With Mother’s Day arriving soon, you’re welcome to take advantage of our speedy fulfillment and great deals.
Now, through May 10th…
- Spend $35 on mom (or maybe yourself) and get free giftwrap. No exclusions, no code, limit 3 per order, discount taken at checkout. Must add giftwrap to cart.
- Buy 3, get 1 Free! Stock up on Smooch! or Whipped!. Limit 3 per order, discount taken at checkout.
Order through 05/06 for shipment on 05/07 and timely delivery. West Coasters, please specify in the “comments” field if you need Mother’s Day delivery, as we’ll have to ship your orders on the 6th.
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Just a note about our upcoming schedule. Customer service will be unavailable from Wednesday April 24th, through Tuesday April 30th. The site will remain open to orders, and we will resume shipping on Wednesday, May 1st. But we will be unreachable by phone or e-mail. Thank you! 
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We have hit the single digits on the following Discontinued items. These products will not be in production once these units are gone…
Datura Soap: 1
Embargo Perfume Oil: 1
Chloroform Soap: 2
Friction Perfume Oil: 2
Datura Perfume Oil: 4
Grundy Perfume Oil: 4
Embargo Smooch: 5
Decadence Smooch: 6
Grundy Smooch: 7
Paradise Misplaced Smooch: 8
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Flash sales aren’t really our thing. We’re giving it a try this weekend. For the next 24 hours, spend $40, and receive a free Smooch! or Whipped! item from our clearance category. Must add item to cart, discount taken at checkout. Limit 5 free items. Through Sunday, 1 p.m. CST (03/10/13), or while supplies last.
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In response to the USPS price hikes, and Villainess’ subsequent shifted “free shipping threshold,” one group of fans got organised and found a cost-effective solution.
While Villainess fans outside the US have been pooling their resources and placing group orders since we opened, these guys have taken it to the next level… We currently offer free shipping in the US at a $100 subtotal, $125 to North America, and $200 to the rest of the globe. Even with a group order, $200 at once is a LOT of soap. Especially considering that we’re one of those companies that does frequent seasonal releases.
I was thrilled when the leader from the New Zealand Villainess group approached me and asked if they could keep a running tab for their orders. We brainstormed logistics a bit, and decided to create a “group user account” - making running the group order even easier. With one user login, each participant can order their items and finalise billing terms individually. The group organiser doesn’t have to keep lists of who ordered what, or collect funds.
So, we’re excited to implement this for other groups! What we need:
- Some info about your group. Are you a virtual community, an office pool, a group of friends…
- A shipping address for the group organizer, where someone will always be available to receive your shipment.
- Account contact info for the group organizer. This person will keep track of your account “tab,” and have access to the e-mail account on file.
What we’ll set you up with:
- A Group user account
- An exclusive code to remove individual shipping charges from your individual orders.
- Free samples with each individual order.
- Access to any discount codes, specials and freebies we’re running. No conflict with your group’s free-shipping total.
As for points, you’ll have to work that out amongst yourselves.
So! If your group wants to set up a user account contact us! And let’s get this started! (We may be releasing some new things next week, so now’s as good a time as any!). 
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“Indonesian Patchouli spiked with imported spices - cloves, sandalwood, and cedarwood, and a drop of perfume - Tunisian jasmine, tuberose, lily of the valley, grape and Tahitian vanilla.”
Slather yourself in this elegant scent using coupon code “Embargo” at checkout…
Purchase one Embargo Whipped and one Embargo Smooch, receive a free Embargo Extrait (Perfume Oil - a $16 value, must add item to cart). Details
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We had a recent query re: Miss Edith - “Lemony black tea with milk, English Lavender and Roses beneath a thick layer of dust.” and her absence from this Feb collection. Miss Edith is sorely unappreciated. BUT you can get a comparable fix with our Miss Edith < a href="https://www.villainess.net/smack.html">Smack! - One scoop each Black Tea, Sugared Roses, Unearthed and Vanilla Bean. If you’d prefer to walk on the floral side, try subbing Lavender Sachet for the Vanilla Bean (b/c Sugared Roses is still plenty milky-sweet).
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Earn double “Mastermind Rewards” points on all member-orders placed now through 02/14/13 (midnight, CST). [Every dollar = 2 points.] Not a member yet? Register here and login before your place your order!
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Please note that Villainess is officially closed from December 18th, Noon CST through December 23rd. While the site will remain open to orders, we will not be available for order fulfillment or customer service, and will not be reachable via phone, e-mail, contact form or Facebook. We will resume shipments and normal operations on December 24th.
Thank you! 
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Just a head’s up re: our cutoff dates and getting orders placed in time for your winter festivities! 
The following dates for non-domestic orders are the result of the Official USPS Deadlines for delivery by December 24th. You must have your orders placed by the dates below so we can fill and ship them by USPS deadlines:
USPS Priority International Packages
APOs (zips 093) - December 2nd, Midnight CST
APOs (all other zips) - December 9th, Midnight CST
Asia, Australia, Mexico - December 10th, Midnight CST
Europe & Canada - December 12th, Midnight CST
We will be on our most vigilant for even last-minute orders placed on the 9th and 12th to ensure they receive same-day shipping.
For domestic users, note that we are closing from December 18th through the 25th, and all orders must be placed by December 17th, Midnight CST
Please note that these are the dates to place your order. If you are uncertain about your region, pick the bigger shipping margin. Again, we will be processing orders until the very last-moments of our cut-off dates. If you need expedited UPS service, please mention it in the comments field of your order.
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Happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for a kickass fanbase, warm sunny weather in November, and snuggly kitty cats. Really - what more can you ask for? To celebrate, we’re staging our annual sales event to set off the Epic Shopping Season!
On Friday, the 23rd, we release our Winter Collection full of your returning favourites - keep an eye out for that newsletter at midnight CST! Also on Friday our first sale! Stock up on your favourite shower-indulgence by getting 5 Smooch! items for the price of 4! Includes Black Label Smooch! items - limited to 4 free items per order. Sale ends at midnight CST.
Saturday, the 24th, stock up on your favourite body creme by getting 5 general catalog Whipped! for the price of 4! Includes Black Label Whipped! items - limited to 4 free items per order. Add the 5th item(s) to your cart - deductions taken at checkout.
Sunday, the 25th, buy 4 bars of soap and get the 5th free! Includes Black Label soaps - limited to 5 free items per order.
Monday, the 26th, purchase one Kaboom! item, get one free! Must add second item to cart, deductions will be automatically taken at checkout - limit 3 per order.
We also offer a freshly updated selection of Clearance items with accompanying deep discounts - clearance items are not included in the above mullti-pack sales. All items are stocked and in-stock. If you don’t see it, we don’t and will not have it. Perfume oils are at low stock due to an unresolvable packaging snafu. They will be reborn in 2012. Pyromania has been suddenly discontinued due to component issues - but will reappear as part of our annual autumnal collection.
And finally, we have a throughly stocked selection of Free Samples! Remember, we include two free samples of your choice with every order - so don’t forget to swing through this category before you check out and snag a tiny jar of Smooch! or Whipped! or a small soap to try out!
Keep an eye on our Sales Page for details!
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Due to some unforseen circumstances, we are experiencing some delays in order fulfillment. While our usual schedule would have us shipping on Tuesday, 05/29, we currently anticipate fulfillment on Thursday, 05/31. All customer service and inquiries will also be addressed on 05/31. Thanks so much for your patience! :)
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Happy Birthday to me! Today is all cake and candles, soap and sun, and unadulterated awesome. Celebrate with me, and take 31% offa your order subtotal! Use coupon code BIGDEAL during checkout.
Today only, the above code will expire at midnight. Enjoy!
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In support of our upcoming Wicked As They Come release, we offer a promotional giveaway at Pocket After Dark.
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It’s here! Our classic feather-light Whipped! creme in an even-more conditioning format with skin-loving Nilotica Shea Butter. (Cream cheese drizzle…). Nilotica Whipped!
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Enduring some post-festivity letdown? Celebrate the buzzkill with our Curbside Xmas - “Old evergreens, dried out mistletoe, bayberries and cloves surrounded by warm garbage - banana peels and coffee grounds, soured milk and crusty bread.”.
And, we’ve tweaked the lineup for our Custom Smack! The fabulous foaming body scrub is now available in three new flavours:
Apple Orchard - Crisp red delicious and a faint breath of apple blossom.
Black Tea - Strong black loose-leaf.
Lavender Sachet - Warm, mild Bulgarian lavender with a touch of sweetness.
Unfortunately, we had to discontinue three slow sellers to bring these much-requested single notes on board. Say goodbye to Lemon Meringue, Tropical Fruit, and Pomegranate Fig. They are temporarily available while we work through our (limited) remaining stock, but will not appear on your label. Stock up now, if these are favourites!
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It’s not actually “too-late” to order direct from Villainess, and still get loot in time for yer holler-daze. Check our schedule for your stateside delivery zone, but note that we’ll be shipping right up ‘til the last possible moment.
