New Salt Scrubs - SALT CRUSH

To all of you who follow us on Facebook, you already know that we are bringing salt scrubs to our line of excellent products.  To the rest of you who haven't heard, we are introducing Salt Crush this month.

Let me tell you this:  The new Salt Crush scrubs are amazing!  They are similar to Crush On You as far as ingredients, but we exchanged the sugar with Mediterranean sea salt and tweaked the recipe.  This new scrub feels different as you use it and leaves your skin feeling completely different.

Right now we are waiting on our newest delivery of salts before we introduce them, but we are in the process of creating two amazing salt scrubs that not only feel like they clean, moisturize and revitalize, but leave your skin glowing and totally renewed.

We have a number of product testers here in south Florida, and they test all of our handmade soaps and sugar scrubs before we ever begin to offer them to the general public.  They have all ahhh-ed and oooooh-ed and begged us for more of the new Salt Crush before we even offer them out to you.  We couldn't be happier with their feedback and also the scrubs!

To start, we will be offering The Salt Crush in Ruby Rock Star (ruby grapefruit) and Detox (bamboo charcoal scrub with essential oils of anise, lavender, tea tree, grapefruit, petitgrain, eucalyptus and clove).  We have one or two more that we will be adding, but those are secret for now.... ;)  Just keep checking back...

If you want to stay updated on our newest offerings and sales you can join our mailing list (bottom of the website page) and liking us on Facebook.

Thanks to all of you for your continued support while we continue to bring you functional and ultra decadent products with every step we take.

Love, Jo and Brad

Perfumes Are Back

Those of you that have been fans of ours for a while may have noticed that when we launched the new Absolute Soap website this year, our hand-blended perfumes were missing.

That ends now.

Perfumes are back, and five are available immediately: Mazu, Iniquity, Lair, Lounge and Ruby Rock Star. They're all exclusive to us, and are sold in cute 1/8-ounce roll-on bottles. Just $10 a pop!

Hit the perfume section on Absolute Soap and enjoy.

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

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)?

Time To Smooth The Creases

As we grow, we've decided to hone in on what we believe is the best we can offer.  Soap is what we love to make and bring to you.  Specialty facial and basic bar soap.  We will continue to bring you Crush On You, as this product is a favorite among most of our customers.  We couldn't cut you off... no!

We have stopped offering Creme Fresh for many reasons.  The first being that there are a million companies offering cream/lotion and as much as you all may have loved it, we want to be focusing our energy on soap and making them the best bars available.

Many indie companies expand their offerings once they become established, but we are doing the opposite.  We are creating laser-like focus so we can make the best soap at a reasonable price, and do it efficiently.  We found that if we are creating more offerings, we are unable to spend the appropriate time to produce the soap at the rate we need to be. 

So over the next 10 days, we are officially accepting orders on our website, but not sending any packages out until the 15th of April.  We are putting Product Body | Absolute Soap back in place and further strengthening our core.

Be patient.  Continue to support of efforts and know that we are committed to bringing you the very best in quality.  We can do it no other way.

Love,
Us

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!"

Gift Sets Are Now Available!

Just wanted to let you know that our gift sets are up and our shipping is very straightforward:

If you order anything from us by midnight on December 16th, your order will ship by the 19th ensuring that your package will arrive before Christmas Day. if you live in the contiguous Untied States.

So shop away!

Here's a photo of the new sets that are available:

Holiday Gifts Sets 2011

 We also have redesigned our website a bit (thanks, Brad!) and have some new items listed there as well which we are very proud to offer. We have a limited supply as things are flying off the shelves very quickly and when the Limited Edition Soaps are gone, they're gone. Others will be re-stocked sometime in January.

Poison Apple Soap Is BAAack

It's back, as promised. Poison Apple Soap. This year we added coconut milk for extra conditioning for your skin. It imparts no scent to the soap, so don't worry that it's changed. It still smells divine! Just more moisturizing properties.

Scent description: Crispy, juicy apple, drizzled with caramel and dusted ever so lightly with black pepper and sugar sprinkles.

This is the first of our Autumn Soaps. This is a Limited Edition and will disappear after my stash of scent disappears, so get it while I continue to soap it all Autumn and Winter long.

Stay tuned for the Autumn Release Coming in September!

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Back In Stock

Cured and ready for sale:

Citrus Black Pepper
Alabaster Coconut Milk Salt Soap
Red Currant Sea Salt Soap
Fresh Linen Everyday Soap

Go to www.productbody.com

Others are still curing....

