Gift Giving B&B the Handmade Way!

Well, well, well, finally we're dusting off the blog after the Holidays, and starting the New Year (Happy New Year!!) but I'm doing so with a post related to the Holidays, and all the gift giving that goes on.


I have a pretty good stock of B&B products, cause I usually either buy some extra stuff to have handy in case I need to put a gift together, or buy it with an intended person on mind, or use the extras I get sometimes on packages to give as gifts!


This Holidays, I realized it would be a good idea to put together a lil gift for my older nephew's girlfriend, something for my sis-in-law and while I was at it, I realized I needed something for my friends Irene and Gema too... So, I started thinking, and decided to grab a few of the B&B goodies I have around, and get them in assorted into gift baskets. Since I had no baskets around the house, I got some plastic/poly containers (the ones you get with food/fruit) and some nice wrapping paper, and voilá! I got three lovely gift sets!


This is the one I made for Laura, my nephew's girlfriend:




A Spa Therapy body lotion, a Right As Rain Lavender Happy Feet cream, a soy candle from Mrs Tattooed Geek (Etsy shop closed), a cupcake bath fizzy from My Other Princess (she's closed shop too, I'm gonna be hoarding my stash from now on!), one of Sweet Petula's mini soaps and a Spa Therapy lip balm!


This is the one I made for my friend Irene:




A Spa Therapy body mist, the must have Lavender Happy Feet cream from Right As Rain (her Peppermint cream is brilliant too!), the Pink Champagne soap from Two Rivers Soaps, a Spa Therapy bath melt, a cupcake bath fizzy from My Other Princess, a soy candle from Mrs Tattooed Geek and a Body Language Soaps lip balm!


And here you can see my sis-in-law opening her package and my friend Gema's face of surprise and delight when she saw hers!






Proof that giving handmade is always the right answer!

CLOSED!!!!!!!SUPER HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! Self-Inflicted DIY Bath and Body gift basket!

***this giveaway has been closed**

I have been so excited about this giveaway for some time now, ever since I talked to Heather about doing it.  The time has FINALLY arrived! This is YOUR chance to WIN a huge gift basket of awesome bath and body products from one of my FAVORITE sellers, Self-Inflicted DIY! And you wannt know what I am totally JEALOUS about? tons of the stuff I WANT TO KEEP! It is killing me, but I am so excited that I get to share the love with our readers here at Two Girls!

Heather startted making soaps and bath products a little over a year ago, and Pili and I already loved her from DIY Scene.  So it was just the next step for me to try out some of this soap she was yakking about. WELL, lemme tell you what. I am not one to be completely sold on a product from the get-go.  This time it was different.  I am being completely honest that I have only once used something OTHER then her soap on Gory since the day he was born.  Once.  For a week.  Never again.

When Gory was diagnosed with contact dermatitis, and eczema, the doctor was actually AMAZED with how LITLE of his skin was actually flaking off.  She told me that I should be using oatmeal soap, and I told her about Self-Inflicted, and even SHE was amazed! It works wonders on Gory's skin, on my skin, hell- we are just a Self-Inflicted family!

Greg and I worked on compiling a list of why we love her soap so darn much.  Here is what we came up with:

Heather creates the soaps in small batches, and that ensures that all her soap is mixed really well, and evenly.  We have purchased soaps from other shops, and sometimes, you can tell the ingredients have settled weird, or unevenly. NEVER with Self-Inflicted. They are always perfect.

The scents she has are AMAZING! If you want to know what Gory smells like, seriously, grab a bar of her Vanilla Bean.  Yep, that is what he smells like! Like a little vanilla cupcake! Greg SWEARS it is the only soap he will use for Gory, and Greg really cannot STAND any of my DIY stuff.  THis is the only product he loves.  So I guess it is husband approved! ;)

She has amazing customer service, and will work with you if you have any special requests, or concerns.  All her products are handmade with lots of love, and all ingredients are vegan.  So no animals were hurt in the making of your soap, or it's components!

It is amazing for sensitive skin, even WITH the scent! Both Gory and I have SEVERLY sensitive skin, and her soaps are VERY fragrant, and neither one of us has EVER had a problem, nor has anyone that I have given her soap to. 

