Esscents Citrus Soap Slices Featured in People StyleWatch Magazine

As Seen in People StyleWatch

We’re excited to announce that our citrus soap slices are featured in the June 2013 issue of People StyleWatch magazine, on sale now.  Our cute soap slices are on the “Nothing Over $10″ page showcasing citrusy beauty related items.

Our citrus fruit soaps come six to a bag and include a mixture of lemons, limes and oranges, all scented with a zesty and refreshing lime fragrance.  They add a fun decorative touch to your kitchen or use them as guest soaps, party favors or hostess gifts.  Each bag of six is only $3.50!

Citrus Fruit Soap Slices

Our citrus soaps are on sale at both our Etsy shop and our Esscents website.  Coming soon – grape cluster soaps and apple-shaped soaps!

June 2013 issue

Esscents Soap Giveaway

Shimmery Blue Soap Flowers

We’re giving away three sets of our decorative soaps! Enter for your chance to win either a shimmery white or blue flower soap set or one of our peach and white filigree heart soap sets. All three sets come in a gift box and are ready to gift, although we won’t tell if you keep our soap for yourself!

Our giveaway is happening on our Facebook page until April 9, 2013. It is open to U.S. residents only.

 Use this link to take you to our giveaway page: http://bit.ly/10tQMKD

Good luck!

Shimmery White Soap Flowers

Outdoor Wedding Venues in the Beautiful Pacific Northwest

Last weekend our local paper, The Seattle Times, published an informative article about non-traditional places to tie the knot around the Pacific Northwest. Titled Around the Northwest, Great Places to Say “I do”, this article is worth checking out if you are thinking of a destination wedding or dream about getting married somewhere outdoors.

If you are local and haven’t seen the article, be sure and take a look. There might be a few places you’ve never heard of!

Image courtesy of Witthaya Phonsawat/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net.

Shimmer and Shine in Home Decor

This article in The Seattle Times:  Shimmer makes a festive statement at home  made us think of our beautiful decorative soaps that shimmer and shine when we hand-paint them with metallic micas.  It looks like we are right on trend!  Our collection of shimmery soaps include seashells, flowers, hearts and some of our bar soaps.  You can find them at our Etsy Store:  http://www.esscentssoaps.etsy.com/ and at our website: http://www.esscents.net.

Shimmery White Soap Flowers

Shimmery Blue and Green Seashell Soaps

Esscents Black Friday – Cyber Monday Sale 2012

Decorative Green and Gold Shimmery Flower Soaps

We’re having a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale at our Etsy store.  Use code ETSYHOLIDAY2012 for 20% off everything in our store except special order soap favors.

Now is a great time to find that perfect soapy gift!  Check out our selection of decorative seashell, flower and heart soaps, as well as our fun cupcake soaps.  We also offer festive holiday soap, including red, green and gold stars, Christmas tree shaped soaps and Santa soaps.  You can even request a custom-order decorative soap set – you choose the colors and scent!

Our sale will go through Monday, November 26th.  You can find our store at http://www.etsy.com/shop/esscentssoaps

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Our Etsy Shop, Esscents Soaps, is profiled on the fun Eyelah blog.  Please check out our interview!  At the end of the feature you will find a code for 20% off our Etsy shop over Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  Have a great weekend!

Get The Recipe for This Scrumptious Glazed Strawberry Cake

Glazed Strawberry Cake

Are you looking for a new summer cake recipe to try?  We have one that’s perfect for your summer BBQ’s and potlucks.  It is really delicious and a family favorite!

The Shabby N Chic blog recently featured Esscents and shared the recipe for our Glazed Strawberry Cake.  The Shabby N Chic blog features wonderful vintage items, antiques, tutorials, before and afters and much more.  There are lots of inspiring ideas and a link to all the great items Shabby N Chic has for sale on Etsy!

To see our cake recipe and read the blog post about Esscents, please visit ShabbyNChic.blogspot.com.

 

Star Shaped Soaps Not Just for the Fourth of July!

Star Shaped Blue Glitter Soaps

First of all – Happy 4th of July!  We hope your day is full of sunshine, family, friends, good food and safe fireworks!

We thought this would be a perfect day to feature an order we are currently working on.  Last week we were asked to create 80 custom blue glitter star soaps for a baby boy’s baptism party.  We’ve been busy making these pretty layered soaps scented with our signature scent – Seattle Rain.

These soaps are three inches across and weigh about 2.5 ounces each and are made with clear glycerin and white goat’s milk soap.  Colored in a pretty light turquoise, they feature skin-safe glitter for a fun sparkle!

We’ve made these soaps in red, white and creme.  These blue stars got us thinking that we should make a set of pink stars.  Don’t you think they would be perfect for a baby shower or a girl’s birthday party?  Stay tuned!

White Star-Shaped Glitter Soap

We can’t wait to ship our blue glitter star soaps out next week.  We’re sure they will be a big hit!

Have a safe 4th of July.

Esscents Seashell and Cupcake Soap Giveaway!

Ice Blue Metallic Seashell Soap Set

We invite you to visit the Two Classy Chics blog to read their new review of our handmade seashell soaps.  While there be sure to enter their giveaway for your chance to win a custom set of our soap seashells, as well as two of our cupcake soaps.  Contest ends June 11, 2012.  Good luck!

Very Cherry Cupcake Soap

 

Dessert Soaps Are A Calorie-Free Indulgence!

Key Lime Pie Soap Slice

In previous posts we’ve talked about our lifelike cupcake soaps made out of moisturizing goat’s milk soap.  They have been so popular that we decided to branch out with another line of luxurious dessert soaps that look and smell just like cakes and pies.   Now you can have your cake and bathe with it, too!

First off is our new key lime pie soap slice which is created with an oatmeal and glycerin base. Oatmeal is a great exfoliant and it is also used for dry, itchy skin. The base is covered with a fragrant lime goat’s milk soap and then topped with white goat’s milk and a glycerin lime slice.  This long-lasting bar weighs  5 to 5  1/2 ounces and makes a great gift to yourself or someone else.  Think teacher gifts…!

Lemon Chiffon Cake Soap

Lemon Chiffon Cake Soap Slice

Our lemon chiffon cake soap is made using the cold process method, which is the “old-fashioned” way of making soap.  This is the only way we can get the icing to be piped with an icing bag, just like a real bakery ices their cakes.  This soap is made with olive oil, coconut, oil, palm oil, castor oil and scented with lemon chiffon fragrance oil.  Then it is topped with soap “icing”, a glycerin lemon slice and skin-safe glitter to add a pretty shimmer.  (The glitter washes right off when you use it.)  These slices range from 5 ounces to almost 7 ounces and are priced based on their weight. They will last an incredibly long time and provide lots of great smelling lather and moisture to your skin.

Audrey has been perfecting her frosting and decorating skills with our cold process cupcake soaps. Each one varies a bit but are made with all the same rich ingredients as our other cold process soaps.

Rose Scented Cupcake Soap with Red Heart

We also have lemon chiffon and fruit slices cupcake soaps and stay tuned for our Goat’s Milk Berry Pie and more varieties of cold process cupcakes and cakes.  Let us know if you have any scents or “flavors” you would like to see us create!

Cupcake Soap with Orange Soap Slice