Handmade Soaps & Upcoming Workshops

Natural Baby Castile Soap

Natural Pet Soap - for your furry & hairy friends

 

Traveller's Backpacker's & Camper's Soap

We've just added three great Castile Soaps to our shop this week. Castile soap originated from Italy are made primarily from virgin olive oil. We have added organic coconut oil to our Castile soaps because of the amazing health benefits. I just read that coconut oil is antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti fungal, antibacterial, soothing, etc. We use coconut oil all year round on our skin to sooth and vitalize our skin in the summer heat as well in the winter to moisturize and replenish wind blown, chap skin.

Castile soaps are known for their natural healing of eczema, dry skin, psoriasis, achne and blemishes while being gentle enough for your baby! I have been impressed with it's gentle cleansing on my pre-teen's oily skin and it's great lather. It's worth looking into!

Upcoming Workshops:

May 14th - Laundry Soap Making Workshop - We are very excited to be offering this very practical soap making workshop. We will start out by making laundry soap bars and by the end of the day each of you will return home excited and with your own batch of laundry soap too! Call for more information.

May 28th - Photography Workshop - We are excited to teach yet another Photography workshop at the river bank in Saskatoon.  This is a great chance to learn how to take better photos. This is a very popular workshop so make sure you register soon. You can find more info here.

On a farm note: We've had an exciting time on our off-grid farm as our sewer lines froze last week. We've spent an entire week trying to thaw out 35 feet of frozen lines in -25 deg C temperatures. Needless to say that things have finally thawed out enough to start running downhill again! Thank God for warmer winds and thank you Kelly for your perseverance! Come to think of it, this is the only ON-GRID thing we have going at the farm! Isn't that funny! We decided that if we were to house 30 or more retreat guests at a time we would need dependable waste water facilities right off the bat. Well, as it turns out it really doesn't matter if or not your on-grid or not, when it's cold things freeze up! It's a steep learning curve regardless of your grid choice. Lesson learned: when it's really cold, flush that low-flow more often :) 

Well, with all that said, I've got chores to get done and soap to make! Enjoy each moment with peace and calm regardless of your circumstances - perseverance brings character and Help is on the way.

outside: -2 deg C, warming up quite nicely
inside guest house: 24 deg C, more than cozy