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FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Shepherd’s Dairy 4 Ewe

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Everyone knows about goat’s milk and the healing properties that it provides to damaged skin. But have you ever heard of using sheep’s milk to make even more effective lotions and soaps?

Shepherd’s Dairy 4 Ewe, owned and operated by Bev Trew, uses sheep’s milk from sheep found in the Nebraska Sandhills, “where cattle graze on rolling hills and corn grows in lush green fields.”

Shepherd’s says that the natural qualities of sheep’s milk allow them to make creamy soaps and lotions that will completely rejuvenate rough or damaged skin. The proteins in the milk firms and softens the skin, while the lactic acid in the milk helps to even out pigmentation.

In addition to sheep’s milk, the soap also contains all-natural ingredients such as pure vegetable oil and natural fragrances. You never have to worry about what’s in your soap when you buy from Shepherd’s Dary 4 Ewe.

For a moisturizing and reinvigorating product that will leave skin feeling smooth, you have to try the soaps and lotions made by Shepherd’s Dairy 4 Ewe.

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Old Factory Soap

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Weekly Pick

Whether you realize it or not, your skin is an organ. And just like many other organs in your body, if you don’t take care of it and keep it healthy, it will fail you.

Old Factory Soap, based out of Blanco, Texas, understands the importance of proper skincare maintenance. That’s why they’ve dedicated their business to providing the healthiest and most natural skincare products that you and your customers will ever use.

Their products are all plant-based and use only the purest, most natural products. They use a fresh and colorful packaging design to compliment the botanical-based aesthetics of their products, guaranteeing they’ll catch your customers’ eyes.

Orange & Clove Goats Milk Soap

They have a great variety of natural soaps, including Goats Milk Soap and Shea & Flax Soap, as well as natural perfume, lip balm, men’s products, and even home & kitchen gadgets!

If you’re looking for a natural product that will attract customers like no other product can, while at the same time nourishing dry and damaged skin, you have to check out Old Factory Soap!

Jento Soaps Handcrafts Pure and Natural Bath Products

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Vendor Spotlight

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

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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

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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!

Mineral Splash Soap Company Gives A Splash Of Natural Cleanliness In Every Bar

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Vendor Spotlight

For beautiful, natural products made of a handful of ingredients, look no further than the handcrafted soaps created by the Mineral Splash Soap Company situated in Northern California.

Soaps are offered in rectangles in generous sizes and sold individually, in trios, and in packs of 10 picked by the customer.

These soaps get their start with water from mineral hot springs at a temperature of more than 100 degrees Fahrenheit, making the water pure, natural and free from toxins and additives. In addition, the soaps are handmade in small batches to ensure the finest quality.

They have 18 different soaps, so your customers are sure to find the perfect match for their bathrooms and kitchens, whether they chose their soap by color, including sage, lilac, yellow, and rustic brown, or by scent, like coconut, strawberry, cinnamon, lemon, pumpkin, and several more.

Goat's Milk and Lavender Soap

And if the texture, smell and aesthetic value aren’t enough, the health benefits of mineral soap are very high.

Every bar includes natural artesian mineral water, oils, shea butter, sodium hydroxide, essential and fragrant oils, natural colorant, and grapefruit seed extract. As you can see, the soaps are made of all natural ingredients from recipes that have been tested and perfected for more than two decades. And since the soaps are made from naturally hot mineral water, the minerals are retained.

The known benefits of mineral water and products made with it are many. Mineral water has both antibacterial and antifungal properties; mineral water balances the electrolytes in the body and replenishes the necessary balance of minerals and water that the body loses naturally; it helps to cleanse the body of toxins and breaks down waste material; many mineral waters have therapeutic effects which can ease and even cure many chronic conditions and diseases; mineral water is beneficial in relieving the aches and pains of arthritis and rheumatism by reducing the swelling and inflammation of muscles and joints.

