We Are LIVE...and We Support Human Rights

Product Body is now officially Absolute Soap!  We worked long and hard to bring you our new soap formulation, new All Natural Soaps, newly designed Pop Soaps and new website (thanks for the long weeks you sweated over the website design and copy, Brad!).

Some of our All Natural Soaps...

We are thrilled with the new soaps and the new website.  We would LOVE your feedback so go see and tell us what you think!

www.absolutesoap.com 

10% of all orders (not including shipping) made through our website through Friday, March 29th, will be donated to the Human Rights Campaign. Get your soap and support everyone's right to choose their partners!

 We ABSOLUTEly support the right to choose.  If you couldn't marry the person you love, how would you feel?

Peace and love.

xoxo Jo and Brad

Absolute Direction

Oh, we have been so busy since school started!  We are moving our brand slowly from Product Body to Absolute Soap.  We have also decided to offer all natural soaps, scented with essential oils and colored with clays and herbs.  We will be launching them very soon.  We are in the process of building our new website with the expertise of my partner (and husband), Brad - - thank you!!!  It is really looking clean and streamlined.  I am so pleased with the hard work he's doing.  It will all be worth it for our launch.

Obviously, we will keep you posted on the launch date as we get closer.  In the meantime, we have been so busy producing the new soaps - not only natural, but a new formula with moisturizing organic cocoa butter, unrefined shea butter and one of my favorite oils: avocado.  Because the soap now is jam packed with shea and cocoa butters, it is extra awesome.  It took months of test batches to get to the formula we were all happy with.  We were looking for a hard bar with plenty of lather and ultra moisturizing properties.  We managed to get all of that.  I am super pleased :)

Please follow us on Facebook to see the latest pictures of all of our new soap along with tidbits about our soap.  We will be announcing our launch date here as well as on Facebook and the newsletter, which should go out the day we launch.

In the meantime, here is a picture I took with my phone of one of our new soaps in the slab mold:

All Natural Handmade Red House Soap

A proprietary blend of essential oils: Dark patchouli and four different folded citrus oils. 

It smells so good in the studio right now....

Colored with Moroccan Red Clay and Annatto Seed Powder

Sneak peek of our All Natural Handmade Citrus Sprig Soap

creamy lemon rosemary

with calendula petals

xxoo Joanna

Time To Smooth The Creases

As we grow, we've decided to hone in on what we believe is the best we can offer.  Soap is what we love to make and bring to you.  Specialty facial and basic bar soap.  We will continue to bring you Crush On You, as this product is a favorite among most of our customers.  We couldn't cut you off... no!

We have stopped offering Creme Fresh for many reasons.  The first being that there are a million companies offering cream/lotion and as much as you all may have loved it, we want to be focusing our energy on soap and making them the best bars available.

Many indie companies expand their offerings once they become established, but we are doing the opposite.  We are creating laser-like focus so we can make the best soap at a reasonable price, and do it efficiently.  We found that if we are creating more offerings, we are unable to spend the appropriate time to produce the soap at the rate we need to be. 

So over the next 10 days, we are officially accepting orders on our website, but not sending any packages out until the 15th of April.  We are putting Product Body | Absolute Soap back in place and further strengthening our core.

Be patient.  Continue to support of efforts and know that we are committed to bringing you the very best in quality.  We can do it no other way.

Love,
Us

Soaks

Update on the soaks: They will be offered starting next week. We had a supply and demand issue and the release day has been pushed back a wee bit.

Poison Apple Soap Is BAAack

It's back, as promised. Poison Apple Soap. This year we added coconut milk for extra conditioning for your skin. It imparts no scent to the soap, so don't worry that it's changed. It still smells divine! Just more moisturizing properties.

Scent description: Crispy, juicy apple, drizzled with caramel and dusted ever so lightly with black pepper and sugar sprinkles.

This is the first of our Autumn Soaps. This is a Limited Edition and will disappear after my stash of scent disappears, so get it while I continue to soap it all Autumn and Winter long.

Stay tuned for the Autumn Release Coming in September!

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Pics From August's Scrub Of The Month Subscription

Jasmine Iced Tea Sugar Scrub

This month, we made our scrub with real passion tea including hibiscus flowers,

licorice root, orange peel,cinnamon, rose hips, lemongrass, fruit juice extract,

white tea and two jasmine pearls adorning the top of the scrub.

Next month's Scrub Of The Month Sugar Scrub is "SUGAR KISSES" which smells like

sticky cotton candy, caramel, vanilla, musk, bergamot and fig leaves.

