BrewerGeorge
Well-Known Member
Saturday we helped my oldest daughter paint at her new house then went to a block party festival in her neighborhood. There were three separate soap vendors there and none of them impressed me.
The first one was all about the "natural" connection with all kinds of flower petals, seeds and stuff stuck to the bars. The guy is going on about how everything is vegan, GMO-free, and all-natural - then he hands me a coconut scented bar. All natural coconut, eh? Then as I'm walking around picking up bars and sniffing, just making conversation I ask if the obviously hot processed bars are hot processed. He isn't sure, then tells me they're cold processed. They're not. The worst part was one of the bars I picked up was soft! It felt a big gummy bear. Gah! Clearly brand-new. And as I'm walking out, I hear them talking about one scent that is so popular that they announce when they're going to cut it and people line up to buy it immediately! Days old, soft soap for $2 an ounce. Yeah, sign me up. :Kitten Love:
The other two weren't nearly as bad, just pedestrian. CP, single color and lightly scented. At least they seemed properly cured. No decoration, no swirls, just soap, at six bucks a bar. But the tragedy is that neither of these booths selling decent soap had any real traffic, but the "natural" amateurs with their unwrapped, soft bars had plenty of interested shoppers.
The first one was all about the "natural" connection with all kinds of flower petals, seeds and stuff stuck to the bars. The guy is going on about how everything is vegan, GMO-free, and all-natural - then he hands me a coconut scented bar. All natural coconut, eh? Then as I'm walking around picking up bars and sniffing, just making conversation I ask if the obviously hot processed bars are hot processed. He isn't sure, then tells me they're cold processed. They're not. The worst part was one of the bars I picked up was soft! It felt a big gummy bear. Gah! Clearly brand-new. And as I'm walking out, I hear them talking about one scent that is so popular that they announce when they're going to cut it and people line up to buy it immediately! Days old, soft soap for $2 an ounce. Yeah, sign me up. :Kitten Love:
The other two weren't nearly as bad, just pedestrian. CP, single color and lightly scented. At least they seemed properly cured. No decoration, no swirls, just soap, at six bucks a bar. But the tragedy is that neither of these booths selling decent soap had any real traffic, but the "natural" amateurs with their unwrapped, soft bars had plenty of interested shoppers.