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| Lavender Lover Gift Set | | By: | Jessica Newens |
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| Studio: | Tomboy Soap Co. |
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| | Specifics: | Handcrafted Body Products | | | You will want to keep this gift for yourself! The primary scent in this set is lavender - a scent that is known for its calming and balancing properties. A natural fiber box is filled with the following: a 12 oz. container of Lavender Oatmeal Bath Milk; two handcrafted soaps (scents: Lavender Rosewood and Sweet Bee), one organic lavender flower sachet, one True Lavender lotion.
• Soap: Lavender Rosewood - Features the classic scent of lavender with a hint of rosewood. Contains: olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, essential oils of lavender and rosewood, and ground lavender buds.
• Soap: Sweet Bee - A castile bar made with 100 percent olive oil. The silky smooth texture and minimal suds make for a very mild soap- great on the face or in the shower. Contains: olive oil, honey, essential oils of lavender, geranium and patchouli.
• Lavender Oatmeal Bath Milk - Soothe and nourish your skin with a luxurious milk bath. A relaxing blend of dried milk, powdered oatmeal, crushed lavender buds and essential oils of lavender and ylang ylang.
• True Lavender Lotion- A completely natural, paraben free lotion for the face and body. A light moisturizer scented with lavender essential oil. Contains: water, olive oil, almond oil, apricot kernel oil, emulsifying wax, vegetable glycerin, vitamin E, allantoin, calendula extract, grapefruit seed extract, vitamin C and lavender essential oil.
• Lavender Sachet - A small muslin bag filled with dried, organic lavender buds. Use to scent a drawer, your bath or throw in the dryer with your cloths and sheets. Put one in your pillowcase to help you sleep at night or tuck one into your baby’s blanket for a calming effect. | | | | Medium: Handcrafted Body Products
Weight: 3 lbs
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| | | About the Artist |
| Jessica Newens | | | | | Tomboy Soap Co. | | Background: | Tomboy founder - and sole employee - Jessica Newens decided to create a cottage business so she could afford to live in the San Juan Mountains. Life in the rugged mountains of southwestern Colorado comes with its challenges, but Jessica finds them easier to face down as her slow-motion development of a carefully crafted company takes hold. Jessica was taken by the idea of making and selling soap in 1995. Not only did she find soap an appealing medium for beautifully subtle colors and textures, but creating bars of soap allowed her to incorporate her growing passion for herbs into a utilitarian product.
Soon Jessica was experimenting with making cold-processed hand-crafted soaps. Jessica mastered her soapmaking skills, testing the results on family and friends, and began developing the original recipes that now make up Tomboy's permanent product line. Everything is hand-crafted, and begins with an intuition and ends with careful product testing.
Tomboy Soap Co. today is housed in a down-at-its-heels historic loft building in Norwood, forty-five minutes away from the booming resort town of Telluride.Tomboy Soap Co. is still a one-woman show, with Jessica doing everything from hauling upstairs 50-pound sacks of lye to creating and packaging the products to designing and printing the labels. Jessica earned a degree in English from Lewis and Clark College in 1992 and then moved to Telluride that same year. She has lived in Norwood since 1995, with her husband, Joel, and their three cats. | | | | Artist Statement: | "Tis a Gift to Be Simple
"I love the idea that nothing is left - that the entire product is used," she says of bars of soap. It is Tomboy Soap Company's mission to produce natural, healthful, ecological body products that don't use petroleum products, chemical preservatives or synthetic fragrances, oils or colorants. Tomboy Soap products are minimally processed and minimally packaged.
If you're ready to slow down and smell the flowers, Tomboy is ready to introduce you to the benefits of handcrafted soap and body products made from "essential" oils painstakingly extracted from flowers and herbs and paired with top-quality vegetable oils, plants, herbs and other natural ingredients - all without sacrificing the health of the world we live in! " | | See more of their works: Jessica Newens | | | | Technique: | Tomboy Soap Company History and Products
Named after Tomboy, the once-thriving turn-of-the-century company-mining town that today is a ghost town, hovering more than 1,000 feet above Telluride, Tomboy Soaps got their start in Telluride, Colorado, where dry skin is a way of life.No wonder Tomboy creator Jessica Newens, a lifelong resident of Colorado, has trained herself in the art of hand-crafting soaps that go beyond cleanliness to deliver soothing scents and sensations, and work to moisturize rather than dehydrate your skin.
Hand-crafted from a potpourri of meticulously measured combinations of pure essential oils, vegetable oils, herbs and spices, each bar of Tomboy soap is cold-processed so as to preserve precious nutrients. Individual soap's characteristics range from super-sudsy to gently exfoliating to lushly emollient to odor-lifting, their complex combinations belied by names that are simplicity itself – Sweet Bee, Herb Garden Scrub, Lime Grapefruit, Lavender Rosewood, Oatmeal Spice.
Recently Tomboy added a line of handcrafted, natural body products also made, once again, from carefully collected essential oils and herbs. Tomboy's new line of bath salts, bath milk, lip and body balm and more makes it easy to take up the following challenge: Get rid of your heavily perfumed commercial cosmetics, made with toxic additives and chemical preservatives. Discover the joy in products not trying to one-up Mother Nature. |
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