"Oh My God, I Need This!"

Stress-Be-Gone soap with lavender and calendula petals

That's usually the first thing a customer says when they pick up Blissology's Stress-Be-Gone soap.  We all laugh and I usually say something about how everyone could probably use a little Stress-Be-Gone in their life or about how the world would be a happier place if everyone had that soap.  We might both be mostly joking, but really, it's all true!  That customer probably does need less stress and the essential oils we use in our Stress-Be-Gone blend really do help.

Each of the essential oils in this blend are recommended by aromatherapists to calm, relieve stress, or boost mood.  Some are even touted to have antidepressant and energizing qualities, further stimulating those "good mood" vibes.  We see this right before our eyes when that customer then smells the soap they just proclaimed they needed.  They close their eyes, take a deep drag of the scent, and then exhale, dropping their shoulders and sighing.  Just that one sniff has made them feel better.

Rosemary and Eucalyptus essential oils alone can smell a little sharp and medicinal. Even lavender, the oil people most often associate with relaxation, can be a little much.  But when combined with sweet orange, peppermint, and spearmint oils, a wonderful balance is achieved.  The Stress-Be-Gone blend then becomes this intricate but somehow familiar fragrance that is both soothing and invigorating.

The current best-selling item on thescienceofbliss.com is Stress-Be-Gone soap.  However, we use the same blend in a massage oil, salt scrub, massage candle, and a hard lotion bar. 

You "Need This!"  Really, who doesn't need a little stress-be-gone?

Pretty Piece of Layout

I decided it was time to re-design the blog layout a little. Not because I'd had the old one for so terribly long, but because I hated finding so many other blogs with the same exact layout. It was pretty and neutral, and apparently pretty popular. So I spend most of the morning searching and setting up the layout you see now.

I like this one because it's simple and clean and the colors match our logo/theme. So let me know how you like it.

Yesterday I had my top two wisdom teeth extracted, so it's a good thing to do computer work today. I'm supposed to take it easy and am taking some pretty good drugs, so I can't do anything that requires much thinking either. Thankfully the blog install was pretty simple. It took me longer to reinstall all the little widgets and stuff than anything else.

Still on the list of things to do today is... well... hmm... it's hard to remember things today. Oh! I have to make a phone call to try to get a little something in line for spring. That is purposefully vague, but I want it to be a surprise for later. I will tell you that it involves a birdhouse though.

I'm really itching to make some soap today, but I really shouldn't today. Maybe tomorrow though. Need to get some Guinness. Not for me! For soap. We've never sold our beer soap online yet, but that's really just because it sold out too fast to even list it. Maybe this time around we could keep some for our online customers!