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Seattle Sundries
  I'm going to be trying out some new scent combinations today in a batch of soap and I've been thinking about how I've learned some things over the past 17+ years regarding soap scents. When I started in the...
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Seattle Sundries
Nellie Curtis was an interesting woman. She ran a brothel out of the LaSalle Hotel in Pike Place Market for about 10 years during and after WWII. It was reportedly visited by some pretty important public figures from the Seattle...
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Seattle Sundries
We've all wracked our brains for unusual gifts, haven't we? Where creativity meets practicality, you'll find our Sweater Sets. So practical that it echoes my grandmother's clever knack for waste reduction; she'd save slivers of soap bars in an old...
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Seattle Sundries
I have been wrestling lately with the issue of palm oil. WHAT issue with palm oil, you say? It's ridiculously complex, and I'm not joking when I say that sometimes it keeps me awake at night pondering how I should deal with it...
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