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....these are the best times for gathering!
Gathering what, you ask? Herbs and botanicals, of course! It's during these times when plants and petals are at their most plump & fragrant, full of vibrant life force.....plant spirit medicine, as any good herbalist knows! If you don't have a garden of your own, let us gather and mix, pestle and stir, measure and chant for you! You've discovered Wylde Wytch Soaps, and there's a special kind of magic in our soaps! Welcome! Let us tell you about them..... "One-of-a-kind, whimsical, beguiling, bewitching, and magically crafted! " - Testimonial of one of our first Wylde Wytch Soaps customers. Most of you familiar with Simply Soap, know my love of gardening and attraction to all things magical! I believe ANYTHING we need is provided for on Earth in some natural form....we need only educate ourselves how to use nature to it's best advantage!
I also grew up with a gardening Gran who taught me all things "plant". And, I possessed a romantic imagination, enamored with all things "witch". It started early on with the sitcom "Bewitched", movies like "Practical Magic", my forever love of Halloween, and always studying herbal lore and Wise Woman ways. After creating our line of Wylde Faerie Soaps, a marriage of Simply Soap and Wild Oaks Art, I was also inspired to concoct this collection of soaps that reflect my witchier fascinations. I mixed Simply Soap, my witch art from Enchantasies, and what did I get? Wylde Witch Soaps! "I LOVED getting my Wylde Wytch Soaps package! It felt like a magical parcel created just for me, adorned with rose petals and the most enchanting scents surrounding it before I even opened the box, peeled back the black tissue paper, and discovered the soap treasures within! Thanks you for making this an experience, not just another everyday product!" - Leslie, CA Customer
This collection of
hand-stirred soaps is indeed of magical inspiration and the
culmination of my long study of the power of plants. Much I
learned from books, much I learned through practical application. The aromas and botanicals
I use--flower petals, crushed leaves, ground herbs, resins, spices, and
essential oils, capture the true plant essence & life force of the
natural world. These rich-textured, skin-soothing aromatherapy
soaps enhance bath rituals & celebrations! It's our wish that every bath or shower you enjoy becomes a rejuvenating
ritual you look forward to every time...
Nature stacks up beautifully on it's own...but sometimes folks forget their roots to nature! If you are accustomed to heavily synthetic, fragranced foo-foo soap, mass-produced and full of chemical things like Sodium Laurel Sulfate, you'll be in for a sensory treat with our chunks of natural, hand-stirred bars! The lack of residue alone is a gift! But we know some modern-generation noses are trained from birth to only know synthetic scent, need to be reminded and recalled to their innate natural instincts once again! Let us re-introduce you.... Perhaps you do not walk the ways of the green witch, but then again, try our soaps if you dare! Experience for yourself why Wise Women secrets have endured for centuries! Yes...there IS a little witch in all of us. Once you try the magic of handcrafted soaps, we're certain you'll find yours and wonder where she's been hiding all this time! Questions? We invite you to contact us! simplysoap@aol.com
~ The Soaps ~
I suggest that when using these herb-rich soaps, soap-up and let the lather set on your skin a spell before rinsing, so your skin can absorb the healthful plant nutrients and benefits. The base oil ingredients of our soaps are olive, palm kernel, coconut, and castor oils, with other added enriching oils like avocado and rosehip seed oil, or virgin shea butter from Africa---so you never have to worry about our soaps drying your skin out or leaving a sticky residue! Our soaps are ALL natural except for 3 selections (as indicated by an asterisk*), that in addition to being scented with pure essential oils (natural), also contain a smidgeon (less than 4% on ingredient total content) of synthetic fragrance oil for scents that we cannot obtain all-naturally in an affordable way, such as dragonsblood, amber, & nag champa. And even then, we use them only because they are witch traditional. Therefore, choose for yourself if you wish to avoid any synthetics whatsoever. First and foremost, we believe in informed ingredient labeling. Pricing on a couple of selections is higher due to more expensive ingredients used.
Each 4.8 ounce cake of soap comes exclusively packaged in a wytch art label (painted by myself) with paper insert describing it's unique attributes & magick intentions (exactly as you see them listed below)! Click image link to see and enlarged version of the print. Much study of true Wise Woman ways and green witch tradition went into the creation and coordination of each soap using specific herbs, oils, and colors associated with the intentions listed for each handcrafted bar. Some soaps were crafted for FUN and an homage to some of my and your favorite witches! All soaps are unique and we doubt you'll find anything precisely like them elsewhere! Best of all, they are made with love -- the best magic of all! (WHOLESALERS: These soaps are not available for private label, and only come in full-bar size.) WHOLESALE CLIENTS: You can e-mail us at simplysoap@aol.com for wholesale pricing upon providing us your resale permit or bus. lic. - fax to: (619) 287-1321. You can use our online retail shopping cart to shop, but put "WHOLESALE" in the "NOTES" section of the cart so we charge you accordingly.
