Now I’m a big sucker for the color blue, so you know that the visual of this handmade soap by Coquette Bath and Home is enough to catch my interest – and once I got a chance to smell it, I was in Heaven. It’s a fresh, clean scent that feels like being in a spring shower, right in the bath. I couldn’t put this handmade soap down once I started using it. It had a great lather, and the feel on my skin was great. This is in my top picks for handmade soaps, and it couldn’t be made by a nicer person. Check it out at Coquette Bath and Home.

Yes, yes, I know what you’re saying ‘Oh God another Gudonya review???’ I’m sorry, but I can’t help myself – I frikkin love everything they make. Let me tell you about this soap. It’s a handmade soap with a Tahitian vanilla scent that is simply divine, with a charcoal exofoliation that leaves you with the most refreshed skin. This is one of my all time favorite soaps, and the scent is absolutely incredible. If I had to only have one body soap, I will go for this soap every single time. You can pick this and other handmade soaps at Gudonya’s Etsy shop.

If you haven’t read our handmade soap maker profile of Coquette Bath and Home, click the link to go right to the post! This is my first review of one of the products she sent me in her sample package, and I have to say that I was thrilled with it. I got the one on the right, the Oasis solid perfume, and it is just lovely. The most surprising part is that I’m really not a perfume girl (to the point where it just took me three tries to spell that right) but I’ve pretty much blown through the sample. The scent is a very interesting one, with a touch of what I would almost describe as a sweet note, and made me feel like I was having a day at the spa. There is also a liquid perfume version of Oasis, and although I did not get to try that one, I do have to say that the scent lasts for quite awhile with the solid handmade perfume. Check it out at Coquette’s Bath and Home!

As much as I wanted to go all handmade for my bathroom, I wasn’t really into bar or solid shampoos, which seems to make up most of the handmade shampoo market. However it turns out that I found something that’s not a solid shampoo, but gets around using SLS that most of the handmade liquid shampoos are using in. The Gudonya Salty Dawg Creme Shampoo is a salt scrub, and this particular one has a wonderful Tahitian Vanilla scent. I don’t think I need to tell you how obsessed I am with that scent, since I have conditioner, shampoo, and soap from Gudonya with that one. The salt shampoo cream goes on nice and smooth, and all you have to do is add a bit more water after you have applied it to make it nice and lather rich. My hair feels slick, shiny, and clean after I’m done using it, and the scent is just divine. Get it at Gudonya’s Etsy shop.

This was, literally, the first handmade soap that I ever bought. I’m a longtime sufferer of adult acne, and having mainstream solutions fail time and time again, I had turned to handmade soap. SpaTherapy’s Tea Tree Lime soap was great – it left my face feeling very clean, but not dry, flaky, or red. The scent was an interesting one – I’ve never experienced tea tree oil before, and the lime had a nice, fresh counterpoint to the bar. Like most facial bars, this one also lasted me quite awhile with 4 oz – it was around 2 or 3 months before I had to start looking for some more soaps.

Ingredients: Saponified Coconut oil, Palm oil, Castor oil, Safflower oil, glycerin, purified water, goat’s milk, sorbitol (from berries), Sorbitan oleate, soybean protean, titanium dioxide (mineral), Honey, Tea Tree Essential Oil & Lime essential Oil.

Buy it at SpaTherapy’s etsy shop =)