However, if you end up pressed for time, you might be fortunate enough to have a Villainess retailer in your neighborhood! We’ve grown like mad this year, so scope out our expanded family:
Continue reading "But where?!?!"
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So, yesterday we released our Winter Deadlines for placing/receiving an order in time for your gifting events. Naturally, the next step is to showcase a few easy fixes!
First, we’re stoked to introduce a new Official Mug for the 2011 winter season!
We’ve been using this mug around the office for a while now, and we love it. Unequivocally. At 18 oz, it is enormous ass, and holds all the caffeine you could need for one morning in the cubicle. Its heavy crockery-base means it’s hard to accidentally spill, and you know you want our logo (silver ink!). Accent that gift with a nice Cuppa Scintillating! and you’re all set!
Dads, brothers-in-law, random dudes - sometimes a challenge to shop for. Don’t forget The Dad Pack - designed for Father’s Day, but a helpful year-round solution. Our very own Antihero and Byzantium Soaps, an unscented Ennui Whipped! and a dollop of Grundy Smooch! (for the exfoliant-resistant guy).
In anticipation of your New Year celebrations, the Cheap Shot!
For uncomfortable gifting situations with strangers, the generic candle is a time-honored tradition. So go with our new Burn! votive, and score “unique” points (Decadence is a safe bet…) !
And of course these are all just items from our (criminally overlooked) SWAG category. We’ve given the special-weapons-and-gifts a makeover with the “Gift Ideas” label, so feel free to explore the revamped category. As always we offer seasonal gift wrap:
…so you could easily put together a giftset from our seasonal collection and deck it out in sparkling ribbon and snowflakes.
As always, if you’re stumped, just ask! We’ll hook you up with a perfect-fit for all your gifting needs! 
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Just a head’s up re: our cutoff dates and getting orders placed in time for your winter festivities!
The following dates for non-domestic orders are the result of the Official USPS Deadlines for delivery by December 24th. You must have your orders placed by the dates below so we can fill and ship them by USPS deadlines:
USPS Priority International Packages
APOs - December 8th, Midnight CST
Asia, Australia, Mexico - December 8th, Midnight CST
Europe & Canada - December 11th, Midnight CST
We will be on our most vigilant for even last-minute orders placed on the 9th and 12th to ensure they receive same-day shipping.
For domestic users, our UPS Ground deadlines will also vary by location:
UPS Ground Packages
Pacific Northwest / Atlantic Northeast - December 15th, Midnight CST
West Coast/Mtns - December 18th, Midnight CST
Midwest, New England, Southeast - December 20st, Midnight CST
Please note that these are the dates to place your order. If you are uncertain about your region, pick the bigger shipping margin. Again, we will be processing orders until the very last-moments of our cut-off dates. If you need expedited UPS service, please mention it in the comments field of your order (Saturday Delivery on the 24th is available for an additional charge).
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Wow, that happened fast! Has it been an entire year since our last series of stacked sales? It has! We assume you need as much data as possible to fully develop your retail strategy, so read closely…
First, Ingrate is for the ingrates. This year? Trade yer turkey-coma for a spike in Bloodsugar. It is available with $25 orders through Monday, 11/28/11. Details Here.
And then, to really get things started on Black Friday (11/25), we have once-more lowered the bar. Our standard “Free Shipping at $100” order has been reduced to a $50 subtotal/threshold for North American destinations. A good way to reach $50? Soap Multiplicity - Buy 4 bars of our General Catalog Soap, and get the 5th free! Not interested in soap? Try our brand new Burn! votives - in 5 best-selling scents.
On Saturday (11/26), Get Smooched! Purchase 4 General Catalog Smooch! items and get the 5th one free.
On Sunday (11/27), Get Whipped! Purchase 4 General Catalog Whipped! items and get the 5th one free.
Finally, take Monday as an opportunity to snag an experimental Custom Smack!. Purchase any 2 Smack! items (either premade or custom) and get a Custom Smack! for free.
These sales will run through midnight, Central Standard Time. For the fine print (limits on freebies), and other details, keep an eye on our Sale Summary Page.
And watch this space! You never know what other surprises we might have. Happy shopping!
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How do you guys feel about instructionals? We’re doing a bit of a collab with my favourite sustainable lifestyle guru, and choco-mint is a better jumping-in point than most…
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice is a DIY Sugar Scrub tutorial from Highly Uncivilized.
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Pleased to announce a new Villainess retail solution! Those of you in the Seattle area will be thrilled to stop by BedlaBedlam. I’ve heard this destination-boutique described as Gothic Anthropologie and they (obviously) have fabulous taste in bath products!
Visit them at:
613 East Pike Street, Seattle, WA 98122
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So, jacket weather is definitely here. I don’t think we’re even breaking 70 today, and after the scorching summer we had, it’s an shocking change of pace. 
Some seasonally-appropriate Smack! suggestions to kick things off then!
First, Bonfire Days - Equal portions Bonfire, Bluegrass, Redwoods and Vanilla Bean. Sweet burning leaves and warm woods. And Harvest Peach - Celebrate the transition from summer’s warmth to autumn’s chill with a scoop of Georgia Peach, one Fresh Squeezed Citrus, one Spice Trade and deep Unearthed.
And be sure to check out our Black Label section. We are down to final/single units on previous releases like Fade, Coffee Break, Trifling, Redux and Quick or Dead Whipped!. Most are discounted, and we’re excited to clear the shelves to make room for new loot!
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Our very last sale of the Big 8th Birthday Celebration is an encore… Due to popular demand and customer request, we’re going to repeat Buy Two, Get One Free Smack!
Buy two Smack! items (doesn’t matter if they’re custom or staff-pick) and the price of a third will be deducted from the cart (you have to add the third one, or we won’t know which one you want). You can only do this twice per order.
This sale will expire promptly at the end of 08/31, so… now’s the time to act! 
Again, thanks you guys, so much for making our birthday month (and 8 long years) perfectly awesome! You make it possible for us to make stuff we love and there’s no way to say “Thanks” enough for that!
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Number 7! This birthday celebration sale will be a super-short one-day for our domestic customers only…
Free shipping, today only, on orders in North America, subtotaling $50 or more! This sale will end promptly at midnight tonight (central time).
Our final 8th sale will kick in then, and run for the last two days of August. Stayed tuned…!
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We’re quickly running out of August - time for a new sale! Number 6 is:
Spend $25 before shipping (and after points/discounts), and receive a free Official Villainess Cheap Shot! Shot glass automatically added to cart, limit 3 per order.
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We’ve just launched our 5th celebratory sale for August! Number 5 is:
Stock up on your favourite body creme by getting 3 Whipped! items for the price of 2! Limited to 2 free items per order, general catalog Whipped! only.
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We’ve just launched our 4th celebratory sale for August! Number 4 is:
Purchase one Kaboom! item, get one free! Must add second item to cart, deductions will be automatically taken at checkout - limit 3 per order.
Kaboom! Bath Bubble Bomb things are available in Crushed, Scintillating, Jai Mahal and Grundy scents. Enjoy!
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We’ve just launched our third celebratory sale for August! Number 3 is:
Stock up on your favourite moisturising scrub by getting 3 Smooch! items for the price of 2! Limited to 2 free items per order, general catalog Smooch! only. Deductions taken at checkout.
Also! Supervillainess Whipped! marked down to $8.00!
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We’ve just launched our second celebratory sale for August! Number 2 is:
Place a $25 order ($25 subtotal after all points/discounts have been applied) and receive a free general catalog soap. Soap must be added to your cart (we cannot select/add it for you), discount taken at checkout. Limit 4 free soaps per order.
Time to stock up!
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New soap! This particular cut isn’t quite so rough, but the actual bar of soap is gargantuan. Lime Creme is a a very fresh/tart lime, barely spiked with a little sweetness, and layered with a simple vanilla bean. We kept these bars as BIG oversize squares, b/c we loved the perfect (and unusual) symmetry of form.
And, we are fast approaching the last buying hours for Father’s Day. It might be a close call, but we’ll certainly ship any gift-flagged orders on ASAP terms. If you’re stumped for ideas, allow me to suggest our Dad Pack! It contains a selection of our best-selling products for dudes - an Ennui Whipped!, Antihero and Byzantium Soaps, and a small serving of Grundy Smooch!
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Continuing with the Rough Cuts soap theme, we bring you Coffee Break:
This one is “Oatmeal Cookies, Overheated Coffee, Stale Honeybuns” and we loaded the soap w/ honey, tossed in some oatmeal and coffee grounds, and it is delightful.
To match, this month’s Staff Pick Smack! - “A scoop of too-strong Espresso, a sweet touch of Honeynut, Buttercream Cupcake, and a single dose of Spice Trade..”
