labobo Boutique Has Joined Our Family

Our newest customer is local and lovely.  Missy Coffin is the owner of labobo, a boutique in the Historic Northwood Village just two miles from downtown West Palm Beach here in Florida.  She is currently the only shop carrying our Palm Beach Illustrated soap that we designed specifically for Palm Beach Illustrated magazine's 60th Anniversary.  It's an amazing soap and smells so fresh  and clean.

Welcome Missy and tell her I sent you.  To smell Detox, Sexy Laundry Day and Palm Beach Illustrated soaps, please go visit Missy at labobo at 508B Northwood Road and visit her site at www.shoplabobo.com.

Glad to have Missy a part of our growing company!!

Take A Peek

I've been very hard at work...creating very specialized soaps with awesome ingredients.  I am proud of all of these.  Not all of them are available yet, just thought I'd give you a peek into what I've been doing lately.

Happy gazing.....

DETOX

additives:  shea butter, adzuki bean, activated bamboo powder, bamboo extract, green tea extract and white kaolin clay.  Scent includes a blend of essential oils: Anise, lavender, grapefruit, tea tree, petitgrain, eucalyptus, and clove.  Bamboo charcoal is naturally detoxifying. 

Milken Oats

additives:  shea and cocoa butter, black walnut hulls, wild yam, stinging nettles and white clay with ground oats.  Scent:This is not your typical Oatmeal, Milk and Honey, however, this actually smells like oats and milk, ever so slightly sweetened with the smell of coconut and amber.  

 

THIS is what milk and oats smell like (milkn'oats=Milken Oats)  :)

Palm Beach Illustrated 60th

Palm Beach Illustrated Magazine approached us and asked us to create a soap for their 60th Anniversary...so we made a tropical treat that illustrates Palm Beach County, using locally collected ocean water and an abundance of tropical additives.  {My beach scene with shells}

additives: Atlantic Ocean water taken from Palm Beach, coconut milk, banana and mango fruit extract and topped with pink Himalayan Salt.

 

Scent:  Tropics at its finest.  Fresh cantaloupe and honeydew with notes of beach daisy, a dollup of coconut cream and beach-side trumpet lilies.

Orangewood

additives:  shea butter, bentonite clay, orange, sandalwood and tea tree essential oils.

love this

The Sea Bar

Contains natural elements from around the world. This soap is made with pure locally collected Atlantic Ocean water, Pacific Ocean sea salt, Dead Sea Mud from Israel, Irish Moss powder and Atlantic kelp. Dead Sea mud, Kelp and Irish Moss are packed with vitamins and minerals.  Between them, they deliver Vitamins A, B, C, and D, iodine, magnesium, calcium and sodium, which help encourage collagen production, restore moisture levels, firm, revitalize and detoxify.   The scent is a handmade blend of Balsam of Peru, Virginia cedarwood, sandalwood, orange and cocoa absolute in the center.

 

Very warm and woodsy, with citrus pushing through and the scent of cocoa absolute.  A very unique blend of essential oils  - One of my personal favorites.

Hope you enjoyed the peek.  The Sea Bar, Orangewood and Palm Beach Illustrated are all on the site, but before we could even offer you the Detox, we were sold out by one of our newest wholeslae customer, Lebobo in the Historic Northwood Village in West Palm Beach.  If you're local, and want to smell it in person, THAT is where the Detox went.  It's also the only retailer at the moment carrying Palm Beach Illustrated Coconut Milk Soap.

I will keep you posted!

Seeking Sales People for Exclusive Distributor Territories

We have a new Sales Director and he's great!  Welcome Joe!  Joe has begun the search for top sales people to sell our products.  We began advertising about it, but knowing the state of our current economy, I thought it best to tap into the people who love our product and are looking for work.

Our products are sold to: Gift Boutiques, Apothecaries, Specialty/Health and Beauty Shops, Spas, Beauty Salons, Aesthetician Offices, Massage Studios, Hotels, Resorts and Cruise Lines

Ideal candidate should possess:

• Experience in the body care industry, as well as calling on, closing and servicing such accounts
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Progressive sales history in selling minors through majors
• Creative entrepreneurial approach in seeking new accounts
  Desire for performance-based income

Prospective candidates should send resume with cover letter along with a list of references with contact information to Joe directly:  joeb(at)productbody(dot)com

Because You're No Angel

 Mae West would have worn Cathexis

Scent Description:  Fresh roses and melted chocolate muddled in a cedar cup with the blackest of teas.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Cathexis is back, slightly tweaked and subtly improved from last year.  Perfect for the Mae West in any woman, Cathexis could have come right off the set of her film, "I'm No Angel," a story about "a gal who lost her reputation - and never missed it."

offered through February

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Signature Mae West lines we like:


* Come up and see me sometime.
* Beulah, peel me a grape.
* When I'm good I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better. 

ALSO!!  Hawaiian Sandalwood Salt Soap is ready!

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A Farewell To Creme Fresh + New Surprises On The Horizon

As our soap business continues to expand, we've had to make tough decisions about where to focus our energies.  So, in order to deliver the very best handmade products we can, we'll be dropping products that don't fit our future goals.

Unfortunately for fans of Creme Fresh, it is one of those products.

Manufacturing Creme Fresh poses a completely different set of hurdles than do the rest of our products, and splitting our attention isn't in the best interest of our customers or the business itself.

Soap.  Crush On You.  Perfume.

Focusing on this core group will enable us to continue to do what we do best: create and deliver unique and nourishing handmade products. No decisions have yet been reached on Mama Bomb and Bath Steeps (though it's likely Mama Bomb will remain in our line) and we are soliciting opinions on both - see our upcoming post on Bath Steeps to learn more. But it's a fond farewell to Creme Fresh as we start a new chapter in the Product Body + Absolute Soap story. 

To Creme Fresh fans:  we know some of you will miss Creme Fresh, but we're confident that the surprises that we've got planned for the coming year will help heal the pain.

To all customers, long-time and new:  thank you so much for your support as we have continued to mature and grow over the last eight years. You have, and continue to, put your faith in us to deliver the highest quality handmade products on the market.

We will not let you down.

Joanna and Brad
Co-owners and Co-founders

Amber Soap Name Chosen- New Contest!

Thank you for all of your input on name suggestions for our current Ambre de Nepal soap.  They names were very good, but Brad and I had too much fun re-naming this morning.

The new name is:

SHERPA SHERPA

amber vanilla shea butter soap

Now, because we didn't choose from the suggestions in the comment section of The Renaming, no one won a bar of soap, but we will give away a bar to the first person who guesses what the reference is to.  (Caution:  not a direct reference...more of an inspiration)

Ready, Set, Go!


UPDATE: we have a winner: Heather!!!  Sherpa Sherpa was inspired by Matt Stone and Trey Parker's movie Team America -  "Derka Derka!"

New Salt Soap Coming Soon

We have had such a huge response to our Hawaiian Sandalwood soap, so we decided to make it into a salt bar!  We decided no swirls, just a dusting of gold on the tops.

It will be available on February 1st.

 photo (painting) source: christyhayhoe

(we haven't decided on the Amber soap name yet...stay tuned)