Pics and Stuff

Good Morning! I am mainly going to post pictures today. I am still working on my Fractured Faerie Tale line. All soaps have been loaded to my website www.sites.google.com/site/thechandlersrose

 This one will be my only holiday soap this year. It will be given away as a free gift with purchase of $25 or more before taxes and shipping. It smells like an oatmeal sugar cookie with a touch of cinnamon.

 September 15th's first Soap of the Month mailing. A cool and fresh blend of Cool Water and Dancing Waters. Not really unisex but if a man did bathe with this it would not be a turn off.

 I have a lot more men purchasing from me now and the demand has been more fragrances for them. So, I bring you my Men's 3 pack. Far left is Earth Man a heady combination of Musk, Lemongrass, Spearmint and Kentish Rain. The feedback from this one has been most satisfying. In the middle is Kentish Rain which has been a part of my line up since last year. And on the right is Fire Me Up! This one has a more smoky scent to it that is lightened up with orange essential oil and sweetened with Bonfire Bliss.

 The melon colored soap is my inspiration from Little Red Cap or Little Red Riding Hood. This is a wonderful blend of Jasmine, Patchouli, Ylang Ylang and Vanilla essential oils,  Currant, Acai and Iced Cranberry fragrance oils.

Fractured Faerie Tales

For this go 'round for the Soap of the Month Club I decided to create my interpretation of fairy tales and other dark stories. My resources are: The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales by Mara Tatar, Giovan Franceso Straparola, and Hans Christian Andersen. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the pre-Grimm and pre-Disney tales. I am saddened to see how much each entity changed the stories. However, on to the soap.

First up  is The Little Mermaid. This story hails from Denmark. She doesn't have a name and is curious about the surface world. In this particular tale the merpeople are allowed to go to the surface once a year starting in their teen years and are only give a small space of time to  be on the surface. Our particular mermaid goes and falls in love with a human boy from a distance. When she goes back home she decided to turn human. The stipulation is she has to wed him before the 3rd day or she would die. Her meraunt and mersisters find out the plot and daily for those 3 days go to the surface and attempt to convince her to return home. She doesn't and her young man chooses a different female to marry. The little mermaid then dies, becomes seafoam and then ultimately become part of the conscious nebula.

Not quite as action packed as Disney's version but still a good tale. I highly recommend reading it.
Now, there have been some changes to my website. Firstly, all soaps are now sold as  a 3-pack unless it is part of the Soap of the Month Club. Secondly, lotions are making a comeback but only for the holiday season. Thirdly, I am only making 1 holiday scented soap and that is Christmas Cookie. It is a yummy cinnamon and sugar confection. I love bathing in that one!!

I purchased Blueberry Surprise and Honeysuckle fragrance oils from The Chemistry Store. They smell wonderful!! I fully plan on making lotions with them. Speaking of lotions I am currently working on offering a dessert line of lotions. I will be sending out testers with paid orders of $25 or more during the last half of the year. The ones that receive the most positive feedback will be the ones that make it onto the website for 2014. Hopefully I will soon be able to get back to making regular posts.

Up next, Fractured Faerie Tale: Little Red Riding Hood and Rumplestiltskin. Love you very much.

Fractured Faerie Tales

Good Early Morning,

Earlier this year as my Pirates of the Caribbean inspired soaps were coming to an end I was thinking about my next line for my Soap of the Month Club. Fairy Tales came to mind. Then, struck down and now resurrected. My intention was not to create Disney inspired soaps but to go as far back to the originals as I could to get what I wanted. The original stories were darker and more sensual. So, this month I will begin creating the soaps and then they will be offered starting October of this year.

Each month I will blog about a particular soap, giving the origin(s), what inspired my design and what to expect next. I used to publish a newsletter but that was a waste because people would come right back and ask me about the same information that was in the newsletter. Ugh! Reading is fundamental, people!!! Ahem ... so the blog was born. I still post mainly on my Facebook page but that is more of a sneak peak while my blog is the in depth interview, if you will.

So, for the next 7 months I will be presenting; Red Riding Hood, Sneewittchen or Little Snow White, Cindered-Ella, Little Briar Rose, The Little Mermaid, Rumpstiltzskin, and Puss in Boots. As I am sure many of you who follow my posts realize that true faerie tales have to do with the Fey but hey, give me a break. I will get more into that later on. Thanks so much for reading and please feel free to stop by my Facebook page and purchase.

Lots of Love,

Rosetta!