I am Mary, the editor of our website and the senior member of our group. Our other members include Anna, Melisa, Nicola, Kelli, and Summer.
We love family, candles, potpourri, handmade soaps, and food! We have a lot of fun together making the items we sell in our store. We do numerous craft shows and are famous for our gift baskets, hand-dipped chocolate confections, and fudge. Christmas starts very early here at the Sugar Bush.
The Sugar Bush handle comes from the fact that we are an operational sugar bush here in mid-Michigan. That is our winter crop. We also raise corn and soybeans besides working off the farm. On Sunday evenings you will often find us at an ice cream store indulging in another of our favorite treats.
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About our Scents
These are descriptions of our scents as listed by our suppliers.
Apple Jack & Peel-Multi-layered scent of fresh apples with a top note of rich spices and a hint of tangy orange.
Berry Pickin`-Top- sparkling black raspberries intermingled with touches of peach, cassis, grapefruit, dew fruit. Middle tones of fresh lilac, jasmine finished with a full bodied raspberry musk.
Blueberry Cobbler-The aroma of a freshly baked blueberry cobbler. Top notes of juicy tart blueberries with orange zests, middle notes of butter cake, and base notes of vanilla and almond.
Cappuccino-A rich strong fresh brewed coffee with heavy cream and sugar.
Candy Apple-An irresistible blend of juicy apples, rounded out with notes of sweet plums and ripened strawberries; enhanced with a splash of lime, orange zests, with sharp green notes.
Caramel Apple-The aroma of a big red juicy apple dipped in warm, buttery caramel.
Carrot Cake-A buttery spice blend with hints of peach, coconut, carrots, cinnamon and warm vanilla.
Christmas Tree- Ready to start decorating for the Christmas season? Why not decorate your home with the scent of fresh Christmas tree? Christmas tree fragrance begins with top notes of pine and fresh lime; with middle notes of cardamom and pepper; with a base note of Scotch pine.
Christmas Wishes-A fun blend of balsam, fir, and pine with warm vanilla sugar cookies.
Cinnamon Stick-The aroma of freshly ground cinnamon bark.
Country Apple-A very nice complex fragrance which begins with top notes of pineapple, jasmine, and tiger lily; strong middle notes of juicy McIntosh apples and tart granny smith apples; with a dry down of vanilla beans.
Country Bumpkin-A wonderful complex blend of apples, candied yams, marshmallows, sweet cream butter, brown sugar, nutmeg, crushed cinnamon bark and fresh cloves
Country Cinnamon Buns-the wonderful aroma of fresh baked cinnamon rolls with buttery icing.
Country Maple-The aroma of warm maple sugar and butter.
Country Orange Spice-A fragrance to make you go mmmmmm! This fantastic bakery scent goes the extra mile to provide you with a true fresh-baked aroma, with notes of fresh baked danish, orange zests, and the aroma of drizzled cream frosting.
Country Roads-Luscious berry blend of strawberries, mountain berries, raspberries, peaches, plums, tangerines and ripe figs. The heart blends fresh lilacs, blue violets, hyacinth, sweet pine and woody cedar.
Cranberry-The fresh scent of cranberry with notes of orange. This is one of our favorite holiday scents
Creme Brulee- The delightful aroma of creamy vanilla custard pudding drenched with creamy buttery caramel sauce!
Crisp Green Apple-The clean apple top notes make for a delicious treat. Apple opens the way for green, juicy pear notes and jasmine overtones and a lightly musk note.
Gingerbread-A nice spiced cookie, a freshly baked character with hints of vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon and ginger.
Harvest Home-This is our own special blend of cinnamon, apples and other tangy fall fragrances. Bring a little bit of a country autumn to your home.
Honeysuckle-A fresh ozonic honeysuckle blend with hints of jasmine, rose, and lilac.
Hazelnut Coffee-An aroma of freshly brewed arabica coffee beans combined with creamy vanilla with a base note of nutty hazelnuts.
Hot Apple Pie-This is the most wonderful Hot baked apple pie fragrance we have found! The aroma of fresh cut granny smith apples, smothered in butter, cream, and cinnamon, with a background of fresh baked crust.
Hunter's Green-Hunters requested this scent to use in their soap for their bodies and clothes. It smells just like fresh turned farm dirt.
Lavender Meadows-In our soap we use a lavender and clary sage essential oil blend. In our candles, room sprays, and tarts, we use a fragrance oil that has undertones of sweet talcum powder.
Lemongrass-Wonderful aroma of fresh cut lemongrass with a hint of green herbal notes.
Maple Syrup Festival-This is our own blend of maple scents named in honor of the Shepherd Maple Syrup festival. It is sweet and mapley and makes your mouth water.
Peppermint-We use the essential oil in our soaps and the fragrance oil in our tarts. It's the fresh clean scent of candy canes on a frosty morning.
