Friday Spotlight: Licorice Lip Balm made with Anise Oil

Since Halloween is right around the corner, I figured it would be a good time to spotlight my licorice lip balm! I have a confession to make... I really do not care for licorice! It is one of my least favorite candy and I put off making this lip balm for ages! But, my husband adores licorice and begged me to make the balm for him. So, I figured that other licorice lovers would enjoy it, too!

My licorice lip balm is made with my usual combination of beeswax, unscented cocoa butter, and coconut oil. I love this combo because it makes the balm firm, yet it glides smoothly across the lips. I flavor the balm with anise essential oil and add a touch of sunflower oil for moisture. One of the best things about this lip balm is that it is completely natural. There are no synthetics at all, just natural goodness!

Anise essential oil is extracted from the anise seeds and is often used as the flavoring of licorice candy. While different from actual licorice root, the flavor of anise essential oil is extremely similar to licorice root, even though the plants are not related.

Licorice candy is a staple at Halloween, Absinthe is becoming a staple in the hipster scene, and my anise flavored lip balm is a staple in my lip balm lineup!

Wanna check out this interesting, classic flavored lip balm? Head over to my Zibbet shop now!

Friday Spotlight: Bacon Scented Hand Soaps

I love to browse in Target's dollar section for goodies, and you would not believe my excitement and glee when I stumbled across a bacon mold! I grabbed it, paid for it, and ran home to make some bacon soap!

These soaps are made with a vegan glycerin base and dyed a dark magenta. The soaps are scented with bacon fragrance oil, which smells like a big mouthful of bacon bits! Yum!!

These soaps come in sets of 6 and are perfect to use as hand soap, guest soaps, or travel soaps. These soaps would make a great gift for the bacon lover in your life.

Want to check out my bacon soaps? Click here!

Friday Spotlight: Blackberry Sage

This week's spotlight soap coincides with the ripening of the local blackberries here in East TN! My blackberry sage soap captures the scent of the berry perfectly and pairs it with the herbal sage for an amazing scent!

The soap is swirled on top with purple, green, black, and white for a dramatic look. The swirl is the peacock swirl, making each bar slightly different. The base is swirled with purple and green.

The scent is amazing! Blackberry sage is warm and inviting, with juicy notes of berry anchored with warm notes of sage.

Want to check out my blackberry sage soap? Click here!

Friday Spotlight: Cup O' Coffee Soap

This week, let's take a look at the soap that will definetly wake you up in the shower: my Cup O' Coffee Soap!

Cup O' Coffee Soap

This soap is vegan friendly with an olive oil base, so it is mild and moisturizing. The soap is colored a dark brown, just like that cup of java that you sipped on this morning. The soap is topped off with a creamy swirl and sprinkled with real coffee beans for a mild exfoliate.

The scent is called "coffee house", and it is a real, true coffee scent. Just plain, black coffee! Delish!

I was lucky enough that this soap was featured in a recent treasury alongside other awesome coffee products! Wow! Thanks!

Make sure to give my soap, and this amazing treasury, a look over at Etsy.com!

Friday Spotlight: Soap of the Month July 2013 - Simply Lavender Soap

July's soap of the month is one of my most popular soaps at craft shows: Lovely Lavender soap!

My Lavender soap is a vegan soap, made with olive oil, coconut oil, and castor oil. I make these bars using the hot process method, and decorate the bars with chunky swirls of cream and purple. The hot process method requires the soap to cook in a crock pot for a few hours, making the soap usable immediately, instead of curing for up to 6 weeks. 

Almost everyone loves the classic scent of Lavender! Lavender has been hailed for its aromatherapy properties, including helping people relax and may even help with sleep.

Throughout the month of July, catch my Lovely Lavender soap at a discounted price of $5!

Friday Spotlight: Clove Lip Balm

This week, let's take a look at my clove lip balm!

All of my lip balms are made with three basic ingredients: beeswax, deodorized cocoa butter, and coconut oil. These three combine together to make a firm balm with a smooth glide.