Ten Soaps of Your Choice

In addition, the soaps contain minerals that help the body. For example, magnesium is known as the body’s natural stress reducer and strengthens the immune system. Chloride and bicarbonates aid in the digestion process through maintaining and regulating the acidic balance in the stomach and intestines. Sulfate and silica are natural cleansing agents. Sodium helps to maintain the balance of water in the body. Iron aides the body in delivering oxygen throughout the body.

That’s a lot of benefit packed into soaps that are beautifully presented and packaged, perfect as a gift for any home, and at a price point that is easily affordable! For quality soaps you can’t get anywhere else, check out the Mineral Splash Soap Company.

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick — Beautiful Soap

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For Tipp City, Ohio based company Beautiful Soap, the appeal is found in the name. Like most soap companies, they make great scented bars of soap, but with an added bonus. Each handmade loaf of soap features beautiful designs and swirls!

While most soap is made with one function in mind (to get you clean), Beautiful Soap makes their bars with visual appeal in mind. Each scent comes in a both the full loaf size — 3.5 x 4 x 8 inches — and a normal bar size — 3.5 x 2.25 x 1 inches. The full loaves make about 14 – 16 bars of soap.

Lily of the Valley

They also have a great selection of fun and appealing scents available, including hibiscus, lavender, orchid, rose, mmmm chocolate, coconut creme, sandalwood, and more!

If your customer want great handmade soap with fun designs, check out Beautiful Soap!

Fresh From The Valley

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If there’s one thing customer’s love, it’s a perfectly roasted coffee bean. And isn’t finding what customer’s love and providing it to them the basic job description of a small business owner? Still, finding the perfect bean isn’t as easy as it sounds. But don’t worry, we’ve already done the work for you.

It’s time to check out Baird Rock Farm!

The Secret is in The Roast

When it comes to roasting coffee beans, quality must always trump quantity. At least that’s how owner Rebecca Baird sees it. She takes the necessary time to slow roast every batch to bring out that full-bodied caramel flavor.

Many roasters will crank the oven over 500 degrees and have a batch of roasted beans in fifteen minutes, but Rebecca feels that this quick roasting method has a negative impact on flavor. She instead lets her beans roast at a low temperature for a full half hour, and then incrementally increases the temperature over time until she has reached the desired level of roast (light, medium, dark or espresso).

The process takes longer, but the difference in flavor is significant.

And even better, each order is roasted when you make it, not before. This ensures fresh beans with optimal flavor and aroma.

Flavors Abound

So what kinds of flavors are available? Plenty, and each is carefully roasted to perfection. Not to mention that most of them are available in whatever roast level you prefer.

Try the mouth-pleasing Cinnamon and Hazelnut, the perfect Coconut Creme or the incomparable Organic Bali Blue Moon which contains woody, smokey, earthy, chocolate and cherry notes. The options are varied and they are all amazing!

Beyond Coffee

But this company doesn’t just provide coffee. Are your customers looking for bar soap with the fresh scent of raspberry and peach? How about pro-vitamin B lotion with shea butter, cocoa butter and argon oil? You’ll find all of these and so much more when you shop their beauty lines and DIY beauty accessories.

And they use the same standards of quality with their beauty lines as they do with their coffee. Rebecca said,

“My greatest concern is how the product works for the customer.”

If you are looking to carry amazing coffee or wonderful beauty products, head over to Baird Rock Farm today!

 

The Luxury Of Goat Milk Soap

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Country Scents

Nothing says relaxation like a warm bath with a bar of handmade goat’s milk soap. Country Scents Milk Soap Company specializes in making pure soaps from goat’s milk and olive oil. Your customers can indulge their senses every day with soaps made from nature’s goodness in a variety of fragrances like Almond Cream and Apricot Kernal Oil. Or try their Banana Rhapsody shampoo soap bar made with organic bananas. They also carry gift sets like Never Enough Thyme Gardeners Gift (a natural burlap bag with two gardener’s soaps and hand butter), Soap & Rack (a bar of goats milk soap on a handcrafted solid mahogany soap deck). Green Soap Gift (luxurious goat milk soap wrapped in handmade banana fiber paper, packaging is totally recyclable and so is the soap!). Luxury skin care products can be found in every one of their soaps.