First Time For Everything

This is our First Blog and first Post! Sometimes the first time doing something is scary, well this isn't so scary, maybe just a little intimidating. So We will start off telling you who we, Yreka Soap Co is, and what we are all about.

Of course we are all about Soap and Bath products. Something you may not know is we do it all out of our Flower Shop. Yep, we have a flower/ gift shop. It is a big step up from our last store (it was about 10 ft by 10 ft store front) So we LOVE our huge store!

OK So who are we? Well the main boss lady would be my mom, Candy. She is the one who started it all about 30 years ago. We are formally known as Mott's Sweat Shoppe for the Soaps, but decided we needed a change, and came up with Yreka Soap Co. Mom is one of those people who can do anything. She use to sew baby clothes, and had her own shop selling those. She also has a talent of painting. She can take anything and make it look fabulous. She use to go around selling painted saws and T-shirts on one side of the booth and on the other would be barb wired wreaths and Bath Salts and Soap in the mix. So here she is now about 10 years later!

So know you know a little about mom, here I am. I am Kari. I am a nurse. I love my 2 kids and husband more than anything! I have always helped my mom with all the crafting things she has been into. I use to sleep under the tables at the craft shows.I started to really help her within the past 3 years with the soap part of the Business. We went from just selling in our store, e-bay and a few wholesale accounts, to... Having our own website, selling on Artfire.com, Etsy.com, and Zibbet.com . We sell all over the world (which is amazing) and we are almost to 1,000 fans on Facebook. I designed the website myself, yes its not perfect, but I have never done anything like that before. I am the person you will normally talk to via Facebook or E-mails.

As a team we work well together, well as well as a mother daughter relationship could LOL. So mom is the main soap maker. Well we really make everything together. The Soap takes a lot of time to make from start to what you see in your package or what your buying. From measuring out the ingredients, to making it, to pouring it into a mold. Then letting it dry for 24 hours to cut it, To let it dry for at least 4 weeks. Then after that we scrap it, and wrapping it and then labeling it.

We are so Lucky we have friends and other family members that help. One friend that helps all the time is Sandy! She is so fantastic! Our other little helpers range from 7 years old all the way to 21 months (he is the official soap sniffer). LOL

Well that should be good for our first post! Please let us know if you have any questions! Until next time, happy suds!