Shaving Soap Demo!

Here is our latest video, starring Luis in the title role hehe :) Our shaving bars are 100% vegan and made using the hot processed method, adding tons of goodies such as kaolin clay and kaolin clay.

Please let us know what you think!

Our newest Soaps!

First up is Shodo - it means "the art of calligraphy" in Japanese. I just love how dramatic this turned out. The fragrance is an exquisite masculine blend of anise, cedarwood, sweet orange, lavender and bergamot.

Shodo- the art of Japanese Caligraphy

 Here is the cutting video on Youtube!





Another bit of news! I bit the bullet and bought a amateur lightbox setup! It has a permanent place in our workspace now, and I'm learning to take better pictures.. no more cellphone pictures for us! ;)

The fragrance in our latest soap is A Perfect Man: With fresh, daring notes of Japanese grapefruit, bergamot, and lemon; followed by middle notes of peppercorn, ginger, jasmine, aquatic marine notes, and a hint of peppermint; sitting on expensive base notes of natural patchouli, cedar, vetiver, labdanum, and frankincense. 

And taken in my brand new lighttent and camera (that Luis gave me for Christmas and I've been too chicken to use!)

A Perfect Man

 Ready for use March 10, available in-store or from our website at http://www.sogasoap.com

See you next time!

Save The Date!! -The WEST Holiday Pop Up Shop

Still looking for that One Of A Kind, handmade gift for that special someone? Want to treat yourself? The Winnipeg Etsy Street Team to the rescue!

We will be participating in this weekend's Holiday Pop Up Shop at the Frame Arts Warehouse, Saturday  December 22nd, 2012 at Frame Arts Warehouse in Winnipeg (318 Ross Avenue) from 11:00 until 5:00 pm.

Lots of things to see, goodies to eat, and we will be offering free gift wrapping of your purchases.

Hope to see you there!

Louise

More on Nail Polish

This has started to become a bit of an obsession! It took some time to learn how to color the nail polish, with a few failures.. but pretty sure I understand the process now.

This is my first picture worthy polish and it was named Sugar Cookies. Silver, red and green holographic glitters, sprinkled with white hex and bars, this polish went on so well when we tested it with 3 different nail polishes as undies:





This is over an essie nail polish - don't shoot me - I'll edit this part and insert the nail polish name later. My photography isn't that great and this was taken with my Android phone....

 This is Sugar Cookies over Sally Hansen's Mint Sorbet. These are the best shots BY FAR! Still cannot capture the sparkle but the base color is awesome. I'm going to make another polish with this color as the base :)

This is Sugar Cookies over a dark midnight blue base. The dark base polish is discontinued but I thought it would be good to show how it glimmers even on a dark colour.

Would LOVE to hear what you think of this polish. Next week I shall show you another!

Oh yes! almost forgot! If you would like to try this polish, I'm offering it for free with any online purchase from our shop of $25+ until Dec 24. Our website is http://www.sogasoap.com

New Shop Opened!

You probably thought this blogger had given up the ghost and gone awol... fear not! I now am on a schedule and you will see this blog updated every Monday - this is when I am in the shop (Luis, my husband, is here the rest of the time...)

So, as you can glean from today's title, we have opened a brick-and-mortar shop in Winnipeg! This came about serendipitously- Thrive Nutrition were looking for someone to sublet half their space as we came to the decision to look for a retail space. This is really a dream come true for yours truly, as it is for many soap makers out there.

We had great promotion from the Winnipeg Free Press, the Metro and the Lance:

 

Tons of people came through - I really hope they loved what they saw. We can't wait to hear what you thought of our products :)

Some shots from the opening:

Winner of our $50 Gift Certificate!

 More soon!

Things that make you happy!

Ok. I just realized that I have a "happy email box" which is my email that makes me smile every time I open it up - and a "not-so-happy" email box which contains all the business items.

I don't know why I kept my "not-so-happy" box as my default view for all these years. Now my "happy email box" is the first view on my desktop. I smile every morning now and it carries through all day long.

What is my blog without a CupFake, yes? :)

Do you have a "happy" thing too? Or do you often start the day looking at the "ugh -not so happy things"...? I'm telling you, a change in perspective, is a beautiful thing.