Lux Naturals Handcrafted Soap and Candles … Continue Reading
Lux Naturals Shout Out
Bramble Berry’s New Products
Foaming Bath Whip: Foaming Bath Whip is such a wonderfully versatile product. Make a shaving soap, frosting for your bath bombs, a body meringue or a really easy scrub, all with this one amazing base. See the Soap Queen blog for a great recipe on how to make a cinnamon sugar scrub. Sheer Freesia … Continue Reading
Bramble Bump Baby Shower
Me with the host, Jody Bergsma and good friend Erin Baker. … Continue Reading
First Baby Shower
FSE Baby Shower In December, when Chris's company, FSE, found out I was pregnant (he announced it first thing in his annual "Message to the Company"), two of the engineers' wives immediately offered to throw me a baby shower. It was so kind of them to organize a couple's shower for me, Chris … Continue Reading
Going Vertical
Enthusiastic feedback flew in after posting this tutorial in the Bramble Berry Newsletter we just knew we had to share it with the Soap Queen Readers too! We are loving the possibilities with this new vertical mold! PS - Do you get our newsletter? It comes out monthly and has specials for newsletter … Continue Reading
Happy St. Patrick’s Day
Some soapy St. Patrick's Day eye candy to nosh on. Green Beer Cold Process (scented with Honey Ale) Melt and Pour Faded Green Layers (scented with Sweet Pea) Check out some lucky St. Patty's Day projects from the past. Plaid Shamrock Melt and Pour Chunky St. Patty's Soap Scraps Lucky … Continue Reading
Welcome to the NEW Soap Queen!
Welcome to the new Soap Queen Blog. We are thrilled to share a happy new layout and easy-to-search categories for your convenience. … Continue Reading
Ginger Molasses Goodness
Happy Brambleversary Norm! Norman has been with Bramble Berry for almost a decade! He started with Bramble Berry as a puller/packer/order person and has worked his way into the fabric of our company (and of course, our hearts). My second favorite dessert I've ever baked for a Brambleversary was … Continue Reading
New Herbs and Extracts!
Add our new herbs and extracts directly to your soaps and concoctions to benefit from their unique properties. The oil soluble extracts (some are oil soluble, some are water soluble) can be used in balms too for an extra nourishing lotion bar, lip product or salve. The dried herbs can also be used … Continue Reading
Mango Avocado Balmy Salve
Tweets ‘Ya Missed
Just in case you don't follow me on Twitter, I read a bunch of articles almost daily (reading is my favorite hobby besides soapmaking) and tweet out the ones I think could be helpful to other people. Since a lot of them are small business related, I thought you might enjoy a recap of last week. … Continue Reading
To Gel or Not to Gel
Guest Post from Kat (our retail store Assistant Manager - we heart Kat!) I love testing new scents in cold process soap because I get to feel like a mad scientist. You never know what you're going to get-- some scents immediately seize or accelerate, others turn crazy colors, some over-heat and … Continue Reading
Fair Ivy Wants to Buy YOUR Soap
Fair Ivy: Surprise Package Subscriptions Fair Ivy is a fun happy subscription where you receive a surprise package of carefully curated items in the mail every month. Really? A surprise package? How fun is that? The business started over a cup of coffee and the observation that we, as adults, … Continue Reading
May 2011 Soap Swap Line-Up (Thus Far!)
Here is the official Master List of Swappers for our May 2011 swap. We will keep this list updated with the fragrances being used and we will also note when we've received your soap. … Continue Reading