. Check out whats new! Athens Farmers Market  

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Southern Living’s September 2015 issue

Southern Living’s September 2015 issue

We love being a part of Athens Farmers Market; one of Southern Living‘s “The South’s Best Farmers Markets”. Check it out in the September 2015 issue. Way to go! Suds and Lather is there the first Saturday of every month with more dates in December to help the holiday crowds with personal and gift shopping.   Southern Living September 2015 issue  

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