Greetings from SIP-N-Stroll

We're at Main Street Laurens Sip-N-Stroll.

Rudolf with your nose so bright

Rudolf soap ornaments.

Everybody Loves The Sunshine!

I'm hard at work filling orders. I just finished a batch of soap. Sunshine is one of our latest women's fragrance. We sell the soap in a sunflower shape.

Cotton Festival

Good morning from the Waterloo Cotton Festival. Notice the heater in the background.  Brr.

Head 2 Toe

Our latest product Head 2 Toe Oil. Use it on dry scalp, as an oil sheen, hot oil treatment, body oil, or even as a massage oil. Sold in a 4 oz bottle for $ 5.00

Suwee!!

Greetings from the 11th annual Squealin' On The Square

Two Quick Notes

• Tomorrow will be the last Farmer's Market of the season for us at Frugal. Many Thanks to all our Farmer's Market customers.

• The online store will be down until sometime in October.

At Laurens Farmers Market

Sure is hot!

Busy, Busy, Busy

Sunday morning, I committed to selling at a church's Spring Fling. Monday, I got a call inviting me to sell on the 18th at fundraising event. I was already planning on selling on the 11th at the Farmer's Market. The only Saturday I had free was the 25th and I just committed to a community event. I filled the June calendar in less than a week, without really trying....Now to find time to restock.

June  4 - Poplar Spring AME Church - Spring Fling
June 11 - Laurens Square - Farmer's Market
June 18 - Scarlet Chord - Fun Day (?)
June 25 - Little River Amphitheater - Family Day

Catfish Festival 2011!

Selling @ Catfish

Mother's Day 2011



For Always Soap



We are releasing two new scents just in time for Mother's Day. For Always and Pink Cashmere.

Our five dollar sets contain a bar of soap and 10 ml of perfume. For two (2) additional dollars, you can add a 1 oz bottle matching scented body powder.



Pink Cashmere Soap and Perfume



 













Do You Like My Big Green Tractor?

Sweetgrass and Ceder scented tractor soap just in time for Catfish Feastival and Father's Day

Here Fishy, Fishy, Fishy

Smooth Sailing scented fish soap for men. Available for Catfish Feastival and Father's Day.

Soothing Foot Soak

8 oz Soothing Foot Soak.

Do You Know The Cost Of The Oil in Your Alabaster Box?

I don't think anointed oil is a product that should be sold for profit. If there is any money exchanged, it should just be enough to cover cost (this does include labor costs if needed and shipping) but no profit. That's just one of my many quirks.

Several "Christian" stores sell anointed oil for ridiculous amounts. A 1/4 ounce bottle of one particular oil cost about $5. I had to check out the label and see what exactly one was getting for five bucks. Olive Oil and Fragrance. That's it. Ponder this, I can run to the nearest Dollar Gen and get an 8.5 oz bottle of (food grade) olive oil for $2.  That's not the worst of it. Olive Oil has an extremely short shelf life. The stuff goes rank after about 3 months. Most people will not use that bottle of oil up before it goes rank. 

I did a rough calculation of what the oil cost to make (based off of what supplies would cost me at non bulk rates). The most expensive item was the 1/4 ounce glass bottle and that cost 36 cents.  7 cents worth of olive oil and a generous 8 cents for fragrance for a total of 51 cents per bottle. Ok, I'll give the company 30 cents for shipping, so 81 cents. That's a 600% mark up. INSANE!

That said...one of the services we offer at Frugal Fragrances is the production anointed oil. Saturday, I completed an order for 50 bottles of anointed oil. We use fractionated coconut oil because it has a much longer shelf life (2+ years) and is non-staining.

For the anointed oil order I just completed, I made fifty 1/2 oz. bottles for $ 40. That included the cost of the bottle of fractionated coconut oil ($16), 50 plastic 1/2 oz bottles ($0.18/bottle), and $15 dollars shipping. That's 80 cents a bottle. Twice as much oil and an oil that will last at least 8 times longer.

Frugal Feet Set

The Frugal Feet Set includes:

• 4 oz Soothing Foot Soak
• 1 oz T.E.M.P. Gel
• 1 oz Soothing Foot Powder
• 1 Foot File
• Vinyl Case

This product is $10.00

Valentine Por Ti

The Valentine special this year featured the scent Por Ti. The set consisted of a 4 oz bar of soap, 2 oz bottle of lotion, and 1 oz bottle of body powder. All that for frugal price of $ 5.00.  Of course we sold out.