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Soap Lather Rinse Repeat. Keep you junk clean and your powder dry! Nothing is more beautiful than you, with clean bare skin for all the world to see. That is strength. That is confidence. That is the beauty in each and every one of us!! We love Jon Snow, Kurt Cobain, Eddie Vedder, and Matthew in those crazy Lincoln commercials! Sure, they a beautifully dirty, you can almost smell them through the screen or the magazine. Now that’s over. Close your eyes and picture them wet, fresh and clean from the shower. Now that’s a man you want to run your face through his hair and just breath him in. Dirty has a place. But clean will always trump dirty like good smacks down evil.

What is the point of homemade beauty products made with love and aspirations by artisans all over the country, if not to fully enjoy the fruits of their labors. A bar of soap is part ritual, whether washing bare of sleep to begin a fresh start to your day, or washing your face bare from the compilation of makeup residue, congestion and pollutants all around us, to the dirt and oil we unintentionally inflict on our own faces. Yesterday nothing feels better for those brief moments than the process of a creamy lather literally and figuratively washing away the sleep from your eyes to the buildup from your cellphone. Soap may be part of more rituals than champagne or chocolates. Whether you have a sunken Infiniti tub, to an ancient ball and claw foot Bathtub, to a tiny apartment with a tiny tub and shower, it is your private oasis to retreat and recover from the world. A retreat without a satiny bath product would be like soaking in your clothes with a book or bottle of wine. Soap or a close relative is there for every soak, for every shave, shower message or exfoliant. So, soap with a purpose. soaplatherrinserepeat and by then, you will be ready to start all over again!

A new age in soap making. Like yoga for the body or just the trend to customized personalized beauty products and skin care. soapisthenewyoga is the next generation homemade beauty bar that strives to combine fancy homemade soaps that smell pretty with natural organic even vegan products that address mature skin, the age of acne, Castile and Aleppo, old world luxury healing products from the other side of the world. My mission at soapisthenewyoga is to create a single bar that attacks the bacteria that breads acne, calms soothes and reduces the shameful look of eczema and psoriasis. It heals and reduces the appearance of scaring and fine line from sun damage on mature skin. And finally, most importantly, relieves moderate to minor pain and greatly reduces inflammation from joint pain and other maladies. Neem oil and other additives from eastern avuncular medicine have been available for centuries and while they aren’t wonder drugs , I believe exposure to healing oils is just as beneficial as detoxing and drawing out as many impurities we are also exposed to all around us. Lastly, there is something so powerful about taking a bowl of warming oils and turning it into fancy homemade bars of soap that smell pretty-I work everyday to learn those skills to belong alongside the amazing people who stand out in the soap making sphere today.

I am a cancer survivor. Nameless, faceless, but have been to the edge of the well and still I survive. I’ve been blindsided, beaten, mistreated and fought my way out of from the faceless died, to the faceless survivor. And I’m not the same. But I am more aware. More intuitive, more on guard to protect myself and mine. thegirlismoreaware

From Game of Thrones and the man with no face. The girl is now no one, everyone, but she is more in tune with her surroundings.