"Moving always sucks." - my dad Years ago, when I was in the middle of a particularly heinous move, I called my dad in tears, telling him that I couldn't do it. He shared with me the wisdom of those three words. I'm pretty sure he didn't realize that he...

Now that I am a wise old person, my friend asked me to let him know "when I figured it all out." Here's what I told him: Life is too short to argue with shitty, small-minded people Life is not long enough to spend time with all the really awesome...

Over here in the badlands (um, in Oakland), big changes are afoot for Russ and me (Danielle). Outlaw Trading Co. As many of you know (based on our customer satisfaction survey), we don't just sell soaps anymore, we sell lotions and lip balms, too. Soon, we'll be selling shower gels (by...

Ah, backorders... we usually hate them and try to make enough stock so that they're never a problem, but this season kind of sprung up on us and shook us down, and now everything (nearly everything) is backordered. How does this happen? Because soap needs to cure for at least...

Big changes are happening around Outlaw Soaps (like the fact that you're reading this on a new site), and one of those big changes is that we're retiring some soaps and starting to make some other soaps. Soon, the following soaps will just be a fuzzy memory: Bunkhouse Stampede, we barely knew...

That's right, even an outlaw needs to get away. We're taking some time to regroup after the Christmas mayhem... you know, make more bacon soap and start on those wholesale orders that came in too late to get the last of the Hair of the Dog. If you placed an...

Our subscription boxes are really doing well, and a commitment that I made when re-thinking our subscription model is that I would like to help promote other related small businesses in our subscription box. You might be thinking "ugh, another subscription box asking for free product," but that's NOT THE...

Since pretty much the beginning of our business, we have been using biofilm and a recycled brown paper sticker to wrap our soaps. The whole package biodegrades and the wrap keeps the soaps from being damaged in stores by over-handling. But after much deliberation, planning, and design work, we have...

[caption id="attachment_14364" align="alignright" width="412"] Here's Chuck, Erika, and Russ carving 1,055 bars of bacon soap (not pictured, Kimberly carving the rest of them yesterday)[/caption] Note: The title has been oft attributed to Buddha, but it's not a quote from Buddha. It's still a really great quote. Well, I have really...

Yep, we've really been stepping up the Outlaw Soaps Subscription Club game around here. First, we got this great review from Ramblings of a Suburban Mom. Second, we got a glowing review from My Subscription Addiction.* Not only that, we got a really wonderful note from one of our subscribers,...

In case you haven't been obsessively following our Facebook page, you might have missed this FINE product announcement: we are making a very limited edition "Excuse me while I whip this out" flask. Click to tweet a link to this! Paired with the Super Slick Single Soap Subscription Service (or...

The past two weeks have been pretty crazy... It started with us getting an order for 816 sets of Bacon, Coffee, and Whiskey from ThinkGeek round about September 15th. Now, we're not a very big company, and making 2,440 bars of soap is really testing our capacity, not to mention...