We Are LIVE...and We Support Human Rights

Product Body is now officially Absolute Soap!  We worked long and hard to bring you our new soap formulation, new All Natural Soaps, newly designed Pop Soaps and new website (thanks for the long weeks you sweated over the website design and copy, Brad!).

Some of our All Natural Soaps...

We are thrilled with the new soaps and the new website.  We would LOVE your feedback so go see and tell us what you think!

www.absolutesoap.com 

10% of all orders (not including shipping) made through our website through Friday, March 29th, will be donated to the Human Rights Campaign. Get your soap and support everyone's right to choose their partners!

 We ABSOLUTEly support the right to choose.  If you couldn't marry the person you love, how would you feel?

Peace and love.

xoxo Jo and Brad

Absolute Direction

Oh, we have been so busy since school started!  We are moving our brand slowly from Product Body to Absolute Soap.  We have also decided to offer all natural soaps, scented with essential oils and colored with clays and herbs.  We will be launching them very soon.  We are in the process of building our new website with the expertise of my partner (and husband), Brad - - thank you!!!  It is really looking clean and streamlined.  I am so pleased with the hard work he's doing.  It will all be worth it for our launch.

Obviously, we will keep you posted on the launch date as we get closer.  In the meantime, we have been so busy producing the new soaps - not only natural, but a new formula with moisturizing organic cocoa butter, unrefined shea butter and one of my favorite oils: avocado.  Because the soap now is jam packed with shea and cocoa butters, it is extra awesome.  It took months of test batches to get to the formula we were all happy with.  We were looking for a hard bar with plenty of lather and ultra moisturizing properties.  We managed to get all of that.  I am super pleased :)

Please follow us on Facebook to see the latest pictures of all of our new soap along with tidbits about our soap.  We will be announcing our launch date here as well as on Facebook and the newsletter, which should go out the day we launch.

In the meantime, here is a picture I took with my phone of one of our new soaps in the slab mold:

All Natural Handmade Red House Soap

A proprietary blend of essential oils: Dark patchouli and four different folded citrus oils. 

It smells so good in the studio right now....

Colored with Moroccan Red Clay and Annatto Seed Powder

Sneak peek of our All Natural Handmade Citrus Sprig Soap

creamy lemon rosemary

with calendula petals

xxoo Joanna

We Are Simplifying...

Enjoying working on our new soap!  The new website is www.absolutesoap.com

J + B

Lime In The Coconut AND Graham Cracker Crust

Wow... I made a soap batch today with my new expressed lime essential oil and graham cracker crust scent and it came out beautifully!

I am so excited to make this new fave of ours available for you in 4 weeks.  I leave you with a photo of the soap, just poured and will update this post when I have cut pictures.

I know it doesn't REALLY seem like this is a holiday-type soap, but beware, your mouth will water and your Fall energy shall co-exist with this soap.  It makes me happy....and hungry!

Packed with coconut milk, white clay and vanilla bean powder...and of course a little gold fairy dust for good measure.  Noms!

* update!:  Our new Lime Smash All Natural Handmade Soap is now available!

A Little Chef's Scrub

I have only found one thing that our Crush On You (or Chef's Scrub specifically), doesn't kill.  Scents and oily messes, that is.  I have taken off fish, garlic, onions, cray-paas, olive oil, glue, lard...you name it, our sugar scrub will remove it.

Except one thing.

Skunk.

You ask how I know this??  Well, I was at the dog park a few weeks ago and a giant mastiff got sprayed in the face and the owner asked me to smell his face and confirm that she was sprayed.  Well, the dog got excited when I put my face near hers and she lunged happily towards me.  My right hand stopped her from kissing my face, luckily, but my right hand had skunk oil on it for HOURS.

I tried Chef's Scrub Sugar Scrub and it worked better than I thought it would.  I've heard tomato juice, tomatoes, etc.... not coffee, lemon, sugar...my 1,2 punch for everything stinky.  That skunk just wreaked beyond Adam.

So perhaps a tomato basil blend is in store here at Product Body to deal with those pesky skunks.

What's your favorite Crush On You and what was the toughest thing it's helped you with (smell or texture-wise)?

Better Bars

When I started to make Magic Hands soaps, I used the original formula which included canola oil.  I recently switched it out to add more olive oil and add rice bran oil.  I also superfatted the soaps to create a more moisturizing soap that we all could use.

I reformulated the Sherpa Sherpa and even added goat's milk because it makes every bar a better more moisturizing soap, and as our inventory gets low, we will be offering Jackie's soaps with a new and better formula.  The Sherpa Sherpa will be ready on July 25th.

In addition to Magic Hands remakes, I decided to keep Thai Sticky Rice around, superfat it and add goat's milk.  So now we have a goat's milk, shea butter, cocoa butter bar that smells so scrumptious to me.  We still have some of the older formula, and these bars must cure.  The cure date for the new bars will also be July 25th.  MMMMM.

Newest batch of Thai Sticky Rice.

Just a side bar:  If you love Sherpa Sherpa and don't want to spend the money, I have imperfect soap listed in the Absolute Soap Etsy Shop for only $3 each.  The reasoning behind dropping canola oil was because I made a batch of 50 soaps and got tiny brown spots which are only cosmetically unappealing (but really, they are just minor....only 2 or three tiny spots per bar).  There is nothing wrong with the soap at all, I have some in my shower and am loving it.

As we move forward, we get better and hone in on excellence.  Thank you for your undying support and love.

xo Jo