Patchouli Goodness

Groovy Patchouli

Patchouli Soap - Ready Nov 25

New Soaps: Icy Lime, Cinque, and Viola

New Soaps - It's been fun making new soaps but not so much taking pictures. It's a challenge to get the pictures just right. Take a look at what is in Bollandi's Curing House:

Viola - Emollient-rich glycerin soap with lavender essential oils - Ready now.

New Icy Lime Shaving Soap - Cold process soap with french green clay- Ready November 20, 2009.

New batch of Arancia - the same lovely cold process soap with pink kaolin clay for nice slip when shaving and sweet orange, pink grapefruit, and patchouli essential oils. A best seller! Ready November 20, 2009.

Cinque - Five in Italian, pronounced Cheen-quay. An emollient rich glycerin soap with Bollandi's own blend of high quality fragrance oils to arrive at a rich and sensual scent. Ready now.

The Lightbox

I built a lightbox today. It was a success! My first victim was Coconilla, a hybrid soap made from emollient-rich glycerin topped off with a generous amount of olive oil-heavy cold process shavings. Guess what it smells like? It's divine. On sale soon at Etsy and Artfire.

New picture... I think I am liking the background on this one, rather than the palm trees. Less busy, plus look how fabulous the soap looks. I'm in love!

Happy Father's Day Sale

Bollandi is holding two sales this weekend, one on Etsy, the other on Artfire, both offering 20 percent off of all products in the store.

Etsy Store

Artfire Store

Happy Father's Day!

Brand New Soap Pics

I held a photo shoot to bring some new life to my soaps. I am not a photographer and don't know a thing about proper lighting when shooting indoors, etc. But I am happy to say that I am thrilled with how this new set turned out. Turns out that natural light is your best friend when taking these kinds of pictures...so outside we went! My friend, Chris, was instrumental in lay out and composition. You can view more at my Flickr account. I am not done uploading all of them yet, but I will be by tomorrow.

New Lavanda - Ready May 2, 2009

Ready just in time for Mother's Day... New lavender essential oil and cocoa butter recipe. Delicious and super moisturizing. Ships May 2, 2009. Choose from 7 ounce or 4.5 ounce bar. This new soap will be posted to my on-line shops at Etsy and Artfire on April 27, 2009.


Free Shipping if ordered before May 2, 2009!

7 Ounce Bar





4.5 Ounce Bar - Limited Quantities




Vanilla Sugar - Shea Butter Recipe

Ready May 2.

Sweet Orange and Ginger Essential Oils

Made some yummy shea butter, sweet orange and fresh ginger essential oil soap today.

Yumma! The left overs I put into silicon cupcake molds. They turned out cute!