He may not be everyone's idea of a hero, but he sure is mine.Why is Hunter S. Thompson my hero? No, it isn't his reckless lifestyle, ample consumption of bourbon and cigarettes, wildly enthusiastic use of fast vehicles and powerful firearms, or confusingly potentially-lethal quantity of mind-altering substances. Sure, those are...

I've spent a lot of time working on how to write, and the only thing I've learned in my 30 years of focused practice is that it only gets harder the more you practice. Why do so many highly practiced writers talk about how hard it is? As I was...

Over the next month or two (depending on how well this goes over), we'll be including pre-stamped postcards with some orders. We need you to look up your representative and address the cards to them, and then sign the cards. We've left a place for a personal note, too.

Over the past several days, I've been tagged in a couple posts (like this one) declaring that the government (and big businesses like Johnson & Johnson, Proctor and Gamble, L'oreal, etc) are trying to squish handmade soap companies with the new Personal Care Products Safety Act....  

AIR FLOW. Your handmade soap needs to breathe! The best place to keep handmade soap is in a shower caddy. That will keep it out of direct water and will give it air flow. If you don't have a shower caddy, you can also get a soap tray (from us!),...

It isn't often that we get to announce a price drop in our soaps, but here it is! Thanks to the 68 lenders who backed our Kiva Loan, we were able to buy supplies in greater volume...

Yesterday was one hell of a buckin' bronc of a soap making ride! Thank heavens the CEO/Wife works within screaming distance of the COO/Husband in the soap shop. I was in the process of making five batches (190 bars) of everyone's all time favorite, Hair of the Dog Whiskey Soap, when...

As you may recall from my post a few weeks ago, moving always sucks. We started moving at the end of January (that's when I started going through all my stuff in storage) and just moved the last of the stuff from the old place to the new place two days...

Production and temperance isn't the kind of thing people run advertising campaigns about, but without it, this business would be a smoldering rubble. Here's to Russell Vincent, my husband, my outlaw, and my business partner!

The truth is, neither were we. When I reflect back on how different our lives were just three years ago, it hardly seems possible that we have changed almost everything about our lives, our careers, and our homes. We even gained a family member (Roxy Vincent, VP of Animal Testing). How did this...

I promised I'd post other photos of the build-out of our new place, so here's the build-out of our fulfillment room! My dream was to be able to just fill an order quickly. I know, I know, it's at once both a very small dream and a very impossible one....

-= Click to tweet that quote. =- We're getting our March 1 subscription box ready to ship, and this month, we have commissioned artist Miriam Dema to make these fantastic screen printed cards. I first bought the poster version of this card at an LA Brewery Art Walk about five years ago, and even...