Soap, Silk and so much more
Following the post on Shaving Soap, i thought it fitting to tell you a bit about what we know of Shaving Brushes. So here goes. The idea of having the ability to shave at home became popular in the mid 19th century only after innovations …
Of all of the social media outlets, Twitter is the most unusual. Short messages, bursts of thought, with links and ability to attach photos. Twitter has become the world’s reporter at the ready in breaking situations. The world learned about major events with short bursts …
One of the simple joys of our business is the opportunity to teach. We spend the day teaching about the chemistry of soap, the process of making soap, and the steps involved in making it. The home school group was very attentive and eager to participate.
I love those success stories that are obvious to us, but when they began they were far from it. I keep my eyes opened for stories of people who change their environment, change perspective, or create new opportunity where there was none. A few weeks …
I was standing at the bus stop the other morning… temperature on my cell phone said 7 degrees, and with wind chill it was at least -10 degrees. My layers of coats, hoodies, hat, 2 pair of gloves, etc seemed like they did not help …
Until the early 1980s almost every bathroom had a few bars of soap… commercially made, bought in bulk from the grocery store. TV commercials advocated virtues to using these bars of soap, and fed us a myth that if we used that soap we would …
Once a staple of the edwardian man’s toiletry collection, and a common sight in old school barber shops, the concept of Shaving Soap has come in and out of popularity over the last century. Until the mid 1950s it was a staple of every well …
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