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After the summer we’ve had, I can’t think of a better time to spotlight our next reseller…
We’ve been working with The Soap Box Company since… 2006? A long time, at any rate. And every single restock and collaboration has been an absolute pleasure.
I wish I could remember why we started working on Lehua, but all I recall was devising a light summer floral that also satisfied my pre-occupation with Volcano Honey. “Big white blossoms - pikaki, tuberose, lily and narcissus - honeyed with sweet Hawaiian ginger.” The interpretation of Lehua blooms is a little subjective - largely because a Hawaiian “R&D trip” wasn’t in our budget. But we wanted to service the notion of the indulgent tropical floral, by way of similar native blooms, while evoking the sweetness that makes the Lehua blossom such a bee-friendly flower. The florals in this concoction are a little more sharp than sweet - bright and crisp - muted with an almost cloying honey (not even remotely indolic) spiked with ginger.
I think my favourite application was the Lehua Smooch!.
We used a slightly less exotic (but equally humectant/indulgent) clover honey, accented with coral micas, and Mono¨ de Tahiti oil in our Body Conditioning Smooch! to create a beautifully soothing concoction.
The Soap was a bit trickier as the honey component tends to discolour, and I wanted to keep at least a suggestion of pinkness. Easily solved by concentrating the honey in the uppermost layers of soap.
Lehua is also available as a beautifully conditioning Whipped!.
Hoarfrost is another summer favourite, originally conceived as a compliment to The SBC’s First Frost exclusive (a frozen vanilla floral). “Summer’s late berry harvest - raspberries, blueberries, currants and strawberries - bittersweet with vanilla and arrested by an icy touch of eucalyptus and peppermint.” It originally debuted the fall of 07 as an icy winter scent, but I believe it’s spent more time as a summer-feature than anything. And rightly so, as it has all the sweetness of fruity scents with the perfect dose of cool.
This Soap continues to be one of my favourites. High contrast pink on white marbles beautifully, and then we garnish the top with a frosty white mica.
One of the fun parts of the really cool minty/mentholated scents, is that they have a genuine cooling effect. Not so much in the soaps, and less in the lightly-scented Whipped!, but it’s definitely present in the berry-soaked Smooch!. Perfect for a post-workout shower!
Now, I can’t swear to availability, but I suspect both scents are around in August’s Free Stuff if you want to take a look at The Soap Box Company.
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