About our Candles
All of our candles are hand-poured in small batches. We use the finest waxes we can find which are a blend of soy and vegetable wax. We have found these to have the best scent throw and they burn completely. One candle out of each batch is reserved for testing. We use as much fragrance oil as the wax will hold. We will put our candles up against the commercial ones any day of the week. We constantly strive to improve our candles, melts, and flameless candles.
About our Cold Process Soaps
What’s so special about Moeggenborg’s Old Fashioned Handmade soap?
(Aka Cold Process soap, aka, “Goggles and Gloves” soap)
Well, for starters, handmade soap has none of the detergents or harsh additives that are found in the commercial store bought stuff. The next time you’re at the store, take a look at the ingredient label on a bar of “soap.” Chances are it isn’t soap at all. Even the bars that claim to be “pure and natural” aren’t all that pure or natural.
Handmade soap is made with oils, lye (sodium hydroxide), and some type of liquid to mix the lye crystals in. Lye (oh my!), can be a very dangerous material (hence the goggles and gloves reference) and needs to be handled with care. So why use something dangerous in soap? Because once the lye mixes with the fats, a chemical reaction takes place and the lye turns the fats into soap – and once that’s done, there is no more lye and no more fats – only wonderful, luxurious soap!
When soap is handmade, the soaper has complete control as to what ingredients are used. Our favorites are coconut oil, olive oil, and cocoa butter. We often use goat’s milk instead of water for mixing the lye. Goat’s milk is wonderful for the skin.
At first glance, handmade soap seems to be costlier than commercial soap, but if treated properly, and kept on a soap dish that allows drainge, the handmade bar will last a lot longer.
A bar of handmade soap is an affordable luxury. It costs less than a pound of good chocolate, but lasts longer and is much kinder to your figure.
These are some of the properties of the ingredients we use in our soaps:
Avocado Oil
is both healing and moisturizing. It contains vitamins A, D, and E which promote healing.
Sweet Almond Oil has skin softening and moisturizing properties. It is particularly beneficial for dry or irritated skin.
Castor Oil attacts moisture to the skin and holds it. It also helps promote a nice bubbly lather.
Cocoa Butter is often used to treat and prevent scars and stretch marks. We use it in our soaps because it is absorbed quickly to soften and lubricate skin
Coconut Oil helps to harden the soap bar and contributes to great lather.
Olive Oil is an extremely gentle oil which attracts and holds moisture in the skin. It helps keep skin soft and young looking.
Palm Oil contributes to a hard bar of soap and has excellent cleansing properties yet it is gentle on the skin.
Soybean oil and cottonseed oil are most often found combined in the hydrogenated form known as shortening or Crisco. This oil helps to harden and whiten the bar. While trans fats are not healthy to eat, they can be very beneficial to the skin.
Goat‘s milk
We used to have dairy goats. Oh, if only I had been a soaper then. Goat’s milk is absolutely wonderful in soap. It is soothing to the skin and adds to a wonderful lather.
Oatmeal
We use ground oatmeal in our Honey, Oats, and Milk soap. Oatmeal acts as a non-abrasive exfoliant and is soothing to skin.
Lemon balm
We use lemon balm in some of our soaps. It adds an interesting texture and color to the bar. My grandson Clayton loves to help pick the lemon balm which grows across the road at the old family homestead.
Honey
The honey in our Honey, Oats, and Milk soap imparts a subtle, pleasant fragrance and contributes to a wonderful lather.
About our Country Prim Soaps
Our Country Prim Soaps are fun soaps that we make with a soap base and intricate molds. These bars are not like our cold process bars which are the “real deal.” These bars are, however, better than the detergent filled ones that are found in stores. We like these for their decorative look. They are functional and pretty. They do not pretend to be like our made from scratch soaps, but they are a good product. We use the finest soap bases, fragrance oils, and natural ingredients we can find. They make great party favors or housewarming gifts. They definitely have a niche all their own.
About our Potpourri, Simmer Scents, and Primitive Room Spray
Our potpourris and room sprays are very high quality. We use the finest botanicals, bases, fragrance oils and natural ingredients we can find. We highly scent them and cure them for the best long-lasting scent we can possibly achieve.
About our Personalized Knitted Christmas stockings
When our children were growing up, I wanted to stay home with them. I looked for ways I could earn money and still be at home. One of the things I did was make personalized knitted caps. I did that for several years through local children’s shops.
But the world changed and it was no longer safe to let children wear caps with their names on them. So, I began making Christmas stockings. I love to give these to new couples as wedding gifts and the couples are always thrilled to receive them. I used to make these by myself, but as the popularity of these stockings has grown, the girls have begun helping with them. These are completely sewn by hand and Melisa and Anna have become quite proficient at this step in the stocking-making. This enables us to produce more. In recent years I have had to turn customers away. Hopefully, now we won’t have to.
We love what we do, we love working together as a family, and we love making products for others to enjoy as much as we do. We hope you will visit us often here at ebay or at our family website.
You may contact us at: MoeggenborgSugarBush@gmail.com
Please visit us often. We have lots of ideas for many more things to add.
Thank you for stopping by!
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