Custom Gifts for a Special Wedding

Beautiful Yuzu Hard Lotion Bar

 Planning a wedding can be lots of fun, but it's easy to feel overwhelmed by all the small details.  Blissology tries to make at least one part easier - wedding favors!

This last week we've been working on several items for a bride and groom who are set to marry in October.  They have a lot of guests coming in from out of town and had the great idea to set them up with a care bag. 

Each bag will have a guest soap, lip balm, and hard lotion bar  - all with scents chosen by the happy couple.  The bride also chose a few extra things for her brides' maids.  It's going to be such a beautiful wedding and if their guests use their new Blissology products before the ceremony, it's going to smell wonderful too!

I'm going to have a few lotion bars left over so decided to make them available on our website.  Yuzu is such a great scent and so perfect for these lotion bars, I think it will become a part of our regular line!  The grapefruit fragrance is sunny and fresh and such a nice, sweet, citrus.  It's one of those scents that just makes you happy the moment you smell it.

For the wedding favors, we'll be lining the round tins with tissue paper that coordinate with their wedding colors.  They're so customizable for these special occasions.  We're so glad they're making us a part of their happy day!

If you're interested in having something specially made for your important day, let us know and we'll see what we can do!

All This Work is Why I Use My Own Products

Yesterday I was really busy. I made lipbalm, footsie bars, and something new - our New muscle rub bars. I'm not sure what exactly to call them yet. But they have olive oil infused with arnica and comfrey, and menthol crystals, and camphor oil, peppermint, lavender, juniper berry, and a titch of tea trea. I tried it out yesterday and it's really nice and works great.

My shoulder was sore, I think I slept on it wrong, and I just smeared on some muscle rub and it was nice and warm and cool and tingly, and it really helped. I also have problems with my ankle since having surgery on it many years ago. It gets really sore without even doing much. I put some on last night (after having been standing all day) and it did the trick! So yay! This stuff might replace our Footsie Bars as bestseller.

Any ideas on what to name it though?

I've been sick the last week and a half and I think it's affected my brainpower. Of course, it could just be that we've been so busy and it's the holidays, and all that too. I think everyone's mind goes a little this time of year.

Today is another busy day. On the agenda is Caramel Pears Lotion (pictured) and three batches of soap. Angel of Shavano, Cinnamon Spice, and either Mountain Showers or Ripe Red Raspberry. Sounds like it's soon going to be smelling wonderful in here!

Glowing Skin, Glowing Words

Yesterday afternoon I spent several hours making a couple of batches of lotion. One of them was smaller bottles of Cranberry Bliss to include in our gift baskets. The other was Vita-Skin. Normally it doesn't take quite so long to make, but Dayna, being almost two, is extremely busy, loves to "help" and when she doesn't get to, she gets into everything else she can think of. So a lot of my time is spent going back and forth between whatever I'm working on, and getting her out of trouble.

This stuff is seriously magical. It has a nice, gentle, natural scent thanks to our essential oil blend of Palmarosa, Rosewood, and ylang-ylang. And we added vitamin E, vitamin B5, and Raspberry Seed Oil, each of which are really excellent for skin. If you want to learn more about it, just go to our website. It gets into more detail about each thing we add and what it can do for skin.

We have one customer that works at one of the shops that we have wholesale items in. She uses the Vita-Skin lotion like crazy! She says it's helped her when nothing else has. Her skin is now soft and silky smooth and she even says that it's helped with age spots on her arms. Of course, I can't prove that it does that part, but we certainly do appreciate such glowing testimonials!

One perk of making lotion is that it can get pretty messy and I get to slather it all over myself! I actually used to really hate making lotions. If you don't do everything just right, it might never get thick. And if you wait too long to pour it into the bottles, then it does get too thick and it's hard to shove it down the funnel. But with more practice, I've gotten much better with it. It's not so bad now.