February Update...New Soaps & More!

Happy Valentine's Day from Simply Natural Soaps & Sundries, Co!   No matter who it is that you want to celebrate on Valentine's Day...Be it your significant other, your kids, your mom, or just a special friend, we have the perfect bath time gift for them all!      *Bubble bars are the perfect gift for scented sudsy bath time fun! *Our Type Scented Perfume Oils are an excellent addition to any gift. *Bath Bombs create a soft, fizzy and relaxing experience. *Soapy Scribblers make a great gift for your littlest loves. *Grab a bar of BEER soap or a bar of CHISELED for the man in your life...or give a bottle of our all Natural Beard Oil or Aftershave. Don't think that February 14th is the only day that these gifts are worth giving!  We carry these all year round. In addition to the soaps we added last month (Oatmeal, Milk & Honey, Cucumber & Aloe, Simply Baby), the following are ready to go for our Spring Collection. COUNTRY GARDEN This fresh, romantic, floral fragrance is fantastic during the whole year! This fragrance begins with top notes of fresh green clover, and ivy with middle notes of romantic snapdragon, rose petals, and carnations; ending with base notes of white musk and fig leaves. BEER SOAP made with Guinness Beer.  This fragrance is a sexy fragrance that will have you screaming, "I want my man to smell like that"!  Spicy-sweet blend of French verbena and lemon, a green Florentine iris and violet leaves, and sublime notes of Mysore sandalwood and ambergris.   PEARBERRY This fragrance is a fruity fresh fragrance blend of ripened pear, raspberries, strawberries, and gooseberries, with slight musk undertones. **REMEMBER: Seasonal Soaps are available while supplies last! Don't wait too long to order yours, or you might just be waiting until next year! Chester Hills 32nd Annual Maple Festival Saturday March 11 from 9-3 Come visit us and other vendors at this annual event! Features a pancake breakfast, music, wagon rides, and of course sugaring! Where: Skyline Trail in old Chester Center

January Update...Savings & What's been in our Soap Pot!

Spring is just around the corner! If you are like us, you are still trying to recover from the holiday season....and here we are already talking about spring!  We are still offering the discount on our Winter Skin Care Kit....but we need to keep preparing for the warmer weather, flowers....and inevitable bugs!   We know many of you look forward to the spring and summer Farmer's Markets so that you can restock on your dwindling bath & body products supply....Don't forget that there are many other options for getting your favorite products over the winter months! You can find almost our entire line of products at  The Majestic Theater in West Springfield.  Our soap can be found at Pilgrim Candle and Hinkley Harvest in Westfield, Four Elements Salon & Spa in Southwick, The Bread Basket in Russell, Peace Haven Farm Project in Blandford & Visual Changes Salon in East Longmeadow MA. Do you know of a Salon or Store...or any other kind of retail spot where you think our products would fit right in?  Let us know by sending us a message.  If we are able to get our products in the location, we will send you a FREE  thank you gift! The rest of our winter will be spent restocking products that sold out over the holidays, stocking up for the oncoming market season, and testing out potential new products. We're always looking for your thoughts on products that you wish we made or scents you wish we carried.  Your feedback is so important to us! Due to an overwhelming amount of requests, we have FINALLY brought back our Oatmeal, Milk & Honey soap!  We gave it a new look, and made it with goats-milk instead of cows.  It will be on our website in just another week or so and ready for you to bring home to your shower! This next soap is usually hard to come by.  It's pretty popular, but we have always made it in small infrequent batches...but due to requests, there is a large batch just about ready to go!  One of the most mildest forms of soap you can use, a Bastille Bar. Comprised of 75% olive oil, this bar is extremely gentle and is great on all skin types, especially those that are brand new.....or have been around for quite sometime! It is infused with chamomile flowers and includes coconut milk. We scent it with a light mild fragrance that reminds us of precious newborn babies....and therefore, we call it, Simply Baby. Another favorite making a comeback is our Cucumber & Aloe Shave & Body Bar.  This bar is packed with extra Castor Oil to give it some serious sudsing power...it can replace shaving cream...and also makes a great body bar!   Stay tuned for our next update to see what our new or returning spring soaps will be!

Soapy Sampler  Variety of 6 Half Bars $8.00 Buy Now

Winter Skin Care Kit $25.00 Buy Now

All Natural Lip Balm $3.00 Buy Now

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DIY Dishwasher Soap

Ok, so I think I am going to start selling the powdered dishwasher soap that I have been using for the last couple of weeks.  I really, really love it!  I swear it cleans my dishes better than any of the big name commercial products I have ever tried.  And what's better? I can pronounce ALL of the ingredients...and they are all things I already had in my house!

