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Life after corporate America.

If we are all honest we will agree that our job , our brilliant career, our purpose and station in life can be wonderful, or it can be politically charged. On the daily dealing with the whims and wishes of other people, ensuring the success 

Winter, new year and planning

Did you ever have a time when you have so much to do and it’s almost overwhelming? This part of winter after the holidays are over is always a time of planning, taking stock of the past year, paying taxes, planning the new year in 

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.

Meet the makers

March is meet the makers month, and we wanted to kick off the month with a brief intro of who we are, what we are about, and why we are in business. We are Steve and Barb Bloom, married for almost 41 years, and until