For the sweet tooth without the cavities!

If you want to read about or sign up for our subscriptions, come check it out here.

We always welcome your feedback.

New Soaps For The Summer

Scents are secret, for now.

For Vampires?

New Soap... Painted Crazy?

TAT, Perfumes & Other News

I have been missing in action, again.

s o b u s y

No worries, just caught up in working. A good thing, but we have been crazy busy with wholesale and retail orders. Again, a good thing.

Our turnaround time (TAT):

Our TAT has increased to 3-5 business days. Our sale was great! We were so happy to offer our buy one get one free on all of our full sized perfume oils and many of you took FULL advantage of it. Great job. Perhaps, now you won't have to buy more perfume for a year! :D I am thrilled that many of you came out of the woodwork to try out the perfume oils. I'm hoping there is at least one that speaks to each of you. I have many.

Regarding Perfumes:

We have been having problems with our perfume labels and I have been extremely frustrated trying to find the right solution. Our labels are all hand cut, laminated and finally sealed. Not an easy process, to say the least. I was also surprised to find about two of them where the stickers are beginning to lift off. Well! That was it for me -- a change needed to happen...

There will be new labels for the perfumes as soon as we get them redesigned and printed on new labels that stick forever!

April 1st spring soaps (tomorrow):

I do have soaps to reveal for our spring soap offerings, along with pictures. Not many different ones will be offered but, they are special and we love them. Keep your coffee ready mid morning.... they should be posted here then and offered on our website and etsy shop by midday. Also, there will be so many new ones in about 1-2 months from now, you'll be inundated with choices, so these will keep you busy until then.

In Other News:

There will be a lot of changes at Product Body over the next month or two. All good things, we think. Our soaps will include some recipe changes, many salt soap additions and a new "category" that may surprise and delight you all at the same time.

You all rock!

xo Joanna

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Valentine's Fragrances Are Gone...well...

Cathexis... the dark chocolate rose..

Enchant... frangipani with citrus and lemongrass..

Cathexis will return next year. Enchant won't be returning, though. Perhaps it was too perky and girly for Valentine's Day. The darker, more mysterious scents were the big sellers.

In fact, I got "suggestions" in my email inbox explaining how Lair needed to stay as a permanent perfume oil or they would die. Now, I can't have my customers dying on me, and there are many who claimed they would wither away without it, so, we have decided to add Lair to our permanent collection.

You can thank the drama queens.

Happy?

;)

xoxo Joanna

Lair

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Soaps That Are Currently Curing

ginger milk tea loaf

Mighty Mahogany (Jan 30) - limited edition soap

Ginger Milk Tea (Feb 5) - limited edition soap. We are almost out of this discontinued fragrance oil:(

Fruit Smoothie (Feb 5) - limited edition soap

Tea Party (Feb 7) - newest addition to our line!

Cocoa Java (Feb 10)

Raspberry Linzer Cookies (Feb 10)

Sexy Laundry Day (Feb 20)

*Brown Sugar & Fig Salt soap muffins (Jan 30)*

*Soap Hearts in Black Vetiver (Jan 30)*

*Mini Soap Hearts in Yuzu (Jan 30)*

I have more on my list every day. I will create a permanent cure list and let you know where I keep it so you can keep up with it. I'd love to know if there once was a soap that I used to make that perhaps I have forgotten about.

Cheers!

Ones marked with an * will be offered on our etsy shop only because they are in small quantities and will go quickly.

More Changes!

Oh we are full of them lately, you just aren't going to keep up with us...

No, we aren't trying to make you crazy, we are trying to make it better for everyone. We loved the pump bottle and we know you do too, but, the cost is just too high and they are more difficult for us to fill, leaving us to only offer you a very limited amount of scents, sooooooo.... we are going back to the jars. The pumps will be used for unscented only until our supply is depleted.

Other changes which I think you will LOVE: We will be adding more soaps and more fragrances very soon. If you haven't signed up for our newsletter, do so to get our up to the minute updates.

I will also post them here if you don't want any email from me.

Soaps currently available:

Black Pumpkin
Poison Apple
Ruby Red Rock Star
Sexy Laundry Day
Coco Java
Cubano
Smash Ball Sweets

On the curing rack:
Linzer cookies: Halloween
Spicy Chai Latte: November 5
New design! Ruby Red Rock Star November 18
Mar Bar: November 22

Have a great day!