Two Ewes Bath & Body Blog

It seems like summer was a lot of preparation, for school, fall, winter, summer is the time to relax, refuel and get ready to start all over again. It makes you wonder why New Year's is in January!

This year was no exception for us at Two Ewes. We got to play with some of our favorite summer scents - blueberry garden, and pineapple cilantro, and as fall rolls around and the leaves start to loosen, we prepare for a new season. School starting marks CranApple Cider, Peppermint, and all of our other favorite scents. This winter season will see us with Angel Wings, along with Cranberry Yuzu for a sweet wintry kick, Arctic Raspberry in select locations, as well as a few others, just in time for a great Christmas season.

Needless to say, the soap studio is already smelling great, and we can't wait to share our new scents with you!

It's been forever since we've updated, but that's just because so much is going on! We're in the final testing stages for shampoos and conditioners, as well as our essential oil based BUG OFF spray, and *finally* - after years of research we have released our mineral makeups to the marketplace!

So, let's talk about that, shall we? It all started when we started comparing foundation ingredients. And realized that we couldn't pronounce most of them. So after a lot of testing, we offer our own versions! I mean really? Who can't pronounce our My Lady Fair Foundation Ingredients: Titanium Dioxide, Corn Starch, Zinc Oxide, Mica, Iron Oxides, Ultramarines. Or our Peaches & Cream Foundation: Titanium Dioxide, Corn Starch, Zinc Oxide, Kaolin Clay, Mica, Iron Oxides. Every single ingredient is easy to understand, and the zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are considered to be great for sun protection, and who doesn't need some extra protection from the environment and free radicals in a makeup that's easy to apply and easy to understand.

To close, here's our application instructions, which are included with each foundation: To Apply: Using a short bristled dense brush, dip into foundation, swirl into side of baggie to tuck the foundation into the bristles, tap off excess inside bag, and apply to face in a circular motion. Coverage can be increased with additional layers of foundation.

We hope you love them as much as we do!

.. and crane season is here! What does that mean? Well, in the middle of Nebraska we get to experience something pretty neat - the sandhill crane migration. Every March/April marks thousands of these pretty (and big!) birds coming through and stopping to rest up while they munch on the leftover corn in the fields prior to planting.

In Alda, Nebraska they actually have a nature center where they conduct tours, and teach people about what they're looking for, what they're looking at, and a little bit more about this species that has survived for thousands of years. Needless to say, should you stop at the Crimson Crane gift shop, you'll also find Two Ewes Bath & Body products, made just for bird season - Platte River Sunrise and Nebraska Sunflowers are definite regional treats! Stop. Watch. Enjoy. We love to have visitors at this time of year who get to appreciate some of what makes Nebraska unique.

This is my new favourite ever all time scent. Now don't get me wrong, typically I love everything I make, every scent has its own nuances and whiff-y goodness. But I swear I could slather this stuff on every day for a year and never get tired of it.

Sweet vanilla, delicate citrus and an amber base note just combine into this rich, sweet scent, and come on - Cleopatra herself swore by amber as a perfume to entice and seduce! Mix the lust of amber with the passion of ripe citrus fruits in the tropics and top it off with the sweetest dessert ever and you have True Love my friends!

You bet I've got a bottle of this lotion in my purse - it's to die for!

Now don't get me wrong, to make bath and body products you have to be willing to do math. You need to know percentages, and ounces, and work it all out so that everything fits neatly into little jars and bottles and looks pretty and works great.

But usually, I like to make lotion in big batches, pour it all into a big four gallon jug and pump them out as needed to scent and color. Well, today I figured I'd make lotion, and I have 18 bars of pineapple cilantro soap since I made a double batch to put out at several stores. And I figured, barring one lonely bottle of honeysuckle lotion, I'd make the entire batch into pineapple cilantro in my usual amount. And I stupidly didn't work out how many ounces my usual amount makes.

So.... 22 pineapple cilantro lotions are waiting to be labelled and wrapped, and I am shocked at how many bottles come out of one of my batches of lotion, because I had to keep going back to get more bottles out of my bulk container!

The good news? I LOVE that scent and at least now I won't have to make more pineapple cilantro lotion for awhile! :)

So our latest project for fun was felted soaps! Basically you take pure wool, wrap it around some soap and rub it until the fibers loosen and attach to each other solidly, creating a felted soap! Yep, soap with its own washcloth that tightens as the soap gets used up, to eventually leave you with a cute little coin purse/pouch that is clean as a whistle!

Neat huh?

(P.S. It's Lemon Meringue.. totally not lemon meringue colors, but hey, it's felted so it's cool anyways!)

Flu, bronchitis, colds, we've had it all around here and we are DONE with that nonsense! Today, to celebrate our new love affair with orange juice and all things vitamin C related, we've got Cranberry Orange bath bombs curing! Pink and orange and totally delectable and perfect for winter, we will have pictures to come soon!

In other news, keep watching for our shampoos and conditioners to be sold on an ongoing basis - instead of just here and there as limited collections. The feedback has been great, and with our last wave of testing, we may be offering these things permanently!

Because we love our customers we will never offer you anything that's less than amazing, we promise! Soon and just in time for some sudsy winter fun!