MoSoap.com
Title
Lye Soap and Pine Tar Soap Specialities
Description
Quite honestly, MoSoap was started as a dare. You never tell a soap maker they don't know how to make "real soap". But I'll start at the beginning......
Most soap makers talk about how they started making soap as a hobby or a desire to handcraft natural products for their families. It was that never that romantic for me, instead it was something that was expected. Coming from a family with a long history in crafting herbal products for others, learning to make soap was right up there with learning botany and aromatherapy. I may have learned science in school but when I worked with my grandmother making soap and gathering plants, I saw and studied science in action. But handmade soap was not thought of as it is today, a trendy natural care item. Back in the 70's, most people that made liniments, salves and soap were considered the "backwoods" sort or just plain ignorant, not terribly respected. But times do changes along with opinions luckily.
Fast forward, in 2001 when I decided to take my herbal business, Botanical Earth to the web. For over fifteen years I had privately worked for individual and companies handcrafting personal care products in between working as a flight attendant. I made everything from laundry soap to pet care items as I gradually absorbed my grandmother's original soap making customers and their families. MaeErma stopped making soap at age 82 and turned things over to me, though she still held on to some recipes! I still to this day, handcraft the products for two of the original families my grandmother started with 50 years ago.
Languages
English
