Simply Soap  

Holidays 2009

GIFT SETS  

Upscale & tastefully arranged! Suitable gifts for a loved one or boss, neighbor or child!

Specify message, if desired, for gift tag...FREE!

Don't see a gift you had in mind? Want to mix & match different scents? Give us a dollar amount that you would like to spend and a gender, age, & scent type, and we can put together an arrangement for you!

Add on a wooden, draining soap dish to any arrangement.

our autumn & Holiday Soaps!

Arrive to your holiday gatherings with some bubbly!

Bring the much-loved gift of handmade SOAP!

Rich quick lather, luscious aromas, skin-nourishing pampering....who can resist?

Retailers! Order a wire soap cutter along with logs ($25.00) and you can offer cut-by-the-slice soap logs in your holiday merchandise displays!  Stocking Stuffer HEAVEN!

Logs, chunks, or bars, no matter how you rack 'em, stack 'em, or slice 'em ...EVERYONE on your gift list will LOVE receiving artisan soaps handmade-from-scratch! Nothing compares to the feel, scent, and clean-rinsing *clean* of handmade soap!  It's the gift that recipients come back to you to say,  "THANKS ..... for the experience!!!"

Visit Gift Ensembles for gift packaging ideas or tell us your idea!

  "One of the easiest things I did last Christmas was bulk-buy your soap!  I just cut off bars of soap off the logs, or gave it "as logs" and everyone LOVED getting it! My boss, my neighbor, my mailman, my kids' teachers, the ladies in my bunco group, everyone!  It made gift-giving so simple, especially for all of those unexpected gifts you end up needing at the last minute.  I just added more bars for those I wanted to give a larger gift to.  I'm doing it again next year!" -- Nancy Wheeler, San Diego, CA

Want to try ALL of the 14 Autumn/Holidays Soaps listed below in sample-size?

Can't make up your mind? Want to try all the soaps?  Try our Sample Pack which is a 1.5 oz. piece of each soap, each in a cello bag with the name hand-written on the bag (no label)

Autumn Soaps!

Savor the aromatic scents of the season!  Enjoy in your own shower, or take as a hostess gift to Halloween and Thanksgiving gatherings!

Apple-Cherry Cider

(Fragrance and essential oil scented.)

Long known as a #1 aphrodisiac to men, the scent of baking apples is sure to draw a man like a bee to honey...but this scent truly is loved by all!  Ripe apples and tart cherry in spiced cider.  Hmmm--mmm! Autumn is in the air and in your soap dish!  Stack with our other green & red soaps for a beautiful soap stack gift!

  Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, fragrance, mineral colorant, cosmetic-grade mica.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Orange-Cranberry Seed Scrub

(Essential and fragrance oil-scenting.)

A festive holiday delight in your soap dish...or tied to a wooden soap dish for a gift (pairs beautifully with Wassail!!  Luscious sweet orange followed by  a layer of tart cranberry including a very light sprinkling of cranberry seed exfoliation.  Supporting scents of cassis, grapefruit, fig and a hint of clove make this an unforgettable gift!  Super-enriched with avocado oil...to battle winter skin dryness!

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, avocado oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, fragrance, essential oil, mineral colorant, cosmetic-grade mica, cranberry seeds.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Orange Gingerbread

(Essential and fragrance oil-scenting.)

Something I look forward to every holiday season is the baking of gingerbread and the sweet smell of orange spice tea!  It fills the house with the most wonderful aroma!  This soap captures both essences .... but for your bath!  The tan/orangey layer is orange gingerbread spice, the white layer a creamy milk & honey scent!  What a comforting thought after a cold day!  Now don't go eating this though!  It's tempting!  Mind the kids! 

Samhain Spirit

(Essential & fragrance oil scenting.)

