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My name is Carolyn and I am The ScentsAble Soapmaker. I could fill page after page with soap trivia, scent information, ingredients, and even soap making history and superstition. But I do realize finally after years of spouting such interesting and amusing information to my family and friends, that not everyone is as into soap as I am. So I will spare you. Unless of course you'd like to know more - then by all means, ask away! I'd be delighted - really!

But back to my introduction...My husband and I have four children between us, two boys and two girls. All are teenagers except for the youngest who is eleven. We live in a wonderful small community in Missouri, which is about 40 miles North of Kansas City, not far from the Jesse James Farm (the outlaw, as in Frank & Jesse - not the motorcycle guy.)

I've decided that this page will not be devoted to soap and packaging and other business matters, but instead I will devote it to sayings and other amusements that I feel are worth passing on to you. I thank you for taking the time to read it.

New for 2008 - I sometimes make soaps especially for people with severe skin problems, some who've tried nearly everything. For those with extreme allergies to fragrance or other common additives, the Old Fashioned Lye & Lard Unscented Soap - those with psoriasis or similar persistant conditions, the 17% Pine Tar Soap, and those undergoing radiation therapy for breast cancer, the Gotu Kola Soap. And so, for 2008 I have decided to provide a bar of these soaps free of charge to those who need them. I have always felt badly charging anyone for these 3 varieties, as most of those who use them do so out of necessity rather than preference, and so it is my pleasure to provide them to the extent that I can! Please do not request one out of curiousity, etc., as it will take bars from those who really need them and it is on an as-available basis. However, if you do need one of the soaps listed for a specific condition and you have cleared it with your medical professional, then just send me a shipping address and I will send it to you free of any charge. These are limited to 1 bar at a time, and on an as-available basis - so if I am out of the kind you need, I will put you on the list for the next available batch. Please also note that these soaps are not drugs and do not "cure" any condition. They are just more pure/less irritating than typical commercial soaps. The gotu kola has been used for centuries as an herbal skin remedy, though not proven by modern science or approved by the FDA as such. The Pine Tar, also is an old-time remedy, though most pine tar soaps available commercially are only 2 to 4% pine tar, which is not enough to matter. 20% is the maximum that you can put into soap, and I use 17%.

I have found this article to be very thought-provoking, and definitely worth a read. Anyone who understands oils and fats like a soapmaker does has to have wondered about some of this stuff...I will tell you one thing, the processes through which many if not most vegetable oils are extracted has to make one wonder why so many people think they are so healthful! I would not use the oils often used in margarine to make soap, let alone put on my toast. Do me a favor - the next time you go to the grocery store, look at the ingredients on a tub of margarine. Then look at the ingredient list on good old butter. Butter generally contains two ingredients: cream and salt. And margarine? Well, lets just say you have a long, long way to go before you convince this good 'ol "Show-Me" state girl that that mess is better for me! Incidentally (or perhaps not incidentally) I've had doctors twice ask me if I was on a "low-cholesterol" diet because my cholesterol level was so good - Who me? Hardly, but I do have an active lifestyle and try to eat all foods in moderation, with the exception of coffee which I admit I probably over-consume. But then again, I drink maybe two glasses of pop a year, so maybe that's ultimately better than drinking a lot of sugar.

http://www.health-report.co.uk/saturated_fats_health_benefits.htm

Blogs:

Life in the Country

My New Website for Bottles and Packaging for Soapmakers:
www.soapmakersbottleshop.com
Please Note: It is still in progress, and though you can purchase individual items there through PayPal, I do not yet have a shopping cart. It will "ring them up separately" so to speak! Still, if you only need one item at a time, there are savings to be had there! Shopping cart will be coming soon, as well as other bottle styles.

My most favorite quotes, by some very smart people, I think. Some were said a long time ago, yet are still relevant today. I hope that you enjoy them, as I have.

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." - John Andrew Holmes

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

"One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back." - Carl Sagan

"People know the cost of everything but the value of nothing" - Oscar Wilde

"Whenever I hear someone sigh, 'Life is Hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'" - Sydney Harris

"There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - William Shedd

"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." - James Matthew Barrie

"Far better it is to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered with failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that know not victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability." - Robert Half

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they are not on your road does not mean they have gotten lost." - Jackson Browne

"(My Mother) said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors." - Maya Angelou

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." - Khalil Gibran

"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything." - Albert Einstein

"Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side." - Unknown

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” - Isaac Newton

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