Valentine’s Love, Hugs, Kisses and Product 2015….

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Pure Grace

Yay, February is here and that means we are that much more closer to Valentine’s Day. At Pure GRACE Soap we love to celebrate love – whether it’s Valentine’s Day or just a random Tuesday…. With that in mind we have been working hard to create some special products we think our customers will love.

Strawberry Sugar Scrub… $9.50
Our Strawberry Scrub smells as good as it looks and contains real strawberries! Strawberries are extremely beneficial for the skin for many reasons including being an excellent skin cleaner, improving complexion, helping to tone skin and protection from UV light. They also exhibit fantastic anti aging properties, they help with the treatment of acne, diminish under-eye puffiness and help to repair damaged skin.

Sugar scrub is the most natural way to soften, exfoliate and to freshen up the skin. Sugars fine texture gently exfoliates the skin without leaving harmful residue that can clog the pores. Skin loving oils provide the moisturizing properties that prevents the skin from drying. Our custom recipes use only organic cane sugar and are our recommendation for the driest of skin.

Our sugar scrub is packaged in a heavy glass jar with lid. The scrub is labeled on the top with its name and on the bottom with its ingredients, weight and directions. Each scrub is tied with a pretty fabric tie.

Set of Three Coconut Bath Bombs… $5.00
This set of 3 bright white Coconut Bath Bombs smells like tropical heaven. The smell is bright and crisp like you just cracked open a fresh island coconut.

Take a moment for yourself and enjoy a long relaxing bath. Our bath bombs give your skin a tingly treat while the scent relaxes your cares and stresses away. Once the bomb dissolves you will be enveloped in delicious smelling oils and butters that will make your skin silky smooth and moisturized.

Set of Three Raspberry Bath Bombs… $5.00
This set of 3 Raspberry Bath Bombs not only smells like fresh picked raspberries but their eye catching pink color looks pretty too!

Each clear gift bag contains 3 extremely moisturizing bath bombs which are perfect for year round use but especially wonderful for dry and parched skin or for people with skin aliments. Each set is tied with a pretty fabric tie and labeled on the back of the bag.

Grab and Go Cake Batter Lotion Stick Mini and Two Strawberry Bath Bombs… $10.00
We created this gift set with the young lady in your life in mind. The mini lotion stick is perfect for her purse or backpack and is scented with one of her favorite smells. It will stay with her throughout her day and leave her skin smooth and moisturized – perfect for this harsh winter weather.

The two strawberry bath bombs will certainly make bath time that much more special. Not only do they smell good enough to eat but will help to relax her cares away.

Valentine Gift Baskets… $varies
For our customers looking for a special gift basket we have developed a limited edition Chocolate Almond Soap made with real cocoa. This bar of soap is handcrafted using a hot process method of soap making and smells divine! It is only available in our Valentine Gift Baskets and comes paired with many of the other Valentine specials.

All of our Valentine Specials are limited in quantity. Most are available online here and are are available locally at the Downtown Terre Haute Farmer’s Market on Saturday February 7, 2015 from 9a-1p. Pre-ordering is available and recommended. In addition to the specials if you attend the Farmer’s Market on Feb 7, 2015 and spend $30 or more on Pure GRACE Soap products you will earn a FREE GIFT! Enjoy a custom set of three bath bombs scented in Raspberry, Coconut and Coco-berry. Give them to your loved one or save them for yourself!! Quantities are limited and only available at the February Farmer’s Market.

Spa Soaps…

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Pure Grace

Our new Spa Soaps came out this week. We love them because each spa soap is made with only high quality essential oils and formulated with specific face and body beneficial clays. There are four different soaps in this collection. These bars are more rustic looking and heavier in weight than the majority of our other bars due to the process we use to make these.

Spiced Orange Spa Soap contains French red clay and is best suited for normal to oily skin types. French red clay comes from Hematite Iron, its coloring the result of the copper oxides contained in the rock. It is rich in kaolinite, illite, montmorillonitea and calcite; it cleanses, detoxifies and exfoliates the skin, leaving it refreshed, toned and rejuvenated.