We’re enjoying the versatility the Rough Cut format offers, but worry that they might be unpublicized. This one appeared in our Twitter feed and on our official Facebook page by way of debut. I’ll get into the swing of things and update the ‘blog w/ weekly (or bi-weekly) Rough Cuts, but those are good things to keep an eye on in the meantime. Rough Cuts won’t go out via newsletter/The Dirt blast so…
And! A stunning handful of new(ly mentioned) Villainess resellers! Maybe someone in your neck of the woods? 
Wisconsin - Sinn Fein Tattoo & Body Piercing
Baraboo - the destination for Tatoos, and Villainess. Try ‘em at 717 S Blvd, Ste 1.Montana - Corner Book Shoppe
Eureka - Books! And soaps! at 710 Hwy 93 N.Idaho - The Chocolate Box
Idaho Falls, rich in decadence. Sweets and soaps at 901 Pier View Drive, Ste 102.California - Blue Sky
Located in Lake Tahoe’s Shops at Heavenly Village, Bluesky is a gorgeous range of gifts and goodies. Visit them for a generous selection of Villainess bulk soaps and bath soaks at 1001 Heavenly Village Way, South Lake Tahoe.
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Like a good deal? $15 gets you $30 worth of Villainess products when you purchase our voucher through Organic Soul.
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If you’re in the South Florida area, and planning your Saturday, allow me to suggest a visit to the Design District.
I had the pleasure of visiting the area for the first time last weekend. Between the designer brands, the gourmet food trucks, hand-picked vintage selections (in a converted Airstream boutique) and burgeoning art scene, I could easily lose days in this fascinating place. Thanks to Launch Arte’s efforts to give “Artists, Designers, and Entrepreneurs an outlet to be discovered,” we’ll be making an appearance amongst the local talent.
So, swing by Natalie’s booth while you’re at the market, and say “Hi!” for me. If you take a minute to browse her elegant selection of jewelry as well, I promise you won’t be disappointed.
And, in an act of striking serendipity, it seems the groundbreaking Transit Antenna is staging their Fun Fair / Freakshow fundraiser this weekend. I can’t think of a better combination, than this selection of talented performers and handcrafters. Should be a fun day!
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Just a brief rundown on some (minor) improvements we’ve made to the Villainess website:
First! We’ve added a fast-add option to our category pages. This means, any time you’re viewing a collection of products (the Whipped! page, or Black Label stuff), you can skip the ingredient/scent/use rundown and just click “add to cart.” It won’t work for items w/ options (like our Custom Smack! or Datura Slick!) - those will just redirect you to the item page. But for everything else, if you know what you want, are just restocking, or want to place a quick order on your lunch break… Well, we’ve shaved off an extra page load.
Second! This is a little bit more promotional than improvement, but we made the links to our presence on Facebook and Twitter a little more prominent. It’s worth mentioning because we occasionally lose our minds (by way of ridiculous sales) and wouldn’t mention it via newsletter.
Third! Tried to make it a little easier to find the help you need by relabeling the info menu. We’ve skipped the vague label “customer service” and Contact us takes you to a contact form. Still have our Enormous F.A.Q., and Manifesto, but have relabeled our retailers page to Store Finder. It doesn’t have a flashy zip-code locator, but gets the job done. You might be surprised to find a Villainess Vendor in your neighbourhood!
I think that’s it! But along on those lines, please feel free to comment in re: to any technical snags you’ve experienced with the site. We’re in spring-cleaning mode, and excited to eliminate confusion, streamline shopping, and move on with a clean slate!
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We got a few nice fluffy inches here at HQ, but gratefully haven’t been trapped by ice or subzero temps. Our condolences to those of you that are housebound! 
While we wait for the snow to melt, we are busily preparing our mid-winter release. To that end, we want to Clear The Shelves. So! 15% off our last Black Label Collection. The prices are already marked down, you’ve just gotta plunk ‘em in your cart. And there’s not TONS of stock left, so if you’re eyeballing something… might want to grab it before it disappears. ‘Cause it won’t be back until November!
In the Black Label category, but part of a solo (and sadly un-applauded) release, is Freezerburn! This is the scent with Siberian fir and stately pines dusted with powder-soft layers of sweet snow. The really cold one we like to pull out for New Year’s day. (It’s the only thing in the BL category that isn’t discounted, because it’s new.)
And then our much-delayed, and sadly underpromoted December/January Staff Pick Smack… Candy Cane Cupcake! Exquisite equal portions of our chilling Mint Medley, tooth-aching Candy Floss, Buttercream Cupcake, and sublime Vanilla Bean. It’s pretty awesome.
I think that’s it for now!
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The gifting season has really crept up on us this year - I’d hoped to have our shipping deadlines sketched out a week ago! So, while this entry is just on the edge of useless, let’s proceed anyway!
The following dates for non-domestic orders are the result of the Official USPS Deadlines for delivery by December 24th. You must have your orders placed by the dates below so we can fill and ship them by USPS deadlines:
USPS Priority International Packages
APOs - December 9th, Midnight CST
Asia, Australia, Mexico - December 9th, Midnight CST
Europe & Canada - December 12th, Midnight CST
We will be on our most vigilant for even last-minute orders placed on the 10th and 13th to ensure they receive same-day shipping.
For domestic users, our UPS Ground deadlines will also vary by location:
UPS Ground Packages
Pacific Northwest / Atlantic Northeast - December 16th, Midnight CST
West Coast/Mtns - December 19th, Midnight CST
Midwest, New England, Southeast - December 21st, Midnight CST
Please note that these are the dates to place your order. If you are uncertain about your region, pick the bigger shipping margin. Again, we will be processing orders until the very last-moments of our cut-off dates. If you need expedited UPS service, please mention it in the comments field of your order. UPS is not offering Saturday delivery on the 25th, so all orders must arrive on the 24th or 27th.
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Quick note to commence the shopping season! We are staging a series of serious savings, and assume you need as much data as possible to fully develop your retail strategy.
First, Ingrate makes a reappearance. Discontent and slumber. Rosemary and sage stuffing, canned cranberries, three kinds of pie, and burnt fall foliage. This is the soap you want if you just can’t get enough Thanksgiving - good and bad. It’s only available as a free gift with $25 purchases, and will be available through 11/29 (or, while supplies last). You’ll have to add this item to your cart/order to receive it.
And then, to really get things started on Black Friday (11/26), we have lowered the bar. Our standard “Free Shipping at $100” order has been reduced to a $50 subtotal/threshold for North American destinations. A good way to reach $50? Soap Multiplicity - Buy 4 bars of our General Catalog Soap, and get the 5th free! Not interested in full bars? Try our Soap Sampler - 20 generous sample slices of our best-selling scents tucked into a decorative gift of Sheer Black Organza.
On Saturday (11/27), Get Smooched! Purchase 4 General Catalog Smooch! items and get the 5th one free.
On Sunday (11/28), Get Whipped! Purchase 4 General Catalog Whipped! items and get the 5th one free.
Finally, take Monday as an opportunity to snag an experimental Custom Smack!. Purchase any 2 Smack! items (either premade or custom) and get a Custom Smack! for free.
These sales will run through midnight, Central Standard Time. For the fine print, and other details, keep an eye on our Sale Summary Page.
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We have had a slew of inquiries recently regarding our International Shipping policy. The misunderstanding seems to be that we “raised shipping prices.” As a matter of personal preference, I enjoy hair splitting, but in this case it’s particularly important to me. We didn’t actually raise shipping prices - in truth, we are charging (to the penny) the exact rates the USPS will quote you. We did quit offering the USPS First Class International service.
These changes were actually implemented last June, so I’ll just reiterate our official statement… “We no longer offer the USPS First Class International service as it is fairly expensive, but offers no visibility (of any sort), and often takes 2 weeks longer than it should to arrive. International customers are welcome to choose USPS Priority International (by weight) or our USPS Priority International Medium Flat Rate and Large Flat Rate solutions.” Since we take it upon ourselves to replace those awol packages… well, the service is a poor investment.
The incompetence associated with USPS FCI seems to impact small orders, or single-item/impulse purchases the most. To that end, we would like to employ the USPS Priority International Small Flat-Rate Box, which runs at $13.45 (or $11.45 to Canada). There are very real size/dimension limitations to this box, which means that only the smallest orders will qualify, but we have altered checkout to make this available to as many order combinations as possible. Orders consisting of perhaps 2 bars of soap, or several perfume oils, perfume oil samples, or similar should be eligible, while any items in jars will disqualify your order.
If checkout doesn’t offer this shipping option, but your order turns out to fit in this box during fulfillment, we’ll make a note of the difference and promptly issue a refund.
We are continuing to work with international resellers to make Villainess available globally. Towards that end, we are happy to announce a collaboration with a new Canadian e-tailer, with a positively stunning selection of both Villainess and our other favourite brands (perfume! polish! jewelry!). Give Pretty Indulgent a visit and see what sort of trinkets you “need!”
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Please extend a Warm Welcome to these new faces on the Villainess team. Ever expanding, we are super excited to offer that many more local spots to snag a V Fix.