To create Samhain Spirit, I took my gathering basket and collected all the very best scent memories of Halloween's/Samhain's past.....damp woodland leaves, bitter orange rind potpourri, a splash of mountain apple cider, freshly-ground cinnamon bark, the sweetness of hot Mexican chocolate, a hint of cherry tobacco, and a whisp of sage for protection from n'er-do-well spirits.  Stirred together in my soap cauldron with extra enrichment from fresh vitamin-rich pumpkin meat, 100% virgin African shea butter, this wondrously emollient soap and scent blend emerged, an aromatherapy soap to keep Halloween magically alive year-round!

Available in our Wylde Wytch label - Art by the soapmaker!  

  Be sure to check out our:

for Halloween / Samhain Soaps!

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OUR ALL-TIME HOLIDAY  BESTSELLERS!

Blizzard Bar

(Essential and fragrance oil-scented.)  

Wintery blue with white "flurries"; ...Hanukkah colors, or perfect for your favorite snow-bunny!  This crisp, clean, calming scent blend combines essential oils (spearmint, rosemary and others!)  reknown for their tranquility-inducing and mind-opening aromatherapeutic effect--and we all know how holidays create a need for THAT!  Super-enriched with gentle avocado oil. (Retailers!  This makes a great selection as a carry-over soap for Valentines Day/Winter Snow Bunny soap, too!)

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, avocado oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, fragrance, essential oil, mineral colorant.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Christmas Tree Farm

a.k.a. "Big Sur" from our Regular Line

(Essential and fragrance oil-scented.)

The BEST scent of the season!  Bring the fresh-cut aroma of Christmas into your bath and holiday soap dish!  This bar smells EXACTLY like a leisurely stroll through a Christmas tree farm looking for "the perfect tree" on a crisp winter day..... rich balsam pine, spruce and fir, sweetened with a hint of vanilla!  Enriched with gentle avocado oil.  One of our all-time holiday best-sellers! (Perfect paired with Wassail, below!)

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, avocado oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, fragrance, essential oil, mineral colorant.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Wassail 

a.k.a. "Tuscany Wine Spice" from our Regular Line

(Fragrance oil-scented.)

Luscious huckleberry, plum spice, and wine scents with REAL burgundy wine added.....CHEERS!  Enriched with avocado oil.  Natural mica added for a shimmery glimmer when wetted!  Ring in your celebrations with this indulgent, rich-lather bar!  Pair it with "Christmas Tree Farm" for a festive red and green combo!  A holiday all-time best-seller! (Retailers!  This makes a great selection as a carry-over soap for Valentines Day soap, too! Re-name a Valentine appropriate name and private label!)

  Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, powdered burgundy and merlot wine, fragrance, cosmetic-grade mica.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Figgy Pudding

(Essential & fragrance oil scented.)

A deliciously dark berry-fig scent we're sure you'll be bowled over with in your winter tub!  A mysterious berry-ish & ginger laced blend that you'll be curiously drawn to, men and women alike!  We'd always wondered what the holiday tune "Now bring us some figgy pudding...."  would actually smell like, so after researching several renditions of the festive concoction, we came up with this version for SOAP...and you "won't go until you get some, won't go until you get some.....".

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, fragrance, mineral colorant, cosmetic-grade mica.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Orange Gingerbread

(Essential and fragrance oil-scenting.)

Something I look forward to every holiday season is the baking of gingerbread and the sweet smell of orange spice tea!  It fills the house with the most wonderful aroma!  This soap captures both essences .... but for your bath!  The tan/orangey layer is orange gingerbread spice, the white layer a creamy milk & honey scent!  What a comforting bath after a cold day!  Now don't go eating this, though it's tempting!  Mind the kids! 

  Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, fragrance, mineral colorant, ground cinnamon.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

   Frankincense & Myrrh

(Fragrance oil-scented.)

