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FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Totally Awesome Soap

December 7, 2016 by Caleb Hennington Leave a Comment

If your customers are looking for an all-natural soap that’s free from harmful chemicals and additives, and even comes packaged in environmentally friendly packaging, then look no further than Totally Awesome Soap.

As the name suggests, this company provides some truly awesome soap products, that are both good for your body and your conscience.

Most of the products made by Totally Awesome Soap contain coconut oil, palm oil, safflower oil, glycerin, purified water, sodium hydroxide, sorbitol, sorbitan oleate, oat or soybean protein, and titanium oxide. They also only use Bisphenol-A (BPA) free plastics in their packaging.

Their soaps come in many different fun shapes, styles, and scents. Whatever you’re looking for, Totally Awesome Soap is guaranteed to have it!

Give your customers the option of buying a soap that they’ll be talking about for months, and let them buy products made by Totally Awesome Soap!

Enriching Lives Through Garden Voyage Botanicals

September 6, 2016 by Murray Watts Leave a Comment

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Finding a solution to dry, uncomfortable skin can be a difficult task. It is often filled with trial and error. Many soaps claim to provide amazing benefits, but do they actually deliver on said promises? Garden Voyage Botanicals continues to provide outstanding products that exceed expectations time and time again.

Garden Voyage was founded on one simple principle: helping people enjoy the “voyage” through their garden. Based in Newark, Delaware, the team at Garden Voyage makes sure to manufacture high-quality soaps that will satisfy every customer. These lightly fragranced soaps are vegetable-based and leave the skin feeling clean and rehydrated. Their soap sets are designed to be affordable and make great gifts throughout the year. They can be used in your fundraising projects, home parties, and as corporate gifts.

Birdbath Series

Garden Voyage prides itself on vegetable-based soaps. If you’re unfamiliar with vegetable-based soaps, you will be happy to note that none of these soaps contain sodium tallowate. Sodium tallowate is commonly found in stores selling mass-produced soaps. This chemical has been proven to lead to eczema in some individuals. Shower safely and clear-minded with vegetable-based soaps made by Garden Voyage.

On top of using phenomenal ingredients, Garden Voyage adds in fresh smells from essential oils. Their most popular set features three bars to choose from. It is called the Birdbath Series. These American-made soaps are unique in many ways. They use certified palm oil and a generous amount of shea butter. Each is preservative-free and triple milled to last longer. This approach produces an exceptional soap with a creamy lather that cleanses, softens and soothes. So no need to worry about dry, flaky skin after a shower.

Noel Holiday Soap - Evergreen

Pure essential oils ensure the peppermint and lavender bars provide moments of aromatherapy throughout your busy week. The Gardener’s soap features cranberry seeds and walnut shell powder to ensure cleaning up is almost as enjoyable as your time in the garden!

Look no further than Garden Voyage Botanicals for awesome soaps!

Chicory Farm Soap Focused On Making Natural, Nourishing Products

June 13, 2016 by Caleb Hennington Leave a Comment

Vendor Spotlight

Sometimes the goals you’ve set for your future often transform into something all-together different.

That’s what happened with Sara Turnbull and her husband, Steve, whose idea for a goal milk farm quickly changed into much more than a dairy farm. Chicory Farm Soap

Chicory Farm Soap came about around 2011, during Sara and Steve’s last semester of college studying Sustainable Agriculture. They had plans to sell raw goat’s milk and goat cheese in their home state of New York but soon began dabbling in soap making as a side project. This side project eventually turned into their full-time project, and a bath and body care company was formed!

Chicory Farm Soap commits to making products that are naturally sourced and sustainable products, straight from the farm to customers’ hands. They believe sustainability involves three things: environmental health, personal health, and economic health.

By preaching and practicing these three tenets of sustainability, Chicory Farm Soap proves themselves as unmatched in their commitment to sustainable business practices.

But back to the bar soap! Chicory Farm Soap makes the sweet, aromatic smells of their bar soaps from, of course, goat’s milk, but also from natural smells derived from essential oils.

