Time to Come Clean!

Have you taken the time to come clean lately? I mean REALLY clean! Our new line of facial masks are designed to help deep clean your pores, leaving you squeaky clean and fresh faced!



Our new line of facial masks are what are called "Dry Face Masks". What does this mean exactly? To start with, exactly how it sounds! The mask arrives completely dry. There are no liquids in these masks. By not adding any liquids we've done two things. 1. We've eliminated the need for a synthetic preservative. These products are 100% natural. And 2. You get to customize the mask to fit your skin perfectly by changing the liquid you add to use your mask!

What mask should I get?

Normal or Combination Skin: Pomegranate Power Mask, Triple Comfort Mask

Oily or Acne Prone Skin: Zebra Face Charcoal Mask, Parisian Glow Mask

Sensitive or Dry Skin: Soothing Lavender Mask, Milk 'n' Honey Mask (coming soon)


What a few of our customers have had to say so far:

• Soothing Lavender: "WONDERFUL! Very refreshing for my sensitive skin!"

• Triple Comfort: "I absolutely love this mask! I love the smell of it as you open the jar, and wow, I so noticed a really visible improvement on the look of my pores! This definitely a must have!"

• Zebra Face: "I really feel like this cleaned out my pores - thanks!"

• Parisian Glow: "I'm so impressed with this mask! My face does literally glow!! Really perfect mask to use before a big day when you want to look radiant! Lindsay, I've become a huge fan of your masks! Another must have!"

You can find these wonderful new masks on our Website or in our Etsy Shop.

Mommy to Mom to Mother

REAL MOTHERS

Real Mothers don't eat quiche, they don't have time to make it.

Real Mothers know that their kitchen utensils are probably in the sandbox.

Real Mothers often have sticky floors, filthy ovens and happy kids.

Real Mothers know that dried play dough doesn't come out of carpets.

Real Mothers don't want to know what the vacuum just sucked up...

Real Mothers sometimes ask "Why me?" And get their answers when a little voice says, "Because I love you best!"

Real Mothers know that a child's growth is not measured by height or years or grade... It is marked by the progression of Mommy to Mom to Mother.....


The Images of Mother

4 Years of Age - My Mommy can do anything!

8 Years of Age - My Mom knows a lot! A whole lot!

12 Years of Age - My Mother doesn't know everything!

14 Years of Age - My Mother? She wouldn't have a clue!

16 Years of Age - Mother? She's so five minutes ago.

18 Years of Age - That old woman? She's way out of date!

25 Years of Age - Well, she might know a little bit about it!

35 Years of Age - Before we decide, let's get Mom's opinion.

45 Years of Age - Wonder what Mom would have thought about it?

65 Years of Age - Wish I could talk it over with Mom.


The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!


(Author Unknown - This was sent to me from my own mother a few weeks ago)

New Year, New Products, New Scents

Happy January!

We've had a busy month. The holidays were absolutely wonderful for us, so much so that we're in the process of restocking pretty much EVERYTHING in our shop! That's kept us more than busy the last few weeks. While we were in the middle of our restocks we also were doing inventory, and discovered that a number of our fragrances have been discontinued. So we'll be moving a few of our favorites onto the Limited Edition list. And unfortunately, once they're gone, they're gone.

Pink Silk
Dainty

We also have a few scents that are potentially on the chopping block. We keep wavering on whether or not to keep these or to let them pass quietly out of our shops. If you have any opinions on these, speak up now! LOL!

Cool Melon
Plumeria


However, some good news, we are working on wrapping up the final details regarding a few exciting new products, and hope to be rolling those out within the next month or so! Including Facial Toners, new packaging for our Lip Tints (as well as some new flavors!), Milk Baths and more! So keep your eyes on the blog for more details and don't forget to sign up for our newsletter (sign up box over in the right column there!).



So as we're evaluating our product line for the new year, and preparing for some of our larger restocking purchases of the year, if there's anything you're interested in, please let me know! Scents, Products, anything you'd like, let me know. I can't promise that we'll bring it in, but we'll see what we can do!

New Scents, New Products

I just LOVE rolling out Brand New Items! And we've got several for you!

