New Felice

New Felice - Glycerin with milk and honey. 4 oz bars. Floral with musk.

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.

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 Soaps - No Names Yet, Ready June 15

These soaps are a mixture of cold process soap and glycerin soap. I think they turned out awesome. The blue one is a creamy mixture of coconut and musk. The pink/orange one is sweet orange and jasmine.

Fiore: Orange Blossoms and Jasmine

The two below soaps will be up for sale soon on Etsy and Artfire.

A Cool Breeze

New Pics

New pictures using different backgrounds.

Another Pic of Bianca

I really like this pic with the turquoise blue plate, white soap, and black background. The pics, along with my photoshop skills, are improving but still aren't where I would like them to be. I have a vision of how I want my pics to look but I don't have the skill yet to pull it off. I'm slowly getting there. I actually would like to hire a professional photographer - and I might just do that. I would rather make soap than mess around with the pics.

Bianca - Very Mild and Unscented

Freshly cut Bianca per custom order. Uncolored, unscented - Shea butter and goat milk soap at its finest.