Magical soap properties

The story of Andy and Wendy's soap making journey through life style, small business, living with the earth, mistakes and lessons, and natural ideals, told through each bar of soap, liquid soap, and lip balm they make. This article is a work in progress, with an item added each week. They are added in a specific order. 

Andy has been the man behind Ithaca Soap's manufactory since 2004. He empowers each and every bar soap, liquid soap, and beeswax lip balm with love and energy that imparts to you when you use it. These empowerments are suggestions to help you create a better life for you and those around you. The readings below tell that story.

Bar Soap:

Chapter 1 - The sayings replaced by bar code

Lavender

Saying: Create World Peace

Lavender Bar Soap is associated with the number 0.

It is the beginning of Andy and Wendy's soap making business. Infinite possibilities lie ahead.

When Ithaca Soap began without a name, it was a new, spontaneous adventure, with no expectations. A new path was ahead, leading into the unknown, not only with the soap business, but with the new budding relationship between Andy and Wendy.

In 1999, a time of upheaval and turmoil, creating world peace in yourself, letting go of fear, trusting in your own judgement, and pursuing a dream of any kind, can radiate out from you. When it touches someone else, they will feel your sense of calm and joy, and join in the fun. It doesn’t mean to abandon your responsibilities, but to deal with them with a sense of adventure instead of dread. It’s the beginning of a journey into the unknown. Make the best of any situation.

Lavender has a calming effect on the mind, causing you to relax, giving way to peace, love and opening the gateway to energetic healing.

 

Lemongrass

Saying: Maintain Integrity

Lemongrass Bar Soap is associated with the number 1

The number 1 signifies oneness and multiplicity. It is a time to focus energy and be an ultimate achiever. Be open to what life has to offer. Take conscious action, be creative, commit to a project with energy. 

The Lemongrass bar soap signifies Wendy and Andy's drive to consciously create the very best soap. Sometimes, plowing ahead without looking back can cause ambivalence and confusion. Am I doing the right thing? They came out of the fog of turning away from soap making, focused on a goal and followed through with the plan. 

Flowery Lemongrass helps you lay claim to your inner power and achieve your life's purpose and goals. Lemongrass is a purifier and enhances psychic abilities.

 

Lavender Mint

Saying: Strive to be the best person you can be

Lavender Mint Bar Soap is associated with the number 2.

The number 2 symbolizes a home, shelter, a blessing. Exercise deep breathing to help find your center. Home is where the heart is.

Andy and Wendy's soap making journey and business adventures began to get noticed for the soap quality. Recipe mistakes were made along the way; sometimes even an absolute failure. They decided to take failures, learn from them, and turn it into reality. They cultivated the ability to read between the lines and live with a variety of cycles.  Finding balance between work life and play is key, failure and success is the best lesson of all.

Lavender and peppermint together purify sleep, emotional and spiritual healing.

 

Clove Spice

Saying: Get Outside

Clove Spice Bar Soap is associated with the number 3.

Good deeds through a loving heart, strength and endurance, are the backbone of Andy and Wendy’s soap making journey. As soap making grew into a small business, Andy and Wendy were bombarded with opportunities to use poorer quality, less expensive ingredients that had a natural facade. They even bought and tried some synthetic fragrance oils, sold to them as true essential oils.

This trend is pervasive throughout the soap business. Many headaches and itchy skin bouts later, they learned about true essential oils, their benefits, and each essential oil's history. They kept their commitment to themselves and their followers by keeping it environmentally conscious and close to nature.

Clove Spice attracts love, feeling good about yourself and luck. Living within the realm of the natural world builds strength and character. Mother Nature is reliable, stable, and resilient, yet adaptable to change with love in her heart.

 

Lavender Orange

Saying: Beautify Your Surroundings

Lavender Orange Bar Soap is associated with the number 4.

As Andy and Wendy continued to make soap and spread the good feelings of good soap far and wide, a doorway opened before them. They were presented with choices. Should they grow big or stay small? Whichever path they chose, they would need to be ready for action. Either the action of running a small business themselves or the action of moving into management. As they veered toward staying small, they proceeded humbly.  

Lavender Orange seeks to promote love, helping to purify your heart through rest and relaxation. By beautifying your surroundings, you can be reminded of your need for community. Participate with humility as you pass through your open doorway and grow into your full potential.

 

Tough Guy

 Saying: Listen to Nature

Tough Guy Bar Soap is associated with the number 5.

The mechanic in Andy called out to him to step into the production end of things. Wendy wanted some help with the increasing soap making demands. It was time to stop and listen to what the business was turning into, and go along with the trend presenting itself to them. Soap making needed to be streamlined, producing a consistent bar of soap every time.

As it turned out, Andy was a natural soap maker. This was the beginning of mastering his soap making skills. He honed this skill, since 2004, and has been producing identical soap batches each and every time, all in relatively small  batches.  

Tough Guy's exfoliation quality, can physically purify the skin, while symbolically healing old and new psychic wounds. The unique combination of essential oils can enhance your psychic abilities, enticing your third eye to open up and look around. 

 

Dirty Dog

Soap Saying: Feel the Energy

Dirty Dog Bar Soap is associated with the number 6.

Energy exists in everything.  Andy and Wendy began to create an energy and flow for soap, and how it nourishes the skin.  If the skin is clean, healthy, and happy, a general feeling of goodness sets in.

There is a connection between your body’s comfort and a person’s state of being. As soap batches grew in size, the energy of the workplace needed to flow properly. Each bar of the soap’s journey began in the manufactory, and continued to make its way to every person’s shower and sink with the energy of good health, love, and happiness.

As you use a bar of Dirty Dog soap from the Ithaca Soap manufactory, your skin will shine out and radiate it’s good health, love and the feeling of happiness. Every living thing you encounter will feel that energy, and pick up on your good feelings.