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I am passionate about creating personal care items that are both beautiful AND good for you. I personally tend to be sensitive when it comes to synthetic fragrances, so I am focused on creating beautiful hand-made “all natural” items scented and colored with plant-based and mineral ingredients. However, because not everyone is sensitive to synthetic fragrances, I also create what I call “mostly natural” items that are formulated according to the same recipes as their natural counterparts, but fragranced with man-made fragrance oils.

Hand-made soap is less drying than store-bought cleansing bars (commonly referred to as “soap”) and I use only food-grade ingredients that many of us already have in our kitchen, such as olive oil, coconut oil, and avocado oil. If you’ve ever used hand-made soap that doesn’t really lather and weren’t impressed, be assured that not all hand-made soap is similar! I love a rich, creamy-lathering bar of soap and only sell soap that meets my personal, high expectations.

I make everything from scratch, with my own two hands, here in Des Moines, Iowa, where I have lived my entire life.  I do NOT buy and re-sell anything – the only things I do not make myself:  packaging (i.e. bottles or boxes product is sold in) and plastic toys embedded in some soap bars.

Oh, and when I’m not making soap or lotion, I’m probably knitting or crocheting!