Black Orchid, Bodice Ripper, Dark Forest, etc.

Black Orchid

"Top notes of ginger, black pepper, and ylang blossom, leading to a spicy floral middle of gardenia, jasmine, orchid, and clove bud. As with all deep, intense fragrances, the bottom notes are key: patchouli, amber, balsam, vanilla, musk, and sandalwood provide a sweet, smooth, mysterious finish."

New soap for fall/winter depending on cure time. Sounds knock out swooning gorgeous, no?

Bodice Ripper

Not your tea rose. This is a heaving bosom Bulgarian rose with a musk base that slightly evil romance novel heroines apply lavishly to their sultry breasts. Think Robber Bride, notRescued Virgin.

Dark Forest

Spicy pine needles combined with rich, intense oakmoss, white violets, cedarwood, and patchouli essential oil. A rich musk-vanilla accord adds sweetness and staying power. I love this soap because it's more Brother's Grimm then Goldilocks.

Burlesque

Wow, I was so pleased with this soap. It has a sandalwood and amber base with a honey vanilla middle and just a hint of Bulgarian rose. I liked it so much I even wrote the fragrance recipe down.

Tiny Bubbles

Smells like ice cold Sprite poured over crushed ice. No, really.

So that's just some of what it around the corner. I did a custom order I'm quite pleased with. One of those things that seemed like it would be easy but scent being the fickle thing it is, was quite a challenge. Oh, look for a black pepper, spicy, floral musky soap, I'm still tweaking it but it will be incredible if I can pull it off.

I only make one or two batches, each batch has about 16 soaps. So I do accept pre orders as they can be snapped up pretty fast.

*UPDATE*

There are a couple of options, one is to allow me to email you when they are about to be ready (contact me at goatmountainarts@aol.com) or pre paying now. The soaps take a couple months to get to where I like it to be. But, with custom orders, since people are usually bit chomping I send it out after a month and suggest they unwrap the soap and set it out to keep drying.

Reason being the more moisture that evaporates the harder the bar and the longer is lasts but I can get a little obsessive. Most people just want to use soap and aren't afflicted with the fascination of water to oil ratio. Of course the soap is ready to use a few days after it's taken out of the mold, I just prefer to let it set up.

This is my long winded way of saying I'm starting them next week and they can ship in a month, so Mid to late September if you are really wanting to get your hands on them. But they won't go up for sale to the general public until October or later depending on the weather.

Coconut

Made by me, I added coconut milk and real coconut, which, you know, has no other purpose then to look cool. The coconut, that is, the coconut milk makes it a very rich bar. It took forever to find a coconut oil that didn't smell like Banana Boat tanning oil.

Fighting the Good Fight

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Solidarity

Kinley and Lida showing support for Baxter by passing out. Actually, they let Baxter have Gabriel's bed or Lida did, really, Kinley is almost always on mine. That's a queen, btw, gives you an idea of dog size.

Baxter Update

Baxter came downstairs and ate a little boiled chicken, in small pieces. He looks better, his tail is curled. He has that Akita tail so it's pretty easy to read when he's not happy. I've learned tail uncurled is a big watch out sign for lots of stuff.

So I'll keep an eye on him tomorrow and we'll take it from there. Baxter is the dog that gets these random dire things, like the toenail bed infection *gets on soapbox*

If you ever notice your dog licking it's paw and see that the area where our cuticle would be, is swollen, get to the Vet right away. ER vet if it's night time. Like us, that cuticle is the wall that keeps infection out. I caught Baxter's right away and it was scary, the vet said it was unlikely to get better and needed heavy duty meds, soaking and at one point an injection in the site (that was awful).

Usually what happens is the nail is removed, if not caught in time, the toe, then the leg and if it gets into to the bone the dog goes septic and it kills the dog due to massive organ failure. I know, from an infected nail bed.

We were blessed in that because I got him in within a few hours, (it went from fine to swollen really fast) and he got heavy duty antibiotics ($$$) and was willing to let me soak his foot, plus the injection, he recovered. He had to go back every two days to insure it was healing. The vet was surprised and we were all very relieved.

There are a lot of dog ailments that I am comfortable treating to a degree (we feed raw and vaccinate at a minimum and avoid antibiotics unless really needed) and if I hadn't remembered the random trivia from hair school (no joke) I might have waited to see with this as well. We big dog owners know all about and fear bloat more than anything, I never would have expected something like this. Baxter is the first dog Dr. Schrader saw that did recover with all his pieces and he's been a vet for a long time.

So, add to bloat and eye injury, any swelling where the claw goes into the toe and do NOT delay.

*off soapbox*

Anyway, I'm always a bit more concerned about Baxter because while he is 'just weird' as my vet says, he worries me more than the others. But, so far so good. Thank you for the kind words and thoughts.

Baxter

This is Baxter. Baxter is my heart dog. He made me look like a Rockstar at all our classes, is always on the job and always very serious. Except when he does the shoe thing which is pick up a shoe and look at me. The I have to chase him around pretending I really want the shoe.

Then I tell him to 'Drop it.' and he gets a treat.

Baxter has been sick since yesterday, so right now he is where all my energy is. I think he'll be ok, but he's been moving like an old dog on and off for awhile and he's only three and a half. Yesterday he starting vomiting and he looks a little better today but won't eat.

I'll take him in if he doesn't perk up, as much as he ever does, soon. Right now he's sleeping. I don't really want to talk about it anymore because I'll get upset. So, anyhow. Think good thoughts.

I'll update you tomorrow.

New Soap Wicked

Musky,intoxicating floral. Top notes of black currant and marigold give way to a floral bouquet of rose and jasmine. The drydown combines woody violet, sandalwood, and musk.

You ever see that Lifetime channel movie 'Poison Ivy'? You know with the 14 year old Drew Barrymore who befriends the plain timid girl and like whacks the Mom and seduces the Father? Or maybe the Mom is already, dead, I don't know.

She has this black leather jacket and heavy metal perm and red, red lipstick. And she just exudes sex and youth and power. A force to be reckoned with. Yeah, this soap is pretty much there.

ps. I know some of the Secret Garden oils out there just smell nasty, this one is top shelf, promise.