Since I spend a lot of time with my soaps, I think of them as my friends. I give them different personalities and I thought you may like to see them the way I do. Meet Autumn, my Patchouli Clove soap. Outside her log cabin in upstate New York, just north of the Catskills, Autumn is outside in her herb garden picking fresh …
Alegna Soap
Dirty Old Men
A few years ago I met two dirty old men at a fundraiser for a senior center. Let me explain. I was asked to be a vendor at a Grand Opening for a new senior center in a very ritzy area of Long Island. …
Long Island Collaboration
My latest Long Island collaboration is with Justine Moody. Justine is a fiber artist, she works with natural fibers. All of her work is hand dyed and hand felted, and absolutely beautiful. She was born and raised on eastern Long Island and graduated from Pratt Institute. She's also a really nice lady! We were both vendors last …
Soap for Shower Favors
I was looking back at pictures, and found so many soaps I made as shower favors. Showers are such happy occasions. Someone is either getting married or having a baby. I've always thought a soap shower favor was a great gift, even before I was making soap. It smells great, is useful and everyone needs it. This soap and sugar scrub …
Peppermint Scrub
Since I spend a lot of time with my soaps, I think of them as my friends. I give them different personalities and I thought you may like to see them the way I do. Meet Candi, my Peppermint Scrub soap. Madison, Sherie, Olivia and Julianna walked into the Athletic Department office chattering together excitedly about their …