Canada, Ontario - Jacob & Sebastian
Less a boutique and more a skincare gallery. Featuring “…unique, international, niche market beautfy lines…” A stunning selection of brands we are flattered to keep company with. Find them at 622 Queen St West in Toronto.Tennessee - Urban Oasis
Want the full body treatment? Visit this Oasis for some of our head-to-toe pampering. 3202 Belmont Blvd. Suite E in Nashville.Illinois - Eclectic Design Source
Located in downtown Libertyville, eDS offers a stunning range of decor along with their favourite “curious homegoods”. Shop online or visit them at 518 N. Milwaukee Ave.Colorado - Pandora on the Hill
Located in Denver’s Capitol Hill area, Pandora has been offering an eclectic range of gifts, jewelry and homewares since 1994. Now that they’ve added Villlainess to their lineup? A must-see destination. Try them at 220 East 13th Ave.New York - Eve Salon
Full service luxury, retail therapy, and seasonal Villainess treatments? This is the full package - visit Eve at 55 W 8th St, NYC.Wisconsin - Uncommon Scents
Bath and body favourites in Minocqua! 8524 US Highway 51 N
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After the summer we’ve had, I can’t think of a better time to spotlight our next reseller…
We’ve been working with The Soap Box Company since… 2006? A long time, at any rate. And every single restock and collaboration has been an absolute pleasure.
I wish I could remember why we started working on Lehua, but all I recall was devising a light summer floral that also satisfied my pre-occupation with Volcano Honey. “Big white blossoms - pikaki, tuberose, lily and narcissus - honeyed with sweet Hawaiian ginger.” The interpretation of Lehua blooms is a little subjective - largely because a Hawaiian “R&D trip” wasn’t in our budget. But we wanted to service the notion of the indulgent tropical floral, by way of similar native blooms, while evoking the sweetness that makes the Lehua blossom such a bee-friendly flower. The florals in this concoction are a little more sharp than sweet - bright and crisp - muted with an almost cloying honey (not even remotely indolic) spiked with ginger.
I think my favourite application was the Lehua Smooch!.
We used a slightly less exotic (but equally humectant/indulgent) clover honey, accented with coral micas, and Mono¨ de Tahiti oil in our Body Conditioning Smooch! to create a beautifully soothing concoction.
The Soap was a bit trickier as the honey component tends to discolour, and I wanted to keep at least a suggestion of pinkness. Easily solved by concentrating the honey in the uppermost layers of soap.
Lehua is also available as a beautifully conditioning Whipped!.
Hoarfrost is another summer favourite, originally conceived as a compliment to The SBC’s First Frost exclusive (a frozen vanilla floral). “Summer’s late berry harvest - raspberries, blueberries, currants and strawberries - bittersweet with vanilla and arrested by an icy touch of eucalyptus and peppermint.” It originally debuted the fall of 07 as an icy winter scent, but I believe it’s spent more time as a summer-feature than anything. And rightly so, as it has all the sweetness of fruity scents with the perfect dose of cool.
This Soap continues to be one of my favourites. High contrast pink on white marbles beautifully, and then we garnish the top with a frosty white mica.
One of the fun parts of the really cool minty/mentholated scents, is that they have a genuine cooling effect. Not so much in the soaps, and less in the lightly-scented Whipped!, but it’s definitely present in the berry-soaked Smooch!. Perfect for a post-workout shower!
Now, I can’t swear to availability, but I suspect both scents are around in August’s Free Stuff if you want to take a look at The Soap Box Company.
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Typically, a new product release would go via an edition of The Dirt on Villainess. But since we’ve got a minor Black Label release planned for the end of the month, we didn’t want to spam your inbox. And this is a general catalog update, so it’s not like it’s time sensitive!
Let me cut to the chase here… Much demanded, long awaited, perfume samples!
That’s our pick-six sampler, and we’ve also done the entire collection in a 27 Sample Giftbox so you can experience the entire line in one go.
August’s Staff Pick Smack! is light and sweet - refreshingly bright for these dogdays o’ summer. Summersweet is A chic selection of Bluegrass, Raspberry Plum, Georgia Peach and light Vanilla Bean.
Stay tuned for slightly more verbose commentary on our perfume release, and a brief update before we’re done with summer altogether!
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Our next reseller spotlight is accompanied by a delightful edition to the Villainess catalog (sort of). But first, the scents!
We began working with Brittany from Poshbrats in mid-2008 and were so taken with the concept that it wasn’t long before we were inspired to design a couple of suitable exclusive scents. After all, “life’s little luxuries are indeed necessities!”. What could better serve the Villainess Indulgence Credo?
The concept breakdown (into P&B) wasn’t super-original, but I loved working with the chic sophistication of Posh versus the indulgent (slightly juvenile) sweetness of Brats. So Posh is A rich heart of dragon’s blood resin, white peach, and crushed pomegranate washed with sheer plumeria and lightly spiced with sarsaparilla. Blending fruits with resins is a near-signature Villainess shtick, but for good reason. The right resin, paired with the right fruit, can yield a light, lasting skin-scent. Posh is no exception, and by using a slightly-floral Dragon’s Blood resin we create a beautiful opportunity to fuse it with the slightly-fruity plumeria. And then sarsaparilla is a very flexible “spice.” It’s spice notes open the perfume with a light bite - perfect top-notes - but it’s earthy woodiness provides a dirtiness that ties it all back into that resinous base. Add a succulent shot of peach, and Posh rockets into my top 10.
Posh got done up as a soap, in a beautiful shade of royal purple garnished with gold at Brittany’s suggestion…
… And appears in our Whipped! and Extrait products, as well as a Smooch! scrub (sugar drenched in peach syrup - ridiculous).
Brats is a fusion of two distinctly different families of sweets - hard candies versus sticky candies - Ribbon candy spliced with butterscotch, salted caramels and a resinous melange of sticky sweets. I suppose butterscotch technically qualifies as a hard candy, but we’re working with a gooier toffied version and… well, it smells sticky. The hard candies in this concoction are old fashioned, general store barrels of ribbon candies and barber-pole sticks, fruits spliced with rosewater. Since we’d already included the gold and purple from the Poshbrats logo, we had to get a blushing pink in this soap. Of course, all those sweets will inevitably turn a cold-process soap shades of caramel, so we just extended the ribbon candy concept into the visual component:
While I adore a stripey soap, the Brats Smooch! is probably my favourite application of the scent, as it’s perfectly accented by 4 different sugars.
And then, the Whipped! and Extrait aren’t too shabby.
One of the real pleasures of working with Brittany has been a shared vision - indulgent body products gone global. So establishing Poshbrats as a reliable, UK/EU based reseller? A brilliant way around ever-increasing shipping charges, and prohibitive/fluctuating exchange rates. Transatlantic inconvenience goes both ways, and we are hella pleased to make both Posh & Brats scents available to stateside customers for the foreseeable future!
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This should be the first of several entries featuring the exclusive scents we’ve designed for our fabulous resellers. It occurred to me that fans who are new to Villainess, or who haven’t had reason to give our resellers a try, might be completely unaware of some truly essential scents. And, if these are old favourites of yours, maybe you’ll want to give them a try again.
When we design scents for our resellers, the process can vary. Sometimes we collaborate - we work with suggestions and requests from a given scent family (gourmand, floral, citrus, etc.). In other instances, resellers are kind enough to trust me, and we hook them up with whatever latest concoction is lurking around in R&D stage. Black Out was one of the latter, so when we first discussed designing exclusives for Magical Omaha (the Scent Addict’s predecessor) I was thrilled that Cindy seemed just as excited about the concept as I was.
Black Out is Dark cocoa and oppoponax, blackened with patchouli, cyanide and a breath of aniseed. Inspired by a ridiculous chocolate and almond layer cake, this scent manages to hit all my fragrant-weak-spots. The chocolate is very dark, and grounded with a dry patchouli, so it doesn’t really evoke a sense of the gourmand. Since the sweetness comes from the almond and oppoponax it dances a sort of borderline sickly-sweet. A little more anti-freeze sweet than dessert, yeah? Black Out also marks the first of my obsession with oppoponax. I’ve cultivated an abiding fondness for sweet myrrh, and frankly it’s a struggle not to spike everything with it.
The “breath” of aniseed puts off more potential fans than anything, but we promise - it really is a mere “breath.” Since Black Out was originally composed for Soap format, it was an easy matter to accent each bar with a beautiful aniseed star…
…for a mere suggestion of sharpness. Of course, no aniseed essential oil makes its way into the blend, so other products (like the matching Whipped!) actually get short-changed in re: to licorice!
The Black Out Smooch! is another favourite that exemplifies everything I love about the Body Conditioning format. It’s perfectly smooth, a creamy balm accented with a single aniseed star, and then at the bottom, a luscious paste of crushed almonds and cocoa. It’s barely exfoliating and an almost completely pointless exercise in indulgence.
Find Black Out at Magical Omaha or the Scent Addict in Soap, Smooch!, Whipped! and Perfume Oil formats.
