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

Bone In The Fan

My husband has finally started a blog.  What can I say other than I find him extremely funny, constantly interesting and crazy smart?  I love him!

Check out his blog: Bone In The Fan.  And, of course, read about the About page if you want some insight on the name....  Please leave him comments.  I'm sure he'd love it  :)

Bone In The Fan Tears Archuleta A New.....

This post is written by my husband, Brad. You can read it on his blog Bone In The Fan, here.

American Idol Finals Magic: David Archuleta Makes Me Throw Up In My Mouth

December 8, 1980, New York City: Mark David Chapman murders John Lennon on a street in front of his home. The world mourns.

May 20, 2008, Los Angeles: David Archuleta murders "Imagine" on national television. I puke in my mouth.

I almost didn't watch it. My 11 year old daughter wanted to watch the Idol finals (she's a David Cook fan thank goodness, given the other option), so I put it on and bailed for coffee, a pathetic and insipid version of Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me reaching my ears as I ran from the house. I suppose the name American Idol is apt (which is horribly sad when you think about it), but somehow I stupidly hope it will be about and originality and depth, not the search for America's next Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product. So yes, I'll confess to having been sucked into the show in the past. Last night though, as I drove off in my Jeep listening to Joe Jackson's "Night Music" CD, I was asking myself quite earnestly what had become of me that I had actually watched more than zero episodes this year. The audition process can be amusing in a pathetic schadenfreude way, and it's certainly always fun to wonder which Paula Abdul will show up (Will she be high? Will she behave like an over-affectionate alcoholic? The kind that wraps her arm over your shoulder at the bar and tells you how much she loves you, man. Will she drool over the teenaged contestants like a deranged cougar?) but I'm disgusted with myself all the same. So as I say, I left the house and went for coffee.

I got home shortly after the show ended. My wife Joanna had not shut off the DVR. Which meant that I could, if I wanted, rewind to the show and watch some of it. Here's the thing about me: a few weeks ago I had the opportunity, while I was speaking with a police accident investigator, to either look or not look at photographs of a particularly bad motorcycle accident. Faced with the choice of more information versus less information, I always have to choose more (frankly, I'm an information slut) so I looked at the photos. And last night I rewound the DVR.

(to read the full article go here to Bone In The Fan )

Gene Simmons - Watch Out!

My son is wearing a Martha Stewart looking wig and straw hat, and pulls off a Gene Simmons look! Watch the video and you'll see where he gets his character. By the way, they did NOT practice the pose they made as they coasted by in the video. Total coincidence... from the same cloth.

Yes, the men in my life....

"There Is A Man In My Shower" Soap Review On The Soap Bar

My husband's "guest" soap review has just been posted on my other blog: The Soap Bar.   It is a post all should read, being informational but mostly hugely comical.  I laughed so hard I pulled a muscle under my ribs.