Introducing Vanille Noir:

Vanilla grew up and got all sophisticated on us in this sexy little blend! Rich Notes of Vanilla blend with the dark sexy tones of Sandalwood to create a mysteriously alluring blend.

Currently Available:

Vanille Noir Handmade Soap
Vanille Noir Shea Butter Lotion
Vanille Noir Perfume Oil

Coming Soon:

Vanille Noir Indulgence Cream
Vanille Noir Sugar Scrub
Vanille Noir Bath Salts
Vanille Noir Body Gloss

Introducing Velocity for Men:

ve⋅loc⋅i⋅ty = Rapidity or speed of motion; swiftness. Let's get your man moving in high gear with this sexy Sandalwood & Leather .



Currently Available:

Velocity for Men Handmade Soap
Velocity for Men Shea Butter Lotion

Coming Soon:

Velocity for Men Body Spray
(at the moment, this is all I'm planning on offering. If you'd like to see it in other products, please let me know!)

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Birthdays, BOGOs & a Blog Giveaway!!!

It's going to be a BUSY BUSY BUSY week in the Body Language Soaps house!!! To start with, there's Thanksgiving. Luckily hubby & I just have to make my husband's fabulous mashed potatoes and show up at my parents (gotta love parents!).

We also have two birthdays this week! Tanner turned 7 today! And Ashton turns 6 on Wednesday (yes, you did that math right, they're only 1 year and 3 days apart!).

We are also having an awesome sale through the end of the month!

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Holiday BOGO Sale!

Through the end of November, helps us ring in the holidays with our HOLIDAY BOGO SALE! Buy any 3 products and receive a 4th product FREE! (details for how to purchase are listed on each site since it's slightly different depending on where you shop)

www.blsoaps.com
www.blsoaps.etsy.com

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Blog Giveaway

We're also offering an awesome giveaway on Cherry Blossoms Blog! There are lots of ways you can enter, so make sure you enter as many time as possible for a chance to win a soap of your choice from Body Language Soaps!

Read the details here!

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So it's going to be a hectic week for us, especially considering we're still half living out of boxes! I figure we can unpack after Christmas! LOL! Who needs sleep??? Not me!

Moving Update - Sunday, November 8th

I promised to post updates on our move when I could, so here is update number one!

Saturday’s move went VERY well. We had neighbors chip in on both ends, so it all went very quickly. We still have a lot of stuff that needs to be unpacked at the old house and brought over, but we moved all the furniture and made a huge dent in our progress. Our new neighbors have been incredibly friendly and helpful (considering we’re essentially strangers!).

We arranged all the furniture in the new soap room. So mostly it’s just organizing everything back onto their shelves. We have most of the finished product unpacked already. We’ll be starting in on all our equipment and raw materials over the next couple days.

In the meantime, here are a few pictures of the new soap room!

The big gray drawers hold most of my containers (bottles, jars, lids, etc). The shelves along the wall will hold most of our raw ingredients (except our oils, those are being kept downstairs closer to the kitchen since they need to be used with the stove).

This pile of boxes will be replaced with my computer desk, file cabinet & printer. I haven’t figured out exactly what will go into that back closet. I’m thinking of setting up my curing rack in there. If I put it in there, I could even set up a dehumidifier in there to help speed up the curing process (assuming I could find a dehumidifier in Utah…. They mostly sell humidifiers!).

We're excited about our new place. Even though almost everything is still in boxes it already feels VERY much like home!

Wordless Wednesday - The Richness of Fall

Lesson & Laugh of the Day

I LOVE funny blogs. Seriously, absolutely LOVE them! There's nothing better on a blah day than to head over to my short list of funny blogs and be immediately cheered up. Heck, I even have a column on my TweetDeck called 'Humor'. This was good enough that I just HAD to share it!



HOW TO CHANGE YOUR OIL

Women:
1. Pull up to Jiffy Lube when the mileage reaches 3000 since the last oil change.
2. Drink a cup of coffee.
3. 15 minutes later, write a check and leave with a properly maintained vehicle.

