Winter Solstice

Where there is darkness, let me spread light!

Happy Winter Solstice and a Very Merry Yule to All!

Love,

Angelic Soap

Coupon Code WINTER is activated in the soap shop to secure a 20% discount on all orders placed!

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Choose any of these lovelies, or other of our fine soaps and get free shipping today only!

Enter coupon code FREESHIPPING1217 at checkout.

This offer expires at Midnight, CST, December 17, 2012.

Your order will arrive just in time for Holiday gifting!

With so much love and gratitude,

Angelic Soap

Our Holiday Gift to You

Coupon code is now activated for free shipping on Monday, December 17, 2012 ONLY. 

This very special offer expires at midnight, December 17, 2012, CST.

Please use coupon code FREESHIPPING1217 at checkout.

May we suggest ...

Egyptian Kyphi

May you and yours be blessed with Peace, Joy and Prosperity!

Best wishes, Gratitude and Love,

Angelic Soap

Last Day for Christmas Shipping

Please order your Angelic Soap on or before December 19th, 2012 to guarantee delivery before Christmas.

Do not forget that the special coupon code WINTER is activated to get you 20% off any and all of your orders. Simply input this code into the indicated box at checkout.

As people hurry about to get their packages, purchases and Christmas goodies, it can get hectic 'out threre'. 

Be careful and do not fall into the 'Grinch' trap!

Do not go about rushing to and fro to spend your money, getting aggravated and agitated!

Relax. Take a deep breath. Remember the reason for the season.

Drop in on a friend who is alone. Drop a line to someone who would love to get a real, handwritten message from you. Pick up the phone to say "I was just thinking about you'.

These are the seemingly 'little' things that count in this life.

We soon forget the gifts that we received, but we never forget a warm smile, a generous spirit and the gift of time taken to stop and say "hello, how are you?".

May you all be blessed with the gifts of love, peace and joy.

With Love and so much Gratitude, I am thinking of you ...

Angelic Soap

Back to those gifts, may we suggest ....

Midnight Mass Shea

Our Holiday Classic! The scent is tweaked this year! Pure Frankincense, Myrrh, Juniper, Honey, Beeswax and Smoke essential and fragrant oils are custom blended to capture the ambiance of Midnight Mass.

Beautiful soap with Red Reef Aussie Clay, Black Mica, and gilded tops - it looks festive in our complimentary gold organza wrap!

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12 Days Until Christmas!

Happy Holiday Savings

Greetings of Love!

There is a new coupon code activated in the Angelic Soap shop for 20% off any order.

Simply input WINTER in the coupon code box for a 20% savings.

Egyptian Kyphi

This special discount is our way of saying "THANK YOU" for reading, following and sharing this blog.

Lost Atlantis Crystal

If you are looking for unique, made-in-America gifts, look no further than our beautiful, handcrafted soap. Our soap is not only kind to skin, but better for the environment.

Clove Scented Milk Bar (Vegan)

 Each and every bar comes ready to present, gift-wrapped in a gold organza bag with an ingredient card. We would be honored to send your gifts with a personalized note from you. Just let us know when you place your order!

Good Karma

 Happy Shopping!

Winter Evergreen Shea

Midnight Mass Shea

Champagne Shea

Fresh Juniper

Precious Amber-Sandalwood

With so much Gratitude for you,

Angelic Soap

A Holiday Classic - with a Twist, Please!

Looking for a classic soap for the Holidays, but bored with the old standards?

Try our Midnight Mass Shea bar, Angelic Soap's adaptation on frankincense and myrrh.

This handcrafted, luxury soap is custom scented with honey, juniper, frankincense, myrrh, beeswax and smoke.

The smell will transport you to the pomp and ritual of High Mass.

This soap is unique in every way.

A beautiful work of art, Midnight Mass Shea is rich in organic, raw shea butter and our finest, freshest, food grade vegetable oils.

Each hand cut bar weighs approximately 5 ounces and features an intricate pattern of Red Reef Aussie Clay, swirled with Black mica and natural cream tones.

Brushed with sparkling, regal gold mica on top, Midnight Mass sells out every year.