So, on with the giveaway! Heather has so generously given us a large collection of amazing products for us to give to one lucky reader! You will have a few ways to enter, and the more entires you have, the better your chance is to win!

Included in the giveaway package are as follows:

1 bottle of Vanilla Buttercream Bubble Bath
1 large snowflake Oatmeal soap in Drunken Christmas
10 Mini Olive Oil Soaps in Drunken Christmas
1 Soy Wax candle in a decorative Snowman Mug in Maple Pecan scent
*with a tag that is completely recycled, and contains flower seeds in it! Just plant the ENTIRE tag in the spring, and you have a ready, made garden!
1 Croched Bath Sets in Tan made from Organic Cotton
(this includes 1 drawstring Soap Saver bag, 1 Washcloth and 5 Face cloths)

I have packed all of these goodies in a cute round peppermint candy box! Perfect for a gift FOR YOURSELF!  Seriously, the winner will not want to give this away, bellieve me!

Want to win? Here are the ways you can enter!
*leave a seperate comment for each entry, please!

Head on over to Self_inflicted DIY's Etsy shop.  Take a look around, and come back here, and leave a comment telling us what item YOU would love from Santa under your tree this year!
This entry must be completed first, or all other entries will not count!

Heart Self-Inflicted SIY's shop on Etsy, and leave your Etsy name as a comment.
Follow Self-Inflicted on Twitter
Follow Self-Inflicted's blog
Follow Two Girls and a Bar of Soap blog publicly.
Make a purchase from Self-Inflicted and recieve 5 extra entires! Leave one comment PER entry!


Tweet about the giveaway! Up to 4 tweets per day allowed, come back and leave a comment linking to each tweet!

Win a bath and body gift basket from 2 Girls blog and @self_inflicted full of tons of smelly goodies! http://bit.ly/8mrafl #giveaway #Etsy

This contest is open worldwide. The giveaway ends December 18 at 8PM CST.  Winner will be chosen via a random number generator, and will be notified promptly.  Winner will have 24 hours to respond, or another winner will be chosen.

Worthy Soy Candle - Travel Sized Tin Candles!

This blog has been a bit abandoned as of late... But life has been hectic, even more for Brooke than for me, so the blogging fun takes a back seat sometimes.

But, today I'm having a day off and I've felt like blogging again, so decided that it was about time that I updated our blog!

Today's entry is gonna be about Soy Candles, and specifically about the amazing Travel Sized Tin Candles that the awesome Erica from Worthy Soy Candles custom made for me!

I love having tin candles for when I'm going on trips, they're safer than regular candles, since they burn inside the tin, so it's more rare that they would cause a fire in the room, and they're mess free!: take the lid off, lit candle, enjoy; and if it doesn't burn all in one go, you just have to put the candle out, put the lid on and toss it back into your luggage!

I went looking all around Etsy for travel size tin candles, and I found myself with very FEW options, for one, I wanted a small size, like 2 oz tins, and... I barely could find any sellers that would ship to Spain... I was a bit bummed, but I then I thought about asking Erica from Worthy Soy Candles.

I had bought a sample set of her tea light soy candles before, and I loved the scents and how cleanly they burnt, and I know she's willing to ship to Spain. So I decided to ask her if she was thinking of adding travel tin candles to her shop. Erica said it was on her to-do list, but she didn't know when she'd get at it, but if I wanted, she could work on a custom order for me.

YAY! I went over her scent list and tried to pick just 4... I managed, but wow, she has such a huge list of scents available it was very hard narrowing it to just 4!

When the package arrived it smelt so well! No need to open it or look at the label to know what it was! Even the postman commented on how well that package smelt! And the box looked so cute too!

I got my 4 2oz travel tin candles in Plumeria, Ocean Breeze, Rain Water and Moon Lake Musk. And I also got me a sample size Earth Angel tea light.

Both Ocean Breeze and Rain Water have that calming, soothing scent, that reminds you of the shea shore, or a rainy day. They are really clean and refreshing scents.

Plumeria is a bit of a more girly scent, and also a vacation scent, since the smell of this tropical flower can transport you to the tropics and the beach!

And Moon Lake Musk is avery alluring, enticing scent, absolutely perfect for a romantic getaway or a romantic night!

I really can't wait to try them all on my next trip!