http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog River County Soapworks - River County Soapworks produces high quality soap and toiletries that are both pleasing to the senses and terrific for your skin. I invite you to try our products. Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:31:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The past couple of week ends I’ve had the new handmade soap displays set up at the outdoor market I attend most weekends.    This market is the Portland Saturday Market which is gigantic and keeps me pretty busy.   I get to meet and talk with retail customers but also potential ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/handmade-soap/new-market-displays-are-up.php Yes, River County Soapworks is a handmade soap company which should have been on Facebook a long time ago.  Unfortunately, the soap maker who makes all the handmade soap around here is not the sharpest tool in the shed when it comes to all this social networking stuff.   Yes, I’m ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/handmade-soaps/facebook.php For those that like to buy handmade soap it’s always fun to try something new.   I am gradually adding to my goat milk soap line and have a new handmade soap to introduce.  I’m calling it Summer Solstice because it reminds me well, of warm summer days.    Anyone who lives ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/goat-milk-soap/new-goat-milk-soap.php I like to use dried Calendula and Bachelor Buttons as toppings for some handmade soap bars or soap logs.  They are pretty dried up and tossed either in the handmade soap or on top of the logs.   There is something very eye catching when displaying a row of handmade soap ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/handmade-soaps/soap-toppings.php We have two of the new handmade soap displays finished.  Yippee!  Only two more to go.  Now the really hard work begins in figuring out what colors to use in the sales booth to make our handmade soaps visually appealing.  I do think that the new displays make the handmade ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/handmade-soaps/a-work-in-progress.php One of the fun things about being a handmade soap company is blending essential oils together to use in handmade soap. Sometimes you hit on what you think will be a great blend out of the bottle so to speak but once it hits the soap pot it quickly morphs ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/handmade-soap/new-goat-milk-soaps.php The weather has been just awful here in the Portland/Vancouver area.  Rain, drizzle and more rain.   Selling handmade soap in wet weather isn’t a whole lot of fun.  Measures can be taken but really it’s the pits!  Anyhow, I’m set up at the Portland Saturday Market in downtown Portland.  This ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/handmade-soaps/the-perils-of-doing-an-outdoor-market.php Every year, when market starts back up I have customers asking what new handmade soap bars have I added.   There are several this season, but I just recently activated two on the website.  The first is Tanzanian Clove which I first tested out during the holiday season to see what ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/handmade-soaps/new-soaps-2.php We are in the process of designing portable new handmade soap displays which should make my life a bit easier when doing shows and markets.  I am getting very excited.   I can see potential for wholesale soap displays in these too.  This is a prototype that was   put together ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/handmade-soap/im-excited.php Well, I’ve wanted to try some new design elements out and decided to do this by using my slab mold with dividers for handmade soap logs.    Yesterday was spent designing and pouring soap.    Last night was spent in anticipation of what today would bring when I unmolded the soap logs.  ... http://www.rivercountysoap.com/blog/handmade-soap/when-soapmaking-doesnt-turn-out.php