~ Amas Veritas ~
Remember young Sally summoning a true love spell in the movie Practical Magic, a spell called Amas Veritas? We've created our own Amas Veritas with the passion-invoking essential oils of patchouli, sandalwood, rosewood, ylang ylang and star jasmine, with a sprinkling of crushed red rose petals throughout, and the entire bar enriched with rosehip seed oil---pricey oil, but nothing enriches and drenches your skin so luxuriantly in moisture! Bathe with this soap prior to love rituals and to attract love with it's fragrant and earthy aromatherapy benefits! Like casting a love spell!
~ Blessing Seed Bar ~
Nothing banishes negativity and protects like the potent magic of blessing seeds, also known as Nigella seed. This bar is also empowered with freshly ground burdock root and mugwort herb, ...herbs of protection, and scented with the curious essential oil of petitgrain (from the bitter orange tree leaf) and is known to alleviate depression and anxiety, as well as oils of clary sage and sandalwood...balancing for all skin types and soothing to mental clarity. Bless thy body with blessing seed!
*~ Dragonsblood Elixir ~
Dragonsblood resin is long known for it's history of use in incense and consecration rituals, and empowering changes, energy, and strength. Wonderful for exorcisms and banishing naughty spirits to their next realm. We've added ground dragonsblood resin to this spicy blend accentuated with cinnamon.
~ Druid Brew ~
Druids of ancient times honored all that was of-the-Earth, in fact they followed this very scent recipe in potions and incense recipes, carrying it forward to future generations, scrawled in their leathery grimoires. Allow the aroma to meditatively summon natural magic and garden blessings, as well as luck, fertility, healing and balancing attributes. It is known as one of "THE" oldest witch scent recipes still in existence, so I dare not reveal the exact scent ingredients as some secrets are best kept secret, and should be held tightly in correctly respectful hands! But you can trust me that you will be reminded of Earth herself, ancient incense, and a sweet milky note with a hint of spice....all conjured into one sumptuous bath brew, swirled with a ground cinnamon vein. Another favorite of those of the male persuasion.
~ Encantado ~ (means "Enchanted")
Encantado (Spanish) is a soap that honors ancient ones before us, particularly the Curanderas, or medicine women of Latin America, who practice their herbal magic and never mind when people call them "witch"---for they know well from the herbal teachings passed forth from Curanderas before them, that the poultices and herbal concoctions they make for the sick cure them and they are never called "witch" in a negative manner again; they become "healer witch". Encantado is filled with ground herbs of rosemary and lavender as well as the pure essential oils of both. The Curanderas are not the sole holders of this secret; green witches everywhere know of the cleansing, healing, and mental soothing power of antiseptic and skin-balancing rosemary and lavender....
* ~ Honey Mead & Sweet Cake Soap ~
Witch celebrations & rituals such as handfastings (marriage), and circle casting usually involves the consumption of wine and cake! This sweet soap contains real honey & fruit mead (wine) obtained from a winery local to us named Witch Creek Winery---a luscious brew unto itself, and adds special honeyed-sweetness to this divinely unique soap! Also scented with the creamy vanilla of "cake", a touch of amber, and the magic and protection of ground wild hawthorne & chamomile flowers, and whole calendula petals.....Hmmm! ::lip-smack!:: A truly bewitching way to celebrate your bath, and an intoxicating gift idea for most special ceremonies and occasions! But don't wait for a special occasion to celebrate the magic of YOU!
~ Indigo Chyld ~
"Indigo Child" is a special name for special children--those born with advanced evolvement, often psychic or paranormal qualities, and gifts of extreme empathy and creativity. They are said to have an indigo-colored aura about them. We all have Indigo Child like qualities, some more developed than others, it's how much you get in-touch with and use your gifts! While some fear and are skeptical of those with these "gifts", we celebrate them! Indigo Chyld soap is scented with a magical blend of anise (black licorice) and cinnamon--both essential oils known to aromatherapeutically sharpen psychic awareness, intuition and creativity. Ground elder flower, lavender, marigold and yarrow are added for their magical properties of protection and intuition.