Wrapped in our complimentary gold organza, this bar is certain to please!

Midnight Mass Shea

 Need to send a gift? Let us do it for you! 

Place your order. Let us know it is a gift. Include what you want to say on your gift card, the lucky recipient's name and when/where you would like delivery.

We will do the rest.

Satisfaction guaranteed.

Not sure what your special person would like?

The soap shop now has gift cards available!

Love,

Angelic Soap

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Holiday offerings include Winter Evergreen Shea, Midnight Mass Shea, Yuletide Memories and Clove Milk Soap.

Listing Holiday Soap

Newly listed Holiday soaps include ....

Clove Scented Milk Soap (Vegan)

Rich, raw, organic cocoa butter combines with organic coconut milk to beautifully condition your skin!

Limited Edition

Why Handcrafted Soap?

One important reason that we hand craft soap is to reduce the ever-growing toxic burden on the environment and our bodies.

Angelic Soap was originally created for my family's personal use, as we were growing increasingly sensitive to commercial cleansers, soaps, shampoos and clothes detergents.

We were determined to create products that not only were effective as healing cleansers, but utilized only gentle, non-irritating ingredients. 

We also wanted some luxury in usage, as well as no animal by products.

Today, I am happy to say that our skin and hair is healthy (even our pets) and clean! In fact, I regularly receive compliments on my complexion. My reply - I use Angelic Soap!

Most people purchase soap based on scent. However, not everyone can tolerate scent on sensitive facial and body skin.

The skin absorbs almost everything that is topically applied, so we must be cautious and conscious in our choices. This includes fragrance.

This choice becomes critical if one of us is ill. 

Help your body heal by reducing its toxic load - and all that entails.

In the cosmetic/beauty world, there is a mantra - "do not use soap on your face". The soap referred to  is commercial soap, which is basically a detergent. 

Commercial soap's glycerin is siphoned off, sold as a by product, then chemicals are added to up the bubble ante. 

Synthetic colorants and bad fragrance oils make the commercial soap pretty and uniform.

Finally, industrial fans 'cure' the commercial soap in a speedy fashion. The bars are ultimately sold in great quantities and at a somewhat low price.

Real, handcrafted soap is not a detergent. It is not mass-produced. Typically, this type of artisan soap is not a huge profit maker. 

The Big Commercial Interests do not like this trifecta.

The method, in my opinion, that provides the kindest facial/body cleansing bars is the cold process method. 

This old fashioned, cold process method preserves the vegetable glycerin that is a natural by product of the saponification process.

Additionally, there is complete control over all ingredients - and Angelic Soap uses the very best.

We do not use surfactants or sulphates to increase bubbles in the lather - the bubbles come from the vegetable oils chosen, as well as a nice, long curing period. 

This aging period generally lasts from 4 weeks to (my ideal) 3 months. 

This period is important to lower the ph to an acceptable level for use. It also dries all of the water (or other liquid) out of the soap, which assures a bubbly, hard bar. 

Generally, the older the cold process soap, the milder and better-lathering the bar.

As far as body washes go, I challenge you to read your labels.

*BLECK*

Please give a good, hand crafted soap a try. It will be a different experience in terms of lather and scent, but your skin and the environment will love it.

May we suggest Angelic Soap's  Rosewater Butter Cream or Vata Shea Ayurvedic Cleansing Bar. 

Both of these hand made soaps yield a rich, low-lying lather that acts more like a creme cleanser.

The  Rosewater Butter Cream is made of primarily raw, organic cocoa butter and organic coconut cream with a dose of healing castor oil ("The Palma Christi").

Vata Shea Ayurvedic Cleanser is a splurge with jojoba, avocado, sweet almond and apricot kernel oils, laced with raw, organic shea butter. My skin is currently loving this soap. 

These soaps rotate in and out of our home's soap dishes, with the addition of Rose Pitta Ayurvedic Cleanser in the summer.

 We promise that these bars (in fact, none of Angelic Soap's offerings) will not leave your precious skin feeling stripped or tight. 

Good for the whole family - right down to baby.

In Truth, Love and Beauty,

Angelic Soap

Scents of Antiquity

I am very pleased with some of my new soaps! The two brand new soaps featured in this post are now LIVE in the shop.