A gift tradition the magi began with the First Christmas!  A spicey-resinous, masculine scent of frankincense & myrrh in a creamy-white bar swirled with GOLD and brown.  Added French white clay makes this an exceptional shaving soap (clay helps the beard stand up!)!  Men are particularly attracted to this aroma, but MANY women find it sophisticated and irresistible!  Continue a WISE gift-giving tradition!

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, avocado oil, French white clay, fragrance, mineral colorant, cosmetic-grade mica.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Mocha Truffle

(Fragrance oil scented.)

Chocolate...need I say more? 

For all the times you've thought "I love chocolate so much I wish I could BATHE in it!"...now's your chance!  Enriched with cocoa butter! There's no calories to contend with and it won't make the kids hyper! Enriched with cocoa butter and a rich cocoa scent and swirled with ground cocoa pod husks.  Decadently divine! Pairs perfectly with any of our other "food" scents like Java Bean Scrub for coffee-lovers, or Peppermint Twist for the kids!

(Please monitor use of this soap around children too young to not know it's not edible!  It *IS* tempting to eat!)

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, cocoa butter, fragrance, cocoa powder.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Partridge Pearberry

(Fragrance oil-scented.)

A luscious pear and berry scent blend touched with a delicate hint of spice, that is simply mouth-watering and enriched with shea butter!  This soap was hugely popular in seasons past, then we didn't offer it last year due to losing our usual supply line for that "perfect scent"....and if we couldn't get it as we know you all loved it, we wouldn't offer it at all.   Well it's BACK!   Also makes a lovely "first fruits" Kwanzaa selection!

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, virgin shea butter, fragrance, cosmetic-grade mica.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Pomegranate

(Fragrance oil-scented.)

We introduced this soap two holiday seasons ago and it was so popular, we added it to our Regular line so you could order it year-round!  A luscious and sophisticated fruity yet plsu soemthing else scent--unique and enticing!

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, fragrance, cosmetic-grade mica.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Peppermint Twist

(Essential oil-scented soap.)

A candy cane blend of peppermint and spearmint.....a perennial favorite and SO refreshing (...like Altoids ® for your skin!)  Mint essential oils are aromatherapeutically reputed to stimulate & clear the mind...and, are excellent for balancing oily skin problems! Beeea-utiful paired with one of our GREEN holiday soaps, too! (Retailers!  This makes a great selection as a carry-over soap for Valentines Day soap, too! Re-name a Valentine appropriate name and private label!)

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, essential oils, mineral colorant, cosmetic-grade mica.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Yule

(Fragrance and essential oil-scented soap.)

The ancient celebration of Yule (word means "feast month") rejoices in the winter solstice and signs of the sun returning after a cold, dark winter.  We've designed this soap in a beautiful golden shimmery sun color with chunks of green representing the festive use of evergreen radiating pine needles that represent the eventual return of the warming, radiating sun!  Scented a delicious bayberry, sweet orange, spruce and cinnamon!  And what a clever way to give a traditional Yule "Log" as a gift...when the log is a log of SOAP!

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, virgin shea butter, fragrance, essential oil, cosmetic-grade mica and mineral colorant.

NOTE: No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Shopping for more Red & Green?

Regular Line soaps not "holiday scent-specific" but beautifully color-coordinated for the holidays are : 

  Bellisima,  Mint Mud Cake  

Linden Blossom,  Red Clover & Rasberry Tea,      

  Green Tea & Spearmint,  Juniper Sage

Other holiday "unique" soap favorites: 

Java Bean Scrub (for coffee lovers--made with Starbucks coffee!)

Here Fishy, Fishy!  (for outdoorsmen!)

  Order our popular Simply Sweet Soap Confection Box of soaps in HOLIDAY SCENTS!  Twelve 1-ounce pieces of soap in confectioner's cups, nestled in a box of natural grass excelsior and packaged in holiday ribbon!  The lid to the box contains a legend of what each soap variety is...just like a real candy box! 

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  (Order in alternate scent options at our GIFTS page!)

Like it SSSPICEY?  

