Posts Tagged ‘ecofriendly’

Featured Product: Lavender & Eucalyptus Soap

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Lots of people get bored with soap talk. Those are probably many of the same people who only like movies with explosions or who would never consider a salad to be a complete meal. Yes, they are in short, brutes. So be it. They probably smell, too.

We are one of the few companies that use extra-virgin olive oil as the base for our soaps. Why does this make a difference? Well, extra-virgin is minimally processed and hasn’t been stripped of it’s best parts. For many of the same reasons that extra-virgin olive oil is better for you to eat than lower-grades of olive oil, we think that extra-virgin makes a better, more moisturizing soap. Because we start with such high-quality and nutrient-rich ingredients (check any of our labels), the finished soaps leave you clean without stripping your skin of its needed moisture. This means that you won’t itch and you also won’t need to use as many moisturizing products (like lotions). All of the recipes for our soaps have been carefully balanced to create gentle, long-lasting bars that won’t melt away in the shower.

Our organic lavender & eucalyptus soap is our best-selling product of any that we make. It is a really good soap. The combination of the lavender and eucalyptus make this a great unisex scent. We’ve added copious amounts of goat milk to make this bar even gentler and soothing, plus there are nice little scrubby lavender buds in this soap to help exfoliate. Each of our bars is wrapped in unique (and by ‘unique’ I mean that there are no two packages that look the same. Check the photos.) and extremely ecofriendly materials. Additionally, all of our labels (the colored part) are printed with soy inks on 100% PCW papers. Plus, we are 100% carbon-neutral. For more information, read our ‘about’ page.

As a reminder, our Spring Sale is still on at the main site (www.skinnyskinny.com). Enter ’spring20′ during the checkout to redeem. The sale is on through April 15.

Jars of Deliciousness

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

It’s not intentional that my last few posts have been on the sentimental side of things, but whatever. Pretend that I am sitting on a rocking chair on a porch, my hair up in bun and glasses perched on the tip of my nose, while I relay another snippet from the good ol’ days… Again, when I was a child growing-up on a farm in rural Tennessee…My dad tended our beehives. There were 4-5 of them out on the far side of the garden. My dad was terribly allergic to bees so there’s a bit of absurdity at the extremes of my family’s self-sufficiency. My dad would suit-up from head-to-tow in his protective gear and my memories of this are of something akin to Homer Simpson in a fall-out suit. Eventually, my dad would return with jars of honey and bits of the honeycomb. It was absolutely delicious and I still remember the occasional fright of finding a stray bee in one of the chambers of the honeycomb.
Without the need to suit-up, we’ve been busy bottling jars of certified organic honey to be given as wedding favors for the spring nuptials of a very special client. In order for honey (and beeswax) to be certified organic, the bees must have a 3-mile radius of certified organic land around their hives (bees won’t fly further than 3 miles from their hives). Besides a great taste, honey is high in anti-oxidants is a natural humectant* which means that it is a superb ingredient in skincare products. It tastes great in tea, on biscuits and on peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
*humectant means that it attracts moisture

Goat Hair- It Makes a Great All-Weather Tent

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

So, as I mentioned a couple of days ago, I’ve started reading Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough. In the introduction (I’ve gotten further than that), he writes that the Bedouin in Jordan used woven goat hair to make their tents. It’s portable and easy to repair. It’s renewable because goats always travel with the clans. When it rains, the fibers of the goat hair swell and keeps the water out. It seems so brilliant.

Organic and Ecofriendly Scented Stationery

Friday, March 27th, 2009


Remember way-back-when, or at least in the movies that depict way-back-when? Women would scent their love letters with their favorite perfume to remind their betrothed of all the things that written words can’t convey. Not only has skinnyskinny learned from this approach, we’ve even improved upon it. Our handmade stationery is made entirely from eco-friendly materials and scented with organic essential oils that can be completely personalized. The examples featured above are crafted from an old cookbook (a slightly campy resource, admittedly, but think of all the metaphors for recipes and chemistry in our language– some of them are quite sincere) and treeless paper. The edges of the envelope are sewn. Inside this is the real substance: the scented note that can be as alluring, as seductive, or as innocent as you like. These were custom-made for a client, and if you are interested in your very own set, contact us for pricing and options.