The fantastic five

Fireweed Soap Company is now available at five locations in Homer. The locations are: Baycrest Fuel & C Store, right before the top of Baycrest, Smoky Bay Natural Foods, Samarkank, Ulmer's Drug and Hardware and Heritage RV Park, out by the fishing hole on the spit.

Of course, all soaps can also be purchased through Fireweed Soap Company. Hot off the curing table is the much awaited "Fish On" soap. This product does contain lard as one of the oils. It's the only soap that does use animal products. They come in 1.5 - 2.0 oz bars and approximately 4 oz bars. I used a little tea tree essential oil and anise seed and anise essential oil in this soap. Washing your hands with it hides the fisherperson's human smell. Some even rub the soap on the hook, since fish are reported to like the aroma of anise. Personally, I can't get the fish to talk to me.

I also have a 0.15 ounce tube (like what lip balm comes in) that is a "Fish On" lotion. It it a nice solid lotion (as solid as lip balm) and I added anise essential oil to it.

The "Fish On" solid lotion retails for $2.50. The 1.5-2.0 ounce soap retails for $3.50 and the approximately 4.0 ounce soap retails for $6.00. For the rest of July if you want to order any of the "Fish On" products email me at info at fireweedsoapcompany dot com. Remove the spaces and change the at and dot to the actual symbols. Put in the subject line "Your blog special" and you'll receive 20% off the retail price.

This offer is good only for the rest of July 2007. If you're out of the Homer area, shipping will be done using USPS Priority Mail.

The "Fish On" soaps are brand new. None of the stores are carrying them yet.

We are still working on the website. It will be up, but not real soon.

In other news, I've been busy with the day job. It's cutting into soap making time and organizing everything associated with it.

July???!!!!

What happened to all the earlier months in 2007?

How can it be July already?

As my dh says, I've been busier than a one-legged grape stomper.

I have my soaps in three stores now. I'm pretty sure I'll get an order from another account, which is cool since she has two stores she wants to carry them in. I'm hoping I'll get one soap and one lotion in yet another outlet. I guess it's time for me to go knock on their door again.

Last night, very early this morning, I did get one page up on the website. It's just until I can get pictures of the products taken, and all the other stuff that needs to be done finished.

I have made mistakes in starting the business. A few things that I hadn't thought about happened. I'll have to make a couple adjustments after the first of the year.

All in all, I'm having fun. After so many years of writing and rejection, it's amazing when I walk into a store and they actually want my products.

Time to look at the new stuff that arrived today. And then I need to package up some batches of soap I've made. After that's done, I need to actually make another batch or two. I did make three batches yesterday. My soap store rooms smells so yummy. Which all of you could get a whiff of the soaps.

Oh, if any new soap-makers happen to find this blog, Elements Bath & Body is a wonderful vendor. Her prices are reasonable, and for those of us in Alaska and Hawaii, her shipping can't be beat. I ordered last week, and received everything today. As usual it arrived in perfect shape.

Off to work.