Hen N Chicks Soap

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Giveaway ends tomorrow!

Did you know? Do you care?

Most soaps available in the store today are not really soaps at all, but detergents. Detergents are a petroleum based product, like gasoline and kerosene. Detergents tend to leave your skin feeling dry, itchy and tight. Certain ingredients in mass-marketed soap have been proven harmful to human health and can cause severe skin irritations in some people. Do your own research. Visit Environmental Working Group and find out how the products you use are rated. Take inventory of the things you use and see if there are better choices you can make. Even if only one thing at a time.

Handmade soaps offer so many options. There are different oils to use for different sensitivities. Additives can help with things like dry itchy skin, skin soother & acne to name a few. Don't forget the many aromatherapy benefits too. Lavender is calming while mint is exhilarating.

The soap giveaway ends tomorrow click the link for rules.
http://homemadenaturalsoaps.blogspot.com/2011/05/soap-give-away.html

I am giving away a bar of Peppermint Patty & Orange Creamsicle!

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Soap Giveaway & a peek at next week

There are only 3 more days to enter for a chance to win a bar of Peppermint Patty & a bar of Orange Creamsicle.

For all those friends out there that have already used my soap and left a comment on the face book page but come here to my blog and leave a comment under the soap that you like I will enter your name again! I am trying to combine everything here in the future.

After the giveaway I will be running a special Thank You to anyone who has bought or placed an order by Sunday May 15. If you have bought soap and refer a paying friend who orders after May 15 you will automatically receive a free bar of soap. That special will run the rest of the month of May.

Soap scents for the week of May 16 are:

Blueberry (the only one I make with fragrance oil)
Honey N Oats (the bar that began my passion for handmade soap)

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Newsletter from EWG

Here is the latest newsletter from EWG. Just another reason why it is so important to know what is in what you put on your skin. If you can wear a patch for birth control, hormones, nicotine addiction, heart medications what ever you put on your skin enters your blood stream. I only use nutritionally healthy organic oils, organic additives that are good for your body like beeswax, raw local unfiltered honey, reverse osmosis water, organic oatmeal, cocoa butter, almond oil and essential oils to name a few.

Dear Angela,

Myth: If the store sells it, it must be safe.
Fact: The government has no authority to require companies to test personal care products for safety before they reach the store shelf.
This is not news to you, because you rely on Skin Deep to guide you to safer choices that help protect your family from chemicals that could be harmful.
But do you ever stop and think; shouldn't the government be looking out for us?
Click here to sign EWG Action Fund's Safe Cosmetics petition. It's time for Congress to take action and make sure that personal care products are safe for our families.
Right now, the industry can use almost any ingredient in its products without testing it for safety. And at a time when some people are applying more than 100 different ingredients every single day, it's important to make sure they're safe before they reach the market -- and our skin.
The industry's self-policing panel, the Cosmetic Ingredient Review, hasn't bothered to evaluate more than half of the thousands of ingredients that companies put in their products. And the government stays out of it.
But EWG doesn't. We're looking into these chemicals -- and you won't like what we've found. Our research suggests that 22 percent of all personal care products, including those made for children's use, may contain the cancer-causing contaminant, 1,4-Dioxane. Vitamin A added to sunscreens speeds the growth of skin tumors. Cancer-causing formaldehyde shows up in hair straighteners. Labels vaguely cite "fragrance," a catchall term for undisclosed blends of ingredients. Studies have even found lead in some lipsticks.
Congress needs to take action today. Tell our lawmakers not to leave you, your family and all consumers unprotected.

Homemade Natural Soap giveaway. Only 5 days left!

Hey guys! I am giving away 2 free bars of homemade natural soap on my blog Sunday. Only 5 days left to enter.
1. Become a follower on the blog for an entry into the drawing.
2. Post it to your facebook page for another entry
3. Share with a friend for another entry
4. Place an order for an entry

Prize will be a huge bar of Peppermint Patty and a huge bar of Orange Creamsicle. Both smell like the real thing and I now use organic oils!

Sunday, May 8, 2011

One more chance to win!

One more way...if you blog share this giveway and link back to my blog for another chase to enter you name in the drawing.

Soap give away!

Wanna win 2 free bars of soap? The rules are simple. You can enter your name as many times as you participate. Give away will end Sunday May 15.

Here are the ways:
1. Become a follower of my soap blog
2. Like my soap facebook page for Hen and Chicks Soap (hit the facebook link at the top of my blog)
3. Have a friend become a follower of my soap blog
4. Have a friend like my soap facebook page for Hen and Chicks Soap
5. If you have used my soap leave a comment on my soap blog
6. Place an order this week
7. Have a friend place an order this week

Please let me know how you share my soaps!