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She sells some soaps with Aloe Vera Essential Oil as well.
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Envious, jealous & (a little) frustrated.
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She sells some soaps with Aloe Vera Essential Oil as well.
http://soaptopia.com/inc/sdetail/132/493
http://soaptopia.com/inc/sdetail/132/486
I am having a hard time believing, that after 11 yrs of soaping, she still doesnt know her EOs.
So why on earth she made such (false) claims through her choice of words?
I'm sorry, but no matter how good her soaps are, if she can't be honest about the ingredients, all interest from me is lost...
Why can't she just categorized her soaps like some do, 'natural' ones and fun ones (artificial colors, fragrance, mp). There's a market for both . Some ppl dont care about EOs and bloody plant based pigments, they like colourful soaps with nice fragrances.
Okay, /end rant
I think the issue is that a lot of customers have no idea about it all!
Bear in mind that there are often facts that need to be 'massaged' in the name of marketing, especially around such terms as natural, organic and so on.
Some of the claims do seem to be total lies, which is mad considering that it's easy to get pulled up on it.
Bear in mind that there are often facts that need to be 'massaged' in the name of marketing, especially around such terms as natural, organic and so on.
Some of the claims do seem to be total lies, which is mad considering that it's easy to get pulled up on it.
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They are beautiful so I say use it as inspiration. Experiment everyday with small batches and sooner or later yours will be just as beautiful or even more so.
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I just came from one of the Pasadena Whole foods and had a chance to check out these soaps 'in person'.
I realize beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but to me these soaps are far from beautiful. They are borderline acceptable as far as looks and texture, nothing I would aspire to. They are not labeled, and the general label (not on the soaps but on the display area) only says meaningless things like "natural', 'animal friendly' (what is this?) and 'vegetable oils'. This could be soy and canola as far as I could tell.
They had the rainbow soap, and after working with plant based colors for a few years, there is NO WAY these are plant based colorants.
They look like either CP or good smooth HP with a top layer of MP. I tend to think they are HP, and that they are using MP to cover the usually ugly HP tops. Good idea, why not? But then why not disclose the ingredients? then again, why do it? most of the public is not savvy about the differences, and soap is so weakly regulated in the USA that ingredient labels are not required.
Now on the scent. I have to clarify that I am picky, and I only like EO blends for myself. I do not like bathing with a soap that has FOs. If I did not make soap to sell, I would only buy vanilla FO (for my sweetie). So therefore I can smell an FO from a mile away. Of their 5-6 choices there was only one that could be EOs, the rest were FOs. I thought they smelled horrible, they had this plasticky perfumey stink.
This might seem conceited but the excursion had the effect of making me feel so much better about my own soaps. I sell soap at a tiny market (we hope it grows) and I get so many compliments about how beautiful they are and how heavenly they smell. I am used to my soaps, no big deal, but now that I see what they might be comparing them to, well....I agree, and thanks for noticing!
The one thing I envy them is their business model. They are doing quite well and I am struggling on my second year of business, wondering if there will be a third.
I realize beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but to me these soaps are far from beautiful. They are borderline acceptable as far as looks and texture, nothing I would aspire to. They are not labeled, and the general label (not on the soaps but on the display area) only says meaningless things like "natural', 'animal friendly' (what is this?) and 'vegetable oils'. This could be soy and canola as far as I could tell.
They had the rainbow soap, and after working with plant based colors for a few years, there is NO WAY these are plant based colorants.
They look like either CP or good smooth HP with a top layer of MP. I tend to think they are HP, and that they are using MP to cover the usually ugly HP tops. Good idea, why not? But then why not disclose the ingredients? then again, why do it? most of the public is not savvy about the differences, and soap is so weakly regulated in the USA that ingredient labels are not required.
Now on the scent. I have to clarify that I am picky, and I only like EO blends for myself. I do not like bathing with a soap that has FOs. If I did not make soap to sell, I would only buy vanilla FO (for my sweetie). So therefore I can smell an FO from a mile away. Of their 5-6 choices there was only one that could be EOs, the rest were FOs. I thought they smelled horrible, they had this plasticky perfumey stink.
This might seem conceited but the excursion had the effect of making me feel so much better about my own soaps. I sell soap at a tiny market (we hope it grows) and I get so many compliments about how beautiful they are and how heavenly they smell. I am used to my soaps, no big deal, but now that I see what they might be comparing them to, well....I agree, and thanks for noticing!
The one thing I envy them is their business model. They are doing quite well and I am struggling on my second year of business, wondering if there will be a third.
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