For our part, we’re happy to feature Black Out Smack!. This one is composed of Two scoops of Incense sweetened with Chocolate Mousse and Honey Nut. and it does a fair job of evoking the original blend. While the Officially Sanctioned Blend uses two scoops of Incense (since the single note runs a little light) you could easily sub one with an extra scoop of Chocolate Mousse or get a little more accurate/adventurous with a scoop of Unearthed.
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July is pretty much the Official Month to celebrate Blowing Stuff Up (stateside, at any rate). Obvs at Villainess, we’re pretty big fans of Blowing Stuff Up. So to share the love, and extend the celebration, we’re having a fabulous Kaboom! blowout.
For the next week (that is, through 07/22/10) or while supplies last, you can score a free Kaboom! with a $25 purchase (limited to 2 Kaboom! per order). Remember that our Kaboom! items include 2 single-use bathbombs per cannister, and will service two medium sized baths, or 1 really-big-tub. Add items to your cart while shopping, and discounts will be taken at checkout.
And while it wasn’t accompanied with much fanfare, we do have a delicious staff pick Smack! for July!
While the entire staff agreed that this was a perfect summer bbq blend, it’s actually a user-contributed suggestion (there are some truly creative minds at work on the forum). Some More Smack! features gooey portions of Marshmallow, Chocolate Mousse and Honey Nut singed with Bonfire. It is, exquisite.
As always, enjoy!
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Two fabulous things, before I forget:
First, we have restocked the Villainess Signature Soap Dish!
It’s only available in “rust” colour, but is gorgeous and newly rust-proofed.
Also, Birth Rite Smooch! should disappear tomorrow and has been marked down to move ($8.50)!!!
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News, news, news. Seems like we are woefully behind on posting, so please pardon our backlog…
First, we did finally release a Staff Pick Smack! for April. It was probably mid-month by the time we pulled that together, and of course it’s end-o-month now that I’m promoting it. We’ll let this run a little long into May to make up for it. And so!
The “Thai Twist” Smack! exploits that coconut-lemongrass schtick that was so popular a couple of seasons ago. And for good reason - it’s delishus. Ours puts our Coconut Milk, Lemon Meringue, and new Bluegrass single notes to good use, for a creamy/crisp spa moment.
Just as yummy, we’re proud to introduce another collaboration with Possets (bottled happiness, yaknow). We’ve been sitting on this one for awhile, but it was truly worth the wait. Pomona is: “A really special blend, Pomona is the essence of many fall harvest fruits of the earth playing on each others charms. I was amazed at how good this particular mixture of flora smelled! One clue, all of the ingredients start with a “p”. Named for the goddess of the earth’s fruiting. Unisex, for the patchouli lover, but patchouli haters have love it, too!”
We’ve accented it with Plums, Peaches and Pomegranate seeds in a gorgeous creamy Smooch! and let it speak for itself in our classic Whipped! body cream.
And just to keep you all abreast, our fabulous Birth Rite collection will be unavailable after April 30th. A month+ is long enough to celebrate any birthday, even mine. It will return in the fall to celebrate Villainess Soaps’ 7th year, so you won’t have to do without for very long. Further our Retrograde Extrait will also be unavailable after May 11th.
And finally, the last remains of our Midwinter release (Truffle Trade and the like) has been discounted by 15%. Grab it while it lasts!
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Not too long ago we did an informal poll to see which Smack! notes you guys wouldn’t mind losing, and which new ones you’d like to add. Summer Melon and Lei Flowers were our slowest-selling single notes, so on the 14th we put ‘em on the Backburner. Bonfire and Bluegrass received the overwhelming majority of votes, but we were surprised by the number of Mint Medley fans. Just as surprising? The number of write-in votes we received for a leather single note. Since we’re awesome, we managed to squeeze in a couple extra…
Debuting today are:
-Bluegrass, Newly-mown lawns, sweet chamomile, and crisp, green tea leaf.
-Bonfire, Dense woodsmoke, sugared with molasses, and sweetened with tobacco.
-Mint Medley, Crisp, summer-sweet wild mints - equal parts peppermint, cornmint and spearmint.
-Suede, Smooth, blue leather - new car seats, your favourite stilettos, and that worn-in jacket.
That brings our collection of single notes up to 26, giving us a new number of possible combinations of 23,751. We’re excited to debut single notes that are little more distinctly Villainess - leather, smoke and greenery? Are practically staples ‘round these parts. We hope you enjoy the fabulous new combinations these offer.
Personally? I’m taking home a Suede/Vanilla Bean/Incense/Unearthed mini-jar, and cannot wait to grab a shower!
One caveat - Bonfire is not currently available due to some back-ordered components. But with three out of the four ready to ship, we hated to make you wait. Bonfire should be available by next week, so keep an eye out for a ‘blog update with a proper picture of the new guys!
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We’ve recently expanded our influence, reaching ever farther into the distant reaches of civilization, bringing soaps and delicious/delectable skincare to your doorstep. Check out our new vendors:
Canada, Ontario - Heartbreaker
Get a facial, a mani/pedi, a skillful wax, and pick up your favourite selection of Villainess items on the way out of this chic Toronto salon. Visit them at 889 Dundas St. W.Netherlands, Nijmegen - Alice & Jo’s havesentials offer a great lineup of awesome brands and now? A little Villainess to top things off!
Wisconsin - Bella Ancora
Kenosha locals, get your Villainess fix here! Find home accents and gifts at 5621 6th Ave.Colorado - La Henna Boheme
Located in the Manitou Springs shopping district, find a great selection of Villainess essentials and eclectic gifts for your bohemian lifestyle.California - Le Pink Apothecary
Located in the Silver Lake neighbourhood of L.A., find Villainess and a positive wealth of fabulous luxury brands at 3820 W. Sunset Blvd.Oregon - Urban Waxx
“The best wax you’ll ever have. Seriously.” You just don’t want to mess with a mediocre wax job - and this Portland salon has this niche-market cornered by specialising in this high-priority service. Vist them at 1036 NW 18th Ave for a comfortable, professional atmosphere and a great selection Villainess best sellers.
(We tend to do cumulative blog entries to showcase new resellers - for an up-to-the-minute listing, keep an eye on our Official Retailers page.)
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We, are give our Smack! lineup a facelift. We’re sticking with 24 single-notes, because I feel juggling anymore would be asking for trouble, but we are looking at jettisoning Summer Melon, Lemon Meringue and/or Lei Flowers. These three candidates are only up for consideration because they move so slooooowly. So while I hate to part with Lei Flowers, one of our two floral selections, perhaps we could line up a better blending floral. And Lemon Meringue and Summer Melon are both light fruity delicious scents, we have a good selection of fruity single notes, and those slots might be better occupied with other scents.
On our list of considerations are:
- Apple Orchard - Red Delicious and Granny Smiths.
- Bluegrass - Chamomile, sweet hay, and grass stains.
- Bonfire - Sweet brown sugar and big gusts of smoke.
- Matcha - Perfect green tea.
- Mint Medley - Peppermint, Spearmint and Cornmint essential Oils.
So drop us a line or weigh in on the forum and let us know what you think!
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Will make this brief because the first day of my (much needed, very rare) three-day weekend has left me brain-dead in the best way possible. Ohh, to sleep in and eat a cinnamon roll breakfast… simple pleasures, I tell ya.
First, since your dessert structures might be crumbling to pieces, we think it’s the perfect time to indulge in a little Gingerbread Whorehouse! Our best-selling/smelling collaboration with Possets Perfume returns, and it is still aweseome.
Second, I am experimenting with a fabulous frosty fir concoction that we’ve dubbed Freezerburn. It is “Siberian fir and stately pines dusted with powder-soft layers of sweet snow.” It’s not ideal if you’re hoping to escape the snow and cold, but if you’ve only got a light dusting of frost on your shrubberies? Might be nice to set the winter mood!
Third, button yer seatbelts! Mercury officially enters its retrograde period tomorrow. Mars, of course, entered it’s retrograde a week ago - you may have already noticed a nice, slow, sense of inertia setting in. Objects at rest, et al. Thus, our Perfume Oil returns.
Finally, we’re ready to start fresh with 2010, so our entire Black Label collection (featuring selections from our Fall & Winter releases) is at 20% off. Auto-deducted from the cart, no codes, no hoops. The aforementioned Freezerburn and Retrograde items are the only non-discounted items, and they will checkout at the normal full-size product prices.
And now, I indulge in a little more mid-winter torpor.
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We don’t actually have all that many winter traditions ‘round about these parts. We’re usually up to our eyeballs in Smooch! and mail-order, and… Well, I can always count on making Gloop and Frostbite soaps but that’s the extent of it.
With the single exception of Chocolate Covered Cherries. This is a 3rd generation tradition that predates my birth. Every year that I can remember, my grandma has sent a box of these delicious candies. I suspect this is a tradition I’ve benefited from peripherally - when I was small, my mom very generously shared her precious gift. When I was older, and received my very own box? 
That was probably the single most special present I received that year.
