Oct 29, 2012

All New Pumpkin Cheesecake Fragrance

Three years in a row now, Luxury Lane Soap has had one fragrance that has dominated them all…Pumpkin Cupcake. Take warm pumpkin and soft yellow cupcakes topped with sweet buttercream frosting, sprinkled with just the right touch of cinnamon and hints of clove and you have our beloved blend. Designed to be an alternative to the typical pumpkin spice scents that come out every fall, Pumpkin Cupcake pleased everyone… Until…well, until yesterday… While concocting my supreme blend of pumpkin and spice, I decided to try something a little different. Rather than layering my pumpkin fragrance in the yummy notes of cake and frosting, I settled...

Oct 28, 2012

Celebrating the Gift of Handmade

As a mom and a small business owner, I understand as well as anyone how hard it is to choose between buying things that are good and buying things that are good for my wallet. While we all want to be able to support small, independent businesses, let’s face it…it is a lot cheaper to drop into a WalMart, grab a generic gift and walk out. And it’s because of this understanding that I have struggled with pricing when it comes to Luxury Lane Soap since pretty much the very first bars of soap I sold. I want to be...

Oct 26, 2012

Best Recycling Ever

How does Luxury Lane Soap store its precious cargo? Only the coolest way possible… Rescued library card catalogs! Awesome, right? This weekend I was finally able to get a couple of the units we saved last year (from a local school updating their system) and clean them up. The drawer size accommodation of my small, ten bar batches of Organic Artisan Soap is absolutely perfect! I need to make some nicer name tags, but I was so excited to finally get this all together that I just printed and cut a plain sheet of paper. How cool would hand calligraphy look?! Have you ever wondered where the card catalog cards come from that I use for tags and thank you...