Artisans Canary Hand Made Soap

The sweet, sweet aroma’s of Artisans Canary Soaps!

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The Artisans Canary.

This is a sight of Artistry in hand-made soap bars!

 

 

We are The Artisans Canary or unofficially TAC.

Hello everybody we’re so happy that you decided to stay and have a look around, we love creating beautiful but practical gifts for you and your loved ones!

When was soap first invented or used?

Please keep in mind that the following are mostly fictional and or hypothesized stories and depictions. Although they are creative in their approach and decent they have little fact about them and should in no way be represented as total fact or theory.

 

The following story lines are mostly here for the amusement of those reading this page.

 

Well, where do we start?

  Many nations would like to claim that they were the first to use the ingredients that make up the wonderful concoction of a usable soap to not only cleanse clothes the skin but the body as well. We’ll take a jab at it and see if it might have gone something like this.

 

Soon after the beginning in time, man found ways of cleansing themselves from a variety of natural items that Mother Nature provided; sometimes in grinding up flower pedals and rubbing the pulp over their bodies, ooooooooh how sweet that smelled and those wonderful scents and aroma’s;

  Wait, wait, wait, that wouldn’t work because it would have stained the clothing, heck who cared, after all these were skins, not made of of anything but animal hides, who cared right, so whatever, lets go ahead anyways because the females might just like Guug smelling like those flowers we passed on our way back from the great hunt!

Then again skipping forward about twenty centuries, maybe it might have worked out for a ceremonial robe or dress, ah ha, perhaps a new invention of tie dyeing or staining patterns on clothing has emerged.

 

Skipping ahead about ten centuries, in other places of the world by making up strange concoctions made from both animal and plants in hopes of wooing a prospective mate or suitor, but pewee, in either scenario the women folk would have to hold their breath from fear they may pass out if they didn’t.

 

Soap at some point might have been discovered while some person or maybe a shaman were cooking up some brew of animal fat over an open fire, perhaps spilled this brew into the ashes of the kindling or wood they used while they were cooking or perhaps in breaking camp put both the ashes and the old left over brew of animal fats in the big pot and went down to the river to wash it out.

 

Maybe they noticed how much cleaner the pot ended up being. As they were washing it out there might have been lots of little spheres or {suds/bubbles} and wha-la the very first dish soap was invented, hahaha, well that was just a story line, but it very well could have happened that way.

 

In some regions of the world there are plants that produce milder forms of natural soaps as you will see in the next example: Saponaria officinalis is a common perennial plant from the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae). This plant has many common names, including common soapwort, bouncing-bet, crow soap, wild sweet William, and soapweed. There are about 20 species of soapworts altogether.

No Frills Here:

Yes different home-made soap makers will fancy the bars up to look very pretty, so as maybe to use for home decorations to liven up a dreary room or enhance another and place it so it releases its wonderful scents. Unfortunately they are not much use for anything else, unless you do not mind slicing and dicing that once beautiful creation up into small pieces to use, and then it is really awkward to start using, making it hard to manage between your palms and maybe several little pieces come off that you end up discarding. Ooops there it goes down on the floor and what it might bring up with it becomes another story line, eeeewe yucky.

The Practical Way:

This is why here at The Artisans Canary we decided to take the practical approach in producing a bar that is suitable enough to mange by most ages from young adults to that of older adults.

 Years and Years of Brain washing:

We are hoping to re-train your years and years of brain washing by the soap producing giants out there in “never never-land”; and what we mean by ”never never-land” is the land of soap that never really was.

Hypothetically let’s say that soaps were originally made in many other parts of the world and finally brought here to America so that persons like yourselves could not only clean and wash the dirt from the fabrics they wore, but also to some degree make them smell just a little nicer.

Then along the pathways to the destiny of handmade soap making, someone got the bright idea of using the soap on human beings. Unfortunately for those folks the soap used was of a really harsh quality, so harsh that it even burned some lighter and brighter textiles like silks and discolored some cottons and more so very special imported fabrics! Using that very same soap on your body, especially if you were very sensitive to foreign substances might have created some unwanted memories and people quickly reverted to using just scented waters.

 

As time went by, persons who made handmade soaps would experiment and even create some pretty interesting wash cakes of soap that were infused with different fragrances so that the soap was more pleasing to the senses and washing of the body.

At some point the entrepreneur came into the scene, found a soap maker that was making quite a name for themselves by selling these wonderful smelling wash cakes. They might make an offer to buy both the recipe and methodology from that person or buy up all their wash cakes to sell at a marked up price,   or set them {the soap maker} up financially to produce a higher quantity of soaps to sell again at a marked up price, in those cases the quality went down some degree.

