Good news and bad news….

The bad news:
I found out recently that one of our fellow suppliers, Sheila Stewart from The Synergy, is closing down her supply business. Some of you may remember Sheila – she was a vendor at the Chicago-Area Soap and Candlemakers’ Conference in the past, and came all the way from Alabama to participate!

Good news part 1:
She’s closing because she is moving to Holland to live near her sister, and sounds very happy to be making the move.

Good news part 2:
She has been working on finding homes for all of her supplies, and was kind enough to e-mail to offer us some of them at closeout prices.  She’s assured me that she will share the source for any products we take off her hands, so we can offer them on a regular basis – so we’ve already placed one order, and we may order more if she still has things left after we take stock of what orders we’ll need to place the rest of the month.

Some of the things we’re purchasing from her to add to our product line include:

            Isopropyl Myristate
            Isopropyl Alcohol 99%
            Perfumer’s Base (I’m really excited about this one!)
            Exfoliating Beads
            Green Tea Extract
            Chamomile Extract
            Bath Bomb Molds (big ones – tennis ball sized!)
            A selection of some of her yummy fragrance oils
            Powdered Dead Sea Mud

We’re sad that she’s closing, but very happy to be able to provide you with some of the wonderful things she’s had in her product line.  I’m hoping to get some of the items that don’t need pictures up on the website in the next few weeks, and will test all of the FO’s before adding them to the site so I can give you first-hand knowledge of how they work in CP soap.  (Sheila says that they all work fine, but some do accelerate trace, so they need to be soaped cool and poured quickly). I already know that they are good and strong, and they are wonderful in toiletries and M&P, though – I’ve been the lucky recipient of a number of soaps and goodies made with her fragrances over the years, and have experienced several of them in products Sheila has made and demonstrated at gatherings.

Gatherings just aren’t going to be quite as much fun without Miss Sheila…….