It all started with a batch of cold process soap…

I (Serenity) am not the best third person writer so, that being said, here’s how Serenity’s Suds N’ Such began… in my own way/words!

I made my first batch of cold process soap when I was 17. I was tired of my skin feeling dry, (and looking dry!) even with store-bought “natural soaps”. My mother had made goat milk soap when I was little, so it wasn’t completely crazy for me to just, make my own. She also let us kids make melt & pour soap when we were little… My brother and I would even go to yard sales, bringing our backpacks full of soap and ask to barter! Plus, I love baking & cooking and when I start doing something I love, I go all out!

So, I set out to make my own soap. I researched and questioned my mom about what she remembered. Then I started collecting what I needed for my first batch. I used things from the kitchen, a few things my mom had kept from the decade before, and oils we already had. From my research I determined I would make a colorless, very plain batch to start, not even using our goat milk because I wanted to make sure that it would be a positive experience; plus using LYE did worry me at the time, the simpler the better, so my research said.

Finally one night, I was all ready, lard from our own pigs melted, LYE solution made, peppermint essential oil (the EO we always have plenty of) set aside, a candy thermometer and a utensil tray to act as my mold and a stick blender. Once I was sure I had my temperatures just so, I blended my very first batch of cold process soap. I blended and blended… Then blended some more… Finally, my first batch of soap was in the mold, made without a hitch!

After that first batch, I was hooked!

I started collecting more oils, I was constantly thinking of things I could use for my soap making, it was a slippery slope.

My second batch, I added color, I did a higher top and I piped my first soap batter. I took off with it!

But, then I realized… I could not afford to make as much soap as I wanted to! So, OBVIOUSLY the only way was to make more and turn this into my business!

My soap was already making my skin feel better and I knew from my mom’s soaping days, how beneficial quality soap is, so I decided that I wanted to helps others help their skin! This was a huge decision at the time, because I was sure I would be a full time fiber artist. The Lord knew better! He continued to open doors, and now I can’t see my life without soap!

My goal is, and will always be, to provide quality, skin nourishing products that I use personally and am proud to put my name on. There are so many ways to treat our skin, I hope more folks start to choose the small business, quality, skin nourishing way!

This never started with the goal being a business, which I think is one of the best ways to start something, something of quality; something that isn’t about a business, so much as it about helping others, help their skin and use these things the Lord has given us, rather than chemicals.