Testers needed for our new facial products! *No More Testers Needed, Thank You!*

We are looking for some "outside" testers for our new line of all natural facial products. Our new products are a spin off of our popular Oatmeal, Milk, and Honey Mask and include "Strawberries and Cream Face Mask, Banana and Yogurt Facial Smoothie, and Cucumber and Chamomile Face Pack. We are looking for some very specific skin types to test these products. All we ask is that once you test the products you give us a thorough review and answer any questions we may ask about the product. Because we are looking for specific skin types, please email us at soap@wyldeivy.com and describe your skin. If your skin type fits what we are looking for, we will email you back for your address and for testing instructions. If you do not receive an email from us within 24 hours, it just means that you did not have the skin type we needed for our testing...not that we don't love you :) Thank you!

Our New Chocolate Soap has a Name!

Our new Chocolate Fatale soap is available for purchase!
Our entire production room smells of decadent dark chocolate! I was just cutting up a slab of our newest soap…a glorious blend of bitter dark chocolates. No wimpy “fake” chocolate scents here…this soap smells like the real deal. We live very near the town of Hershey, yes where the chocolate is made, and this soap smells like their factory! It is swirled with black cocoa powder and the soap contains both shea and cocoa butter along with rich coconut milk.
We need a name for this soap before its release on October 1st.…something catchy, something fun, but definitely something that reflects the pure dark chocolate aroma of this soap! Submit your suggestions via the comments tab below in addition to emailing them to soap@wyldeivy.com (this will help us avoid duplicate entries). You can enter as many times as you wish. We'll announce the winning name in next month's newsletter! Please note that this soap will turn all brown, as it ages. The golden center is fresh soap that was exposed as I cut.

Your favorite Wylde Ivy Products or Scents?

Let's hear from some of our customers! We are curious about your favorite scents or products from Wylde Ivy.

Intro

Who I am…
Well, I guess introducing myself and my company is a good first post. My name is Ashlee and I am the owner and creator of Wylde Ivy. I am 27 years old and live in Eastern Pennsylvania.

How Wylde Ivy was Born…..
I began tinkering with handmade soaps as I slowly became sensitive to all the major brands of soap and bodywash on the market. Little did I know what I was getting into! It took me quite awhile to come up with soap recipes that I was consistently happy with. Due to the vast amount of inaccurate information on both the web and in books, I’m afraid most of my learning in the beginning was through trial and error.

So, how did Wylde Ivy become a business? In talking about my hobby to my friends and clients (I own a hair salon as my day job), I peaked their interest. I kept getting asked to “bring out the soap” and “show us your soap”. People were asking me to sell them some. So, after some persuading, I managed to craft some very crude labels and my soap came out of storage for it’s first public debut.

Now, I would have been overjoyed to just sell a few of the fifteen assorted and misshapen bars that were sprawled out haphazardly on the shelf. Well, not only did I sell out of all fifteen bars, but also I had orders to boot! This is the way it went for several months. My soap traveled to my friends and families’ workplaces by the basket full and everyday an empty basket would come back with a list of orders.
So that was about the time I started to realize that this was turning into more then a hobby. My soap business needed a name. “How did you come up with your name?” is one the most asked questions that I hear. To be honest, I’m not really sure. It was during a brainstorming session with my husband that it just sort of popped out. I knew the type of image I wanted to portray, and since I love ivy….well there it was. Wild Ivy sounded good….but it looked way to boring to me. I pride myself on being different and wanted my business to be different as well. So we kicked out the “i” and added an “e”! Wylde Ivy was born!