As time went by, more and more entrepreneur’s and small end businessmen got into the game if you will, and created a market for these wash cakes. Bringing to the forefront the need for these very sweet smelling wash cakes that would do so much for you. As time progressed the high end businessmen who owned or helped manage large corporations were beginning to see the market value of this new money making commodity.

Eventually only selling the much more refined cakes to the “wealthy or the well to do” and the lesser cakes to the middle classes.

With the rich or middle class, it became a household item that you absolutely “could not live without”!

Later these corporations set up labs that only dealt in the production of soaps and cleansers would do what they could to analyze and breakdown the various components that made up the chemistry and formation of the wash cake and found ways of selling a so called more refined cake, one that really had less in it than the earlier cakes but could sell for much more.

The Wash Cake Slogans:

One of the strongest selling points that is still being pushed and shoveled into our brains today is that ever so need to see {“SUDS”}. Yes Ladies and Gentlemen suds and bubbles are what you should see. That shows you the wash cake is hard at work cleaning the dirt and grime from your hands, face and body and yes even your laundry. Yes sir-ree bobby, Ladies and Gentlemen, If you don’t see those bubbles then it is obvious you have in your very hands the product of inferiority and you should quickly dispose of such a wash cake and come buy the WatchaMaKallIts Company Wash Cakes, they will keep you clean, they will keep your clothes sparkly bright and they will have you and your clothes smelling like a field of roses! 

 

As time went by them {Big Business} noticed that the novelty had worn off a bit and people were returning to those that made the cakes locally. They also started realizing that because the classes in servitude had their own supply that they would bring to the work place or because they could get a lesser quality cake but one that could do almost what the more expensive cake could do, well, there were just less wealthy buying the higher end soap than there was of the middle class buying the more inferior cakes.

At some point a person making the handmade wash cakes saw the need for handling a much smaller wash cake of soap and realized the need for small cakes. Slowly realizing this would never fly in the local communities, after all who ever heard of a “small cake” had to come up with a name for this cake that everyone would accept and purchase?

Perhaps they saw a fake rectangular bar of gold bullion in the window of a local merchant, maybe in a paper ad or through the iron bars at the local bank, or were working on the roof as so many back then had to do. In having to fix many items themselves, maybe looked at this remnant roofing shingle that just fit into the palm of their hand and said to themselves, why not or just possibly came up with it themselves and decided to call the much smaller easier to handle wash cake’s a wash bar, and later the soap bar.

 

Well, it could have happened any number of ways. Where the brain washing comes into it goes a ways back in this story to the, {“SUDS” and the “Bubbles”}.

 

We all have been brainwashed into believing that if you do not get a GREAT LATHER of SUDS and BUBBLES going from turning or rubbing your soap bar under running water, then you obviously have an inferior bar of soap. Do you hear that slogan popping up again?

Really folks this could NOT BE FURTHER from the truth. Although through design we have found that most of our bars do produce a good amount of suds, bubbles and lather, some of our bars show less and to prove that these bars are of the same quality as the higher suds/bubble lather producing soaps. For the first 50 orders;

We are going to send along with your order, a sample of that particular bar and we are sure that you will agree with us that the bar of soap is just as great as our other bars and maybe even better for your particular needs!

Really folks, you do not need to see huge amounts of suds, bubbles or lather to get a wonderful wash out of our bars of soap. For instance we have a bar called Sweet Spinny that is just such a bar, wonderfully aromatic, makes your skin feel silky rich and ever so soft to the feel just after rolling it a few times between your palms under warm water, we absolutely love this bar!

 

Large Vs. Small:

Have you ever purchased a very large block of handmade soap?

If you have, remember how awkward it was to lather up or roll in between your palms or maybe you had to pull out the old trusted foot ruler and draw lines in it where you were going to make the cut to down size it, so it would work for you and your particular situation.

How sometimes you did not measure right and the bar was still too large or maybe you drew the short straw and ended up with the “baby bar” and how frustrated you were in the end and had wished you just stayed with the good old nasty chemical bar made with lots of products you could not look up on-line much less pronounce?

Well, we must admit we started out doing the same thing because we believed that people would much prefer having these large blocks of hand-made bar soaps, but in checking our competition out by going to the various places where the soaps were sold, we noticed two things;

• How often the large blocks were left behind from the more experienced buyers.
• How only the inexperienced persons new to buying (HM) soap purchased the larger bars.

So we realized that most persons liked a smaller bar more so than a larger block, one that was easily managed between the palms, whether you had large hands or small, just as long as they were not the sizes of “hotel bars”, giggles, if you know what we mean?

