If you’ve ever been to a massage therapist, you know that they are able to relax and pamper your body in ways you didn’t think possible. So it is a good sign that The Bath Project was crafted by a licensed massage therapist. The handmade bath and body products are created with the best organic ingredients and are sure to make for a pleasing, at home spa ritual.

Spa Luxuries has adorable shea soaps with a pattern that’s embedded in the soap (and won’t wash off with use) and yummy scented spa soaps. They also sell bath products but when I pick a theme, I stick to it. And that theme was soap. 

My family has a habit of purchasing plastic items of food to sit around as decorations. This annoys me to no end because if I see a donut, I want a donut and if the only donut on hand happens to be made of solid plastic….that’s going to make for a very chewy donut eating experience 
But for whatever reason (hypocrisy?) food shaped soaps appeal to me. That- and the shop’s name- made Dirty Ass Soaps today’s Indie Retailer. (The soap’s are also vegan, although the food that it’s based on …

Soap That Makes Scents features handmade soaps and lip balms “Kreated by Karina” using essential oils or high quality fragrance oils to scent the luxurious products. The soaps are free of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (SLS) or Sodium Laureth Sulfate (SLES), which are often used in commercial soaps as “lathering agents” but are also skin irritants. If you’re having a hard time deciding on a scent, try one of the sample packs that allows you to choose a set number of scents in 1.5 oz. size. A 5 piece sampler set …

I came across Robinosities when I did an Etsy search for fortune cookie shaped soap. Those cookie scented soaps containing actual fortunes (or quotations) are neat but it was really the garden gnome soap that won my heart.

Garden Gnome Soap, $7.00

 
I have to give creative credit to Lily Bay Soap for having the idea and strength to follow through on the idea of making soap shaped like a pile of dog poop. And it’s birthday cake scented, no less! For the less adventurous, Lily Bay also has soaps shaped like desserts, that smell like desserts and even one that’s made with beer (Corona gets the honors this time).

Dog Pile Soap- Birthday Cake Scent, 3 oz. bag of piles and logs for $3.95 (non-vegan)

 
I’m still feeling a little unclean from watching that Clinton campaign commercial that Will posted and hit the web looking for soap.Coconut Coast products are handmade in Hawaii and contain no artificial colorants, petroleum or animal based products. The soaps are made of a blend of olive, coconut and palm oils. The bath salts are made from Hawaiian sea salts that dissolve easily.

Cinnamon Soap, 3.25 oz. bar for $3.95
Smells like: cinnamon, nutmeg, juniper, and sweet orange oil