Saponifier Magazine’s 6th Annual Supplier of the Year Readers Choice Awards!

Who’s your favorite soapy supplier? Vote now for Saponifier Magazine’s Best of the Best in the Supplier of the Year category. There are three categories to vote in: Favorite Fragrance Oil supplier, Favorite Essential Oil supplier, and Favorite overall supplier. Get your votes in soon, the deadline is Monday September 10th!

 

 

We’ve recently given the TeachSoap.com site a major facelift. And, with this new look, we want new recipes. Calling all crafters – we want YOU to help us out! Do you have a bath bomb, soap or toiletry recipe you’ve been dying to share with someone? Now you can. We are currently accepting submissions for recipes for our Teach Soap website. We’d love to feature some of the brilliant and beautiful recipes that you’ve been creating. And, psssst, there’s prizes! =)

Guidelines:

• Submit your unique and fun recipe by emailing us at teachsoap(at)brambleberry(dot)com.
• All submitted recipes must come with great photos taken by you (see below) and clear instructions to be considered.
• You have until Friday, August 31st to submit recipes.
• Submit as many recipes as you want (it’s okay if they’ve been published elsewhere but you have to be the original creator of the recipe).
• Your recipe and photographs will be reviewed by the Bramble Berry team and may be featured on the Teach Soap website with full credit to you! Please include your full name and email address with your submission. [Read more…]

Do you have a Pinterest account and love soap? Then this will be the perfect opportunity to connect with other soapers in a new and fun way (and me too!). We’re looking for a group of committed, crafty soapers to join our soon-to-debut group board on Pinterest.

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Announcing the S.O.A.P. Team for Fall/Winter 2012! In no particular order…

Barbara of Willow Tree Soap Co.: Website, Facebook

Meghan of Dreaming Tree Soapworks: Website, Blog

Angie of Angie’s Suds and Such: Etsy, Facebook

Laura of Glad Heart Soaps: Blog, Facebook

Milly of Second Spring Soaps: Etsy, Facebook

Treat Me Bath and Body: Website, Blog

Alicia of Clean by Ali: Website, Blog

Cecilia of Mathair Earth: Etsy, Facebook

S.O.A.P. Team members: Please email soap(at)brambleberry(dot)com with your contact info and shipping address. We’ll be packing up the sample fragrance oils and sending them out on Wednesday, so the sooner the better!

What a great response we had to this call for applicants. It was fun reading about all of your favorite Bramble Berry products.  Honorable mention to @SmallWaldo who named our customer service as their favorite product we carry. Awwwww … You guys really made it a tough choice this go around (as usual). Thank you to all those who tweeted, pinned, blogged and posted on Facebook. Keep an eye out for our next announcement, maybe you’ll be the next S.O.A.P. Team member!

Check out these fragrance oils that previous S.O.A.P. teams have helped to bring on board: Floral Edition, Summer 2011, Fall 2011, Summer 2012.

What fragrances do you want to see on the next testing panel? Taking all suggestions now (!)

We’re looking for the latest and greatest fragrances to add to the Bramble Berry lineup…and we need your help! For the next week, we’re on the hunt for 8 soap mavens to help us decide what fragrances to add for Fall/Winter 2012. Check out the mash up blog post from the last soap panel so you can see how much fun testing can be!

What’s the S.O.A.P. panel, you ask? Soap Opinion (Awesome) Panel members will receive one ounce fragrance samples of our top 10 choices of fragrances that were designed especially for us. We’ve already tested all of the S.O.A.P. panel fragrances and they’ve gone through our own internal Brambleberrian panel so you’re getting the best of the best (!). Give the cutting-edge fragrances a sniff AND test them in any product you like (really, anything!). Then fill out a survey to help distinguish the top choices. We want your honest opinion and thorough notes on testing!

How to apply: Tweet, Facebook, Pin or Blog about your favorite Bramble Berry product (including links) and why you should be selected for the S.O.A.P. team. We’ll announce the finalists on Monday, August 13th so get your tweets, posts and blogs done by next week (you’ll have all weekend to work on it)! Note: Your Tweets should have @brambleberry someplace in the body of the Tweet (but make sure they don’t just get directed directly to @brambleberry or else no one else can see them)! Be sure to link your blog post below in the comments so we can read about it and tag your post on Facebook or Pinterest if you’re doing things that route.

The Fine Print: We will be sending the fragrances out by the end of next week and we would like the surveys complete by September 7, which gives you about 3 weeks to test the fragrances. Please keep these dates in mind before you enter. We are looking for an accountable and enthusiastic panel, so be sure that this works out with your schedule! Because these fragrances can’t ship internationally, we are not able accept international entries.