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About Us
I’ve loved handmade soap my
whole life. I was always buying it from local stores and craft shows.
I collected it, admired it, displayed it and eventually used it.
It saddened me to use it, even though I knew how great it made my
skin feel. I cherished every
bar like it was a work of art – which it was!
When it got low I’d scout for more, replenish my stock and
start all over.
In 1993, while at an art show with my sister, I purchased several
bars of soap from local soap maker. After my purchase my
sister asked me why I didn’t just learn to make it myself.
After all, I’d spend a small fortune yearly to feed my need for
handmade soap, certainly I could invest a little to get started, even if
it were just making soap for my family and myself.
It sparked my interest enough for me to buy a book on soap making.
And then another and another, and… you get the idea.
After much research, several batches and several years, a small
soap company was born, changing its name, and its products along the
way, until I figured out exactly what I wanted it to be.
Palmer Soapworks is definitely a “we”, although in its early
days, it started as an “I”. When
I met my now husband he really had no choice but to become involved in
my soap making. After all,
he was a “jack of all, master of none”, and I was going to utilize
that! I set him to work
making molds and designing displays.
Before long he was setting up at art shows and selling product.
While I am still the only one who makes the soap, this business
is truly a family business. It’s
an “all gave some” when it comes to recipes, testing, soap naming,
labeling, shrink wrapping, beveling, web site editing, deliveries, art
shows, etc. I could never
make this business what it is today all by myself.
You won’t find anything too fancy here.
We make good soap, with quality ingredients.
Soap good for the body, mind and spirit.
It’s not mass produced, although we do make a lot of it. We
make it right in the kitchen of our home.
I’m a lip balm junkie – self proclaimed, yes.
So you’ll find plenty of that around here also.
We design all of our labels in our own office, print them there
too. Nothing we make or sell
is “mass produced” or from a base.
It’s all made from scratch, in our home, from recipes tried and
true. We use it on ourselves, our son, the dog, the cat.
The rest of our family and our friends use it too.
We give them the blemished bars to try, and we save the good ones
for you.
Handmade soap is a little luxury you can afford to indulge in, so do it.
Don’t let it sit on a shelf as decoration, or in a drawer for
its scent. Use it up, we
promise we’ll make more.
I still buy soap from vendors at any art show I attend.
My mother travels the country and often sends me bars from small
country vendors she runs into. We
encourage you to do the same. Support
your local hand made soap makers. They
work hard to bring you quality products.
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