Lost Atlantis Crystal

Lost Atlantis Crystal is a bright, clean incense-based soap that is more illuminating than dusty. 

The scent is more lavish than most of Angelic's creations and is partially derived from incense, juniper and black pepper essential oils. 

Lost Atlantis Crystal was created to be crystalline in appearance, thus the only color added is a deep, dark blue horizon line and a heap of shimmering, glittering mica on top of each bar.

Lost Atlantis Crystal

Next, we have Egyptian Kyphi, a mysterious scent of an ancient concoction. 

Kyphi was so sacred that it was believed to follow the Pharoah into the Afterlife.

Egyptian Kyphi

The scent of Angelic's Egyptian Kyphi is so rich and complex, that I worked on it for quite a long time. 

I am so happy with the results! 

Juniper berries, honey-soaked figs, spices, incense and lots of smoky myrrh resin (and many more notes) result in a scent that defies description.

Egyptian Kyphi is beautiful and rather Egyptian in appearance, thanks to the deep Red Reef clay, black mica and gilded tops with puffs of 'smoke'.

Use coupon code AUTUMN10 in the shop and grab the ephemeral scents of antiquity with a 10% discount.

Love,

Angelic Soap

Happy Autumn!

Please use coupon code AUTUMN10 to snag 10% off any and all Angelic Soap.

Good all season, you may use this special savings code as often as you like!

It is good even for SALE items!

Angelic Hugs

May we suggest ..... 

Magick Shea

Samhain Soaps

Dragon's Blood Resin

Dragon's Blood Resin is reputed to be able to break hexes and purify. Angelic Soap's Dragon's Blood also features Red Reef Clay to purify the body in a nice ritual bath or shower. The scent is not easily described, but readily recognizable. Our Dragon's Blood is fortified with sandalwood oil for additional purification and a sexy scent!

Rue Shea

No self respecting witch would be without the magickal herb, Rue! Remover of curses, bad luck and hexes, Rue was a sacred herb of the Celts. Angelic's Rue Soap is created from the freshest, organic vegetable oils, infused with our garden grown, organic rue. There is also ground rue incorporated into the soap and sprinkled on top of each bar. Clary Sage ("clear eye") essential oil is beneficial for clear vision and vetiver provides grounding.

                                                                   

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SPECIAL COUPON CODE

For all of my blog followers, I am now offering a 25% discount on any and all soap in my Etsy shop.

Enter BLOG25 at checkout for your special savings!

This special savings event is good through October 1, 2012.

Thank you all so very much! 

May you be blessed with abundance in all things!

Happy Harvest Moon

Love,

Angelic Soap

SALE

Whew!

Now that we are past that long, amazingly hot summer, how about some very specially-priced soap selections?

Look for these freshly picked favorites at very LOW prices in the Angelic Soap shop now!

How does Juicy Peach, Black Raspberry and Cherry Blossom Shea butter soaps sound?

Ummm ..... the only thing better is the unbelievable pricing!

Take a peek by clicking on one of the buttons to the right of this post.

Love,

Angelic Soap

International Travels

Longing for a respite after the long, hot summer?

How about an international escape via our newly listed soaps?

Let's hop over to India first, shall we? 

Kerala Amber Shea is created to evoke a gauzy, glittery sari, worn in the perfumed air of roses, coriander, cardamom, amber, sweet jaggery and honey.

Kerala Amber Shea

 Next up - Morocco!

Let's stop at the market stalls of Marrakesh, while we bathe in the scents of sugar-sweet comice (Moroccan pear), cumin and peppercorns.

Marrakesh Express Shea

Our last visit today will be Haiti.

Lovely, dry vetivert envelopes and cools us while we sip the slight, citrus sweetness of bergamot found in a cup of Earl Gray tea.

Haitian Vetyver Velvet Shea

This sweet escape is brought to you by Angelic Soap!

Where shall we go next?

Restock

Black Temple Incense Shea is one of those 'sleeper soaps'. 

