sapunablog

Because I’m a perfectionist/procrastinator, I have a tendency to hem and haw and sit on something until I think it’s perfect. Hence, the ridiculously long time it’s taking me to get the main soap site up.

I’ve got to get some energy moving.

So, I’m selling bars of peppermint.

Now.

Note: Because I’m still figuring out the PayPal credit card fees, I’m only selling within Switzerland at this point (I’ll send y’all an invoice).

The soap

I make my peppermint soap using olive, palm, coconut, sunflower, castor and sweet almond oils along with peppermint essential oil and peppermint leaves. Each bar weighs approximately 100g, is around 7.5×7.5 cm, and is lovingly wrapped with Italian paper and sealed with a wax stamp.

All of the above courtesy of my two little hands.

CHF 15.00 per bar

What to do

Send your name, address (remember, I’m selling only to Switzerland right now) and how many bars you want to info (at) sapuna (dot) ch. I’ll send your order along with an invoice.

Thanks to everyone for the support!

I’ve set a deadline for myself to have the soap site up and running by next weekend. I worked on it today.

The Panaroma sales gave me the kick I needed. Now on to take soap photos and get labels printed.

It should be an interesting week.

The bottle is from a collection of old ‘apothekerflaschen’ I bought.

Update: LOL! I had no idea what Bismuth subgallate was.

I promised to post my notes from the paper below this weekend (History of Cleanliness). Instead, I went to Einsiedeln.

I needed it.

Needed to sit.

To be quiet.

To listen.

Then I came home and wrapped bars.

I highly recommend it (the visit to Einsiedeln, not wrapping bars. Although the latter is fun also).

This landed in my inbox today from Tamara Dourney, managing editor of Saponifier:

As many of you know, a massive, 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti near the capital of Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, January 12th.

Unfortunately, the country is not equipped to deal with an emergency of this proportion.

With so many individuals in need, Saponifier Magazine has been in contact with Missionary Flights International (http://www.missionaryflights.org), an organization based out of Fort Pierce, Florida. This group is currently flying relief missions to Haiti.
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Plain, peppermint and cinnamon