Sea salt in your soap?

I am a bath addict.  I would take one every night if I could.  Most nights, I can and do.  Bath salts are one of my true life savers.  You know, the sprinkly kind of deliciously scented bath salts you scoop into the tub and let dissolve while you soak all the stress headaches, pains and anxiety away.  Even the sound of the salt chunks hitting the water is soothing to me. 

So, I wondered.... what about sea salt in soap?  I have to admit, I found this concept rather strange but I had to try it.  A few weeks of researching, testing and designing bring us to...THESE BEAUTIES!

Green Apple, Lemon and Pomegranate Sea Salt Shea Butter Soap
www.fairycute.com

The salt adds a beautiful texture to the glycerin soap and acts as somewhat of a buffer.  To combat any kind of dryness, I added a beautiful shea butter base behind the coloured layers.  Perfect combo of smoothing and moisturizing ingredients.  Try it and see!  If you don't love it...I'll take it back and keep it for myself!  ;)

Fruity Cute #1

Now that I'm (kind of) coming down from my royal wedding high, I've been back in the kitchen with lots of yummy, fruity fragrance oils and dreaming up some new soap designs.  It also helps that it is getting inspiringly (yes, that's a word) warm outside and summer is upon us here in Phoenix, Arizona.  My husband and I are massive sweet tooths (sweet teeth? ) and love desserts - maybe a little too much.  Figured I'd make one of our favourite desserts in soap form!  So here's the first in the 2011 Fruity Cute series...Lemon Meringue Pie!

Lemon Meringue Pie Soap
By Fairy Cute

The coolest part about this soap?  It really, truly smells like the real thing...right down to the crust.  Delicious...and completely calorie free!  Now if only we had Smell-a-vision...