Anise Goat Milk Soap

Some of their most popular scents are Grapefruit & Lemongrass, which smells like bright pink lemons, Thai kitchens, and fruity grass; Sweet Orange, which smells like pure Florida orange juice and sugared orange slice candy; Lavender, Lemon & Clary Sage, which smells like lavender lemonade, and rich flowers with a heady lemon; and the classic Lavender scent, which smells like French fields, soothing herbal pillows, and real lavender.

These aren’t all the scents that they have to offer, however. They also have scents like Geranium & Grapefruit; Grapefruit, Rosemary & Lavender; Orange & Cinnamon; Cedar & Fir; Mint; Eucalyptus; Tea Tree; Patchouli; Anise; Lavender Rosemary; and Oatmeal!

These bar soaps are all beautifully packaged together with an attractive casing and tied together with twine.

If you’re not about that bar soap life, thought, they also have a brand new liquid goat milk soap. It has the ease of a traditional liquid soap but it’s also a natural, castile soap. This is different than most detergent-based liquid soaps that often dominate the hand soap market.

Liquid Goat Milk Soap

These liquid goat milk soap products offer the same scents as their bar soap counterparts, but they also have an unscented variety of liquid soap for those who might be sensitive to certain smells.

These liquid soap dispensers also feature attractive packaging that ties the whole aesthetic of the product together and gives it a very natural, organic look.

Sugar scrubs and hand salves are also available for healing dry, cracked skin caused by dry weather and hard work in the garden.

Chicory Farm Soap doesn’t make just any old soap; they make natural goats milk soap that’s perfect for customers looking to cut out harsh chemicals and additives from their bath and body care regimen!

Jento Soaps Handcrafts Pure and Natural Bath Products

May 16, 2016 by Laken Watts Leave a Comment

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Finding the perfect combination of personal care products can be tricky. You want to smell good, but also be environmentally responsible and clean! The creator of Jento Soaps’ journey started with a book and progressed into a love for herbs and all things natural. Growing herbs in the backyard supplied her soap making passion.

Jento Soaps is an all-natural, handcrafted soap company. With over 20 years of experience in herbs and soaps, Jento is full of knowledge and understanding of what goes into all-natural soaps. Each soap batch is made to order, making each bar a unique product. As more and more consumers drift toward all-natural, chemical free options for their body, Jento’s experience and attention to detail will put them as a front-runner in your store or boutique.

The voyage to the perfect soap wasn’t as clear as it seemed. Jennie of Jento’s started cooking soaps in the kitchen, but soon everything began to taste like soap. A new kitchen studio was set up to perfect the craft. Jennie first made soaps with a glycerin base, but that didn’t provide the natural soap she desired. Now, Jento’s soaps are cold pressed and are offered in a variety of scents, including those made with pure essential oils. These soaps are made with all vegan products and oils such as coconut, palm, olive, rice bran and canola. Jento prides themselves on not using animal products of any kind.

Jento’s handcrafted scents range from tropical to herbs. Caribbean coconut, cucumber melon, vanilla, and sandalwood are a few of the tropical smells, while lavender, patchouli, peppermint, and rosemary are offered for more natural smells.

Jento not only offers soaps, but a variety of body creams, powders, healing salves, and even shampoo and conditioner!

Extras include hand crocheted wash cloths, soap bags, and soap saver bags. Jento also has an option for gift baskets which offer a variety of their products!

Specialty soaps for children are also available with soaps molded like cars, ducks and dinosaurs!

For the full rundown on Jento Soaps, visit them online, and check out their all-natural, wonderfully scented soaps!

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Hooker Bath Soap

April 6, 2016 by Caleb Hennington Leave a Comment

Weekly Pick

Getting clean at the end of a long work day is a great way to relax, but have you ever taken a bath with a hooker?

Get your mind out of the gutter, I’m talking about Hooker Bath Soap! This unique bar soap is guaranteed to be unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

Hooker Bath Reduxx

Hooker Bath Soap makes soap that makes you feel dirty while getting clean! They’re made from all-natural ingredients, right here in the U.S. Check out their scandalous collection of scents, including The Dirty Weekend, a 6.4-ounce African violet and cocoa butter scented bar, stamped with naughty handcuffs, and enriched with shea butter.