~ Midnight Margarita Bar ~
"Put de lime in de coconut, and drink 'em both up." - Harry Nilsson Who can resist the call to the margarita blender, especially in the Midnight Hour, as celebrated in Practical Magic? This soap was created to celebrate good times shared with your best coven or slumber party pals! Real coconut milk is added to this juicy lime scented soap that will positively make your mouth water at the tang, topped with epsom salts as salt on the rim and grains of protection. A special token gift to bring to all of your best friends and margarita lovers! So get skyclad, and Cheers!
~ Mint Oatmeal Shaving Soap ~
In the movie Practical Magic, remember Sally lamenting to Gillian, ..."I was really, really happy. We were going to open a botanical shop. Michael'd get the ingredients. And I'd make the stuff. He really loved my mint-oatmeal shaving cream. He couldn't stop eating it."
As a soapmaker, as soon
as I heard that, of course I simply had to MAKE IT...as soap! And so I
did, and YES, it IS an awesome shaving soap, and an all-around soap,
too! But I would not recommend eating it--you may burp
bubbles! Loaded with skin-soothing ground oats, white clay (to
help whisker or leg hair stand up to be shaved, and to extract
impurities) and super-enriched with avocado oil, we're sure you'll love
the skin-tingling magic of this bar! It's also an excellent idea
to take a mint soap shower or bath to cool off overly hot skin, fevers,
and mint aroma sharpens the mind prior to test-taking or activities that
require acute mental clarity! An excellent wake-up remedy to use
after a night of Midnight Margarita-ing.... *wink*
~ Pumpkin Pazooties ~
(Hand Soap) As all good witches know, pumpkins are indescribably magical! We grow and keep them about our house all year round! When in a field of pumpkins especially, there's no telling what may happen! And if it happens to be on a full moonlit night.....WHOA.....the BEST pumpkin magic of all! Pumpkin also happens to be incredibly rich in betacarotene and vitamins that are excellent for the skin! So many fellow witchfolk we know have hard-working hands: gardeners, artists, crafters, so we wanted to create a special hand soap that caters to cleaning and caring for their hands Whether knobby-knuckled or smooth, hands always tell a special story about their owner.... We want your hands to say that all their hard work is rewarded with magical natural skin care! Loaded with vitamin-rich pumpkin meat, African virgin shea butter (Earth's BEST and most incredibly healing moisturizer), and Moroccan rhassoul clay to dig deep into crevices and gently coax out ground-in dirt. A perfect balance of grit and emollience! Scented in a luscious pumpkin pie spice blend of cinnamon, clove, ginger and sweet valencia orange. You'll be finding excuses to get your hands dirty, just so you can lather up again! This soap is a beautiful pumpkin orange color when first made and then cures into an earthy brown. (If you're wondering what "pazooties" means, I grew up in a house where "pazooties" meant "hands". Whether 100% accurate or not, we had a myriad of loose Polish translations and others that my father claimed came from a gypsy witch doctor he knew. Regardless, I knew hands to be "pazooties" before I knew them to be "hands"...and my Dad had the best knobby-knuckled, hard-working hands ever...they always told a story of love. Pumpkin Pazooties are an homage to my Dad; he always appreciated a good hand soap! Now you know what "pazooties" are!)
* ~ Spellbound ~
When you're preparing for your day, in need of a few moments of meditation, or simply to clear your mind, this soap has all the ingredients to help you cleanse yourself of negative energy and bad karma. Chockful of ground herbs of lavender, thyme, chamomile flowers and scented with oils of chamomile, nag champa and cedar wood, you'll feel empowered with encouragement, success, ambition, strength and vitality! I personally enjoy this earthy and sensual soap after a morning yoga session, to carry that sense of physical and mental peace & clarity with me through my busy day, reflecting fondly on the "me-time" shower ritual that started me off on the right side of the broom! \
~ Verbena ~
In Practical Magic, Sally's charming botanical shop was named "Verbena Botanicals"....and the very word "verbena" conjures up images of bright mood scents, astringent citrus purification, and garden goodness! And so it is with our Verbena bar....a bright essential oil blend of lemon verbena, a touch of lemongrass, geranium, and clary sage---all mood elevating aromas, and deep-cleansing to the skin with antiseptic properties as well! Excellent for oily or acne-prone skin. Sprinkled with broken leaves of lemon balm herb, and freshly squeezed lemon juice from our own lemon tree, you can't help but have a smile cast upon your sunny face when using this happy soap! Spread the joy--it's MAGIC!
