Natural Soap and a GREAT Giveaway!

Are you looking for Christmas gifts? Special handmade, gorgeous things? I am! Well, look no further... Hand made, natural, luxurious soap! Soap for Mom, soap for Dad, Soap for your Good Man and soap for YOU!


I am so delighted to introduce a my dear friend and one of my new sponsors, Shannon from Sacred Waters Soap Co. I have to admit that, up until about a year ago, we were a family who shopped at Costco for our soap. I loved that I could buy a pack of 12 soaps and not have to think about running out of soap for months at a time. Then, Shannon showed up with a little wicker basket filled with the most wonderfully-smelling, prettiest-looking, made-with-love soaps I had ever seen. I looked at this little basket and thought how beautiful soap could be. I couldn't resist buying one of each kind. I took my soaps home and immediately had a bath. I was amazed at the luxuriously foaming gentleness of my new soap and couldn't help thinking how I on earth I had put up with the hard, synthetic smelling-soaps for all this time. So, without further ado, here is Shannon from Sacred Waters Soap Co.

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It all started long ago in a tiny kitchen, images of my grandmother in my head. She did everything herself. She sewed the clothes, grew the food, preserved the food, and made the soap among many other things. Everything in her world was handmade and a thing of beauty and love. There is soul and emotion in things made by real people. Their spirit becomes a part of the creation. I have always wanted to reconnect with that life.

Living in the middle of a huge city like Los Angeles, it was hard to imagine how I was going to create that farm life I wanted so badly. Fortune smiled upon me and I found my tiny farm in the city. One 1/4 acre was all I needed. My vegetable gardens and fruits trees planted I turned my sights to the animals. We are so lucky to have chickens, rabbits, and a beautiful, if rather crabby, little black pig.


In the future I hope to add a pair of pygmy milking goats and a bee hive. My children live such an enchanted life. At 12 and 5 they are deeply connected to the natural world around them. It doesn't occur to them to go to the store to buy something we need. Their first question is always "how do we make that".


Both my husband and I have studios on the property. We tried sharing the garage at first but as it was going to lead to a divorce we decided that separate studios would be a much better solution. I love my work space so much. With it's front and back doors, I can look out into my gardens, watch the chickens scratch about, or keep an eye on the kids while they play. The pig loves to come and stand at the back door and chat while I work.


The soap shop was dreamed up out of a desire to connect with my past but soon blossomed into an education in natural healing. My daughter was very sensitive to all of the commercial baby products and broke out in hives. So I had to figure out how to make soap, lotions, diaper salve and even laundry soap that she could tolerate. Thirteen years later I am still making those same products and many more.


I try to keep the ingredient lists simple and of the highest quality. I want the customer to be able to read the label and think, "Oh, I know what all of that is". Technically I make castille soap using a foundation of olive oil with just enough coconut and palm oils to create a rich creamy lather for the soaps. For fragrance and healing, I strive to use essential oils where ever possible. High quality organic herbs and botanicals create the final layer in the process. My very favorite products are the solid lotion bars. I created this recipe for a dear young friend with terrible eczema and skin allergies. With no preservatives, chemicals, mold retardants etc., it has been the perfect solution to the dry cracking skin and soothes the eczema.

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I just have to tell you that I have signed up for Shannon's soap on a monthly basis... it's the BEST thing... every month, a few bars of soap show up at my doorstep, I never run out of soap, I NEVER have to brave Costco! I know that my family are not lathering themselves in harmful chemicals. An unexpected benefit is that the wonderfully gentle aromas of nature waft from my bathroom, filling my home with just a hint scent... I feel like the Queen of the Meadow!


Lucky us... Shannon is offering a GIVEAWAY to one lucky reader... a $40 gift certificate to her store!! All you have to do to enter is visit Shannnon's shop and pick your favorite item. Let us know what it is in the comment section below.

You can enter additional times by...
* 'hearting' Sacred Waters Soap Co on Etsy
*blogging about Shannon's Giveaway
*tweeting about Sannnon's Giveaway
*sharing Shannon's Giveaway on Facebook
* becoming a fan on the Sacred Waters Soap Co's Facebook page

Please come back and add your additional entries by leaving an additional comment for each extra entry.

Blessings and magic and GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!

Voting is closed and the winner is announced in a recent post. But don't despair... Shannon is offering a 20% discount to ALL Magic Onions readers... just add 'Magic Onions' in the 'note to seller' at Etsy checkout and Shannon will refund you 20% of your purchase price!

Donni