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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Vanessa McCowan originally took up soap-making as a hobby, but she now sells them as Vanasoap at the Durango Farmer’s Market. “I started off giving them as gifts to friends and family,” she said. “And ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Olga Nedelea, the owner of MION Artisan Soap ...

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 ...

Jarrett and Luna Hornsby, owners of Luke-Dean by Hornsby, an artisan soap company that originated in their Friendswood home in 2019, wanted to start their new organic soap business with a simple, but ...

In general, soap is not the most exciting thing in the world. With the exception of bathtime and grocery store runs, most people do not spend their days pondering the sudsy helper. Soap may be a ...