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I get by with a little help from my gang

I get by with a little help from my gang

This week, I have been hella sick... and not just for a day or two, for a whole week! 7 days of feeling lethargic, cruddy, cranky, and blerghy. (so blerghy,...

Danielle Vincent

I get by with a little help from my gang

This week, I have been hella sick... and not just for a day or two, for a whole week! 7 days of feeling lethargic, cruddy, cranky, and blerghy. (so blerghy, in fact, that you may have noticed we didn't even send a newsletter last week) We've had many phases of...

This week, I have been hella sick... and not just for a day or two, for a whole week! 7...

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6 Years of Outlaw Soaps, thanks to customers like YOU

6 Years of Outlaw Soaps, thanks to cu...

Danielle Vincent

6 Years of Outlaw Soaps, thanks to customers like YOU

March 15, 2013: Russ and I launched a website featuring Fire in the Hole, Unicorn Poop (along with some other scents that aren't with us any longer). We were relatively new to soapmaking, but we had huge dreams of creating a multi-million dollar company based on awesomely scented sundries. (we're...

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Do we offer free shipping?

Do we offer free shipping?

Danielle Vincent

Do we offer free shipping?

From time to time, we get this question, so I want to address it here: No one offers free shipping. Not Amazon, not the sunglasses shop, no one. As long as shipping costs money, someone is paying for shipping. Some vendors build shipping into the cost of their products and...

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A Life of Adventure: The Blog Challenge Awakens

A Life of Adventure: The Blog Challen...

Danielle Vincent

A Life of Adventure: The Blog Challenge Awakens

It has been nearly a month since I wrote in this here blog. I ordinarily keep it pretty updated, but life has really gotten all up in my business in the last few weeks. It's important to me (and the business) to keep up the blogging, though, so I'm going...

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WE DID IT! YOU DID IT! WE ALL DID IT!!!!!

WE DID IT! YOU DID IT! WE ALL DID IT!...

Danielle Vincent

WE DID IT! YOU DID IT! WE ALL DID IT!!!!!

On Sunday morning at around 1:30, I couldn't sleep. Some personal stuff was affecting our ability to rest, and both Russ and I were tossing and turning. Bored but unable to sleep, I checked my email. And then I clicked a link in the email... HOLY CROWS, Y'ALL! WE ARE...

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Day THREE of our campaign to raise $10k in small business funding to drive down our product prices (and increase sales).

Day THREE of our campaign to raise $1...

Danielle Vincent

Day THREE of our campaign to raise $10k in small business funding to drive down our product prices (and increase sales).

We're 80% to our goal.  Click here to contribute. Now that matching is active, we need $1,000, and then we're DONE. That's 40 more people contributing just $25.How often does $25 double when you spend it?Today, it does (through the 100% matching).How often does $25 have 6x as much power as...

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About The Company To Whom You're Loaning Money

About The Company To Whom You're Loan...

Danielle Vincent

About The Company To Whom You're Loaning Money

Over the past week, we've posted a couple articles about our upcoming Kiva Loan. If you want to contribute to our crowdfunding loan, here is our borrower page. Though I know many of you are aching to loan us money already, we wouldn't feel right about things unless we in...

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Can we borrow $25 on March 1? We will pay you back

Can we borrow $25 on March 1? We will...

Danielle Vincent

Can we borrow $25 on March 1? We will pay you back

summary: we're paying off the $5,000 loan we took out last year so we can get another, bigger loan. longer story: Last year, we crowdfunded a $5,000 0% interest loan to pay for supplies in greater quantities. It was a smashing success, and we were able to leverage that money...

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A rising tide raises all boats: how your purchases from Outlaw Soaps benefit many small businesses

A rising tide raises all boats: how y...

Danielle Vincent

A rising tide raises all boats: how your purchases from Outlaw Soaps benefit many small businesses

When you buy from Outlaw Soaps, you're actually doing more than supporting our small business, you're supporting many small businesses. We are honored to have the opportunities to help other businesses and support other makers. Here's a little about who we love working with...

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The Weird Thing About Being Shy

Danielle Vincent

The Weird Thing About Being Shy

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."- Nelson Mandela Yesterday, I said my social anxiety was another post for another day. Well, it's another day,...

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Outlaw Soaps on Amazon

Danielle Vincent

Outlaw Soaps on Amazon

Because our customers are generally people who care about our business (which we very much appreciate), we periodically get questions about Outlaw Soaps on Amazon. How much money do they take? How does that work? Do you fulfill the orders that get placed through Amazon?   I personally really love...

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Happy Labor Day! Here are videos from...

Danielle Vincent

Happy Labor Day! Here are videos from the Tillamook Cheese factory

On our recent vacation, one of the highlights of the trip was visiting the Tillamook Cheese factory. I love How It's Made (seriously, I could watch it nonstop), so I was VERY EXCITED to visit the Tillamook factory. In fact, it's the entire reason we made it up to that corner...

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Warning: potentially controversial po...

Danielle Vincent

Warning: potentially controversial post -- Non-gendered products: Lessons from Target

A few months ago, we proposed the idea of making a women’s line of Outlaw Soaps -- an idea that I will admit was totally stupid. It was met with appropriate vitriol (we changed comment systems, so you can’t see the comments on the original post, but trust me, there...

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