Oregonians are buying artisan, whether it is gloves they purchase from a crafter on the website Etsy, home-brewed beer they buy from a co-worker, or specialty cheese they pick up at a farmer’s market.

Gather all your materials. You’ll need just soap bits, a plastic bottle, a grater, a cutting tool, and a pan for melting. Cut the bottom off of the plastic bottle to create a mold for your new soap ...

Soap-making is one of those traditional skills that are undergoing a huge renaissance. With many people craving healthier, more natural and more personally crafted skin products, artisan soaps have ...

WAHAGNIES, France (KABC) -- Would you wash your hands with this? A French snail grower has been making an artisan soap from slime. To encourage the snails to produce the slime, he says it takes ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Salty Crossing is an Artisan Soapery based out of the East Tennessee area, creating all-natural, simple line of soaps and ‘fancy’ soaps. Sculpting, molding and stamping, each ...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Jennifer Himel is the soap maker at Big Sky Soap Arizona. She also goes by Sa Povi meaning “tobacco flower” in Tewa, her mother’s native language. She is from the Village of Tewa ...

Olga Nedelea believes that soap and other skin care products should contain as few ingredients as possible. "Commercial soaps are not even made the old way or real way," said Nedelea, who is the owner ...

AKRON, Ohio - When Julie Taylor of Taylor Soap Co. first started making homemade soaps eight years ago to give to friends and family, she had no idea her love of soap making would turn into a business ...

Cynplicity Founder Cynthia Mosco makes bath and body products the old-fashioned way, handcrafting all natural shampoos, soaps, bath bombs, natural deodorants and hand salves. The brick and mortar shop ...

For most people, “soap” is a 4 letter word meaning a cleanser that leaves your skin feeling dry and tight. The soap of our ancestors was used to clean far more than the skin: pots, pans, hides, plus ...

How do two pet goats become a business? Turns out, by accident. Hughson resident Bethany Riner never thought the couple of goats she bought as pets when she first moved out of her parents’ home would ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — If you’re sniffing the air in a certain section of Grand Rapids’ Eastown neighborhood, it won’t take long to find Maggie Ann Soap Co. “People say… that they can smell my ...