Lemongrass Spa Soap contains Kaolin clay and is recommended for all types of skin types but is especially beneficial for dry skin issues. Kaolin is the mildest of all clays and helps stimulate circulation to the skin while gently exfoliating and cleansing it. It does not draw oils from the skin, so it is best suited on dry skin types without negative results. Kaolin as found in nature usually contains varying amounts of other minerals such as muscovite, quartz, feldspar, and anatase.

Eucalyptus Mint Spa Soap contains Bentonite clay and is recommended for all types of skin problems and to speed healing. Bentonite, also referred to as Montmorillonite, is one of the most effective and powerful healing clays. It is composed of aged volcanic ash and unique due to its ability to produce an “electrical charge” when hydrated. Upon contact with fluid, its electrical components change, giving it the ability to absorb toxins. Bentonite is known for its ability to absorb and remove toxins, heavy metals, impurities, and chemicals. Healing clays like Bentonite have a high concentration of minerals including silica, calcium, magnesium, sodium, iron, and potassium.

Lavender Tea Tree Spa Soap contains French green clay and is recommended for all skin types but especially helpful for skin suffering from acne, eczema and psoriasis. French green clay contains montmorillonite, decomposed plant material such as kelp and seaweed, magnesium, calcium, potassium, dolomite, silica, manganese, phosporous, silicon, copper, selenium, and up to nine mineral oxides. These elements work synergistically to nourish and gently detoxify skin, while the added olive oil moisturizes and softens it.

Custom Orders for Custom Clients….

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Pure Grace

We love working on custom orders and are always happy to speak to a client who has an idea in their head for a product. We have spent a lot of one on one time working with one local company, AAV Travel, to determine exactly the best product for their clients.

The first challenge we partnered with Stefanie, the owner of AAV Travel, on was for a bridal show she was attending as a vendor. She wanted to give all the brides who visited her table a take home bar of soap made with a custom scent, color and packaging. She had an estimate of how many brides she thought would come to the show along with a budget to work within. We were thrilled to be able to produce for her a half size custom bar scented with a very tropical fragrance. We infused organic olive oil with annatto seed oil to create the bright orange color and added poppy seeds for decoration and scrub. We branded each package with her company logo and wrapped with her signature blue color tissue paper and pretty blue and white twine. Her brides loved them!

The next project she called on us for was a large scale thank you gift for her best clients. Since she works with clients from all of the world one of our top priorities was to make sure whatever we came up with that it would ship well. She knew she wanted 5 different soap bars, each to represent a portion of the world that she plans vacations and honeymoons for. Working back and forth over several months we determined the regions that would be represented. We sent her several fragrance profiles to review. From there she picked the smell she thought best represented each of the 5 regions and we began to talk about appearance of the bars.

We finalized and finished the set of 5 bars several months after we began the project and she was very pleased. We provided her with a custom shipping box and lots of kraft shredded paper for safe soap traveling. We branded all of the bars with her logo and website and she choose names for each bar. We packaged them 5 to a box and delivered them to her in time for holiday shipping.

We’d love to work with you on your custom needs. Add that something special to your wedding, shower, event, party, holiday, reunion or work outing with a custom product/s. We routinely customize soaps, scrubs, lotions, lip chaps, detergents, etc and in addition to your signature scent and look we can add your special date, photo, location, name, etc. Contact us to discuss more.

Contact Stefanie at AAV Travel for all of our your destination vacation and honeymoon needs. Stefanie is located in Terre Haute, Indiana and services the world.

We are Now Available at Local Retail Shops….

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Pure Grace

In case you didn’t hear we were happy to have our product stocked at not one but two retail locations last week. Select Pure GRACE Soap products will now be available year round at Harvest Bakery located at 905 S. 25th St Terre Haute, IN. Stop in and tell Marta, the owner, M. GRACE says HI!

