Lavish Handcrafted

Today it's the week before Thanksgiving and raining like crazy here in West Michigan, but we've had our first measurable snow, which is always sure to get me in the holiday spirit. How about you?

I'm now almost 5 weeks out from my second spine surgery within ten weeks and am slowly getting back into my business. While I've not been able to make more soap since last winter due to the heavy weight involved in doing so, I do have a good assortment of my different fragrances in stock... Though maybe not a LOT of ALL of them. Cold process soaps generally get better as they age, so fear not!

I will also have a variety of foot creams, natural deodorant, lip balms, body butter bars (great for those with dry hands like me!) And more. Take a look through my old posts here on my Lavish Handcrafted FB page for reminders of what I carry.

Anything but the cold process soaps can be made within just a few days if I don't have them in stock, and the raw materials and needed equipment aren't as heavy as for the soaps, so are within my current ten pound weight limits.

Don't wait too long to order, though, since shipping snags are predicted again this year.

This weekend I've been packaging some of my most recent cold process soap batches, shown here.

I will be taking off the month of August because of some "urgent" neck surgery. I should be able to fulfill any orders placed here by next Sunday, August 1. If I'm functional enough to work on orders before the end of August, I'll let you all know here on Facebook.

If you'd like a reminder of some of the myriad of products I make, take a glance back on my previous posts!

As promised, here are some Father's Day favorite cold process soaps. These are all fresh batches made this spring and just now finishing their 6-8 week cures.

This gorgeous blue soap is in a top selling favorite: "Shave and a Haircut". If you're old enough to remember an old fashioned barbershop, this is that scent. I've got more than one customer who keeps coming back over and over (and over) to order just this one fragrance, two bars at a time.

Next week is Mother's Day and it's not too late to get your order in for that special person.

Scroll back through my Lavish Handcrafted pages to see some of my products and let message me and let me know what I can do for you.

Besides my luxury cold process soaps in approximately one hundred fragrances, some of which I have pictured here, I have over a dozen flavors of lip balms, body butter bars (for those summer and winter dry hands), lotions, shampoo bars, conditioner bars, and more!