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

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!

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

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

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

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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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

New Review System In Place - YeeHaw

We've implemented a new review module on our website so that people can see the comments before they purchase an item. I love to read comments before I buy something. It gives me the real user perspective.

Brad has worked really hard to get it the way we want it and we haven't inserted all of the reviews from the past that we have received already (it takes time....), but please feel free to leave an honest review on any product you have used of ours. You have to have an account set up with us. This will keep "spammers" and unreal reviews from occurring.

So feel free to write to your heart's content. Please be honest. This is most helpful for us and the next person who may want to try the product and scent...

Have a great weekend!

Heat Wave Shipping Update

We will NOT be shipping anything until monday due to the HEAT WAVE in most of the country. The last thing we want is for your product(s) to suffer any damage in the oppressive heat in USPS un-air conditioned warehouses.

So... kick back with an icy lemonade and stay cool.

Now, if you don't already know it, you can get a free Everyday bar of soap with any $20 purchase at the Product Body website whether you ask for one or not, now through August 31st.

Happy early weekend!

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....

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!

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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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.

New Kitchen Soap in The HOUSE

Citrus Black Pepper with Coffee

Wow, people, this one is amazing. Totally unique and now one of the ten scents in the office. We will be announcing all new soaps shortly. Keep it here for updates!

UPDATE (May 21): With our new site online and the new line of soaps launched, this bar of natural exfoliating soap is now available on our site.

Goat Milk Soap in The Mold

We haven't made an unscented goat milk soap in well over a year and it was great to get back to it. There is something so zen about it; the warm color, the feel on your skin.

This will be a permanent part of our soap collection, called Mar Bar incarnate. Olive oil, organic palm, coconut oil, and goat milk. All natural, of course. Yum.

Cure date to be announced when we launch our new line of soaps and new website and new labels!

UPDATE (May 21): Cured and available immediately in the goat milk soap section of our new site!