The second retail location Pure GRACE Soap products are now available is The Parlor Salon located at 5 S. 7th Street, Terre Haute, IN. A variety of soaps and lotion sticks are currently available. We are very excited to have our product here!

Show us your Pure GRACE Soap in Action…

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Pure Grace

We ran a fun giveaway this week on our Facebook page. We asked all of you to show us your Pure GRACE Soap in action. We asked everyone to choose a setting which would appeal to M. GRACE and show us your soap having fun. We didn’t care if it had already been used or was brand new. We suggested you might want to make your soap read a book or dress up in a Halloween costume. The funnier and more imaginative pictures, the better.

We had some very creative entries and it was very hard for M. GRACE to pick one winner. So we didn’t. We picked two!

The first place winner was from our customer Meghan Salinas. She and her daughter worked on this setup together and M. GRACE loved it! Meghan and her daughter won twenty dollars worth of product of their choice. Her caption reads: “Oh, no! Splinter wanted to steal E’s favorite Pure Grace plum wine soap! Thanks goodness Leonardo held him off while the other ninja turtles rescued the soap so that E can bathe tonight!”

The second winning photo came from Haley Scholz with the help of her gorgeous fur babies. M.GRACE loves animals. Haley won a bar of soap of her choice. Her caption read: “Ughhhh mom we don’t want a bath unless it’s with your fancy soap…”

Thanks to everyone who participated and please watch for our next giveaway.
This giveaway is now closed.

Have you started your Holiday Shopping yet?

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Pure Grace

It’s October which means the holidays are right around the corner. Closer than some of us might want them to be. They like to sneak up on us when we least expect it and before we know it Halloween has past and our bellies are full of turkey and then we realize we have no gifts for anyone with mere weeks till the big day/s.

Well, have we got you covered! We will have LOTS of gifting options for any upcoming holiday you are celebrating. We have already started putting together some gift baskets. You can expect to see many more as we get closer to the “season”.

All of our gift baskets are also available as gift boxes which is great for those wanting to ship their gifts directly to the recipients. We can even add a hand written note if you like, just let us know. You could effectively take care of everyone on your list with just one phone call….wait, does anyone phone call in orders anymore?? Maybe not as much as we used to but we also take orders via email, FB and you can even comment on the website and we’ll track you down to help you.

Just a little sneak peak of what to expect this season. Our Gardeners gift basket contains Bug Be GONE Lotion Stick and Gardeners Soap along with gardening gloves, shovel and ceramic pot with attached saucer.

The Peppermint Chocolate gift basket contains Peppermint Bath Salts (enough for 3 baths), Cocoa Kisses Lotion Stick, a soft fabric sponge, handled pumice stone and square bottom wicker basket.

Both baskets are $25 each. We at Pure GRACE Soap don’t like to have what everyone else has – we like to be individual and special and so are our gift baskets. No two will be alike so if you see one you like you might want to grab it up.

Holiday scents, we are so excited…and our first GIVEAWAY…

Posted on September 23, 2014 by Pure Grace

So we have been working on the holiday scents for several months. We started in the beginning of summer thinking about what scents meant fall, winter and holiday to M. GRACE and myself. We made lists and checked them twice. We ultimately decided on seven different scents which we felt were most important to not only us, but that we thought you would like too.

So here goes…..
The first holiday soap is an Apple Cider soap and this might be my (Julie) favorite of all of them. It literally smells like apple cider, in bar form. This soap contains French Red Clay throughout which gives it a caramel color and dried apple peel on top. We test all of the new soaps but I have to tell you, once I got to this one I kinda got stuck and haven’t yet moved on to some of the others – I like it that much. I hope you do too. This soap will be in stock all fall/winter season long.