Men:
1. Go to O'Reilly auto parts and write a check for 50 dollars for oil, filter, oil lift (AKA kitty litter), hand cleaner and scented tree.
2. Discover that the used oil container is full. Instead of taking it back to O'Reilly to recycle, dump in hole in back yard.
3. Open a beer and drink it.
4. Jack car up. Spend 30 minutes looking for jack stands.
5. Find jack stands under kid's pedal car.
6. In frustration, open another beer and drink it.
7. Place drain pan under engine.
8. Look for 9/16 box end wrench.
9. Give up and use crescent wrench.
10. Unscrew drain plug.
11. Drop drain plug in pan of hot oil; get hot oil on you in process.
12. Clean up.
13. Have another beer while oil is draining.
14. Look for oil filter wrench.
15. Give up; poke oil filter with Phillips screwdriver and twist it off.
16. Beer.
17. Buddy shows up; finish case with him. Finish oil change tomorrow.
18. Next day, drag pan full of old oil out from underneath car.
19. Throw oil lift (AKA kitty litter) on oil spilled during step 18.
20. Beer. No, drank it all yesterday.
21. Walk to 7-11; buy beer.
22. Install new oil filter making sure to apply thin coat of clean oil to gasket first.
23. Dump first quart of fresh oil into engine.
24. Remember drain plug from step 11.
25. Hurry to find drain plug in drain pan.
26. Hurry to replace drain plug before the whole quart of fresh oil drains onto floor.
27. Slip with wrench and bang knuckles on frame.
28. Bang head on floor board in reaction.
29. Begin cussing fit.
30. Throw wrench.
31. Cuss for additional 10 minutes because wrench hit Miss December(1992) in the left boob.
32. Clean up; apply Band-Aid to knuckle.
33. Beer.
34. Beer.
35. Dump in additional 4 quarts of oil.
36. Beer.
37. Lower car from jack stands.
38. Accidentally crush one of the jack stands.
39. Move car back to apply more oil lift (AKA kitty litter) to fresh oil spilled during step 23.
40. Drive car.

(courtesy of Swap Meet Dave)


I'm married to a very handy man. Changing oil is easy for him. I have even helped him completely replace a car engine. Let me tell you, there seriously is something very hot about a man covered in car grease who knows what he's doing underneath the hood of a car. But I digress! (fans self!)

Anyway.....

Even HE sees the advantage of delegating things out to people who have the skills & tools to do them properly and efficiently. YES, there are many things we could do for ourselves. But sometimes, it's better to let the pros do it!!!

Chaotic Times at Body Language Soaps

It's been an unusual year for us. As many of you know, we moved at the beginning of the summer. A friend of mine had an unusual rental available that was actually perfect for our needs. It had two kitchens. While that'd be weird for most people, it was perfect for us! We had his and her kitchens!

Unfortunately, due to some circumstances that none of us could have foreseen, my friend decided she needed to sell the house we're in. So we found ourselves looking for a new place to live when we hadn't even fully unpacked from our last move!

It took some crazy hunting (and viewing some terrifying places!), but we've found a place that fits our needs and our price range. Our move will be more than a little chaotic, but you do what you gotta do! I'm going to be spending all of this week packing up as much as I can out of dressers, shelves etc. My parents are going to help us move all the furniture over on Saturday (the 7th). Then over the course of the next few weeks, David & I will slowly but surely pack up everything else and get it transported over to the new place.

So, what does this mean for the business?

At the moment, we're not planning on closing down, just letting everyone know about the possibility of small delays in both communications and shipping. We will still do our best to get all our orders out in a timely manner.

While I admit that I'm not excited about moving so soon after this last move, I'm not dreading it either. I know we were supposed to live in Cedar Hills for the short time that we did. David made connections that he otherwise wouldn't have, and this lead to his new job (that he still is loving!). Also, the longer we were here, the more I realized that as much as I loved having my own kitchen for our business, the storage space that I had was just way too small. The new townhome in Provo has quite a bit more space, especially for our business that just keeps growing!

I know the picture below doesn't show much, but it's a quick glance at the room that will very soon be my studio. Ashton is standing at one end of it. This shot is showing less than half the room (there's another window identical to the one you can see). It's a nice big room, lots of sunlight (great for product pictures!!!). So I'm really excited to be able to spread out a little more than I currently am!


If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to ask. Just be patient with us. I'm going to be incredibly busy for the next few weeks, and before too long I'm sure I'll also have very limited internet access (the less to distract me with! LOL!). But keep us in your thoughts and prayers! We're probably going to need it over the next few weeks!