This lip balm is scented with clove essential oil, which not only smells like the sweet autumn herb, but tastes like it, too! Clove is a classic in the fall, but I love this lip balm year-round.

Out of all of the lip balms that I offer in my zibbet shop, this has been my most popular by far! Check out some of these rave reviews: 

• "The order arrived quickly and is really close to the Clove Lip Balm that Burts Bees discontinued. Couldn't be happier!"

• "Really great lip balm! This is the only balm that helps my lips, as I have an auto-immune disease that limits the amount of saliva I produce. Really fast shipping! Thank you!"

• "This is the best clove lip balm I've had since Burt's Bees discontinued theirs! I highly recommend it!"

Wanna check out my clove lip balm? Click here and go to my Zibbet shop!

Friday Spotlight: Red Moroccan Clay Mask

My model : My sister

This week's product spotlight is on my Red Moroccan Clay Mask!

My clay masks were a huge hit on the craft show circuit in East Tennessee, so I brought them over to my Etsy shop! My masks are made with a few different ingredients that all work together to soften and smooth your skin.

The first ingredient is the red clay, which has been used as a cosmetic clay for centuries. Red clay helps to pull impurities out of the skin while wet. Red clay is full of great minerals, including silica, magnesium, potassium, and calcium

The second ingredient is ground oatmeal. Oatmeal has always been known to soothe skin, and is a traditional remedy for itchiness associated with chicken pox.

The third, and last, ingredient in my face mask is baking soda. Baking soda is a mild exfoliate, working to smooth the skin as you apply the mask. Baking soda also works to fight blackheads.

Friday Spotlight: July 4th Red, White, and Blue Star Soaps

Today, let's take a look at a seasonal product: my Red, White, and Blue Star Soaps!

These soaps were designed just in time for the Independence day celebrations on July the 4th. The soaps are made from a vegan melt and pour base and molded in the shapes of stars.

One white bags of soaps contains two red, two blue, and two white soaps. Each soap is scented with a blend of wildberry and lemon. The blend reminds me of lemonade and blackberries at my grandmother's house in the summertime.

These soaps will be available through the patriotic season, and will come back around every summer. Stock up while you can!! These soaps are great to use as guest soaps, hand soaps, decorative soaps, or travel soaps! Find them in my Etsy shop!

Friday Spotlight: June 2013 Soap of the Month - Waterlily Orange

Soap of the Month: June 2013

This month's Soap of the Month is Waterlily Orange, a very popular soap at craft shows!

This soap is a vegan cold process soap in blue and orange, with a very unique, lovely scent. The soap was made with olive oil, coconut oil, and castor oil for a mild, hard bar of soap. It was colored in layers of blue and orange, with delicate orange flowers gracing the tops of the soap.

The scent is called Waterlily Orange, which is a lovely mix of the floral and citrus. Lily notes top off the scent, with orange notes in the middle, and an anchor note of amber.

Since this is my Soap of the Month, you can catch these bars at a discounted price of $5! Also, be on the lookout for samples of Waterlily Orange in all orders going out in the month of June (while supplies last). Make sure to head over to my Etsy shop and grab a bar before they are all gone!!

Friday Spotlight: Tea Tree and Peppermint Soap

I really miss my weekly segments focusing on different sellers on Etsy, so this summer, I am debuting a new weekly segment: Friday product spotlight!
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Let's take a look at this week's spotlight: Tea Tree and Peppermint Soap!

This soap is a vegan soap made with olive oil for mildness, coconut oil for hardness and cleansing, and castor oil for loads of bubbles. The soap was made using the hot process method, where the oils, lye, and water are cooked until the mixture is completely saponified.

I colored this soap with activated charcoal powder, which is a natural black. Activated charcoal is known for drawing out toxins.

The soap was scented with a combination of tea tree essential oil and peppermint fragrance oil. Tea tree is a medicinal scent that is a light medium note. Tea tree has antibacterial properties. The combination of tea tree and peppermint is classic and rounds out both scents perfectly.

The combination of activated charcoal and tea tree makes this soap a great facial soap for people who suffer from acne breakouts.