A fantastic, lush, creamy soap with a gorgeous scent. Black Temple Incense Shea is beautiful too - laced with veins of ground black coffee beans, shades of warm coffee with cream, pale mauve and topped with orchid and gold mica.

The soap is chock full of organic oils and butters, scented with Nag Champa, Frankincense, black coffee and musk. Think Jo Malone's Black Cafe Vetyver meets Nag Champa.

The lucky people who have sampled this treat become devotees. 

Pretty enough for women and hunky enough for men, Black Temple Incense Shea is a winner!

Black Temple Incense Shea

Take 10% off by using coupon code SUMMER10 at checkout!

BIG HOT SALE

Coupon code HOT50 will get you 50% off any and all soap in the shop until Sunday, August 5th at midnight CST.

Why not spoil yourself with our shaving soap?

Loads of French Pink Clay and raw, organic shea butter combine with essential oils of dark, Indonesian Patchouly and lively Bourbon Geranium to make this an all purpose luxury soap with aromatherapy properties for men and women.

 For a more feminine twist on the shaving bar, try the "Pour Femme" version. Basically the same recipe, but a different shape and a little sweeter with the addition of Rose Geranium essential oil.

I personally discovered shaving soap about 3 years ago. Now, I look forward to using it all summer long at the sink, bath and shower! No need to shave - this soap is superb as a cleansing bar!

No need for a shaving brush, I let the bar do most of the work. The French pink clay is reputed to gently draw impurities out of the skin, while providing 'slip' for your razor. Of course, the shea butter is super moisturizing. The scent is delightful and really elevates this bar to true luxury status.

Simplify your routine - try a bar today!

Black Patchouly Bourbon Shea Shave

Pour Femme

HOT SALE!!!!

This sale only comes once in a blue moon. August is blue moon month! 

And, darnit! It is hot outside, Baby!

Please accept this gift from me to you - ALL soaps are 50% off with the coupon code HOT50 input at checkout.

You may use this coupon code as many times as you wish, until I think that it is time to retire it. (No worries, I will let you know in advance)

Hopefully, this can help some folks pay their utility bills a bit easier and cool off in a refreshing bath or shower with Angelic Soap.

Happy Lammas, All!

Grimoire (Book of Shadows)

Midsummer Night Dream Soaps

Soft Peach Velvet Shea

Black Raspberry Shea

Now for sale in the shop!

Seasonally appropriate scented, shea soaps that are both sweet and warm, with a little sultriness to both of them.

Perfect for that post workout or gardening showering!

Pick a few now - the summer season in short!

These soaps are specially priced due to the extreme heat this summer. Pick up even more savings by using the coupon code SUMMER10 at checkout. This code will snag you another 10% off your entire order.

A Best Seller ON SALE!

One of the best sellers in the shop, Lemon Sugar Velvet Shea is ON SALE! 

This is an exceptionally creamy soap, drenched with tons of organic, raw shea butter that creates a lotion-like lather for sun-parched skin. This particular soap recipe is typically used in winter soaps, but the heat has been fierce, so why not give it a spin in your summer shower?

The scent is pure aromatherapy heaven! Sicilian Lemon, Mandarin Orange, Sandalwood and Oak Moss....this is one lemon soap that does NOT smell like furniture polish, as so many other citrus blends.

You will not believe how low I have cut the price!

Just a way of saying "THANK YOU"!!

Lemon Sugar Velvet Shea

Lemon Sugar Velvet Shea

Trying to keep prices low, bring you quality soaps, save your skin and the planet!

Angelic Hugs

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Multitasker

Black Patchouly Bourbon Shea Shaving Bar is a true multi tasker! 

Gentle enough for sensitive facial, neck and body cleansing, this terrific soap also performs beautifully as a shaving bar.

The super emollient organic soap recipe is nicely balanced with lavish amounts of French Pink Clay for sensitive skin and 'slip' for a close shave.

This soap will leave your skin gently cleansed and lightly moisturized with a lingering scent.

No need for that after-bath lotion, as Black Patchouly Bourbon Shea will never leave your skin drawn, stripped, or tight feeling.

Turn your mundane grooming routine into a spa experience, while lightening up on your usual array of products. All of this with a slice of aromatherapeutic luxury. 

