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October 9, 2009

Fall-Ing All Over Ourselves

So much awesome-ness this month!

This fall we’re returning with the very best of our seasonal favourites, and releasing two new much-requested layers… First, the pumpkin goodies. Smashing Soap, Smooch!, Tarts!, and Whipped! products, in our classic “Creamy sweet pumpkin pie with a full complement of spices - cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves.”

An encore of Killer Treez Soap (“The bleeding sap of a thousand fallen conifers covered in maple syrup.”), and a short run of Moral Decay Soap (“Honey sweet, smoky lapsang souchong tea, brewed too strong and liberally debauched with aniseed, ginger, cinnamon, bergamot and gentian.”). Strychnine, on the other hand, we have a love/hate relationship with. We love the scent, but dread making the soap (it’s a nightmare guys, seriously). So this year, we’ve captured the best part of “Ripe peaches and green apples spiked with a menacing hint of cinnamon and ginger, sweetened with tobacco and underscored with burning oak and earth.” and deliver it in our perfected, 100% soy-wax Burn! votives.

We’ve had repeat-requests for a coffee scrub so we’re taking advantage of this newly-chilly season to expand our Mudslide collection with a really fabulous cocoa-butter and Rhassoul clay Smooch!, our year-round Whipped! formula, and a return of the exfoliating, clay-laden Soap. Remember our “Positively filthy mix of day-old coffee grounds and vetyver, blackened hazelnut, sweet graham, and rich cream.”? It’s still incredible.

We’ve also created two appropriately creepy Staff Picks from our Smack! collection this month. Exhumation is: “Layers of visceral Raspberry Plum goo, Chocolate Mousse treats, tooth-rotting Candy Floss and the grave’s own Unearthed filth.” and Exsanguination is: “Crimson pools of Cherries Jubilee, Raspberry Plum and Berry Patch and drips of dragon’s blood-rich Incense.”. Both are fabulous introductions to the line if you’re stumped for ideas, and will be available pre-made through October.

In further Big News, we are slowly making progress with our facial care line! This month, we’re releasing our Shanghaied Facial Smooch! and Silk & Cyanide Facial Smooch!. Just like our body products, the facial Smooch! line features exfoliant material in a self-emulsifying oil base. Unlike the body products, the exfoliants are much finer to prevent capillary abrasions and the oil base is much lighter to avoid comedones. Predictably, Shanghaied uses finely-milled rice powder to cleanse gently, and microscopic bamboo extract to polish. Nestled in a nourishing base of rice bran oil (an anecdotal anti-ager) and green tea extract (antioxidant rich), Shanghaied Smooch! is lightly spiked with stimulating citrus essential oils, and a smattering of ylang ylang for sensitive to normal skin. Silk & Cyanide Smooch! is slightly rougher, and features colloidal-oats to cleanse and soft-but-chunky fine-milled almond meal in a deep cleansing base of castor, sunflower and soothing sweet almond oils. Aimed at normal to oily skin, Silk is dosed with healing myrrh, oil-regulating patchouli, anti-inflammatory vetiver and fragrant bitter almond (minus the prussic acid, sadly) essential oils (and a splash of honey for sheer decadence).

These are fabulous, we are super excited to release them, and hope you all enjoy them. Those of you with sensitve to mature skin, don’t feel left out - we’re just put putting the final touches on our Bathory Smooch!.

‘think that’s it, guys! Enjoy!

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