I figured I would post the recipe for anyone who has time or is into the DIY type projects...but otherwise, let me know if you would like to order some!

In a glass jar mix the following ingredients:

1 Cup - Borax
1 Cup - Arm & Hammer Super Washing Soda (NOT baking soda)
1/2 Cup - Citric Acid (double for hard water locations)
1/2 Cup - Kosher Salt


Now, the salt can turn this mixture into a SOLID ROCK!  To prevent this from happening, leave the lid off of the jar for a few days....and possibly once in a while after that.  I've just been leaving mine open in the cabinet or on the counter, but I read that you should only need to do so for a few days in the beginning.

If you continue to have problems, you can leave the salt out. It acts as an additional water softener and exfoliant.

Use approximately 1 tablespoon per load.

In your rinse aid compartment, fill it with white vinegar.  This will not make your dishes smell "vinegary" but works as a natural (and cheap!) rinse aid for your dishes!

That's it! Super easy!!  The only ingredient that you might have trouble finding is the citric acid.  Someone told me that you could use Kool Aid in place of it...I would recommend DO NOT DO THIS!!! Kool Aid, while it does contain citric acid, also contains several other ingredients that you really do not want to use on your dishes!  I have heard that you can find citric acid in your local grocery canning aisle. Though I have not had much luck with this.  I had to order mine from the site that I order most of my other soap making materials from.

If you would like to purchase the entire recipe completed, let me know...or I would also be willing to sell just the citric acid if you have everything else but cannot find that.

Check us out:  simplynaturalsoaps.net  to place an order or send us an email.

Psoriasis..Eczema..Itchiness...Oh My!

Yesterday I had someone ask me what I would recommend for Psoriasis.  I realized that I create things all the time that I use to treat my own and my daughters skin aliments, but I haven't said much about what I sell that would help, and I haven't blogged about any of it either.

I have a great salve that I use that I really wish I had thought to take step by step pictures of when I made my last huge batch because it really would make a pretty great blog post.

Anyways, today I will list out some herbs that I would recommend to help psoriasis or eczema or any other skin ailment.

Calendula: Can be used externally for ailments such as acne, eczema, psoriasis, sunburns, chapped lips, cuts, scrapes, bruises, and other various skin ailments. Calendula is an astringent, antiseptic, antifungal and anti-inflammatory. The petals can be used in lotions, ointments, infused oils, teas, tinctures, salves, in the bath, and many other ways to help produce results.
**Simply Natural Soaps & Sundries sells soaps that are made either with calendula infused oils or with petals in the actual soap.  Check it out here!

Lavender: Lavender is an antiseptic. The essential oil is used to help heal ailments such as acne, athlete's foot, dandruff, burns, eczema, psoriasis, boils, bruises, insect bites, and many other ailments. 

Chamomile: Aside from the many great things Chamomile can aid in, it is also great at helping skin elasticity.  If used with witch hazel it can even help with eczema.

St. John's Wort:  Can be used to treat bruises, burns, wounds, bites and other skin ailments.

Plantain: Is another amazing herb. It is used to treat so many things! I could do a whole post about plantain.  One of its uses is on skin conditions.  It can help with burns and bites and other skin ailments like psoriasis and eczema.  It works like aloe, to soothe the burn and itching sensation of skin ailments.  What's even better about this herb? You probably already have it growing in your backyard! It's a weed that grows all over. Here are a couple pictures to help you identify it.  Save money....you don't even have to plant it!

Evening Primrose Oil: Can be consumed (vitamin/pill form) or the oil can be applied topically to the effected area.

Milk Thistle: Can help regulate your immune system.  An immune system that is behaving irregularly can cause outbreaks of Psoriasis or other skin ailments. This herb can also help protect the liver.

Burdock Root: Burdock is very effective at managing or treating chronic skin ailments. It helps to destroy fungus and bacterial cultures present under your skin. It helps prevent or cure disorders such as boils, psoriasis and even acne. It can also help manage eczema.  Burdock contains large amounts of vitamin C which can help restore scaly skin.

Those are the main herbs that I want to talk about today. I might do another post this week on essential oils.

I plan on  making a few new salves using various herbs, but for now, if you would like to try one: Herbal Skin Salve is for sale on my website.