It’s occurred to us people like to give our olive oil soap as gifts–for any time.  I know, no one wants to hear about Christmas being not so far away, so I won’t mention it.  Oops, too late.

White Tea Olive Oil Soap

However, our soap makes a great gift for any time of the year.  It is popular with regular occasions that are not national holidays:

1. Birthdays
2. Housewarming
3. Feel Good, Pick Me Up
4. Sympathy
5. Guest soap
6. Get Well
7. You smell, please use this
8. Anniversary
9. Congratulations
10. New Job, New Baby
11. Wedding
12. Divorce
13. New Flame
14. Turning Over a New Leaf

I know, number 8 is kind of comical, who gives soap as an anniversary gift–but hey, not everyone can afford diamonds or gold.  So no matter what occasion, natural soap is always a great gift.  It shows you care because you’re giving a hand made product that’s fresh, and good for you.

If you’d like to add to the list, or share what’s your favorite reason, just leave your comment below.

Thanks,

Don

Ah, Austria, rich in history, scenic beauty, and music.   Mozart, Falco, and let’s not forget the Sound of Music.  Recently we’ve discovered an Austrian from Couchsurfing, a site where people literally crash on stranger’s couches.

These people, usually students, writers, artists, are travelling the world, and need to stay just for the night, or a week.  Our friends Bryan and Christin Babcock,  are the brave couple who let their couch become the rotating hostel for couchsurfers have had incredible luck.  In turn, we’ve been fortunate to meet these wonderful souls who are young, eager, incredibly happy, and love America.

The latest intrepid is Clara Meier, who is an accomplished writer from Austria whose travels she keeps in her blog: http://claratouring.wordpress.com

Clara Meier discovers soapmaking.

She goes back to school in September, where she is studying to become a journalist.  While she is here in America, she’s been to Washington DC, New York, Boston, and yes, the thriving metropolis of Canandaigua.

While her hosts are busy working, she is discovering America in unusual ways.  Her latest post talks about gelato, and how American food differs from Austrian food.  She asked if she could help us at the store, and find out how small businesses do business.

Clara is helping today us today, cutting olive oil soap and labeling different lotions.  This week she will be discovering all about crafting soaps, lotions, and candles.  She is fascinated about shea butter, didn’t realize that it came from a tree, and we were surprised how well she can pour without spilling.

We will be sorry to see Clara go, but look forward to when she decides to visit back.  She can definitely stay on our couch then.

The Canandaigua Art and Music Festival is once again going on until Sunday, July 18th, 10am to 6pm.  There’s plenty of artists, including our own Karen Miller painting her beautiful watercolors.  Main Street looks great with incredible vendor booths including Maple sugar cotton candy, jewelry, music, and T-shirts bearing this year’s poster.

Painting of Canandaigua City Hall by J. Jackowetz

We’ve also been busy with our 100% soy candles, including our new soy votive candles.  Mango is still our scent of the month, including our luscious foaming body scrub, and other natural bath and body products such as our lotions.

Here are some more photos to share.

Full store of goodies!

New Reed Diffuser bottles! Choose your bottle and your scent.

An amazing shot by Allie Morris.

Festival when it was just beginning, with an overcast of clouds.

We hope to see you in our store soon, if you stop by, try our foaming body scrub!  Our hot seller for the summer.

Hello friends! June has come and go so quickly and now it’s time for outdoor BBQs, fireworks, swimming and campfires. Get outside, take a walk down Main Street and see what July has to offer.

New Summer Scents

We now have three new scents available only in the summer.  Mango, Summer Melon, Pina Colada, and Lime Mint are fresh and bright, perfect for any summer occasion.  Mango which is July’s Scent of the Month is a tropical fruit sensation, sure to take you to the sunny clear beaches of the Caribbean.  Summer Melon is a luscious blend of papaya, mango, and melon, this cooling scent is great for fun in the sun.  Lime Mint is a refreshing blend of fresh lime and invigorating mint.  These scents are available only in the summer so grab yours now!  Pina Colada is the fresh pineapple and coconut explosion that will get you in the mood to dance at a luah.

