When I was around 4, I had a best friend named Mary Elizabeth. The only problem was….I couldn’t say Elizabeth very well and when I said it, it came out Mary Lil’bits. That name stuck with her for many years as we went to school and she was none too pleased with me.
Forward to 2009 and people always ask “What’s your favorite soap?” I have to say I don’t use any that you see on-line. Maybe I’m cheap, but I make my own soap using the end cuts of the bars you see on-line and test out new fragrances. My customers have the fancy bars! But the other day one of my friends came over and saw a confetti looking soap in my bathroom and told me to make a soap like that to sell. That set me to thinking what my MoSoap customers might like the most.
Our most popular soaps are by far the white lye and pine tar soaps that are unscented, so the choice was pretty easy. But what should I call the new soap? I’m not terribly clever with fancy soap names like some soapmakers. What’s in the soap is the name usually. Well this new soap has little bits of unscented pine tar soap in a base of our gentle Traditional Lye Soap. And that sent me back to think of my friend, Mary Lil’ Bits. I figure I owe a tribute to that poor girl after all the hassle she had in school because I couldn’t say Elizabeth!
So without delay….. our newest pine tar lye soap – Lil’ Bits Lye Soap
