New Product: The Highwayman Handcast Soaps, Or......Why is Black Soap so rare?

Hello there!

I trust you had a relaxing and enjoyable Labor Day weekend that was free of laboring. I was fortunate enough to spend a little bit in a cabin in the northwoods of Wisconsin. There was some paddle boating involved, and a barbecue with a whole roasted goat. Let's just say it was interesting, and leave it at that. I also bought my Halloween soap supplies and can hardly contain my excitement at starting the new soap line - I'm testing out some new fragrance oils and bought A LOT of interesting colored mica. I'm particularly looking forward to using Brambleberry's lustre black mica, which is to die for.

On the subject of black, there seems to be an absence of the color in the soaping world. Occasionally, you'll see an activated charcoal bar, or a few around Halloween. To remedy this, I created my own black soap bar without any charcoal or spooky conotations as a part of my Victorian Gothic line.

May I present The Highwayman collection of soaps based on Alfred Noyes poem, "The Highwayman":

The Highwayman
And still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, A highwayman comes riding— Riding—riding— A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
- Alfred Noyes, "The Highwayman"

Black and proud like his brigand heart, the patent leather sheen of Highwayman belies the epic ardor immortalized in Alfred Noye's poem, "The Highwayman" - the story of a doomed highwayman battling against the Redcoats and the woman who sacrifices everything for him. Expensive neroli, golden amber, the earthiness of warmed skin, and saddle leather.

Looks like: Black patent leather

Smells like: Warmed skin, sexy leather, and cologne.

This is - BY FAR - my favorite bar of soap. A customer just posted this in my feedback after buying it last week, "I gave this soap to my sister and she loves it! Eight hours after using it, she can still smell it on her skin." An independent film based on the novel will also be using this bar in their movie. Check out their site here! The movie looks great!


Dark Red Love Knot

"Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard,
And he tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred;
He whistled a tune to the window, and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Bess, the landlord's daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair."

Based on Alfred Noyes' tale of the gallant highwayman and the woman he loves and loses. The smell of sacrifice, ill-fated love, and redemption: sweet berries, flowering wisteria, exotic spices, night blooming heliotrope, and forget-me-not. A tribute to those who love and lose, Love Knot features a dark red base with a dark, oppressing gray haze of whipped soap, drizzled all over with red whorls of passion, honor, and true love.

Looks like: a hazy mauve base with a dark gray whipped top,
laced with red drizzles

Smells like: Sexy spices with a touch of floral

Well, I'm off to wrap soap for a small soap show, take care.

Regards!
Amanda