Coming soon!

With much demand, I will soon be adding lotion bars (cakes?) and lip balm to the product line! Lotion bars are available now for $3 each - just drop me a note and will get some under way. Lip balm specifics still to be worked out a bit more. :)

Valentine's Day is sneaking up!

Since the last note from Bath Cake Boutique, there have been a handful of requests for Sandalwood. Well, I am happy to let everyone know that just in time for Valentine's Day, Sandalwood will be available!

Speaking of Valentine's Day, bath cakes and bubble cakes are easily all dressed up for Valentine's Day. Soapy cakes can be done in hearts or roses rather than the cake shape as well. Any special requests such as those should be put in the notes section of any order. Also, to ensure delivery before Valentine's Day I'm asking that orders are placed by Tuesday, February 5th.

If you have any questions or comments I would love to hear from you!

Don't forget that the special offer runs through February 29, 2008 -- your choice of any Bath Cake -- free with any order!! While this is limited to one per order, there is no limit as to how many times you can use it! Please indicate in notes of order which scent you would like in your free Bath Cake.

Thank you

I'd like to thank everyone for such an overwhelmingly wonderful "grand opening" of Bath Cake Boutique. It was amazing to see this go so much better this time.

I have a super short version of how this came to be under "about" on this site. Here's the slightly extended version ... after the part of my story about Walmart, I did a bunch of research online. I found recipes that got me started at a wonderful little site called Mablewhite. Debra of Mablewhite writes extensively, and while many of her recipes didn't quite work out for me, I was able to use them as a guide to create my own. She also has a great amount of research information on both carrier oils and essential oils on her site. With that information in hand, I took off running to do my own further research. I was able to quickly heal up my oldest son's eczema. His two younger brothers also have it but to a lesser extent. My then fiance, now very wonderful husband, had roseca. In my very first try, I created a lotion that cleared his face inside of 7 days. It was amazing. Before I start coming across as some kind of master chemist ... I must admit here that was the single time I was able to make that lotion. Unfortunately in those early days of product development I did not take notes as well as I should have. I have since created lotions my husband finds helpful but none like that first one. Next came a dear friend who's home had been blown away by Katrina. We offered him refuge and he lived with us for close to a year. We live in CT. He had spend most of his life in Mississippi. The climates are a tad different! It wasn't long before the brutal New England winter took its toll on his skin used to humidity all year ... he developed large, painful cracks all over his skin. I made a balm for him. In 48 hours he was all but healed. With three small miracles under my belt I felt I *must* be able to produce things to sell, people would love this stuff. I endeavored to create my own website from scratch. This process was more overwhelming that nearly anything I've tried to pick up on my own. After months of nerve wracking web development I introduced blissfulskin to the world. It had its up moments and its down moments and really never did all that well. In October of 2006, as a 36 year old mother of 3 young sons, I was diagnosed with breast cancer. Ladies, DO YOUR EXAMS!!! I found my own cancer. I would not have had a mammogram for another 4 years and probably wouldn't have lived that long. Anyway, with cancer to add to a life full of children, homeschooling, being a professional tax accountant (I recently saved one gentleman $136,000)(yes, really), being an active member of my local fire department, and teaching CCD weekly ... well, something had to give. Blissful Skin was given. So was CCD actually, but for the most part I continued to do everything else. My first love is cooking and baking. If I could open a bakery I would have done it in a heartbeat. I have a friend in PA who runs a wonderful cake business out of her home because in PA they will certify home kitchens. Unfortunately in CT they do not. While Blissful Skin was running, despite my affection for Mablewhite, I had to look for other suppliers as her shipping wasn't always reliable. I stumbled upon Brambleberry, simply through Google, I believe. I ordered some of their products and enjoyed consistency of both shipping and product quality. As my cancer treatments came to an end, I was due for major surgery. Very major surgery. Which got a whole lot more major due to countless complications. A hospital stay that was supposed to be 3 days turned into 8 days. A recovery of 6 weeks turned into 4 months. As I got progressively better I needed something to do. I decided to put together my love of baking with my new love of making bath and beauty products. I adore Lush's bubble bars. I wanted to make a similar product. I found a few recipes from a few different resources, none looking really like they'd do it. So I ordered some from Lush and started playing with it. I stuck my own creation in a loaf pan and cut it up. I got bubble crumbles .... disappointed, I noticed a silicone muffin pan in my cabinet. I grabbed it, some "metal" muffin papers and whipped up a new batch. This time I molded them as small flat "cupcakes". They were cute but not pretty. They needed frosting. But frosting that wouldn't take away from the bubble-ness. Melt & pour soap! A skim coat of that on top with some decor and the bubble cake was born. It was right about this time that I discovered that Anne Marie of Brambleberry had a blog. Not only did she have a blog but she showed how to put a "frosting" onto a bath bomb. Oh my...... these two products together ... and suddenly a new line of products/vision of the company came to me. This time creating the web site was practically effortless. All of it just came to me, almost as fast as I could type the look and feel of the site became Bath Cake.

