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.

Soap + Bath Tea Giveaway!!

soothe bath tea by Product Body (coming this week)

We have a giveaway, a giveaway, a giveaway!  You could win:

1.  TWO handmade cold processed bars of soap (of your choice) from Product Body, and 2.  TWO of our not-yet released bath teas... (sealed in tea bags!  yay!)

All you have to do to get entries is “LIKE” Product Body on Facebook, if you haven't already, then go to our website, view our handmade soaps here and comment below with the two soap scents you’d like to try.  That's it! Come to our website to browse to see which soaps float YOUR boat, then leave your comment back here.   

You get an extra entry for blogging about this giveaway (just comment back that you did so we know about it).  If people comment and say that you sent them, you get an additional entry!

Bath Teas with be put on the site this week, hopefully by Tuesday or Wednesday.  These tea bags are chock full of skin softening powers and will make your skin feel better than it has for years. They include a citrus-y coconut milk, orange peel and sea salt blend, and a soothing bath sea salts, with milk, lavender, calendula, chamomile botanical blend and lastly, a botanical-free tea bag:  coconut milk, oatmeal, sea salts.  They will be sealed in a naturally biodegradable tea bag that will not spill the flowers, peels and petals into your bath.  You get the benefits of the ingredients without them all floating around and leaving you with cleaning up the "exploded garden" in your tub.  Just let the botanicals steep and the sea salt, oatmeal and milk dissolve.  You will be in heaven. and when you're finished with your tubby, simply toss it or re-use it.  Easy-peasy!

A winner will be chosen at random and notified on Thursday, December 15th, 2011.  

Good luck! xx

The Herb Garden Carrying Exclusives

 Magic Hands Workshop recipes, Product Body's flare.  Custom soaps for

The Herb Garden is carrying custom exclusive soaps that I have made for them.  They smell amazing!  


Changes In Latitudes Shea Butter Soap
Black Raspberry Cream Shea Butter Soap
Black Raspberry Cream Sea Salt Soap
Buttermilk and Honey Shea Butter Soap
Sandman Shea Butter Soap 


I've also made some new ones that are almost cured and are fantastic and will be shipped in the next few days and headed to Allison!  She is very creative and we are working together to offer you all great new and exclusive soaps, so go check out her website to see what she has!  And mid-November she will have a bunch more soaps for you to check out.


Believe you me, I will be photographing the soaps better than THIS!  Ugh!

Magic Hands Workshop is in the HOUSE

Magic Hands Workshop (MHW) made amazing soaps, and as you know, Jackie of MHW gave me her soap recipes and I have been offering a few of them:  Hawaiian Sandalwood Shea Butter Soap, Alabaster Sea Salt Soap, Red Currant Sea Salt Soap and Eucalyptus Tea Tree Facial Soap. Well, this month, there will be much more added to our line:

Lavender Mint Sea Salt Soap, Bitter End Shea Butter Soap, Ambre de Nepal Shea Butter Soap, Cucumber Mint Sea Salt Soap and perhaps Wildwood Rose Soap.

This is Bitter End revealed - just out of the mold.

Bitter End is AMAZINGLY fantastic. (you think I kind of like it?)

This is Jackie's photo (above) and here is the description she wrote in her old listing:

Isn't it odd how something bitter can seem so sweet? Bitter almond, bitter orange, and bittersweet chocolate. Smells like something you'd want to eat. As long as that's really almond and not cyanide, that is. Ingredients: Olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, water, sodium hydroxide, palm kernel oil, canola oil, shea butter, fragrance, bittersweet chocolate.

So how could I NOT make this soap?  It smells unreal.  It smells like everything I love.  So, perhaps I have more chocolate in mine than she used to make.  It's my first time making it, so when you buy a bar of it, I'd love your feedback.  Perhaps, I'll dial back the chocolate a tad.


Bitter End, coming soon:  End of November.


What are YOUR favorite Magic Hands soaps.  Perhaps I could bring them back for you?

Pics From August's Scrub Of The Month Subscription

Jasmine Iced Tea Sugar Scrub

This month, we made our scrub with real passion tea including hibiscus flowers,

licorice root, orange peel,cinnamon, rose hips, lemongrass, fruit juice extract,

white tea and two jasmine pearls adorning the top of the scrub.

Next month's Scrub Of The Month Sugar Scrub is "SUGAR KISSES" which smells like

sticky cotton candy, caramel, vanilla, musk, bergamot and fig leaves.

For the sweet tooth without the cavities!

If you want to read about or sign up for our subscriptions, come check it out here.

We always welcome your feedback.

Thank You Palm Beach Post!

Wow wow wow!

We've been so busy since our write-up in The Palm Beach Post on Monday I think I've had 5 minutes to breathe. This is a GOOD thing. No complaints here. :)

Staci Sturrock wrote such a wonderful piece on our company and really knocked it out of the park. I couldn't have asked for a more positive piece. Really. Since that morning, we have been slammed with orders and our soap has been flying off the shelf.

We also stocked our shelves the same morning the article appeared at Amici Market, a gourmet grocer on Palm Beach Island, and they sold out of almost everything that day. We had to re-stock the next day.

I have been soaping like crazy so that there isn't too much time between when we run out of stock and when the new soap will be ready, but I do hope you understand if your favorite bars are temporarily unavailable. We put great care and time into the soap we make and we can not rush the product. You know we have to do it right.

On that note, I would love to know what soaps are your favorite because I think we may drop a few and add a few based on sales, so if you have a strong opinion about one or two, please yell out!

Hawaiian Sandalwood Returns

Magic Hands Hawaiian Sandalwood Shea Butter Soap returns again on August 8th. Mark your calendars if you have been waiting .... Here is a picture to keep you going until you have one in your hands.

