Discontinuing Soaps and Updates

Hey all.


We have decided that we would like to offer a couple of new scents but need to weed out some oldies but goodies before we can.


We have the entire soap list here which lists all soaps, whether they are in stock or out and when curing ones may be due.  This list is available to you all the time if you look right under the PRODUCT BODY header on the left, you will see top links.  Home, then Soap Cure Dates.  There is also a soap picture on the right side bar that says, "What Soaps Are On The Curing Rack?"  Either of these links bring you to the same page.


As of today, we are discontinuing certain soaps:

• Thai Sticky Rice is a fave of ours and for a number of you, but it will be discontinued once the soaps that remain are sold (we have about 12 left as of today).  
• Tea Flower was discontinued. sold out.
• Blue Agave Nectar was a Limited Edition and once they are sold, we won't be returning it. (Etsy only).
• Mar Bar will be discontinued.  Fat Boy is a great replacement for Mar Bar, folks.
• Fresh Linen Everyday bars will be retired once the soaps that remain are sold.
• Pineapple Icee Everyday bars will be retired once the soaps that remain are sold.

We are considering dropping Ruby Rock Star from our entire line, but we may get some resistance.  If you love it and can't live without it, please email me.


Creme Fresh is BACK!  We apologize to all of you who have been waiting.  At the moment, we are offering it in Lemon Scone, Sexy Laundry Day and unscented - - for now.  New scents will be added soon.


Mama Bomb is coming back on November 1st and we are in the middle of preparing some awesome winter elixirs, so keep it here to find out more....


xo Joanna

boo!

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....

Cubano Love In Singapore

Here's an excerpt from feedback I got from a loyal etsy buyer from Singapore that I had to share because it is too good:

Oh my, Cubano… where have you been all my life? The wait was totally worth it! I cut the bar into two. One half is in my shower right now, and I carry the other half with me always. I put it on my desk so that I can pick it up and sniff it ever so often. I place it on my nightstand so that I can sniff it before I go to bed and again the moment I wake up :) I lather up once, twice and maybe even thrice in the shower and inhale the glorious, silky coffee-scented suds. Cubano transforms my morning showers into an otherworldly experience. Never thought a bar of soap would make me feel so alive. Yes, I am obsessed with it because it is THAT good!!! Joanna, you are a genius!

For her and everyone else, I will not stop making Cubano. No worries there!

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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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!

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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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.

Newly Cured Soaps Now On Etsy As Promised

• Spiced Mahogany
• Soap Hearts in Frosted Yuzu
• Salt Cupcakes in Brown Sugar & Fig
• Cinnamon Red Hots
• Soap Hearts in Vetiver

Go here to see: ProductBody Etsy Shop

... And our permanent curing soap list is now on the top right column----->

Soaps That Are Currently Curing

ginger milk tea loaf

Mighty Mahogany (Jan 30) - limited edition soap

Ginger Milk Tea (Feb 5) - limited edition soap. We are almost out of this discontinued fragrance oil:(

Fruit Smoothie (Feb 5) - limited edition soap

Tea Party (Feb 7) - newest addition to our line!

Cocoa Java (Feb 10)

Raspberry Linzer Cookies (Feb 10)

Sexy Laundry Day (Feb 20)

*Brown Sugar & Fig Salt soap muffins (Jan 30)*

*Soap Hearts in Black Vetiver (Jan 30)*

*Mini Soap Hearts in Yuzu (Jan 30)*

I have more on my list every day. I will create a permanent cure list and let you know where I keep it so you can keep up with it. I'd love to know if there once was a soap that I used to make that perhaps I have forgotten about.

Cheers!

Ones marked with an * will be offered on our etsy shop only because they are in small quantities and will go quickly.

Cubano's Got A Brand New Pair Of Shoes

Ooooooh boy. Our little ol' Cubano has become so popular that we were out of it for a few days before our most recent batch was fully cured. We've decided to add coconut milk to a few of our soaps. Why, you ask? Because coconuts are amazing and the oil and the milk heal the skin and the body and the fruit and scent intoxicate and heal my soul.

In addition to the visual change, we've also added real coconut milk to our formula to make the soap a luxury bar.

Old look. Old formula.

New look

Our Cubano with coconut milk.

They are more exotic looking, fatter and weigh in at over 5 ounces.

Would love your feedback if you try them.

:) xo

The Cure For Black Friday

What will be cured on Black Friday?

Coconut Milk Shea Butter Raspberry Linzer Cookie Soap. that's what!

That's a mouthful, huh? Yes, Black Friday is the curing date for these honeys. These are my new version of Raspberry Linzer Cookie soaps.

Click for an "in your face" raspberry linzer experience.

I definitely like them better than the first batch I made. But then, we all have to learn how soap behaves with their fragrance oils first before we can work out their relationship.

first batch

The newest version also has coconut milk for a little added decadence. I am glad they are still curing. I have my sweet babies for another week or so. I can still sneak out of bed and smell them when everyone is sleeping. Shhh.

smells like the real deal

Also...

Our Limited Edition Pumpkin Brulee Soap (A yummy fragrance from one of our suppliers has gone out of business and the oils will never be carried here again.) Get this while you can starting on Black Friday. It smells wonderful, but there is a limited supply.

Pumpkin Brulee soap with copper and gold mica

These bars are fatter and heavier than usual. Keep that in mind. As stock runs out of our current inventory, you will see we will be replacing it with larger bars weighing in at 5 + oz and 1 1/8 inches wide instead of one inch wide. Doesn't sound like much of a difference, but when you look and the difference in a bar of soap, it is dreamy bigger. (Brad built me a log splitter and soap cutter. Yes!) Prices will rise, but not by much.

We have lowered some prices this year and lowered shipping on our Product Body website even though shipping has gone up and wild. Have you noticed how crazy shipping has become? Ouch! I wish we could offer free shipping all the time for you guys :(

We have great new soapie things on the horizon, but I will wait until they come to fruition before mentioning them. I had quite a mess of a soap week this past 10 days or so. Lost about 100 bars worth of product. ((head bows in shame)) I think it is due to growing pains... increasing soap production and not getting with the program fast enough.

I'll take that. Like I said to my friend, Lysa... That's a luxury problem I can't really complain about.

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The Soap Box Co.

I have been wanting our soaps to be sold at The Soap Box Company online shop for about a year, but between my sickness, closing the shop, moving the studio and five thousand other reasons, it just didn't happen when I originally started the process.

Jennifer, the owner, is wonderful and was very open to the soaps that I thought she might like. We chose the soaps together and now, after months of back and forth, they are on her unique easy to navigate online bath and body shopping site!

I am over the moon happy about it because I have such admiration for the soapers and perfumers that sell with her.

So check us out over there and support our wholesalers! :)

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Just In Time For Halloween

Our Poison Apple soap made it into this Darkly Delicious & Yummily Macabre Halloween Treats Etsy Treasury. We love the spookies and Halloween is our favorite holiday.

Boo!