Black Patchouly Bourbon Shea Shaving Bar is scented with rich, back Indonesian patchouly essential oil, sweetened with a light touch of Bourbon geranium essential oil.

For sale now in the shop!

Black Patchouly Bourbon Shea

Not just for men! 

Ladies, if you have never tried a shaving soap, let this be the one!

Sensual Jasmine Velvet Shea

Lush jasmine lovers rejoice!

Angelic Soap has a few new soaps in the shop that rival some of your favorite scents on the market.

Start with Angelic's Sensual Jasmine Velvet Shea .....

Sensual Jasmine Velvet Shea

This soap's scent is quite heady and lavish. Sweet notes of sugar join gorgeous, intoxicating jasmine petals, multiple florals and wood notes to create an unforgettable, heavy, Asian jasmine fragrance.

The sensual part of this soap does not end with the deeply feminine scent. It continues on with the "Velvet Shea" recipe, which contains large amounts of raw, organic shea butter laced into a basic soap of organic palm kernel and sunflower seed oils.

With any of the "Velvet Shea" recipe soaps in the Angelic Soap shop, do not expect a bubbly experience, but a lotion-like lather that is very soothing to stressed skin.

I fell in love with jasmine after growing several different varieties in my gardens. My experience with the jasmine flowers of Asian origin (not French, which is crisp to my nose) is similar to being lulled into a much different state of being and mind by those precious blooms. 

Sensual Jasmine Velvet Shea captures the narcotic-like qualities of jasmine, initially sweetens things up a bit, then all nestle softly against creamy woods.

The Splendor of the French Orangeries

I cannot stop smelling this gorgeous soap! 

L'Orangerie Shea is dedicated to the many orange blossom groves of France. 

An exquisite blend of essential oils like bitter orange, cedar, vetivert plus orange blossom water give this soap a fresh, romantic and completely therapeutic aroma! 

 I have tried to create many different versions of the orange blossom scent over the years, but this soap has finally captured what I wanted.

The rustic appearance of the soap is reminiscent of Provence, but the gilded topping hearkens of Versailles.

Limited Summer Edition 

Available Now

L'Orangerie Shea

Summer is Soon!

At my house, it has been very hot for some time. This heat translates into more baths and showers. 

The electric company and the water company are doing happy dances.

If YOU want to do a happy dance, please take advantage of a new coupon code in the Etsy shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/angelicsoap. 

Effective immediately, EQUINOX50 will snag you a 50% reduction off any and all merchandise (including sale bars)!!

As my savvy clients know, this type of deep reduction only occurs once in a blue moon.

Stock up NOW, so you are prepared for all of that summer showering and bathing without stripping your beautiful skin (or your budget)!

Hurry - this coupon code expires after June 21st, 2012.

Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage Shea

New Category in Etsy Shop

There is a new category in Angelic Soap's Etsy shop. 

It is called SALE. You can get there directly by clicking this link: http://www.etsy.com/shop/angelicsoap?section_id=11646390

Drop by the shop to see what is featured at special prices!
You can also start shopping here http://www.etsy.com/shop/angelicsoap

Even with special prices, current coupon codes may be used to score an even bigger price break.

The current coupon code in effect now is SPRING10.

Input this code at checkout to get 10% off your entire order.

Lavender-Vanilla Shea  

New Richer Soap Recipe

Our new "Velvet Shea" soap recipe is being very well-received by our clients! 

I used to only make this soap in the dead of winter when skin is soooo stressed by the elements and indoor heating. However, the hot summers, windy conditions and air conditioning (especially where I live) begged the question: why not offer this rich, moisturizing recipe in a few bars for ALL seasons? So far, so good. 

Angelic Soap has an assortment of different recipes and scents for any body or face. 

It is important to check the ingredients for any soap that you may be interested in purchasing. "Velvet Shea" contains a HUGE amount of shea butter - much more than our regular shea soap - and other goodies to make it not necessarily as bubbly, but more emollient and moisturizing to the skin.

It really does feel like velvet .... and your skin will too!

This soap is very nice if you gently exfoliate or dry brush your skin before use. 

No need to venture outside your own shower for a spa experience!