Improved Citrus Black Pepper Soap

After using the kitchen soap on my hands for a good month every single day, I decided that a finer grind on the coffee might be nicer for the general public. You know me! I love a rough exfoliator, but when one washes their hands a million times a day, I think I would prefer a lighter ground, so the batch that is due to go on sale in two days has a finer grind and I am hopeful that everyone will love it even more!

The listing is here. It's live today.

Pine Tree Road Soap Shop

Pine Tree Road Soap Shop will be carrying a few select soaps from us and we are proud to be there in Ocean Beach, California!

You can visit Jackie's shop at:

4885 Newport Ave

(between Sunset Cliffs Blvd & Cable St)

San Diego, CA 92107

If you live nearby, give it about a week, because I'm shipping them today.

Support your local shop!

New Soaps For The Summer

Scents are secret, for now.

For Vampires?

New Soap... Painted Crazy?

Swooning For Lemon Scone

I think our Lemon Scone Goat Milk + Oatmeal soap has won my bakery-like scented need in a soap and have to share the beauty of it.

Nom Nom. Not too sweet, just like a scone should be. :) If you want a slice....

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Soap Giveaway At Not Martha Blog

Megan of Not Martha is doing a giveaway of 3 soaps of ours. You’ve got until WEDNESDAY, June 1st at 10 a.m. PST to enter. We will ship anywhere on the planet for this giveaway.

BIG News!

New Website Launches

The other big news is our new website. After a few weeks of super-secret work that involved not only a redesign of our logo (you might have noticed - no more awning) but a top-to-bottom re-code of our website, the new Product Body site has launched.

The new site is much cleaner, with easier and faster access to the products you want, when you want them. Every product page also has the requisite (it is 2011 after all) social media links, so please Tweet and "Like" products you think are groovy.

We've also put in a ton of new photography, and every product page has a clickable image with a beautiful full-size photo that comes up for your in-depth perusal. Co-owner Bradford Schmidt did the design and coding, with photography by both Joanna and Bradford (but mostly Joanna - and it's beautiful).

ABSOLUTE SOAP: The Real Alternative
(Find out for yourself with a free bar)

It's time for a REAL alternative to the every-day soaps, shampoos and body washes we all grew up with. For a line of handmade, real, pure soaps to replace the detergent and chemical-laden products on store shelves. Soaps that are reasonably priced, soaps for every need, soaps for everyone: men, women and children.

So Product Body is incredibly proud to announce the launch and immediate availability ofABSOLUTE SOAP, our new line of real, handmade soaps designed to replace, not augment, whatever body cleansing products you're currently using. Prices start at just $4.95 a bar, making it easy to use the real deal everywhere.

They are all handmade using the traditional cold process method, and are cured for weeks before being mindfully wrapped and delivered to your door. We take great pride in bringing you a product filled with fine oils, butters, milks, grains, clays and other ingredients that feel wonderful on your skin. If we don’t love it, we don’t sell it.

Our launch bars include (aside from the incredibly reasonably-priced Everyday Soap), some of the artisan bars you know and love, face bars, shea butter bars, goat milk bars , and sea salt bars (in other words, something for everyone). We'll be adding shampoo, shave and other special purpose bars soon (they're now curing).

And don't miss our new exfoliating bars! We've got two brand new ones: Citrus Black Pepper with Ground Coffee (pictured above, right), and Lemon Scone with Oatmeal (a goat milk bar). Both incredible, and both immediate staff favorites. In fact, just last night Joanna rubbed a raw chicken with butter and spices (for DINNER) and used the Citrus Black Pepper to degrease and scrub her hands. It was wonderful: no greasy aftermath, her hands smelled divine, and they were clean as a whistle.

TRY ABSOLUTE SOAP FREE! To help you learn exactly what you've been missing, we're giving away one free bar of ourEveryday Soap (seen here in this lovely photo) with every purchase over $10. Hit the site, put 10 bucks worth of stuff in your cart, then add your choice of Orange Lemongrass, Pineapple Icee , or Fresh Linento your cart. Use the couponEVERYDAYFREE when checking out and we'll deduct the price of the soap from your cart.

Remember: no matter what bar you're looking at, and no matter what it's for, we always use the best and freshest oils and butters we can find, and every bar is made to the exacting standards of our founder and chief soap maker, Joanna Schmidt.

It's time to get real with ABSOLUTE SOAP. Grab your FREE BAR from now until Tuesday, June 1.

Cubano Returns + It's Steaming Hot

We know you have been waiting so patiently for the Cuban. Just for you, with love.

CUBANO:

Cubano, at the Product Body Website

(or at our Etsy shop)

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