So now it’s December, and I wanted to share own of my very own winter memories with you. We’ve created a Cherry Cordial Smack! for our monthly staff-pick. One perfect scoop of Cherries Jubilee, nestled in a gooey Vanilla Bean cream and encased in two decadent scoops of Chocolate Mousse.
It’s a simple, but perfectly balanced blend, and we’ve been hard-pressed not to taste-test this one.
A handful of other contender’s for December’s Smack o’ the Month?
Gloop - 2 Scoops Marshmallow, 2 Scoops Chocolate Mousse
Just Desserts Lite - 2 Scoops Fresh Squeezed Citrus, 2 Scoops Vanilla Bean
Just Desserts (with a kick) - 1 Scoop Fresh Squeezed Citrus, 1 Scoop Spice Trade, 2 Scoops Vanilla Bean
Mudslide - 1 Scoop Vanilla Bean, 1 Scoop Unearthed, 2 Scoops Espresso
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In our November 9th edition of The Dirt we mentioned that we would be restocking the winter Black Label collection through December. We’ve restocked several items already, and thank your for your patience!
Just Desserts Smooch will be returning to inventory on 12/07/09, but that will be the last of our restocking efforts. Items removed from our Black Label category will not be returning to our inventory this year - due to the late date, and the extended prep time for soaps (because they require weeks of curing time).
Please keep in mind that we always have something new waiting in the wings , and that our wonderful resellers should be able to help you out with most items.
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As December rushes in, and gift giving becomes imminent, we wanted to take a moment to remind you of our cut-off dates for holiday orders. The following dates are the result of the Official USPS Deadlines for delivery by December 24th. You must have your orders placed by the dates below so we can fill and ship them by USPS deadlines:
USPS Priority and Priority International Packages
APOs - December 8th, Midnight CST
Asia, Australia, Mexico - December 8th, Midnight CST
Europe & Canada - December 11th, Midnight CST
United States - December 18th, Midnight CST
Some international users may select USPS First Class shipping options - we do not recommend this if your gift is time-sensitive as they often get delayed and have no real tracking capacity should a delay occur. If you want to risk it, the following dates apply:
USPS First Class International Packages
Asia, Australia, Mexico - December 4th, Midnight CST
Europe & Canada - December 8th, Midnight CST
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I’m posting this morning to announce that The Faery’s Muse is no longer an Official Villainess Reseller. I am well aware of the recent discussion and dismay re: TFM in consumer communities, and I know this decision will be met with further speculation. To that end, allow me to offer an official statement. This is not a decision I’ve reached lightly, and have in fact, been considering it for several months. There are multiple factors contributing to this decision, but only one has any need to be publicly aired.
That factor concerns repackaged samples. Longtime Villainess fans will know that we offer sample-sizes of our general catalog Soap, Smooch, Whipped! and Mud! products. We do not offer samples of our Extrait (yet) and we never offer samples of Black Label products (find more on “why” below). TFM has distributed repackaged samples of our Black Label soaps - when asked not to, they completely failed to respond with any assurances that they would comply. My uneasiness increased to shock and dismay when reading TFM’s Update page confirmed that they were also repackaging Arcana Soaps and Limited Edition perfume oils. I, like most Arcana fans, (Julia’s soap competes for shower space with my own) know that they do not provide those samples. This, and the continued radio silence, combine to make this situation intolerable. I cannot work with someone who can treat my colleagues’ work with such disregard.
We wish TFM the very best, but have to caution that any Black Label products, Extrait, or un-labelled samples are not authorized by Villainess.
Finally, I’d like to elaborate on the reasoning behind what we do and don’t offer in sample format, and why repackaging is so dangerous. We don’t offer samples of Black Label products due to availability. A sample size is a promise of sorts - that once you’ve tried and liked a sample, you can come back and get a Full Size item. If you’re talking about our Black Labe items (where we’re working with limited stock) it’s a risky proposition to make good on that promise. It would make LE runs longer than we really want, overlapping with the next Black Label Event. Some general catalog items (our Extrait for example) are unavailable in sample format because we haven’t had an opportunity to design packaging and stock the samples. Distributing those samples with someone else’s packaging and labels does us no favours (in regards to enriching our distinct branding, or the care we invest in every product’s development), and makes follow-up purchasing difficult. Finally, repackaging many body products poses a quality risk - official Villainess samples are processed with the same care for sanitation, preservation, and contamination as our full-size products. We can make no guarantees for samples re-packaged outside of our facility.
I’ll be disabling comments on this entry because this is not a topic that should be open for debate. But I hope that our official statement will put to rest much of the concern and speculation these events have piqued.
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In classic Villainess spirit, we’re extending the Thanksgiving celebration just a little further. From now through Cyber Monday, orders totaling $25 or more are welcome to a Free Gift of Ingrate…
Discontent and slumber. Rosemary and sage stuffing, canned cranberries, three kinds of pie, and burnt fall foliage. I had SUCH fun designing this (slightly bizarro) fragrance. Some of you may be burnt out from smelling food All Day Long and Ingrate might not be for you. Of course, others may be gluttons for punishment, stuffing aficionados, or cranberry addicts. Those special souls will love the slightly-sweetened herbiness of Ingrate, and we are happy to share it with you.
The Fine Print
Ingrate is not currently for sale, and is only available as a free gift with orders subtotaling $25 (that’s after any Mastermind Points, and before shipping). One per customer (i.e. multiple orders will not receive multiple bars), one per order (e.g. $50 orders will not receive 2 bars). You must add the item to your cart, but adding multiple items will result in a $100 charge per bar - limit it to one bar. The offer is scheduled to end Monday night at midnight US Central time, but we may extend it if we have additional stock.
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Fall is rolling around fast and we’re just running to keep up. A new month calls for a new Smack! Staff Pick, and this time? We’ve got two.
First, Exhumation, fresh from the grave and absolutely delicious. “Layers of visceral Raspberry Plum goo, Chocolate Mousse treats, tooth-rotting Candy Floss and the grave’s own Unearthed filth.”
And then, Exsanguination, positively drenched with gore. “Crimson pools of Cherries Jubilee, Raspberry Plum and Berry Patch and drips of dragon’s blood-rich Incense.”
In other news, we do have fabulous plans for a suitable fall update - all your favourites and a few variations - but have been a bit sidelined by packaging delays. Not to worry - we shouldn’t be any later than the ninth!
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We’ve been super excited to expand our network of fabulous, indie, official Villainess resellers. Not only do we get to support hard-working B&B enthusiasts, but local vendors results in easier-access. Less shipping = more soap. So, let’s get this show on the road….
First up is The Faery’s Muse - in addition to two of my favourite soapmakers (that’d be Arcana and Haunt, btw), they also carry a lovely selection of home decor and accessories.
And then, for our Canadian friends, we’re exited to work with Clever Mink’s Gifts. Candles and teas, plushies and purses - you’re bound to discover the perfect gift at their New Westminster, BC shop.
Finally, Floridians are welcome to enjoy a massage and a little Villainess pick-me-up as well. The Pritikin Wellness Center employs a nourishing lifestyle to instill vitality. But those who need a smaller dose of vitality are welcome to visit the Aventura, FL dayspa and it’s attendant giftshop.
We’re working on remodelling our woefully out-dated Official Resellers listing, but in the meantime, why don’t you all welcome them to the family!
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It’s no great secret that math isn’t my strong point. 
So when it came time to calculate the possible combinations of our new Smack! product, I took the safe road and consulted an internet permutation calculator. Of course, those only work if you enter the correct factors, and I managed to enter 25 types (from an early draft of the Single Note list) rather than the 24 we ended up with. So the actual range of options is limited to a puny 17,550. We’ll be correcting that number on the website, but obvs can’t do much about the mistaken news releases. Thanks for understanding.
And, addressing some questions that’ve popped up since the product release…
Smack, like all Villainess products, is sold and filled by weight. Any airspace is your jar is a combination of the wiggle room it started with (so we don’t have to overly smush your scoops and so you’ve got maneuvering room to sample each flavour), and (the inevitable) settling during transit. All jars are carefully weighed to screen human error before we ship them out.
On the topic of smushing, each single note goes into the jar separately. They are not mixed, swirled or homogenized in any way. Feel free to mix them in the privacy of your own home.
Fresh Squeezed Citrus is actually our long-lost Indiscreet fragrance. I forgot to mention this, but the same reasons we discontinued it (it’s an unoriginal single note) made it a perfect fit for Smack!
Scoop order (on your invoice) is unrelated to fill order (that’s alphabetical, as a result of the checklist labeling).
You don’t have to pick 4 single notes. You can pick 1, 2, or even 3 if you want. Just use the drop-down menus to tell us exactly what you want.
Smack! is different from Smooch! because it’s a foaming, cleansing exfoliant. Smooch! doesn’t foam, and Smack! is nowhere near as emollient as Smooch!
Any other questions? Join us on the forum in the new Smack! FAQ thread.
