Summer Bouquet Handmade Soap!

"Summer Bouquet" Soap! 
All a summer garden's most fragrant florals! Roses, orange blossoms, lavender & freesia! Also makes an EXCELLENT #weddingfavorsoap
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Lovely LOVE soaps for your Valentines!

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"Amas Veritas" - Love Soap!

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 fragrance of 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!

Lookin' Rosey!

All this crazy warm-one-day, cold-the-next weather seems to have forced early rose blooms!  I'll TAKE IT! Love it for all our rose soaps! 

Some of you have asked me how I keep my roses pesticide-free.........I spray them regularly with onion/garlic water.  Yup!  Keeps aphids and all manner of pests a-way!  I just slice-up one of the stinkiest onions I can find (usually red onions are great for this), plus add a couple of garlic cloves, put them in a big spray bottle of water and let them marinade a good week before using as a spray and voila!  Great natural pesticide!  I also re-spray right after hard rains that will have washed the formula off, and when I water, I keep the spray or sprinkler direction aimed at the bush roots rather than spraying off the leaves. And no, the onion spray does not interfere with the scent of the roses.  :)

Anyway.....been gathering and drying lots of rose petals already and doing some planting......when I haven't been making soap and working on some new art.  The new soap lines are still in-the-works--testing phase.  Stay tuned!

Enjoy your day!

~Carol

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Roses, Magical Roses!

Between my mom's and my own gardens, we have baskets and baskets of rose petals collected already from this summer's bounty! Wylde Faerie Herb Pouches, Faery Blessing Bottles galore! Find at: http://www.carolochs.com/gifts-woa.php If you're a customer, you've noticed we always sprinkle the bottom of your carefully prepared and handwrapped package with rose petals---a sweet reminder of our earth connections, a wee piece of my faerie garden to you! (Hopefully I don't trap any faeries in there as well! But if I do, please turn loose in your own garden!) :)
~Carol