The second holiday soap is M. GRACE’s favorite – Pumpkin Spice. The thing that really gets me excited about this soap is the inclusion of organic squash. Squash is really great for your skin and body. Squash helps to maintain healthy skin and prevents skin aging (its the Vitamin C in there that really does it). Along with the organic squash this bar also contains pumpkin pie spice. Why you ask? Well, because it’s fall and pumpkin season and that’s what you put in pie so why not in your pumpkin soap? The bar has a pretty two color swirl comprised of the dark color from the spice and the orange color of the squash. It smells just like fall, comfort and warmth. This soap will be in stock all fall/winter season long.

The third holiday soap is a pretty versatile one which you might just wish was available all year long, we call it Holiday Vanilla, you might call it heaven. This is a two colored bar with the bottom layer being brown and the top layer of the bar a natural color with added coffee grounds which not only look attractive but also provide excellent skin exfoliation. The scent is a very true vanilla, none of that fake stuff here and the color contrast is very pleasing. This soap will be in stock all fall/winter season long.

Wondering why I am mentioning which soaps will be in stock all fall/winter long?? Well because we have created some limited editions and guess what – they won’t be in stock all fall/winter long. When they are gone, they are gone folks.

Number four on our holiday countdown list – Spiced Cream Soap. This is our lightest scented bar, hosting a creamy spiced smell. The bar itself is a tri color swirl comprised of a dark spice color and scent, a caramel color and a natural color. This bar is very dreamy. This bar is a limited edition and once it runs out we will not make more until next year.

Soap number five is Figgy Soap. We struggled with what to name this bar but Figgy Pie just kept coming back to me – I really have never smelt a Figgy Pie, is it even a thing? But if it was, it would smell alot like this soap. So hence, we committed to Figgy Soap. I like the smell of figs. I grew up eating them off a tree in our backyard. I would eat them until I couldn’t eat anymore. I enjoy buying them now for my family and even just planted a fig tree earlier this summer in our yard. So Figgy Soap excites me. Plus the coloring on this soap is really pretty. It is a two toned bar with French Green Clay and Brazilian Purple Clay swirl. Both are natural colorants which offer the skin lots of detox and purification properties while still moisturizing. We have added mulling spices to the top just for decoration and because I think it makes this little bar of soap a little piece of art. This bar is a limited edition and once it runs out we will not make more until next year.

The sixth soap is just plain fun! Titled Lump of Coal Soap, this bar smells a lot like gingerbread. We made it especially for those folks who have been a tad bit naughty this holiday season. It has a lovely black and brown swirl look to it. The black is from activated charcoal which will help to dry out any oily skin while still moisturizing. I know some people on my Christmas list who might be receiving this in their stocking…but I won’t name names. This bar is a limited edition and once it runs out we will not make more until next year.

Bar number seven is one I have wanted to work on for a long time, before we started the soap endeavor, actually. It is a Peppermint Wool Felted Soap. This bar of soap is made from Peppermint Essential Oils and Red Brazilian Clay. It is then hand wool felted and instantly becomes the most attractive gift for the holidays. Each one is unique in color and design. This bar is a limited edition and once it runs out we will not make more until next year.

So there you have it – our seven new scents for the holidays. They will be released this weekend at the Farmer’s Market (Saturday September 27) or they are available for pre-order now. All bars except for the Peppermint Wool Felted Soap will be available for $5 each. The Peppermint Wool Felted Soap is $10 each. We will also be bringing out holiday inspired sugar scrubs and lotions in early October so stay tuned.

So I promised you a GIVEAWAY in the title of this post – and who am I to disappoint?? We will be giving away two sets of two bars each of the new holiday collection to two lucky winners. M. GRACE will announce the winners who will be selected by random draw on September 26, 2014. You may choose to pick up your winner’s bounty at the Farmer’s Market this weekend or we will ship it to you if you are not local. Best of luck!!

