Formulating New Shampoo Bars

Before I started thinking about reformulating my regular cold-process soap recipe, I was playing with a new formula for a shampoo bar. The Beer & Seaweed shampoo bars that I currently offer are already my second best selling soap. They […]

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Lip Butter Survey Results

I appreciate everyone who voted in my lip butter flavor survey! It took 3 days to get 100 responses – that’s pretty amazing!! Out of those 100 responses, I was able to randomly pick #55 to win a lip butter […]

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Fall Soap Line-Up

I sent out a survey on Sunday to my Preferred Customers only, asking them to choose their top 3 choices from a list of potential soap scents for the fall. I also gave a little incentive for participating. Everyone who […]

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Another Shampoo Bar Convert

One of my customers (and faithful blog reader) just sent me some great photos of her hair that she took after the first time using the Beer & Seaweed Shampoo Bar, which seems to work best for dry/normal hair: Candy […]

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Valentines Soap Names Announcement

It’s been quite a process to finally have names for the new girls and guys Valentines soaps! But what a fun contest! I asked for name suggestions with a pirate theme, and received some really excellent choices. After narrowing down […]

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Vote for the Winning Names of the Valentines Soaps

Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who submitted pirate theme names for the girls and guys Valentines soaps. What a wonderful resource you are! Of course, all these great suggestions made it extremely difficult to narrow down the choices…especially since […]

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Review Our Products, Win Some Products!

One of the best features on our new Great Cakes Soapworks web store is the ability for customers to write reviews – both on our products as well as our customer service. Do you love our products? Then tell us! […]

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The Soap Has a Name!

Congratulations to Trisha of Suds to Love!!! Her name suggestion “Sunset Swirls” was the clear winner in the Soap Naming Contest. Trisha will receive a bar of Sunset Swirls as soon as it has finished curing. Second place goes to […]

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Place Your Vote!

Last Wednesday I announced a Soap Naming Contest, requesting name suggestions for this soap: I received 145 name suggestions!!! I’ve gone through and selected some of my favorites, but I’m having a hard time choosing. I figured the easiest way […]

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Solid Sugar Scrub Feedback

The feedback on the solid sugar scrub cubes has come in! There ended up being 13 testers since one responded at the last minute after I had already picked someone to take her spot. No biggie. The ages of the […]

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