So here I am. Almost cancer free, still a mommy of 3 young boys, homeschooling half a week, being a tax accountant half a week, working with the fire department, remaining a substitute CCD teacher for now and now with Bath Cake Boutique just opening and starting to blossom. In the week or so its been open, it has already had at least as many orders as Blissful Skin ever did in its approximately year of existence.

Thank you for helping my dream along.

Welcome!

I sent this email out to nearly everyone I know. I would also like to extend the offer to everyone here as well.

Welcome to Bath Cake Boutique – a new, whimsical approach to bath and beauty products. On the menu is a sumptuous selection of Bath Cakes, Soapy Cakes, Body Butter, Bubble Cakes and so much more!! Each is hand-crafted, fresh, and made to order from the finest all-natural ingredients. Just how you would make it if you had the time.

I hope you will take a few moments to look at these exciting new products at www.bathcake.com.

Each gourmet, spa quality product is a one of a kind that makes a great gift and is even better to keep! The menu of items at Bath Cake Boutique lends itself particularly well not only to holiday and birthday gift giving occasions but also make unique, fun favors for showers, weddings, parties and corporate gifting as well.

If you have any questions or comments I would love to hear from you! As always, if you prefer not to receive updates from Bath Cake Boutique, simply let us know and you'll be removed from this list immediately.

To welcome you to the Bath Cake Boutique family, a special offer awaits -- your choice of any Bath Cake -- free with any order!! Limit one per order; offer expires February 29, 2008. Please indicate in notes of order which scent you would like in your free Bath Cake.

Sweet bathing!

Erin

First round of pictures are complete

Yay! Finally a set of first round pictures are all up and running. Products are leaving to get a better quality of photo done tomorrow.

New pics!

More pics up. Yay. Now I need to do the last 3 product lines and I'll be all set. Well, these are my preliminary (read: I took them with my not so new camera) pics ... they will leave by Thursday to go get photographed for real. :) But with all the traffic as of late, I felt I had to get something up so people could see the product! :)

Wow!! Thanks!!!

So guess what happened to Bath Cake today!!! :) Our first mention in another blog!! We're being featured on Sarah's Surprises! Here's a link:

http://www.etailersmall.com/blog/2008/01/07/bath-cakes/

Thank you so much, Sarah!

Blog off the ground!

Woo hoo! The blog is off the ground. Finally, have it tweaked the way I want it to look and with some advice from Anne Marie and a whole lot of help from my hubby (the programmer!) I got it to link to my web site and vice versa. Yay!

Guess its time to get started!

Wow, so here I am. Starting a small business. Again really, I had one that had just barely got going when I got sick. I had to let it go, as I just couldn't keep up with everything. But then some wonderful die hard customers asked me to make some stuff for Christmas ... I did and got re-inspired. I'm home, still recovering from surgery in September so I've had time to design a new product line and web site ... So here we go!

The web site is up and functional. I haven't announced it to the world so to speak just yet as I need to get some more pictures up first. Hopefully by the end of this week.

I made this blog because my hubby suggested that I have one on my new website about product design and what not. I downloaded my provider's blog engine but I couldn't figure out how to work it (I am good with a computer, but am certainly NOT a programmer). So then I followed Ann Marie's blog and looked at blogger. It turns out blogger lets you publish to your own site. So I did this! Unfortunately, I haven't yet been able to figure out how to link it back to my site so I haven't exactly integrated this quite yet. But then I went & commented on Ann Marie's blog and a wonderful person followed my link here, more inspiration to get going with something - the blog this time. Yay!