My journey in the soap world has been a wild roller coaster, to say the least. As some of you know, I started this blog as a way to give soap makers of handmade soap exposure to the world. I started reviews and it just took off. At the time, there were no soap blogs doing this that I could find. A whole world of soap opened up to me and shortly after I began, other soap blogs popped up and handcrafted soap seemed to be everywhere. I am so happy I tapped into that world, because I soon became part of it.
My readers...YOU.... encouraged me to try my hand at soaping and when I finally pulled the trigger, the addiction began for me. I loved it! Now my business is almost all soap and I'm so happy with the direction my company is taking. I work tirelessly at making my soaps better, my designs unique and using some of the best ingredients to the table. It took years before I could say I am truly proud of my final product. In the beginning, I made good soap, but the years of trial and error and endless researching, I can say I have a solid bar that I am pleased with.
I guess I knew it would take years of learning, doing, failing, loving....
I have let my blog writing fall to the wayside for a while now and I apologize to you all. I have been focusing my energies elsewhere and I am sorry I have let you down. I want to bring you soap porn, reviews, tutorials, new ideas and business musings. I'm not sure if my experiences will help anyone else, but perhaps I just need to share them and let you all take what you need and fly with it.
Please leave comments on this post about what you want to get out of this blog and I will try to address them. I can not promise I will post all the time, but I can try to be much better about it. I do need your help. If you are interested in sharing something here that you think others may be interested in, please email me and let me know you'd be interested in guest blogging. I am open to any ideas. This blog gets about 10,000 unique visitors a month, and my guess is that a big percent of those visitors are soap makers looking for inspiration, learning tools and a feeling a sense of community.
I am looking forward to being a part of The Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild annual conference this May in Raleigh, North Carolina. I will get to meet a bunch of you. Please seek me out and come introduce yourself. I will be doing a demo on soap making with milks and I am nervous as heck. I do not consider myself a public speaker and I loathe being the center of attention, but I want to do this and I know I will grow as a person having done it.
Thank you for continuing to be a part of this blog, the active group on facebook, and general supporter of my vision. Thank you. Let's continue to grow together. Here...hold my hand.
hugs, jo
My readers...YOU.... encouraged me to try my hand at soaping and when I finally pulled the trigger, the addiction began for me. I loved it! Now my business is almost all soap and I'm so happy with the direction my company is taking. I work tirelessly at making my soaps better, my designs unique and using some of the best ingredients to the table. It took years before I could say I am truly proud of my final product. In the beginning, I made good soap, but the years of trial and error and endless researching, I can say I have a solid bar that I am pleased with.
I guess I knew it would take years of learning, doing, failing, loving....
I have let my blog writing fall to the wayside for a while now and I apologize to you all. I have been focusing my energies elsewhere and I am sorry I have let you down. I want to bring you soap porn, reviews, tutorials, new ideas and business musings. I'm not sure if my experiences will help anyone else, but perhaps I just need to share them and let you all take what you need and fly with it.
Please leave comments on this post about what you want to get out of this blog and I will try to address them. I can not promise I will post all the time, but I can try to be much better about it. I do need your help. If you are interested in sharing something here that you think others may be interested in, please email me and let me know you'd be interested in guest blogging. I am open to any ideas. This blog gets about 10,000 unique visitors a month, and my guess is that a big percent of those visitors are soap makers looking for inspiration, learning tools and a feeling a sense of community.
I am looking forward to being a part of The Handcrafted Soapmakers Guild annual conference this May in Raleigh, North Carolina. I will get to meet a bunch of you. Please seek me out and come introduce yourself. I will be doing a demo on soap making with milks and I am nervous as heck. I do not consider myself a public speaker and I loathe being the center of attention, but I want to do this and I know I will grow as a person having done it.
Thank you for continuing to be a part of this blog, the active group on facebook, and general supporter of my vision. Thank you. Let's continue to grow together. Here...hold my hand.
hugs, jo
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