Harvets Market Success (and pictures!)

We had so much fun at the Harvest Market at Sundance on Saturday! Even though I was in pain most of the day and drugged up for all of it, we had a lot of fun (I severely sprained my ankle Thursday night, had a splint on it, and honestly, wasn't supposed to be on it nearly as much as I was!).


We arrived right at eight, and I hobble through FROST to get to my booth space (seriously, my splint was caked with snow by the time I got there), only to find out I was on a hill. Even if I thought I could set up without all my product rolling off my tables, I knew I would never be able to navigate on anything but a level surface. Luckily the coordinator sympathized, and he moved me down to a more level location!

My parents were kind enough to come help me & David with the set up. I could lift things, but not walk. David could walk but not lift things. Yeah, we were a GREAT pair! As we started to unload the van, David panics. He forgot the tent!!! Miraculously, he was able to run home in my parents' truck, grab the tent, and get back down with it before the show started, but it was a lovely little wrench thrown into the plans! But we survived!

While he was getting the tent, my parents helped me set up as much as we could. I went to put the black table cloth down on the 8 foot table, and found out that my cute little WHITE puppy must have somehow found it. It was covered in dog hair! So we were forced to use the green cloth that was provided with the table. It looked okay, but not quite what we were planning!


Although I really like how the burgundy runner looked draped over the table. I think it'll be really stunning on the black cloths for future shows. We did have another one for the other table, but forgot to put it out, and I'm going to blame my forgetfulness on the percocet! (which sadly, is probably accurate)

We also added sheer burgundy tie back panels to each of the front corners (sorry, no pictures!). It really added a nice final touch to the booth and helped tie things together.

Oh, and our other freak out moment during set up...

My mom asks me, "Lindsay, where are the rest of your lip balms?"

Me, "They're in one of the boxes."

Mom, "No they're not."

WHAT?!?!?!?! Guess what, I left two entire boxes of lip balms at home. We had about 7 flavors out of our normal 40 flavor line. Of course we discovered this AFTER David had texted me to let me know he was on his way back, otherwise we would have had him bring those with him as well. So... big change of plans in set up! We originally had one more 4 foot table running along the right wall. Without all those lip balms, I didn't have enough product to fill all 3 tables. But in hindsight, the good thing about pulling the table, it gave me a place to sit and elevate my foot during the day.

(our booth is the one to the left of the big american flag)

Finally it's 10am, our booth is set up, I'm not completely freezing, and the buyers are starting to stroll in. My parents head home and David & I are up and ready to have a great day in sales.

And we really did! I am so glad he came with me. Even if I'd been at 100%, I wouldn't have been able to do it all on my own! We were kept busy busy busy all day long. We handed out at least 150 business cards (I'll need to get more before the next show!), we handed out all our 1/4 oz lotion samples (those were a hit!). We sold out of several soaps and a couple of lotions. We also took some custom orders that we'll be shipping out this week.

Highlights of the day:

• Someone came to the show because she read about it on my blog! That was awesome!

• I met one of my regular Etsy customers! She and her friend walked around the corner of my booth and all of a sudden I hear her shout, "Oh my gosh, come here! This is who I buy all my lip balms from!" As soon as she told me her name, I knew exactly who it was! It was so much fun to meet her in person!!!

• I also had two ladies ask me about wholesaling! They're both unique local business, and they'd be a lot of fun to work with! So here's crossing fingers that that works out!

Finally 4 o'clock rolled around, and my brothers showed up to help us break down. I was actually sad to go! We had sales right up until the very end (and some people looking even when we had almost everything packed up). It was so cool to be hauling EMPTY product boxes back to the van. We brought 8 or 9 bankers boxes filled with product and we went home with 4 empty ones! WooHoo!!!

I'm now utterly exhausted (I slept for 12 hours last night!!!), and I'm forcing myself to take Sunday completely off (more for my ankle than anything else). But I'll be jumping back into the swing of things Monday morning again! (and we'll be adding our soaps back into our shop as we double check our post show inventory since we also have a new wholesale account that we'll be filling as well)

If you'd like to see more pictures of the show, we have some posted on our Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blsoaps/sets/72157622467673770/