As you all know our skin care products are vegan. We also have a blog about all things vegan, info recipes etc.
If your interested and want to check out our Quick and Easy Vegan
go to http://thegeordievegan.blogspot.com

Check out the recipe for Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies Yum Yum!

Help protect your skin from the summer sun

Summer is finally here, yeah!! and we have to protect our skin from the intense rays. Keeping your skin hydrated after a day in the sun is also critical to good skin care.
Soap the Earth offers an after sun lotion called "Here comes the Sun" We chose the essential oils for the exceptional benefits they provide to your skin, as well as their lovely scents.
We included lavender, geranium, sweet orange, benzoin, neroli, blue chamomile, peppermint, tea tree, palmarosa and ylang ylang.
These oils have many benefits. Everything from soothing, hydrating and cooling the skin to having anti inflammatory, healing and moisture retaining properties. All this goodness wrapped up in a light, non greasy lotion. Keeping skin hydrated also helps keep your tan longer. Don't be without a bottle this summer. This is a lovely lotion.

Don't take our word for it. We've lowered the price for the next two weeks, so you can see for your self.
To get the sale price go to our web wwww.soaptheearth.com. This deal is not on Etsy.
Our "here comes the sun" is on sale for $13.95 and is 228 grams

Certified by Peta

We are proud to say we are now certified by Peta. All products and ingredients have to meet their strict, established standards. They want to make sure the products are cruelty free and vegan.

We can now use their cute pink bunny logo, if we wish, on our labels and of course tell everyone we are Peta certified. Yeah!

So, all of our products are Peta certified and full of organic, all natural ingredients. Check them out at  www.soaptheearth.com or at Soap the Earth shop on Etsy

Make your own signature scent

With all the many chemicals in perfumes, I always make my own scent. It's very simple and you get to choose from a panoply ( Just heard this word for the first time a couple of Weeks ago. Been dying to use it, sorry couldn't resist, definition a complete or impressive collection of things:) of gorgeous essential oils.
All you need is a carrier oil, Almond oil works great and whatever essential oils rock your boat.
A few tips:
Some essential oils blend with each other better than others.
Also you may want a certain feel to your blend e.g. a fresh scent, light, heavy, summery etc.

Here are a couple of guidelines that may help you on your way. However don't be afraid to experiment.
A good way to check out whether you think one oil may blend well with another is to put two or three bottles together, caps off and pass the bottles under your nose, inhale and see if you like the blend.

When making a blend it's best to try and get a combination of 
base notes
middle notes 
and top notes 
that way you'll have a balanced blend and the scent will linger on your skin for longer. Some oils will fall into two of the three notes i.e. lavender and clary sage can both be considered top and middle notes. 

Here are a few ideas of oils that fall into categories of scents

Tropical blends often incorporate citrus, vanilla, ylang ylang, lavender oils.
If you want to make a scent a little heavier, patchouli, sandalwood or vetiver are considered exotic.

Fresh scents i.e. mint, eucalyptus, basil, lemon oils.

Floral oils i.e. lavender, neroli, jasmine, ylang ylang

Earthy oils i.e. vetiver, patchouli, oakmoss.

Summer oils i.e Citrus, peppermint, clary sage, chamomile, geranium, rose, palmarosa, ylang ylang


Some examples of top notes: Anise, basil, bergamot, eucalyptus, grapefruit, lavender, lemon, lime, orange, peppermint.

Examples of middle notes: chamomile, clary sage, dill, geranium, palmarosa, rose, spruce, tea tree, ylang ylang.

Examples of base notes: balsum of peru, benzoin, cedar wood, ginger, myrrh, patchouli, sandalwood, vanilla, vetiver.

There is no hard and fast rule to blending, it depends on what your preference is. However just to get you started.

Start off small so you don't waste oils. Once you have perfected your blend you can make it in larger amounts. 

    If you want your richer base note to be predominant then a guide would be to 45% base, 35% middle 20% top notes.  If your someone who wants a much lighter blend and doesn't want the base to be predominant, you may change it up and use 20% base, 50% middle and 30% top.

    This is just to get you started, once you get the hang of it, these proportions could easily change. That's the point of a signature scent, everyone is different.

    Very important is to write down what you are doing as you go. Trust me you'll forget and if you do mix the perfect scent for yourself, you'll want to be able to duplicate it.

    Most important rule, have fun!

    The blend I make on the video sat for an hour or so. I decided to make it a little stronger, so this is the finished blend.

    

    13 drops patchouli

    3 drops neroli

    3 drops clary sage

    4 drops of lime

    Essential oils will change over time. That's one of the things I find so fascinating, so I'll see as I use it, how I feel about my blend and if this is a keeper. Essential oils will also react differently on   

    every ones skin. So what might smell great to me and on me, may smell very different on someone else.

    I hope you find the perfect blend for you.

    

    Happy blending!

Baby gift basket

Always makes me smile, when we send off one of our vegan delux baby baskets and get to be part of such a joyous occasion.