Seascape Soap Company was born after a chance visit to a local art and wine festival. It was there HSMG Member, Lisa Tarris purchased her first bar of handmade soap. Since then, she has spent untold hours researching a variety of soapmaking methods and ingredients, all with the goal of creating bath and body products [...]
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Vendor Membership Drive Winner Announced!
The winner of the 2010 HSMG Conference admission is….Suzanne Goss, The Washtub !!
Suzanne has won a free Conference admission by joining the HSMG as a Vendor Member!
The HSMG would like to welcome all of our new, renewing and upgrading Vendor Members. Check them all out here. There are lots of great discounts for HSMG members [...]
Member Spotlight – Erica Pence, The Bonnie Bath Co.
Erica discovered soapmaking in a roundabout way. After teaching and being a librarian for a number of years, she had a dream – to have an educational sheep farm, open to the public. After considerable thought, she decided to work toward her goal by putting into play some projects planned for the farm. One was [...]
Delores Harris, Daisy May Natural Soap Joins the HSMG Board
The Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild is pleased to have Delores Harris, owner of Daisy May Natural Soap, Brooklyn NY, join our Board of Directors. She is organizer of the Brooklyn CP Soapmakers and has been a member of HSMG since June 2003. Delores has been an attendee of the HSMG Conferences since 2006.
When Delores was about [...]
Introducing the 2010 Conf. Keynote Speaker!! Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun!
Sponsored by Essential Wholesale
Founder and President, Good Food Organics
Presidential Candidate for the Democratic Nomination, 2004
United States Ambassador, 1999 – 2001
United States Senator, 1992 – 1998
A woman of extensive achievements and a pioneering entrepreneur, Carol Moseley Braun has established herself as an agent for change passionate about preserving the American Dream for the next generation. Carol Moseley [...]
Happy Halloween Soap Pumpkin Template
What fun to continue your obsession with soapmaking into a creative pumpkin carving this Halloween! Trista Page, Indigo Bee, Inc., shares her original design for a template (insert pdf.) and a photo of her creation. You ask what already? Well, our Tampa, Florida HSMG member carved her Styrofoam pumpkin way ahead of schedule to add [...]
National Shrinkwrap Introduces Biolefin Biodegradable Polyolefin
Protecting Your Product, Your Customers, Your World
National Shrinkwrap bring to you, Biolefin is an Oxo-biodegradable plastic. It’s a Big World, National Shrinkwrap Will Help You Shrink It! The Easiest Way to shrink wrap Soap, Candles, Baskets, CD’s, DVD’s, Artwork, Cookies and much, much more…
Biolefin is formulated to be totally degradable in the environment. At the [...]
Member Spotlight – Soapylove, Debbie Chialtas
Debbie Chialtas admits it, “I’m a glycerin soap addict.” It’s all she wants to do – make “melt and pour” soap in every way possible! For over 4 years since being pregnant with her first child, she never imagined that she would leave a corporate job in fashion design and make soapmaking become an actual [...]
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT–BONNIE BARTLEY, SOAPSMITH, THE ALLEGHENY HEARTH
Bonnie Bartley, Soapsmith, The Allegheny Hearth, conducted a year long experiment using the additives recommended by HSMG Conference Speaker, Dr. Kevin Dunn, Caveman chemistry, for the prevention of DOS.
Here are Bonnie’s results: One year ago, July 2008, I began an unscientific test using Dr. Dunn’s recommended additives for the prevention of DOS. On the same [...]
Member Spotlight – Little Bitty Soap Company, Gillian DeConto
Gillian had her first encounter with a bar of handcrafted soap at her sister’s house over a decade ago. Well, that was it. It was love at first smell. It was a peppermint goat’s milk bar and it was fabulous. Being a thrifty do-it-yourselfer, Gillian figured if other people could make soap, then surely she [...]