December 12, 2022

So much news

Here we are on December 12th, and the holidays are coming quickly. I have not written a post in some time, and wanted to just bring updates on what is happening with Images in Bloom Studios. As you may or may not know the building …

May 18, 2021

What is Superfatting???

What on earth does Super Fatting mean? no, its not a get fat campaign or diet, but a formulary decision in soap making to create soap that moisturizes and replenishes the natural oils that would otherwise be washed away.
Join us and learn what we learned from a dermatologist

May 13, 2021

Think Fast!

I have to tell you a story – a true event. Saturday we had planned to be set up for a small art street sale. Our venue was in front of a not quite opened restaurant, in downtown Willoughby. Steve’s brother and his wife had …

May 5, 2021

Whats so great about handcrafted cold processed soap?????

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 develop special qualities…. beyond clean and fresh.  It was the heyday of brands like Irish Spring, Dial, and Dove.  Bar soap dominated the market, and we all used them. Then it happened – the advent of the liquid soap movement, and the antibacterial soap movement saw the ever expanding shelf displays of bottled liquid soap, of antibacterial soap.  The media whipped a frenzy of thoughts about how much bacteria was out there, and how we need to sanitize, to bomb our skin with antibacterial soaps.  And we did.