Or, check out the Hooker Bath Reduxx, scented with passion flower and olive oil, and featuring a lipstick stamp on the bar. It’s enriched with shea butter, cocoa butter, and virgin olive oil to nourish dry skin, and ensure it stays healthy and smooth!

The Original Hooker

If nothing else satisfies you, then you can’t go wrong with The Original Hooker. This fresh milk and shea butter luxury soap bar combines natural ingredients into a nourishing cleaner and is packaged in a box covered in handcuffs, lingerie, and other naughty images.

Hooker Bath Soap wants to make sure you rinse, be naughty, and repeat every night. Check out their products today!

What’s Trending: April 2016

March 28, 2016 by Caleb Hennington Leave a Comment

April: Soap

Soap: it’s been around for years, thousands of them, in fact. The earliest known evidence of soap making and soap use come from ancient Babylonia, around 2,800 B.C. Back then, soap was made from animal fats boiled with ashes. Yummy.

These days, soap has advanced quite a bit into a more healthy, and probably better smelling, bath product. Check out some of our favorite soap makers trending this month!

1. Chicory Farm Soap

This company specializes in pure, goat’s milk soap, which is world renowned for its healing properties on sensitive skin. They have a fantastic variety of different soap scents, including Sweet Orange, Anise, Geranium Grapefruit, Patchouli, Lavender & Rosemary, and so much more!

2. Soap Wizards

This company supplies a lot of awesome bath and body products, including great soaps. But they also encourage something even cooler: making your own soap! Check out their easy-to-use and affordable Soap Making Kit, which includes 2 lbs of white soap, 2 lbs of clear soap, 3 colors, 3 fragrances and 2 multi-cavity soap molds.

3. The Rad Soap Co.

The Road Soap Co. truly is the coolest soap making company in the business. Where else could you find Death Wish Coffee Highly Caffeinated Body Bars and Toke Hemp & Hippie Body Bars with Sandalwood scent? They have tons of fun soap smells and themes. Try them all out, and see what makes your customers feel cool!

4. Baby Bits

Baby Bits is a little different than most soap companies on this list. Instead of simply providing a gentle cleansing bar of soap for babies, they’ve made it even easier. They sell pre-cube sliced pieces of gentle soap, that can be added to a spray bottle full of water, shaken up, and sprayed until a cleaning cloth. It’s a fun and effective way to keep infants clean and healthy!

5. Medicine Woman Soap

Since 2003, Medicine Woman Soap has been making soothing and ultra-cleansing bars of handmade soap. Their soaps are jumbo-sized 10-ounce bars, made from natural oils and herbs, delivering lots of powerful antioxidants to the skin. Check out their Apple Oatmeal Soap for a delicious smelling soap that cleans every impurity away from the body!

6. Molly Muriel

This company strives to keep harmful ingredients like synthetic perfumes and fragrance oils from their products. They only use pure essential oils for the scent in their bar soaps! They are also colored with the natural pigments found in plant botanicals and clays, leaving out unnatural food colorings. Check out their Warm and Woodsy Cedarwood scented soap!

Get your hands on some new, fresh-smelling soap today!

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Smart By Nature

March 23, 2016 by Caleb Hennington Leave a Comment

Weekly Pick

Smart By Nature makes a simple claim when they talk about their products: it’s what your skin would choose.

But that claim might just be true, when you looks at the quality and results of their bath, body, and baby products!

Geranium Bar Soap

They commit to making their lotions and soaps without many of the harmful chemicals found in many of the most popular bath and body products.

Each product is handcrafted and natural, and they help to keep your customers’ skin soft and glowing. Check out their selection of bar soaps, lotions, face washes, lip balm, baby skin care products, and even candles made with essential oils and soy wax!

At Smart By Nature, they know what your skin would choose. Do you?

