2009 Summer Staff

It is a great place to be in the store with all the positive energy from these three. Come visit us and meet Shirley-Anne (named after Anne Shirley), Emmanuelle, and Anna.

4H group for 2009

This year we had 7 two legged kids in the 4H group. They have a project book to complete.

We build a shed for the goats to stay outside.

They learnt to cut hooves.

They learnt how to clip hair.

Lots of Pictures of People and Kids

Joan and Andy from BC. Thank you for stopping in I had a nice visit with you.

Kids and kids.

Ginger and Pepper 1 hour old.

Ginger and Pepper born 8:30 Saturday morning June 27th.

Shirley-Anne and Basil. Gerty had one boy.

Basil getting his first bottle.

Natalie and Alfalfa

Natalie has been with us for 3 week. She is a super person and a great helper.

Yesterday at the lunch table we had 3 people from China, and 3 people from Quebec.

I'm enjoying having everybody here and all the help.

Alfalfa has arrived!

Yesterday around 4:00 Alfalfa arrived with a little help. His one leg was bent backwards. Mom and baby are both doing great.

Nancy!

Nancy won the draw in May. She is from Ontario and came to the store today with her friends. Ohhh, she told me her friend's names a few times but do you think I can remember? It was wonderful to see Nancy.

Woodpecker Video

This is a video of Jordan sneaking up on the woodpecker. It is worth the wait to see the woodpecker. You can also hear the noise we hear from morning until night. He started at 4:30 this morning. Does anybody know why he likes the ladder so much?

Em

Also, Katie will be doing much of the blogging this summer.

A Sewing Group

This is a sewing group that came to our soap shop and fed the goats, smelled the soap, and watched our demonstration. They saw the fish and had a wonderful day at The Great Canadian Soap Company. I hope that they come again!

Katie

Closer Shot of Woodpecker

Full Time Pecking

On Tuesday, I went to take a picture of this woodpecker. He is pecking at the ladder from morning to night. Talk about full time pecking. Although I checked on the ladder that he is working on, he seems to be getting nowhere. I guess it will be a summer job unless he gives up or wears his beak out.

Katie

Unexpected Visitors

One hot summer day the fish got two unexpected visitors. The first was the cat that was interested in swimming and also supper. The second was Grace who just wanted a drink of water. But in the end we still have all 10 fish. Thank goodness!

April`s Winner

This is Emily; she is April’s newsletter contest winner. Emily lives in Brackley Beach and is the first one to comment on our soap on our online store. We would like it if you did the same! Just go to your favorite products and click on 'write a review' at the bottom of the page, then write your how the soap makes you feel. Thanks!

Toni, Dean and the Lobsters

We had lobster one of the last days Toni and Dean were here. It was the first time they had lobster. They did a lot of work while they were here and we thank them for gardening and cleaning out the goat pen!

Bath Therapy

Bath Therapy
Bathing has been a revered ritual for thousands of years. Cleopatra was known for taking soothing milk baths; Marie Antoinette for taking long, luxurious herbal soaks; the Romans for enjoying public, social baths; and the First Nations for their purifying sweat lodge experience followed by a quick plunge into a cold stream or river.

A bath is a wonderful way to pamper, soothe, rejuvenate, and refresh the senses. Taking a bath can also create some much-needed private time to luxuriate in skin conditioning waters.

Healing treatments can be incorporated into the bathing ritual, too. Health spas the world over offer mineral baths in hot springs, sulphur waters and clay used to remove impurities from the skin. Various herbal and salts are also enjoyable for their fragrant, soothing, and therapeutic benefits.

Whether you’re interested in soaking away your tired, aching muscles and daily tensions; stimulating you circulation; softening your dry skin; or enjoying calming waters laced with lavender, rose and chamomile essential oils; these products are sure to please. Shower fanatics beware. Try a few of these tub-tantalizing mixtures and you may become a true bath lover after all!

Please note warm baths are the best. The hotter the water the quicker the volatile essential oils dissipate into the air and lose their healing qualities. Hot water also dehydrates your skin – and that’s not the desired result of all this bathing bliss!

New Products
Skin Softening Tub Tea
This tub tea does wonders for dry, itchy, scaly skin and skin suffering from any poison plant rash or general dermatitis.
Ingredients: ground sunflower, ground oatmeal

Stimulating Herbal Tub Tea
This tub tea is the perfect pick-me-up to use prior to going out for a night on the town. It stimulates the circulation and enlivens the senses while softening the skin.
Ingredients: peppermint leaves, rosemary, basil, lemon rind, orange rind, oatmeal, sunflower

Garden Of Flowers Relaxing Tub Tea
This tub tea was created for the flower gardener in all of us. There’s nothing quite like bathing in a tub of floral fragrance. This is soothing to the psyche as well as the skin.
Ingredients: calendula, chamomile, lavender, rose, oatmeal, sunflower seed Essential Oil of lavender and rose Fragrance Oil.

Sore Muscles Tub Tea
This tub tea helps relax tense, sore muscles yet doesn’t leave you smelling of a medicinal vapour rub. The aroma will soothe frayed nerves but won’t lull you to sleep.
Ingredients: chamomile, peppermint, lavender, oatmeal, sunflower seeds

Achy Joints Tub Tea
This tub tea helps on days when the joints are stiff and sore. The warm water and the benefits of Lavender, Rosemary and Eucalyptus will ease achy joints.
Ingredients: lavender, rosemary, oatmeal, sunflower, Essential Oils of lavender, rosemary and eucalyptus.

Green Tea and Jasmine Tub Tea
This tub tea detoxifies and nourishes your skin. The sweet fragrance of Jasmine is balancing and gentle.
Ingredients: green tea, rosemary needles, lavender buds Essential Oil of jasmine


All the Tub Teas work with the Bath Salts, Milk Baths and Body and Bath Oils. See our web site for all our bathing products. http://www.greatcanadiansoap.com/

Toni and Dean

Toni is from New Zealand and Dean is from England. They started in BC and have been traveling for the last year across Canada. We have had some nice sunny days and they have been getting lots of farm work done. The goats' pen is cleaned; that took 3 days. Many trees came down over the winter and all of the brush is getting burnt. In the process we are clearing land to build another pen for the goats. One more month to go and we will have kids running around.