Because of these great new scents we have Gift Sets for a limited time only.  Pick either Mango, Summer Melon or Lime Mint and you get a Body Lotion, Body Wash and Body Spray for the low price of $25!

Hello friends! June has come and go so quickly and now it’s time for outdoor BBQs, fireworks, swimming and campfires. Get outside, take a walk down Main Street and see what July has to offer.

Scent of the Month

July’s new Scent of the Month is sure to put you in the mood for hot weather. Mango is an exotic fruit sensation. Whether you get to go on a tropical vacation this summer or not, Mango is sure to take you to the crystal clear beaches of the Caribbean with an icy cold drink in your hand. Mango is available only in the summer so make sure to get yours fast!

Shop online or come in and visit our store to get Mango products for you and everyone you know. With 100% soy candles, shea butter lotions, olive oil soaps, and other fine products, all at 25% off.

Mango 25% off July Only!

Canandaigua Wine Walk

Enjoy the finest Finger Lakes wine in our region, or maybe a sampling of other famous wines, all while walking historic Canandaigua!  Merchants, including apparel, gift stores, art galleries and restaurants are proud to introduce you to Canandaigua Wine Walk. Grab a commemorative wine glass for $5 at any participating merchant, sample wines from Finger Lakes Wineries, and explore historic Canandaigua.   This month Wick-edly Sent is having Imagine Moore Winery in our store, Saturday, July 3rd from 4-7pm. For more info on Wine Walk click here.

Art and Music Festival in Downtown Canandaigua!

The Best Festival around for Art and Music, the Canandaigua Art and Music Festival proves to bring in a crowd! Keep the date: Friday, July 16-Sunday, July 18th! Sign Up for our Newsletter to Keep informed of events and happenings! New hours for the 2010 Festival: Friday, 12pm – 8pm, Saturday & Sunday, 10am – 6pm. For more info and to sign up for a booth, or your band, visit www.canandaiguaartfestival.com and read the blog at http://canandaiguaartandmusicfestival.wordpress.com/

New Summer Scents and Gift Sets

We now have three new scents available only in the summer.  Mango, Summer Melon and Lime Mint are fresh and bright, perfect for any summer occasion.  Because of these great new scents we have Gift Sets for a limited time only.  Pick either Mango, Summer Melon or Lime Mint and you get a Body Lotion, Body Wash and Body Spray for the low price of $25!

Free Candle Winner: Cindy Wade

Congratulations on winning a free Candle. Call us at 585-394-5260 to arrange pick up or free shipping today.

Coupon: julyfireworks

Enter this on our website, or announce it in person to receive 10% off your purchase. Sale or Scent of the Month products not included in this offer.

What’s New:

• Soy Candle Tins which you can include in our 3 for $10 deal.  Combine Soy Candles with Olive Oil Soaps or Bath Salts.
• Smelly Jellies are back!
• Wick-edly Bugged Natural Insect Repellent Spray is back!  Ward off those pesky mosquitos with the power of lavender, peppermint, and citronella essential oils.

Hope to see or hear from you soon,

Don

Wick-edly Sent Soap and Candle Company
94 South Main Street
Canandaigua, NY 14424
585-394-5260
http://www.escentedcandle.com
info@escentedcandle.com

It’s amazing.  This is an order that Shawna (thanks for the photo) is working on for Sonnenberg Gardens Mansions.  Rose soap is exclusive there, because of their Rose Garden.  That is just one of the exquisite gardens.

It's Not Fudge

We do have other new soaps as well that we will be posting here on our blog.

The soaps are available in two sizes.  Our 7 oz size is a quite a handful, great as gifts or for people who can’t make it in our store often.  They last a very long time, especially if you keep it in a dish that let’s it drain.

If there is a shop or place that you think will be a good fit for our olive oil soap, soy candles, or any of our products, please let us know.

Thanks! 585-394-5260

I recently did a presentation to a Scientific Group at the Holloway House Restaurant in Bloomfield, NY.  The presentation was about the dangers of carcinogens, something that’s found in every day products that people use.

