The Minimalist Soap Bar for People With Expensive Taste
There is a particular kind of person who understands that beautiful self-care does not need to arrive shouting, sparkling, foaming in five colours, and smelling like it was designed by committee …
How Lockdown Led Me Back to Handmade Soap, Sensitive Skin and a Memory of Ghana
There are moments in life that feel ordinary at the time, then years later they rise up with their full meaning. For me, one of those moments happened in Tema, Ghana, when I was a child visiting my grandmother with …
The Black Feather on My Windowsill
This morning, I found a black feather sitting on my windowsill like it had booked an appointment. Not on the floor, or floating about somewhere random. It was right there on the windowsill, bold as …
Handmade Soap Business Motivation: Keep Making the Soap
There comes a point in every handmade soap business when the dream and the reality meet at the same messy worktop, and let me tell you, reality does not always arrive looking soft, calm and …