Soap Alchemy - Natural, Hand Crafted Soap Co. http://www.soapalchemy.com/ Can't wait to purchase one of our Hand Crafted Bars of Soap Alchemy Soap? Don't Worry! Soap Alchemy sets up shop once a month at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of South Florida at the monthly flea market Bizarre Bazaar! Come on over and get a bar or two (or three or more!) of our Hand Crafted Soap! Be sure to stop by and welcome Lee to the Soap Alchemy table as he steps in and takes over the booth as Tim and Jordan have gone back to Pittsburgh! Lee will be featuring our Limited Edition Christmas Soaps as well as our regular line of tried and true favorites! With the holiday's fast approaching, remember to pick up some extra bars for your friends and family! This Outdoor/Indoor Flea Market is a must do and see monthly event if you are visiting the Fort Lauderdale area or just happen to live near by! There are a variety of craftsmen and women and merchants so there is sure to be something there for everyone! You'll find the Soap Alchemy table inside the building so be sure to stop in and say hello. The event goes from 8 am to 2 pm on the first Saturday of every month so if you are in the South Florida area and need more information or directions, please visit their website at http://www.glccsf.org or call them at 954-463-9005. The Next Bizarre Bazaar will be held on Saturday, November 1, 2008! Hope to see you there! If you have purchased Soap Alchemy Soap from the GLCC of South Florida's monthly flea market and would like to order more, our shopping cart is now online and we can ship directly to your home! You can also contact us at orders@soapalchemy.com if you have any questions or comments about Soap Alchemy Soap! http://www.soapalchemy.com/events.htm By now, most of you know that the majority of Soap Alchemy's Soaps are now Certified Vegan! Our Pure Castile Line, Basic Castile Line and Specialty Soap Lines have been certified vegan by Vegan Action. The only soaps that are not are all of our Goat Milk Soaps, due to the fact that they obviously contain Goat Milk. To be certified vegan is defined as "(products) containing no animal ingredients or animal by-products (to include honey and sugar refined with bone char), using no animal ingredient or by-product in the manufacturing process, and not being tested on animals by any company or independent contractor." The Certified Vegan Logo is now officially on all of our packaging as well as by each of the products in our online store which have been certified. For more information about Certified Vegan, visit Vegan Action at http://www.vegan.org. Coming soon, you will also find that our line of Basic Castile Oatmeal Soaps will be gluten free! The first of our Oatmeal soaps that you will find Gluten Free Oatmeal will be our NEW Lavender Oatmeal bar, which is set to debut by the end of the year! The Peppermint, Mint, Vanilla and Unscented Oatmeal will soon follow and all will be Gluten Free sometime in 2009! We'll keep you posted as to when each type is ready! http://www.soapalchemy.com/index.htm The months of November and December will be busy months here at Soap Alchemy! The 2009 catalog will be getting printed, details for the first quarter's trade shows will be ironed out, Christmas Soaps will be wrapped and placed in people's stockings and new products will be being made for the 2009 trade show season... Over the past few months, this newsletter's subscriber list has quadrupled! Thank You! Interest in Soap Alchemy Soap has been growing both online, at the flea market in South Florida and in retail stores, and we want to be sure to be bringing you what you need where ever you are! If you know of a store near you who you feel could be, should be and isn't stocking Soap Alchemy Soap on their shelves, the let us know! We've got a nifty gift basket filled with Soap Alchemy Soaps and other goodies with your name on it just waiting to be shipped to your door. All you need to do is let us know the name of the store, the person in charge who we need to speak to, their address and their phone number, and your name, of course. If the retailer decides to stock our soap in their store because of your referral, we'll be sending you that nifty gift basket when we ship them their soaps! Easy Peasy! Since we like to change things up once in a while around here, lets call this offer good through the remainder of 2008. Once the big shiny ball drops over Times Square we'll come up with something new, or renew this offer depending on how it goes! So, if you know of someone who has a store, or knows someone who has a store, then please email us at wholesale@soapalchemy.com or give us a call at 724-765-0720! We'd love to send you that nifty gift basket! http://www.soapalchemy.com/events.htm In addition to our website feed, which, if you are reading this from someplace other than our website you all ready know about, we have recently added a separate email list! Once you sign up, you'll receive special offers, site announcements, updates and Hand Crafted Soap information, as well as other tidbits you might not get by simply subscribing to the feed itself. Once you sign up for the email list, you'll get a coupon to use on the website and there will be special offers for email list subscribers with each email we send to you from the list, which won't be more than once per week at most, but usually only once or twice a month. To sign up, simply enter your information in the sign up box on any page of the website. And don't worry... We hate SPAM as much as anyone so we won't do it and we won't give your info to anyone else to do it either... http://www.soapalchemy.com Keep an eye on your email and our website! The holidays are approaching fast and we will be adding a selection of Soap Alchemy Gift Baskets as well as our Limited Edition, Christmas Scented Soaps to our shopping cart soon! This year's featured Holiday Scents are going to be Candy Cane, Christmas Tree, Bayberry, Snowfall (wait till you try this one!), Eggnog and Holiday Spice! Everyone who's sampled these soaps have given us two thumbs up and you won't be disappointed! Our Gift Baskets come in several sizes so there is something for every budget! So instead of those over processed, chemical laden, fruity smelling synthetic detergents sold at those body and bath shops (that will probably sit on the bathroom sink until next December), why not give a Natural, Refreshing Soap Alchemy Gift Basket for the holiday instead? Your friends and family will thank you for it! http://www.soapalchemy.com/shop.htm