The Holloway House Restaurant

First of all, I am not the type to scare the living daylights to people, and I didn’t want to come off as the natural “know it all”, so I knew this presentation had to be lighthearted (hence the name of this post).  I was aware that this group (by their name) knew something about science, and decided to start with a fun quiz.  Fun, meaning that mass produced products that we all know have carcinogens and some items that you may think have carcinogens do not.

1. True or False: For instance, Dove Beauty Bar, that’s 99% water but the other 1% includes quaternium 15 and formaldehyde, which are known carcinogens.  True.

2. True or False: Johnson’s Baby Shampoo contains carinogens as well as irritants to the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes.  True.
Try our pure castile soap, made with 80% Olive Oil and unscented great for babies!

3. True or False: Sodium Laureth Sulfate and Sodium Lauryl Sulftate is high in carcinogens by itself.  False.  While these are not carcinogens by itself, it is usually teamed up with other ingredients that are (we avoid the two because it is high skin irritant, known to cause hair loss and other bad stuff).  We use a coconut based surfactant that lathers up nicely without irritating your skin.

4. True or False: Talcum Powder, Talc, the main ingredient is a carcinogen that increases the risk in ovarian cancer.  True.  Use corn starch instead.  Right now, our company doesn’t make either, but I thought it was good to know this.

5.  True or False: Soot from candles is a dangerous carcinogen.  False.  The soot in candles are not harmful, it is composed primarily of elemental carbon particles and is similar to the soot given off by kitchen toasters and cooking oils.  At Wick-edly Sent we offer 100% soy candles (no paraffin or  petroleum by products); pure soy candles burn cleaner and better for the environment.

The scientific club was pleased with my presentation.  I’d looked at the clock and only twenty minutes had passed–ugh, I thought.  Ten more minutes left.  I asked if there were any questions and prayed that they wouldn’t have me recite the periodic table.  There were quite a few questions, including questionable ingredients in room fresheners, benefits of essential oils and aromatherapy, and one particular warning from a cautious woman that cornstarch powder is bad for yeast infections (oh well, we don’t carry that anyway, I reminded her).

Overall, the presentation went well.  I hoped it was good enough and realized that my tension was really unnecessary.  Everyone was drinking and having a grand ole’ time.  The questions were minimal, they appreciated my presentation and really liked all the samples of soap that I’d given out.

So carcinogens are important in some way.  They bring people together, and open doors to small business owners like me, who is somehow a superhero in a world of itchy skin, petroleum by-products, and chemicals that have no business entering your bloodstream.

Greetings, summer is finally here and has brought beautiful weather!  It’s time to get outside, go exploring and enjoy the warm sunshine.  No matter what you decide to do, summer is sure to keep you in a good mood and out of the house.

June’s new Scent of the Month goes perfectly with the new summer weather.  Summer Melon is a luscious blend of papaya, mango, and melon, this cooling scent is great for fun in the sun.

Shop online or come in and visit our store to get Summer Melon products for you and everyone you know.  With 100% soy candles, shea butter lotions, olive oil soaps, and other fine products, all at 25% off.

Summer Melon 25% off June only!

Teacher’s Gifts

We also have great, affordable gifts for end of the school year teacher’s gifts.  We have gift baskets, soap gift sets, and much more to say thanks to that great teacher you know, all in scents that they are sure to love.  Remember, we do Nationwide Shipping, so order now via online or by phone toll free 1-888-467-WICK (9425).  Ask about our Free Shipping Special, or flat rate soap shipping.

Free Candle Winner: Anne R. Martin

Congratulations on winning a free Candle.  Call us at 585-394-5260 to arrange pick up or free shipping today.

Coupon: junebug

Enter this on our website, or announce it in person to receive 10% off your purchase.  Sale or Scent of the Month products  not included in this offer.

What’s Coming:

• New scents for our soy candles, new jars, and great deals to include in (3 for $10) specials section in our store.
• New lip balm with SPF factor (thanks to all our friends who requested it)
• New Massage Oils

Hope to see or hear from you soon,

Don

Wick-edly Sent Soap and Candle Company
94 South Main Street
Canandaigua, NY 14424
585-394-5260
http://www.escentedcandle.com
info@escentedcandle.com