Here is what you want to to do enter. Leave us a comment/reply on our soap product page about WHICH SOAP is your favorite and WHY. If you haven’t had a chance to try any of our soaps yet – no problem, tell us in the comments which one of the holiday scents you really want to try and why. Link is here: http://puregracesoap.com/products/soap/

After you have finished leaving your comment go back to our Facebook page and leave a comment on the giveaway post telling us you left a comment on the website. Link is here: https://www.facebook.com/puregracesoap

Want more chances to enter?? Who doesn’t??
Leave separate comments for us on ANY or ALL of the Pure GRACE Soap products you have tried. Remember to go back and let us know on the FB posting.

AND, if you haven’t already LIKED us on Facebook make sure to do that for an additional entry. Feel free to share this giveaway with your friends. It is the holiday season and they might just gift you with some soap as a thank you!

Men’s Line of Pure GRACE Soaps…

Posted on September 20, 2014 by Pure Grace

We released the new Men’s Line of Pure GRACE Soaps today. They were very popular at Market this morning selling out of two of the three scents. These scents will be available year round.

Tobacco and Bay Leaf smells like your grandpa’s pipe. It was an instant hit with both men and women. It contains activated charcoal which is great for your skin, especially if you have any oily areas.

Dragon’s Blood is a very strong incense smell. We have added French Red Clay to the bar which will help detox and purify your skin.

Finally the Lavender Forest is the mildest of the three scents and smells very woodsy with a hint of the familiar lavender scent. The bottom layer of this soap has dried organic mint added for the speckled effect. The top layer of soap contains French Green Clay which is great for your skin.

These soaps will be restocked for next week and can always be pre-ordered, if you like, by messaging us on FB or sending us an email. All bars are $5 each.

Lavender Lemongrass Baby Shower Favors…

Posted on September 2, 2014 by Pure Grace

We were so delighted to meet Christina at a recent Farmer’s Market. She was new to town and working on hosting a small baby shower for a close friend from Chicago. Her friend, the Mom-to-Be, loved both Lavender and Lemongrass scents. Christina asked us to put together some favors for the shower for all of the guests in attendance to take home with them. We were so happy to do so!

We worked with Christina over a period of about two weeks to design just the right favor for her shower. She ended up choosing a full size Lavender Lemongrass Soap Bar along with a half-size Lavender Lemongrass Bath Salt.

The shower was being hosted at a restaurant and although the restaurant already had lovely ambiance and decor, Christina still wanted to put a personal touch on the favors and match them to the custom centerpiece she made. She choose a white and lavender gingham fabric that we use frequently to incorporate in the favors and tie around her basket. She also placed flowers in complimentary colors on the main table.

Since the deadline for the shower was only a couple of weeks away when Christina contacted us we decided quickly we would have to use a soap scent already in stock. Since Lavender Lemongrass is one we carry year round it worked out perfectly.

The shower went off without a hitch and Christina let us know the guests were very pleased with their favors. In in email she told us,

“I was inexperienced in the realm of planning showers and I was so relieved to meet Julie and M. Grace at the Terre Haute Farmer’s Market. Pure GRACE Soap created the perfect product for my baby shower favors, something that made the guests feel really special. They also helped me create an ambiance and centerpiece for the shower, and the event went flawlessly – everything was perfect! My guests were so impressed by her lemongrass lavender soap and bath salts. I am now a loyal fan and follower!”

We really loved working with Christina on her baby shower and thank her for the opportunity!

Pure GRACE Soap routinely takes custom orders and would be very happy to speak with you about an upcoming event or need. Please contact us at info@PureGRACESoap.com.

We take custom orders…

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Pure Grace

Recently we have started getting requests for custom orders. We think that’s pretty cool! We love it when a customer wants us to work with them to create something special for their clients, friends or family.

This week we finished and delivered an order for baby shower favors. This client chose a full size Lavender Lemongrass soap bar and a half size Lavender Lemongrass bath salt. We packaged them in a clear bag with kraft paper shreds and a custom label on the inside and outside, not to mention a pretty tie to match the theme of the shower.

We are currently also working on a couple of custom soap orders. If you would like something custom made for yourself, your office, your staff, your family, your friends or your event please feel free to contact us. We would love to talk to you about possibilities.

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