Way back in the summer, well August to be precise, Tiggy of Future Primitive sent me a package containing two soaps for me to try out. The first was her Potters Bar soap which I absolutely adore and will shortly be order some of. If you are a gardener and spend your time after a day in the gardener or on the allotment trying to get ingrained dirt out of your hands this is the soap for you. Plus she has cleverly incorporated something into the soap which rehyrdrates your hands; this is excellent as I find the skin on my hands really dries out when it has been in prolonged contact with the soil. You can read my review of the Potters Bar soap here.
The other soap she sent me was White Witch Artisan Soap. As the Potters Bar soap has lasted so long, though I have saved it for after gardening, I have only recently got around to opening the White Witch bar. I wish I had opened it sooner as it is just so luxurious with lovely creamy lather.
Tiggy is very clever in how she presents her soaps. They are wrapped in special paper with a simple thin card sleeve. They look quite unassuming but when you unwrap them, with a sense of increasing anticipation, you discover a beautiful handcrafted bar.
White Witch is Tiggy’s best-selling soap and is scented with Black Indonesian Patchouli and Bourbon Geranium. The scent lingers on your for some time after use and I have also noticed that I catch wafts of it as I go in and out of the bathroom – it is delightful.
So if you are looking for a gift for that difficult person to buy for go and check out Tiggy’s website – she also does Bathing Grains, Sugared Scrubs and Aromatic Oil and they are very reasonably priced especially when they last so long.
Like you I love handmade soaps too. Love the creaminess of them. Much nicer than commercial. I like to get them and give them as gifts too.
Hi Helen, Myra is off to order your recommended Potters bar soap. Offended,! never, I am paranoid, definitely not sensitive. In fact I was just thinking, The Paranoid Gardener has a good ring to it. Actually, I am part of a thoroughbred tribe in this area, I suspect the inbreeding, um I mean selective breading has kept loads of us short. Not exactly a dwarf, I have nothing against dwarfs, but I am taller than Allan Ladd, oh, your too young to remember him. I guess I am more akin to a mature Tom Cruise, whose that laughing.
Thanks for the timely reminder Helen. I see that Future Primitive sell plants too