~ Wize Wimmin Soap ~
Wise Women; they were (and are) the largely unsung healers, psychologists, midwives and shaman of their people, royalty and poor alike. Many feared them as "witches", feared simply for their potent knowledge! For how truly powerful was their natural power and proficiency with plant potions? Could be dangerous for a monarchy! But most people respected their expertise and were only too happy to pay for or trade for their services! This cherished talent came from knowledge passed forth by Wise Women before them, and on through the ages, gifted knowledge passed to trusted acolytes. My own Gran was a Wise Woman whose plant magic was evident to all who knew her! A return to this knowledge might eliminate a lot of chemicals and false salves on the wounds of society. Our Wize Wimmin Soap blends some of the most notable, prolific, and much-loved herb staples through the ages: lavender, elder flower, thyme and sage and is scented with a fresh herbal blend of marjoram, elemi, geranium and lavender. Healthful and regenerative for all skin types, especially troubled skin, these herbs' inherent aromatherapy magickal properties enhance wisdom, self-assurance, spiritual development and ambition. Wise Women knew best......and we continue to share!
~ Wylde Wytch Gift Box~ Perfect for your favorite witch or magically-spirited person!
Give the gift of wytch magic! Choose 1 - 2 bars nestled in natural grass excelsior in a craft box, tied with a black silk ribbon and the option of being adorned with a witch broom! Free Gift Card if desired! Indicate in "Special Instructions" section of Shopping Cart WHICH wytch soap choices you prefer, (box holds a max. of 2 bars), and specify any wording for your Gift Card! If you forget to include on the cart, feel free to e-mail us at simplysoap@aol.com. Want to add a cute broom accent to your Gift Box? Makes a darling Witchmas Tree Ornament!
~ Wylde Wytch Gift Set~
Can't decide or want the whole set for all of your various moods, or as a gift to a coven mate? We make it easy with this 13 for the price of 12 Gift Pack! Wrapped-up and adorned with a mini witch broom! How enchanting is THAT? (Does not include any seasonal soap special offerings, but they may be added on.) Free Gift Card if desired! Indicate in "Special Instructions" section of Shopping Cart any wording for Gift Card! If you forget to include on the cart, feel free to e-mail us at simplysoap@aol.com.
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 art label). (Will include seasonal special soap offerings.)
If you'd like to view more of our fantasy art, you are invited to visit both of our art websites at:
Wild Oaks Art - The Bewitched Fantasy Art of Carol Ochs
Enchantasies - There's a little witch in all of us.....how little is YOUR witch?
The music on this page is called "Let's Play" and was written by my husband David Ochs. You can also find David and more music at: www.davidochs.com Thanks for your interest!
NOTE: These unique soaps were specially created and crafted under the Simply Soap name and are available for both retail (cart on site) and wholesale purchase (wholesale pricing inquiries: simplysoap@aol.com) however unlike our other soap lines, they are not available as plain bars, half bars, in bulk, or for wholesale private label purchase. They are only available as labeled bars as you see displayed (except for the Sample Pack). Wylde Wytch Soaps, our Wylde Faerie Soaps, and Ancient Alchemy lines are soap collections we wish to retain our own unique identity with. Thank you! DISCLAIMER: While we have our own views on how we celebrate and embrace the perception of "witch", we by no means claim to be an authority on the many schools of teaching on the various religions or practices of witchcraft. We realize that many within witch communities look with scrutiny upon commercialized, or media-popularized versions (movies, TV shows, etc.) of "witch". Our references to some of these here is in fun and light-heartedness. This site is merely a celebration of the magic of witch and Wise Woman ways! The soapmaker herself happens to follow many spiritual paths; raised Catholic, drawn to the Old Religions, and open to the gift of all faiths. If all were distilled into ONE FAITH, we believe it could be summarized by what the Dalai Lama spoke so eloquently--"My religion is kindness." Links of interest: - Practical Magic script, Amas Veritas - A site all about the movie Practical Magic
Books: (Look for us to expand our reading list for you here!)
Copyright protected and registered © 1994- Carol Ochs, Simply Soap. All rights reserved.
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Birds chirp to the accompaniment of croaking
toads; the dawning sun dries fresh morning dew. Velvet night, bathed in full-moonlight and the
thrum of crickets...