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So it’s time for our July/Summer Black Label Collection - it’s fabulous, old favourites (yeah, I heard the clamor for Pieman), last year’s winner’s (you guys can’t seem to get enough Trauma), one of our cured-forever olive oil soaps, and 3 new (reformulated) Burn! votives. There may be more, but I’m entirely too tired to properly pitch this assortment of soaps and sundries. So call it an early update, and we’ll follow up with a proper newsletter in the AM.
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So, we are making a concerted effort to stock The Entire Fabulous Line in sample sizes. We’ve added a smattering of Smooch! and Whipped! products to our “Free Sample” lineup for addition to your orders, and hope to have themed samplers available for purchase shortly.
Our first item is the Mud! Sampler - it features six sample sized jars of our incredible Mud! line, a blending guide to Mud! and our signature mixing dish. All in one gorgeous gift box:
“Six,” you ask? Correct. The sampler contains our as-yet-unreleased Crushed Mud! - a truly delicious concoction loaded with crushed raspberry fruit powder and fragrant cocoa absolute. It’s delightful and designed to cater to all skin types.
Keep an eye out for our new releases! We are forgoing a Black Label collection for May because our production crew is keeping busy with our facial collection. If all goes as planned, we’ll have the first wave of Facial Smooch! rolling out at the end of the month, and a light, sprayable facial moisturiser close on its heels. Keep an eye out for release dates!
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Welcoming one of our newest Canadian retailers… The Fairy Garden. Located in Thunder Bay, Ontario, The Fairy Garden invites you to take a break from reality.
Adding our awesome soaps to their existing lineup of simple, herbal facial care and oil-based emollients, they’ve got a beautiful selection of trinket boxes, and gemstones and eclectic gifts. All you locals that can make this delightful shop a regular haunt? I am beyond envy.
Find them at:
170 Bruce Street
Thunder Bay, ON
1-807-983-3165
Monday to Friday 11am - 6pm Saturday 10am - 5pm
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On today, the first day of Mercury’s retrograde phase in Gemini, we are making our Retrograde Perfume Oil available once more. To recap:
Characteristic Scent: Seamless layers of incense and earth - amber, oppopanax, sandalwood, egyptian musk, old oakmoss - sweetened with tonka and black vanilla. Clarifying Bulgarian lavender, a black haze of orchid, osmanthus and narcissus and a jolt of raw black pepper and clary sage.
Wanted For: Going with flow. The empirical on a slow rewind. Statement, causation and correlation traded for insinuation, implication and inference. Clarity is a barely-glimpsed mirage in a sea of impressions. Why resist?
Retrograde will be available through May 30th while we celebrate the intuitive and sabotage our own plans.
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Wow! What an amazing group of customers! So, right now I’ve got a generous pool of candidates for our Shaving Creme study group. We are still sorting through your e-mails, and will be responding to the (lucky?) lab rats shortly. In selecting participants I’m aiming for the most-diverse assortment of users with the most-difficult skin problems - extra sensitivity, frequent shaving, coarse hair. That kind of thing. If we didn’t select you, it’s only because we got some overlap in user-features - not that we don’t value your particpation and feedback.
And again, we have such an awesome bunch of fans. We really appreciate the concern and detailed feedback you’ve all responded with - you guys make this an incredibly rewarding “job.”
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Of the human variety, of course.
We are putting the finishing touches on our all-new, all-decadent shaving creme and we’re in need of feedback. This is a formal sort of study where we’re looking for 8 participants, with no known allergies/sensitivies to our formulation, to test the product over 2 weeks time and respond to a short questionnaire (we’re talking, maybe 20 questions max). Upon completion, we’ll hook you up with a 10% Off Coupon Code for your trouble.
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Today we released our latest installment in an ongoing collaboration with our dear friends at Possets Perfumes. A perfectly timed touch of spring, Lavender Corset is a crisp, feminine lavender with delicate touches of lilac and winsome sort of green quality. It’s ideal for April, and first blooms, and wee green leaves popping up through the mud/slush/cold dead earth.
We present it in our classic Whipped! and a simple, elegant white sugar Smooch!, which we’ve garnished with a light smattering of fragrant lavender buds.
The observant might notice the reappearance of the much loved Strawberry Heart Whipped! - this isn’t an unexpected restock, we simply ran across a very (single digits) small amount of the original release. Enjoy it while it lasts!
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Not to worry Possets fans! While I made a grave miscalculation regarding the quantities of Strawberry Heart Smooch! and Whipped! we started with, and yes we are out of stock, we’re also scheming double time to restock the good stuff. A combination of factors - component availability, inclement weather - is slowing us down more than I’d like, but we’re looking at about two weeks to restock. We are also attempting to provide another Possets favourite in both Smooch! and Whipped! in the interim, but no sneak peeks, and no promises due to that inclement weather factor.
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UK fans might already be cognizant of this, but I thought I’d natter on a bit for the rest of you.
So not too long ago I designed a couple of fragrances for Posh Brats. Between their fabulously scandalous logo and similar vision for bringing incredible bath stuff to The Universe, they’re a joy to work with. I didn’t have to scrounge very hard for inspiration.
First, Posh! “The pinnacle of sophistication. A rich heart of dragon’s blood resin, white peach, and crushed pomegranate washed with sheer plumeria and lightly spiced with sarsparilla.”
This is my new personal favourite. What the official description doesn’t tell you, is that laced between the resins and spice and dripping peaches is the tiniest touch of our sweat single note. So once the pom and plumeria and their effervescence has left the building, you’re left w/ a subtle sort of warm skin scent. I’ve been stashing this one - dipping into the lotion, dabbing the perfume, soaking in an entire tub of Posh bubbles. And the soap!
Yes - you’re right. That’s a ridiculous shade of violet smothered in gilt. Luscious, yeah?
Predictably then, there’s Brats! “Ribbon candy spliced with butterscotch, salted caramels and a resinous melange of sticky sweets.” When I say “spliced” there, I mean it. Lemme show you the soap first:
This one is just yummy and indulgent and the sort of thing that would tug the fillings out of your teeth with its stickiness while simultaneously creating new cavities with its sweetness. I had a ton of fun creating this stripey soap and the Smooch! for this one features something like 4 different sugars PLUS pink sugar sparkles. Definitely one of our better concoctions.
Enjoy! Find them only at Posh Brats!
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Just a note, we are making our Retrograde Perfume available through February 1st. Our original release debuted during Mercury’s retrograde phase last October, and was intended to come down at the end of that phase. We left it up longer, while we had the limited-run packaging, and I think that actually lasted until a day or two ago. So, while all the planets appear to reverse course, Mercury’s the one that seems to get the most attention. Our plan is to make our Retrograde blend available during Mercury’s reversals (in our signature packaging). In case you’ve forgotten, this one is:
Seamless layers of incense and earth - amber, oppopanax, sandalwood, egyptian musk, old oakmoss - sweetened with tonka and black vanilla. Clarifying Bulgarian lavender, a black haze of orchid, osmanthus and narcissus and a jolt of raw black pepper and clary sage.
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Okay guys, remember how when we debuted the perfume oils last November that we didn’t have Dulces en Fuego available because I failed to order labels? Right! We’ve got those in stock now! We’ve had ‘em a couple weeks now, but I also failed to announce that.
Love you too! 
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Before I collapse into bed, I wanted to take a moment and thank you all (lovely customers, loyal readers, patient collaborators) for making 2008 a truly brilliant year. We’ve made a dozen changes, tons of soap and a wealth of new friends. Thank you, all!
Here’s wishing the best to all in 2009! Now, let’s bust out the noisemakers!
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Psst! Out With The Old!
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This will never get done if I try to introduce these confections properly. And so I present: Titanium White Tarts! and Indigo Tarts!. They’re fabulous, and if you act quickly you should still be able to score a matching Smooch! or two. ;)
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Last minute shopping in the Baltimore area? Lemme send you to Kiss ‘N Makeup, the newest retailer to join the Villainess family. Located in the Hampden district (which I’m given to understand is a shopping destination w/ a wealth of cute little stores), they offer an array of indulgent cosmetic services, in addition to my (OMG!) favourite cosmetic line Too Faced. So catch them at 827 W. 36th Street in Baltimore and check out their selection!
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Just wanted to recap this passage from our last newsletter for last-minute e-shoppers…
Stateside orders that need to arrive by the 24th should be placed no later than the 19th in order to be prepped for shipping on the 22nd. Frankly, shipping on the 22nd for arrival on the 24th is pushing things - USPS Priority should only take 2 days, but almost always involves a delay when their systems are flooded in December. But that’s our last-minute cutoff date.
We are well-past the safe cutoff date for International orders, but will continue to ship all orders asap. Canadian destinations in particular stand a decent chance of arriving in time if shipped through the 19th.
Smooches!
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This is another one of those things I should have been posting about earlier… The Soap Box Co (one of my absolute favourite etailers) has been staging a month-long giveaway of massive proportions.