Bringing Back Bar Soap: Sea Lark Enterprises Has The Perfect Solution For Bar Messes

February 9, 2016 by Karole Risker Leave a Comment

Vendor Spotlight

You probably never even thought of it as a problem because you never thought there was a solution. Have you dropped using soap bars altogether because of the mess it makes or how slippery they become when wet? Soap Lifts from Sea Lark Enterprises Inc. give your soap a lift, eliminating the mess and helping soap stay put on slick surfaces. So if you’ve gone to liquid soap but want to come back, you need to try this product!

These clever wares are sold in 12 unique colors like hunter green, raspberry, and royal blue, and even in fun shapes, like bears, fish and snowflakes. Rectangle lifts are 2.75″ x 4.25″ and can even be trimmed to fit your soap.

BEAR Soap Lift pad

Soap Lifts are made of a multi-directional material that allows water to drain and air to circulate so it’s perfect for soap dishes, on shower shelves, or on countertops. And cleaning couldn’t be easier: just hold it under running water and give it a squeeze.

While you’re on their site, check out their Manuka honey creams, which they sell wholesale. These three creams — nourishing cream, recovery cream, and after-sun cream — are handcrafted and formulated with Manuka honey, a product with 26 probiotics used for its antiseptic and healing properties.

Manuka Honey Soap

And yes, you can even get soaps. Sea Lark Enterprises Inc. sells handmade soaps, also as a wholesale product, with organic oils and are beautifully scented and handcrafted. Scents include Sunny Citrus, Lilac, Enliven Mint, Plum Spice, and Gardener’s soap. Soaps are packaged with a soap lift and an organza bag.

These products are made in the U.S.A. and are the perfect and stylish solution for your soaps. If you’re ready to lose the mess of soap, but still want to keep your soap, check out Sea Lark Enterprises Inc. Your customers will love their products!

Cranberry Ridge Farm Provides The Very Best All-Natural Goat’s Milk Soap

February 4, 2016 by Caleb Hennington Leave a Comment

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When someone washes their body, they want the products they’re using to accomplish a number of goals: cleanse dry skin, make them smell good, and of course, clean their body.

More and more people are now understanding and utilizing the amazing healing and cleaning effects of goat’s milk soap. That’s why one family decided to pack up all of their belongings and set out for the Alaskan wilderness to start their very own goat’s milk farming business.

Matt and Rhonda Shaul, the founders of Cranberry Ridge Farm, got married in an old barn in Eau Claire, Michigan. At the time, they owned their own 40-acre goat farm, where they started experimenting with different ways to use the goat’s milk, including cheese and soap making.

But, the farming they found in Michigan didn’t suit their needs, and soon after getting married, they decided to pack it all up and move to Matt’s home state of Alaska.

The two decided to set up shop in Alaska and make goat’s milk soap and cheese for the people of Alaska, and for the world.

They farmed and raised their animals in Alaska for 10 years, before moving back to New York. During that time, they created a huge variety of different soaps, with pleasant smells and strong skin healing properties.

Their two most popular soap scents are their lavender soap and their patchouli soap combinations, including the fragrantly enticing Patchouli & Orange soap.

The Lavender soap is infused with chamomile, which gives it a healing property for skin that has been damaged by the sun or wind, and also makes it a great anti-inflammatory. The lavender scent in the soap is known for its soothing effects, and is great for washing babies!

Their Patchouli & Orange soap is infused with calendula, which is very well known for its skin healing properties. It also helps balance skin that is excessively oily and prevents scar tissue from forming on the body.

Patchouli & Orange Soap

They also have many natural herb-infused salves that can be used for extra skin healing. One of their newest salves is their Black Salve. This amazing slave is great for pulling out impurities in the skin, such as infection, and healing the affected area. It’s safe for both humans and animals.

Cranberry Ridge Farm also has great gift basket options available for those customers who just can’t choose one product!

If you order today, you can get 10% off your order by using the code FGmarket10!

For pure, natural goat milk soap that smells great and is great for you skin, give your customers the option of buying products made by Cranberry Ridge Farm!