Fleur de Caribe Velvet Shea

Pictured above is just one of the Velvet Shea series: Fleur de Caribe.
This soap, unlike some of the other Angelic Soap, is lavishly scented. The scent is mind-blowing! Very sweet and tropical, like a hibiscus crossed with ylang wafting from deep blue water.
*sigh*

From the beginning, Angelic Soap has been created with sensitive skin in mind, so many of our batches are light on fragrance. We use as many plant-based, essential oils as possible.
Scent can be irritating to some people's skins - especially complexions.

Our Vata Shea Ayurvedic Recipe, Pure Castile or Rosewater Butter Cream Soaps may be a better choice for a facial cleanser, a baby, or a sensitive body.

All three of these soaps feature different recipes and are light-to-unscented.

For summer, the Rose Pitta Ayurvedic Soap is an excellent choice for skin that needs cooling (shows signs of inflammation, heat, redness). Pitta Rose also features a different formulation than any of the other Angelic Soaps, the lighter oils and butters are specifically chosen for sensitive, 'red', over-heated, cranky skin.

It pays to read the descriptions and the ingredient lists.

Have an Angelic Week, Beautiful Ones!

Exciting News!

The soap shop now accepts major credit cards.

 As a consumer of Angelic Soap, you are no longer limited to Pay Pal!

Thinking of shopping? Be certain to input coupon code SPRING10 for a 10% discount at checkout. This code can be used multiple times for those last minute purchases!

Walk in Beauty, Beloveds .... 

Lemon Sugar Velvet Shea

New Recipe!

Angelic Soap has created some new offerings with an intensely moisturizing recipe. Look for the soap that features "Velvet Shea" in the title. Velvet Shea soap has an inordinately large amount of raw, organic shea butter. The butter is added to other organic oils chosen for their emollient and conditioning properties.

Below are some of the new soaps with this formula.

Crushed Floral Velvet Shea

Water Blossom Velvet Shea

Crushed Orange Velvet Shea

Orchid Noir Velvet Shea

Crushed Cardamom Masala Velvet Shea

Coupon Code SPRING10 is still valid in the soap shop for a 10% savings at checkout!

Spring Forward!

Please input coupon code SPRING10 at checkout in the soap shop for a 10% savings on all soap.

Happy Spring, All!

Birthday SALE

For today only, use the coupon code, BIRTHDAY for a 25% discount on each and every soap in the Etsy shop.

Hurry! Special coupon expires at midnight, March 12, CST.

Thank you ALL for being YOU!

Smell the Roses

Image Courtesy of BAC Photography & Design

Ready for Spring?

There are a few floral soaps in the shop - nothing cloying, or overly sweet. 

Below are a few suggestions for those of you who are anxious for spring!

Cherry Blossom Butter Cream

Love Letter

Magick Shea

All three of the above soaps contain varying amounts of superior grade clays, which make them wonderful for shaving or a bit of extra cleansing when skin turns 'combination' in response to environmental changes.

There is only one bar of Cherry Blossom Butter Cream left in stock. Pure sweet cherry blossoms, as if all the tress were blooming at once, folded into our signature organic coconut cream and cocoa butter recipe.

Love Letter is a mysterious fragrance blend of white rose, smoke, dust and incense. This soap is created with our vegetable oil recipe, enhanced with organic, raw shea butter, and gilded with gold mica - just like those memories.

Magick Shea is a perennial favorite with any one who smells it - man or woman! Gorgeous blend of bourbon geranium, French lavender, blood orange and black patchouli essential oils create an extremely well-balanced scent. This scent is wrapped into our raw, organic shea butter recipe and topped with a generous amount of Red Reef Aussie Clay. As though there are two bars in one soap, Magick is bewitching.

Pure Castile!!

True castile soap is an every day luxury. 

Angelic's Pure Castile soap has been aged for a year, but will get even better with more age! 

Pure castile is nothing but high quality, saponified extra virgin olive oil - no scent or added color. 

The result? A hard, creamy white bar that is bubbly and mild.

Some say that castile is the most elegant of soap.

Find out why! 

Now on sale in the soap shop!

Pure Castile