Spicey aromas add warmth to fall & winter, with spice essential oils adding light warming attributes in the bath!  

Popular Autumn/Winter soaps from our Rustic Soap Collection....

Tangy dried orange peel holds oodles of tartness, plus sweet orange & neroli essential oils with hints of cinnamon and clove spices make this soap burst with a mulled cider-like essence.  Finely-ground rhassoul clay, mined from deep within the Atlas Mountains of Morocco adds extraordinary gentle, gentle texture in a buttery soap.  Uni-sex, but an all-time guy-favorite!  A best-seller!

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, unrefined shea butter, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, essential oils, rhassoul clay, ground orange peel, ground spices.

Note:  No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Pronounced like "Courvosier", the cognac!

A rich and heady clove-patchouli soap with a large heaping of gently exfoliating and finely grained rhassoul clay, mined from deep below the Atlas Mountains of Morocco (makes it an excellent shaving soap!).  Clay paired with shea butter and a sprinkling of choice ground spices make men gravitate to this soap like bees to honey, but if you have an affection for rich spiciness, accent on clove, you'll savor this bar as well! Since we've introduced it, it's flying off the shelves... and we're very pleased to see so many men buying their own skincare products these days!

Ingredients used to create this soap: Palm kernel oil, coconut oil, olive oil, unrefined shea butter, distilled water, sodium hydroxide (lye), castor oil, rhassoul clay, essential oils, ground spices.

Note:  No sodium hydroxide (lye) remains in the finished soap product.

Bundle TWO WEDGES INTO A CUBE for a beautiful gift!  (Mix & match scents!)

Winter or Dry Skin Problems?

Every winter we have customers clamoring for soaps to rescue their EXTREME dry winter skin problems.  What do we recommend?  ALL of our soaps are enriched and skin-nourishing, ...but for EXTREME dry skin conditions, try: 

Goatmeal Butter Bar (50% shea butter, 50% olive oil)

Bark & Butter Balm Bar (shea butter enriched)

Bellisima (extra avocado oil enriched)

Bar None (UNSCENTED and enriched with avocado oil)

French Way (UNSCENTED and 75% olive oil in the old French tradition)

Tahitian Secret (made with 100% pure Tahitian Monoi Oil)

or any of our Rustic Soap Collection...all selections enriched with dry skin's best-friend...SHEA BUTTER!

    Need  

Cold & Flu Relief?

Soaps can aid with fever and stuffiness symptoms -- YES!  Soaps actually CAN help! (Be sure to consult your physician for full diagnosis and treatment plan!)

When you have a fever, the thing you need most is to cool-down!  In addition to LOTS of fluids and fever-reducing medication, Peppermint Twist with naturally-cooling-to-the-skin essential oils of peppermint and spearmint comes to the rescue! Also try our Mystic Mint Milk Soap from our Rustic Soap Collection!

Un-stuff your nose in a warm, steamy shower using Sunrise Sauna (contains powdered loofah) with eucalyptus, rosemary and other camphor essential oils in a bright citrus-y blend that helps open nasal passages naturally!

  Many THANKS to YOU, our valued customers, for another year allowing us to do what we love best ... making handcrafted soap! Best holiday wishes to you and yours!

~Carol Ochs, Owner - Simply Soap

Copyright protected and registered © 1994- Carol Ochs, Simply Soap.  All rights reserved.  

PACKAGING OPTIONS:  

Plain - $5.50 

("Plain" bars come in a clear cello bag with soap variety hand-written on it.)

Labeled - $6.00

(Holiday Wreath Label)

If you'd prefer your labeled bars in our holiday wreath label, state so in the NOTES section of the shopping cart!  Thanks!

Fabric Wrapped/Labeled - $7.00

Log (12-Bar) - $60.00

(Can be cut with a common kitchen knife, or purchase our soap cutter below).....

Soap Cutter - $25.00 ea.

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