Merry Christmas!

    

From our doghouse to yours ... 

From our home to yours ... 

Merry Christmas! 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Help Santa put a 

lovely soap in your stocking! 

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Caramels! 

Did you think I was going

to forget them?

Bay Rum Soap

The fragrance is a classic, clean blend of bay and citrus. 


Bentonite clay helps to create slip and glide for a smooth shave. 


The egg yolks contribute to the color of the soap but also promote a rich, moisturizing lather. 

  

Bay Rum Soap

is made specifically for the men,

but who says women can’t use it, too?

saponified

tallow

soybean oil

shea butter

olive oil

coconut oil

fragrance oil

egg yolk

bentonite clay

Happy bathing or shaving, 

whatever the case may be! 

Applejack & Peel Soap

Applejack & Peel Soap

This soap’s namesake is also the name of the irresistible fragrance blend of baked apple, orange peel, and spice notes of cinnamon, clove, and nutmeg with just a kiss of vanilla.  The scrubby effect of ground oatmeal, dried orange peel, and spices complements the fragrance to produce a wonderful soap with scrumptious lather. 



Applejack & Peel Soap


saponified
tallow
soybean oil
shea butter
olive oil
coconut oil
fragrance oil
ground oatmeal
cinnamon
orange peel







Applejack & Peel Soap

 is hard-working soap

for hard workers. 

Go ahead and reward yourself!

 

Very Vanilla Soap

“Quite simply the richest, most buttery vanilla in the entire universe” is how the fragrance in this soap is described.  The smooth, mellow fragrance of vanilla wafts through the air as I am preparing these soaps for the craft shows.  Like virtually all vanilla fragrances for soapmaking, this fragrance oil causes the soap to turn dark brown as it cures.  Aside from the fragrance and dark brown appearance, this soap will produce lovely lather and leave your skin feeling soft and sensuous. 



Very Vanilla Soap



Plain Oatmeal Soap



Plain Oatmeal Soap



Sometimes the best things in life

are just simple things. 

You got dirty hands.  This soap cleans them. 

It's as simple as that. 

The ground oatmeal creates

a scrubby effect when cleaning. 

There is no fragrance added. 

I can say more about this soap,

but I don't need to. 

It gets the job done. 



Plain Oatmeal Soap

 

saponified

tallow

soybean oil

shea butter

olive oil

coconut oil

ground oatmeal

~no fragrance added~

Happy Bathing!

Purely Peppermint Soap

 

Refreshing.               Tingly.             Invigorating. 



Purely Peppermint Soap contains high-quality oils that make a great bar of soap. 
It cleans well yet leaves your skin feeling soft and sensuous. 

Add to that peppermint essential oil and ground peppermint leaf and you have a soap that leaves you feeling totally revitalized, clean, and refreshed. 

This soap will awaken your senses in the morning, stimulate your skin,

and leave you ready to face the day.      

Caution! 

Avoid use near the eyes or on sensitive skin areas. 



Purely Peppermint Soap ingredients:

Palm oil comes from the pulp of the fruit of the oil palm tree.  It produces a hard bar that cleans well and is mild on the skin.

Soybean oil produces a mild, stable lather.   

Shea butter, also known as African karite butter, contains a high percentage of components that do not saponify to form soap, thus remaining in their original state within the bars, able to moisturize and nourish the skin.  

Olive oil prevents loss of the skin's natural moisture by attracting external moisture to the skin.  It helps keep the skin soft, supple, and younger looking. 

Coconut oil complements any blend of fats and oils in soapmaking with its abundant lather and moisturizing properties.  Coconut oil is literally an essential ingredient in any good soapmaking recipe. 

Peppermint essential oil is the highly concentrated volatile oil which carries the scent and the beneficial properties of the peppermint plant.

Ground peppermint leaf is added to the soap to contribute to the appearance, color, texture, and feel of the soap on the skin.



Happy Bathing!



Oatmeal Scrub Soap



Boo! 

It's been so long since I have posted that it is almost time for Halloween! 

Soapy thoughts and ideas are always on my mind, but other things become a priority in the summer time.  Since I last wrote life on the ranch has been busy.  With an abundant hay crop June and July were spent putting up a record number of hay bales.  I enjoyed planting a garden and tending to it all summer long.  In August I rode in my seventh annual week-long bike trip in North Dakota which is an event I look forward to every year.  Trying to squeeze in biking time with haying time is quite a challenge. 

In September I managed to make several new batches

of soap for Christmas shows. 

It was fun to get back in the soapmaking groove!  









I started out with one of my personal favorites, Oatmeal Scrub Soap.









The Oatmeal Scrub Soap ingredient list includes tallow, soybean oil, shea butter, olive oil, milk, coconut oil, ground oatmeal, and fragrance oil.

Happy Bathing!

Spring Fling Home Garden & Sports Expo

Downtown Glendive, Montana, at the Eastern Plains Events Center

Friday, April 15, 11 am - 7 pm
Saturday, April 16, 10 am - 4 pm

The H.M.S. Pure Prairie Soap is sailing northward this weekend

laden with soaps all dressed up and ready to go.

 

You can find more information

about each soap in earlier posts under

2011 Springs Soaps. 

And we cannot fail to mention the little ship has a stockpile of caramels as sustainance for the journey! 

These soaps have been fun to make

and I hope that you will enjoy them. 

Happy Bathing!

Plain Soap

Plain Soap

Through a love of home crafts the first batch of soap was made 25 years ago.  It was a plain soap, but a pleasant discovery was made in the process.  Our skin had quit itching!  No more dry skin! 

 

Since then we have discovered that handcrafted soap is far superior to commercial soap for the following reason:  It leaves an emollient film on your skin that makes it feel soft and sensuous. This “feeling” is from the glycerin which has been retained in the soap. In commercial soaps, the glycerin is removed for use in products such as lotions, creams, and other industrial uses.  

 

Branding at the ranch. (2011)

The ingredient list for Plain Soap includes:

• Tallow:  Soaps made with tallow are of excellent quality, fine to use on your skin.  The tallow used in Pure Prairie Soap is from our own home-raised beef and is rendered right here in our kitchen. The use of tallow soaps dates back over several thousand years and attests to its integrity as a basic ingredient in soapmaking.  Tallow’s attributes include a hard bar, stable lather, and skin conditioning.
• Palm oil produces a hard bar that cleans well and is mild on the skin.  Palm oil is substituted for tallow when producing a 100% vegetable oil soap. 
• Soybean oil produces mild, stable lather and is often used in combination with other exotic or moisturizing oils. 
• Jojoba oil promotes a stable lather and is a good skin conditioner. It is an excellent emollient for the skin because it has a chemical composition very close to the skin's own sebum. It is suitable for all skin types, beneficial for acne conditions, and good for sensitive and oily skin. 
• Olive oil prevents loss of the skin's natural moisture by attracting external moisture to the skin.  It helps keep the skin soft, supple, and younger looking.  
• Coconut oil produces a hard, white bar of soap with abundant lather.  In combination with other base oils coconut oil contributes greatly to the quality of the soap. 

 

 

 

 

When something is plain, what do you think of?  Some would say “lacking beauty or ugliness.”  Others might say “lacking special distinction or affection.”  Common, ordinary, boring also describe plain.

 

I would agree with all those things … but sometimes plain is nice. 

 

Think of pure and simple, unobstructed, uncomplicated, basic, down to earth. 

 

 

 Plain Soap is all that … and more. 

Plain Soap will wash away a hard day’s work

and leave you feeling clean and refreshed. 

Nothing fancy, but it gets the job done …

nicely. 

 



Plain Soap
on the plain