Thank you to you all for your lovely thoughts, wishes, and prayers for my little family. Your kindness has brought us much solace in a really horrible time.

I'm teaching a few new classes at Voyageur Soap & Candle this fall. We're adding another bath time fun class (related to the bath time fun e-zine, which I'll post here shortly) and two Christmas gift classes (which are also based on an upcoming e-zine). We also added another facial products class on Tuesday, November 22nd. There are also a couple spaces left in the gels class on November 5th, advanced lotion making on October 22nd, and hair care on December 3rd.

There's been a really lively debate on a few posts...
Do you have to declare all the ingredients in a product"
Are companies hiding preservatives in other ingredients"
I encourage you to take a look at the interesting things people are saying over there on those topics and share your thoughts!

I am getting through your comments, and I'm preparing the next Newbie Tuesday with all your thoughts about the facial clenasers. I'm hoping to get that out shortly. (Sorry I can't be more specific, but it seems that if I make plans, the universe does everything in its power to destroy them, so I'll just say "soon".)

As for e-mail, I have no idea when I'll get to it. I'm back logged to August right now, and I don't know how I'll find time to answer all of it. If you have written to me and I didn't respond, may I suggest finding a suitable post a...