This week, we’re sponsoring the big Bonanza giveaway with a Gloop giftset. That’s a luscious bar of Soap, a Smooch!, a Whipped! a six-pack of limited Tarts and a gorgeous, goopy marshmallow-fudgey Bonanza-only Gloop Perfume Oil. Honest to goodness.
Want a closeup?
Good stuff, right there. What are you waiting for? Go get yer Bonanza on!
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I should have gotten this posted earlier, but surely it’s never too late to pimp out the deserving? The Den of Antiquities carries a wealth of historical ephemera, antiquarian books and prints, oddities, art and now… Villainess Soaps:
Find the Den in Greensburg, PA - Directions!
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Right, we failed our 10 am deadline this morning. What can I say? Everyone needs at least one day a week to oversleep and schlump around in their jammies. Besides, we’ve been busily coordinating fabulous new features, releases and sales and won’t be pulling-the-plug on our daily bonuses either. That’s right, all specials from Friday, Saturday & Sunday will still be active on Cyber Monday - which should be quite a spectacle at this rate.
Saturday’s bonus consists of a “Buy 4 Soaps, Get 1 Free” scheme, and Sunday’s is similar “4 Smooch!, 1 Free.” It’s a fabulous opportunity stock up!
Continue reading "Bonus Dayz - Multiplicity"
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Today kicks off 2008’s marathon shopping season. We won’t be braving any crowds (I have a healthy respect for mobs and a well-cultivated sense of self-preservation), and suspect that most of you will be enjoying shopping from the safety of your homes as well. Since we believe caution should be rewarded, we’ll be staging a series of sales, freebies, bonuses and promotional gimmicks starting today and lasting through Monday.
Today’s bonus is the wonderful Titanium White collection. While it was originally released as a white, crisp, linen dose of cool for summer, we’re struck by how appropriately winter white it is as well. Today, when you snag a Titanium White Smooch!, our shopping cart will automatically include a free Titanium White Whipped! so you can layer yourself between these gorgeous ephemeral blossoms.
All sales will change over at 12 midnight, central time, and will be announced on the blog by 10 am central time (unless you stumble across them in the shopping cart before we can announce them). Should be exciting!
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With all the hubbub surrounding our recent release, I’ve completely failed to properly introduce a really stunning scent we designed for Cindy over at Scent Addict (Cindy also handles Magical Omaha.).
Pink Plague: Toothache Sweets- Candy Floss, cherry cola, candied apricots, and blackberry jam - numbed with clove, warmed by cleansing incense and laced with earthen decay.
Cindy’s been telling me she wanted a sweet scent for a while now. “Cavity inducing sweet” were her exact words. This took a little doing. First, there are a wealth of really good gourmand scents out there, if we can’t bring something new to the game… I’m reluctant to play. And then, we’ve certainly presented our fair-share of sweet, gooey, gourmand fragrances. How do you top your own work?
In this instance, I took a good long time feeling out the concept. And then took it a little literally. You can do sweet, sure. But cavity inducing? That involves some dental caries. Some decay. Some rot. That was our cue to take this in a fruity/pink/hard candy direction (rather than a vanilla/baked/dessert one). By layering cherry, apricot, blackberry - a melange of pinkness - we had a perfect opening to weave in notes of overripe fruit. That took care of “cavity inducing sweet,” but we wanted to make it a bit more substantial. I could only think of burning incense, grave dirt and due to a friend’s recent dental adventures… clove oil.
I am pretty well pleased with the overall effect. We did the soap up in a pink and cocoa swirls, polished the whole thing in bubble gum. We’ve got Whipped! and perfume oil ready to ship out to the Scent Addict crew (yes, along with Black Out perfume oil ), and we’re putting the final touches on a fabulous too-sweet Smooch! this week. Keep an eye out!
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Some of the best things in (my) life come from Bellingham. Death Cab for Cutie, Brambleberry (a Villainess favourite supplier), and now, Covet.
Covet is the newest reseller to join the Villainess revolution family, and we are well and truly pleased to announce that they’re open for business. Find Covet at 1311 11th Street in Bellingham, Washington in the Fairhaven district. From what I can tell, they carry a selection of jewelry and housewares that is truly… well, covetable. Go visit Sally, tell her Brooke says “Hi!” and report back. I need to experience these goodies vicariously if nothing else!
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Pleased to announce that we’ve finally settled on and restocked The Official Villainess Mud Dish. If you recall correctly, we once stocked a slick stainless steel model that was entirely too shiny to suit our current line up. I am in love with these darling little porcelain numbers:
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Faithful blog readers, I feel obliged to mention that our remaining stock of Summer Black Label Editions and Summer Possetry is currently at a 25% discount. Seriously. No codes, no fuss, no buy-one-get-this-nonsense. Just a nice, deep discount so you can stock up on Neisthai, Quick or Dead?, Trauma, Wasabi, Indigo and Titanium White goodies.
Get it while it lasts! We’re clearing the shelves just so we can load them down with an array of winter lovelies, so don’t miss out!
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Apparently this is our week for social networking. At the lovely Joni Crocker’s prompting, I’ve finally capitulated and joined Facebook. My first order of business was to create a Page for Villainess so our fabulous fans could declare their adulation. Second, was to finish my own profile with a good selection of kitten pictures. Everyone loves a kitten picture!
Come say hi! I am enjoying the hell out of finally putting names to faces.
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Sorry guys - it’s just that I’ve been waiting to say that forever. We’ve put the finishing touches on the Official Villainess Soaps MySpace and we’d like to invite all of our fans to come say hi!
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Brief update - I’ve got a lunchdate with a fabulous piece of carrot cake.
First, be sure to scope out the 3rd Annual Pets in Need Auction. Pets in Need is a non-profit, no kill animal shelter in California. Their policy is such that no re-homable pet is ever put to death. Our own contribution to the auction is one more “Quick or Dead” giftset (a selection of Soap, Smooch!, Whipped! and Perfume in the scent). Today is the last-day for the auction, so get your bids in! You can snag some awesome loot (have you SEEN the prizes?), and know that your cash is going directly towards building a bigger, better shelter while some incredible pets wait for their forever homes.
Second, UK Fans? Posh Brats have been carrying a great selection of Villainess products on their website all summer. They’ve just opened an adorable little retail center where you can now shop Villainess in person. Scope them out in Cheshire, and swing by their Candle Crypt while you’re at it!
Posh Brats Ltd.
13 Swan Bank
Congleton, Cheshire
CW12 1AN
Third, just in time for another Mercury retrograde, we’re releasing our second-ever perfume. Retrograde is not an exclusively Mercurial blend. It’s not designed to right disorder, to sort your snafus, or facilitate your travel plans. It is designed to celebrate the general notion of reversal, planetary or otherwise. It’s a sweet murky resinous blend, with touches of lavender for clarity. Scope it out, and I’ll send along a newsletter announcement shortly.
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I have heard from a handful of users who, having read our last newsletter, were under the impression that we were giving away Birth Rite soap with every order this weekend. Let me clarify, we are having a storewide discount sale this weekend, but those orders will not be accompanied by free soaps.
In hindsight, I realise that “…everyone gets a slice of our cake” can be interpreted as “OMG Free Soap.” But at the time of writing it was only intended as an expression of our celebratory enthusiasm and our willingness to share the party (so to speak). Birth Rite is very nearly my own personal dream-soap, and frankly I’d be happy to hoard the entire stash!
From the feedback I’ve received, customers have taken the statement both ways (as free-soap and as avail-for-purchase), so it was clearly an ambiguous statement. Let me offer my sincerest apologies for the confusion! And if, by chance, this is a dealbreaker for you in regards to a recently placed order, please contact our customer service team so we can find a resolution.
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All right ladies and gents, it’s time to draw this manhunt to a close! Both Quick & Dead have been located and those diligent buscaderos have been amply rewarded.
We would like to extend our unending gratitude to all participants. And a reminder, if you’ve uncovered a coupon for a complimentary Quick or Dead? Smooch!, Whipped! or Soap, that’s valid only while supplies last, and those supplies are going fast! To cash them in, just make sure the applicable item is in your cart, and plug that code in the “Discount Code” field.
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Something I managed to forget to mention in our newsletter (which I’ll be archiving here shortly) but is also Very Important…
We have raised the minimum for free shipping from a subtotal of $75 to $100 (and have updated the site/cart to reflect this). This is because, with recent rate increases at the USPS, shipping charges are eating us alive. Like USPS Pirahnas. They could skeletonise an entire Flat Rate Cow in 30 seconds. 
I sincerely loathe this turn of events. Our goal is to continue operating as an Added Value retailer because we truly value your addiction support. The hope is that an additional $25 worth of soap will be perceived as soap you were planning on trying anyways. 
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Vil·lain·ess \ 'vi-lən-nəs \ n : a woman who is a villainVil·lain·ess \ 'vi-lən-nəs \ n
1 : an uncanny, articulate woman
2 : a deliberate antagonist or tease
3 : an intelligent woman in a tabloid or gossip
4 : the fall-girl in a particularly difficult situationVillainess. Redefining "bad."
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