~kat
 
My passion for soap-making started with a trip to Alaska after I graduated from college in the summer of 2002, where I bought a bunch of handmade soap as gifts for friends back home. Unfortunately for my friends, I ended up using half of it. This grew into an uncontrollable addiction. After a short stint as a self appointed sales rep to Fireweed Soapworks in an effort to feed my addiction to their Thimbleberry and Winter Whisper scents, someone said to me “you could make your own soap”. The seed was officially planted and about six months later, after reading all I could about the process, I made my first batch of soap. Since then, I have made hundreds of pounds of soap and experimented with several recipes until I came up with one that had just the right balance of moisturizing, cleansing and sudsing properties that would also last in the shower. Fortunately for my friends, I made more than I could use and unloaded much of it onto them while perfecting my recipe. They still enjoy trying my new creations. I love the feeling of being able to take my raw materials and create a completely new substance with qualities that I can predict. Sometimes I feel like a mad scientist in my goggles and gloves, so proud of my new creation that I shout ‘it’s alive, it’s aliiiiiiiiiive’. Okay, so I don’t actually do that, but it is an incredible feeling to have created something so unique and beautiful. That feeling perpetuates itself and I’m inspired to create more and more. Being one woman, the progress may seem slow, but there are many formulations and experiments happening behind the scenes. shop blog twitter email fan