Hawaiian Sandalwood Shea Butter soap

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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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.

Launch of Absolute Soap + Our New Site

We are incredibly proud to announce that our newly redesigned website (complete with a new logo: say goodbye to the striped boutique awning) is now live, and features the launch of our new soap line: ABSOLUTE SOAP.

We think it's about time that someone produce a line of handmade, real, pure soaps to replace the detergent and chemical-laden products on most store shelves. Soaps that are reasonably priced, soaps for every need, soaps for everyone: men, women and children.

ABSOLUTE SOAP is the real alternative. From our Everyday Soaps that we priced to make easy to use as replacements for every bar in your house, to specialties like face soap, kitchen soap, shave soap and exfoliating soap, there's something for every need (even shampoo - which is now curing and will be available soon).

Every bar is handmade, real cold process soap, made from pure, natural ingredients like olive oil, shea butter, goat milk, sea salt, coconut milk, essential oils, cocoa butter, ground coffee, oatmeal and many others.

Stop by the Product Body site to see all of our handmade body products, or go directly to the ABSOLUTE SOAP handmade soaps area to learn more.

ABSOLUTE SOAP. The Real Alternative.

Last Day For TAX RELIEF Sale!

Today is the day to get your taxes in so it's also the last day of our sale over at the Product Body Etsy Shop. Get 20% off everything in the shop by using the coupon code TAXRELIEF.

Have fun shopping!!

New Spring Soaps!

Lychee Looe

lychee fruit with baby flowers

Looe is a tiny town in England that I traveled to by train by myself when I was 18. What a wonderful place. It was divided by a small waterway from the ocean. There was west Looe and East Looe, both perched on mountains. This smell reminded me of a place I spent long afternoons breathing the ocean air.

5 oz

Tamarind Baby

tropical and little with a hint of ginger

4.25 oz

Thai Sticky Rice

made with loads of cocoa butter and shea butter!

This one is my all time favorite so far

Cantaloupe Bloom

soft and sweet -

a perfect spring soap!

5 oz

They are all available on our Product Body website.

update: Also available on etsy!

TAT, Perfumes & Other News

I have been missing in action, again.

s o b u s y

No worries, just caught up in working. A good thing, but we have been crazy busy with wholesale and retail orders. Again, a good thing.

Our turnaround time (TAT):

Our TAT has increased to 3-5 business days. Our sale was great! We were so happy to offer our buy one get one free on all of our full sized perfume oils and many of you took FULL advantage of it. Great job. Perhaps, now you won't have to buy more perfume for a year! :D I am thrilled that many of you came out of the woodwork to try out the perfume oils. I'm hoping there is at least one that speaks to each of you. I have many.

Regarding Perfumes:

We have been having problems with our perfume labels and I have been extremely frustrated trying to find the right solution. Our labels are all hand cut, laminated and finally sealed. Not an easy process, to say the least. I was also surprised to find about two of them where the stickers are beginning to lift off. Well! That was it for me -- a change needed to happen...

There will be new labels for the perfumes as soon as we get them redesigned and printed on new labels that stick forever!

April 1st spring soaps (tomorrow):

I do have soaps to reveal for our spring soap offerings, along with pictures. Not many different ones will be offered but, they are special and we love them. Keep your coffee ready mid morning.... they should be posted here then and offered on our website and etsy shop by midday. Also, there will be so many new ones in about 1-2 months from now, you'll be inundated with choices, so these will keep you busy until then.

In Other News:

There will be a lot of changes at Product Body over the next month or two. All good things, we think. Our soaps will include some recipe changes, many salt soap additions and a new "category" that may surprise and delight you all at the same time.

You all rock!

xo Joanna

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Coming Soon/Leaving Soon - - Hear All About it!

Seasonal Fragrances and Products that will be dropped until next Fall and new Spring fragrances will be taking their place this March.

Scents we will be dropping:

Black Pumpkin

Poison Apple

Enchant

Cathexis

Lair (this is being debated because of all of the pleading we have received from our happy customers who want us to keep this in our permanent line)

Products we will be dropping that are seasonal:

Salt snow

- we currently have it available in Black Pumpkin and Poison Apple

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I am working on some fantastic perfume oils I think will knock you over, but they will not be ready for production for a couple more weeks so bear with us. Testing is not complete and we want it just right for our smell connoisseurs.

Please always remember you can always contact us for any information.

Don't forget, there are 2 locations you can shop for our products:

www.productbody.com

and

www.productbody.etsy.com

New, Fatter Cocoa Java Chunks

Coming this week: update: available now on Etsy!

Cocoa Java, the super duper seriously exfoliating, not for the faint of heart or sensitive skinned soap bar is perfect for the winter if you've been snowed in or winter sporting in the snow. It's full of caffeine, chocolate and the smell..... you are going to think someone must have brought fudge in the room with you.

The nicest thing is that this is a wonderful treatment bar for dry indoor heated treated legs, arms and bum. Be careful, though, this allows you to not have to put your muscle into it. We let the coffee do that for you. We believe in pampering so we think ahead.

We Are Caught Up

Just to let you know, we are all caught up on our Scrub Of The Month orders. The packages have all been shipped out. February was Lady Marmalade and it was bubble gum pink with sparkles on top. Oh, I should have taken pictures, but they needed to get out - - chop chop!!

I appreciate our loyal customers for understanding when, on occasion, I get bogged down with one of my medical issues. I thank you all for your patience.

On another note, if you aren't aware, we try to include a small sample in every order. Sometimes we choose a soap sample and sometimes it's a perfume sample. We try to place it on the top so you'll see it....be careful not to discard your tissue paper before finding the sample!

Have a wonderful Saturday!