The Patch Test:

We do however encourage you to test all soaps purchased from us or any other source that you buy from, by cutting off a small piece of a bar or using any tester bar we might send along with your order, by doing a test patch on maybe your inner arm or inner thigh.

Yes that is correct.

1. Put some lukewarm water on a piece of the bar of soap.
2. Wash a one to two-inch area of either of the two areas previously mentioned.
3. Rinse off and pat dry with a towel and see if you have an allergic reaction of any kind.
4. If you do {stop using right away}.

Pay close attention here, many bodies are not quick to change. Your body becomes familiar with certain soaps so to speak and do not like quick changes especially as you get older and sometimes have to be nudged along to accept the new forms of cleansing or maybe if you’re daring enough in trying again, to see if the body will overcome the new obstacle (if you will) and adapt. Remember; some bodies do not like to change quickly to the new products you put on them. Again, some you need to gently encourage or nudge into the new changes, but if the {rash, or outbreak} persists please stop the usage, and maybe give the bar as a gift to someone else but also encourage them to do the same patch test. Not all bars of soap are ever created equally, more so from us since we do put different base and essential oils in all of our soap recipe’s.

Giving Back To Humanity:

For every ten pounds of bar soap sold there will be a donation of 15 cents a pound given to any one of three charities.

For every twenty pounds sold there will be a donation of 20 cents a bar given to any two of three charities.

For every thirty pounds sold there will be a donation of 25 cents a bar given to all three charities equally.

For every fifty pounds sold there will be a donation of 35 cents a pound given to the charity of your choice.

Your selection must be submitted at time of order (no exceptions) or the donation will be given out to all three of the posted charities equally.

1. Children’s Hospital
2. Foundation for AIDS Research.
3. To An Institute For_The_Prevention_Of_Cancer.

Special Orders Do Not Upset Us:

If you’re wanting to purchase any particular bar of soap we sell but you do not really care for the scent we put into it and want to go scentless just make out an order form and check the appropriate box that has you check for scented or unscented. We We will be happy to do this for you on twenty (20) or more unscented bars ordered.

Order (15-39) lbs of soap you will also get a five percent discount.

Order (40-59) lbs of soap you will get a ten percent discount. 

Order (60 or more) lbs of soap you will get a 15 percent discount.  

Return Policy:

 

1.) Once you sign for a parcel, {you in the eyes of the law} you are accepting the parcel in all good faith that said parcel was delivered to you in the manner befitting that which is was represented at time of sale and sent out to you said customer.  For all returned parcel(s), the postage and handling must be paid by you, we will not accept any C.O.D. returns!

The parcel must be returned in the same container it was sent in, there will be no exception to this rule, other than what is deemed reasonably out of either the sender or receivers control. Please remember, once opened by {you the purchaser}, that sale is final!

2.) For sanitary reasons we will not accept opened packaged purchases that have been greatly disturbed, molested, ripped, shredded, torn or opened!

3.) Please remember that all mail carrier services in all facilities record all movements by cameras and other recording devices of insured parcels that will show how all parcels, boxes and or crates are handled and shipped out to customers.

Between them and us, will determine how and if the parcel, box or crate was disturbed. Please be as sincere and honest when requesting an {RPN}.

4.) Be mindful that all parcels sent by us are insured.

All insured parcels delivered by the USPS, and UPS are under constant surveillance and scrutiny.  Meaning that they are photographed/video taped/recorded before shipment and just before they are loaded for delivery for any defects in or around said parcels to ensure that the insured parcel be delivered as was sent.

5.) Also please be mindful that the USP and the UPS Services handle fraud very stringently and will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law. All parcels are noted upon delivery and there is a signature required!

6.) Upon delivery, if you refuse to sign for a parcel you ordered and the parcel is returned without first notifying our customer service and requesting an RPN number, you will forfeit the purchase and all monies involved in said purchase.

7.) Please look over your parcel before accepting and signing for the parcel!

8.) Once you accept the parcel, it is yours and it cannot be returned unless you find for one reason or another that the parcel sent to you and that you signed for is not what you ordered and you can prove this. You must then contact our customer service and an agent will determine how and or if said parcel can be returned, if it can, you will be issued an RPN number! 

 Our Goals: 

To invite you to see the many wonders and beauty in the way Mother Nature has formed and given so much of herself to shape this beautiful planet we live on! To show you the different ways of producing many different types of bars of soap in which she has given through her many beautiful and wondrous base and essential oils so that we might have a better understanding and enjoyment. Please feel free to leave any comment on our site and of course to ask any related questions and we will do what we can to either answer from our knowledge base and or experience or we will research and reply with our findings. As we are a very small shop, please be patient, we will eventually get around to answering your questions.