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Dear Soap Opera Fans,

This year I will be embarking on a cycling journey from Toronto to Niagara Falls to raise money for Cancer research.  This will be my second year participating in this amazing event.  In order to reach my goal of $2,500 I will need all the support I can get.  If you could help me out with this I would be forever grateful.  Every little bit helps, no donation is too small.   I promise that after I ride my bike from Toronto to Niagara Falls you can all bounce coins off my buns-of-steel and I also promise to crack all your walnuts with my rock hard thighs! 

Here is a link to my personal page.  I am riding in loving memory of my grandfather and two of my childhood friends that have tragically lost their lives to cancer.  Contribute to this history-making event with a donation. Funds raised in The Ride to Conquer Cancer will support breakthrough research, exemplary teaching, and compassionate care at The Princess Margaret, one of the top 5 cancer research centres in the world.  I greatly appreciate any donations that I receive.  Thank you for taking the time to read my page, and thank you for the support!

Sincerely;
~Virginia

Well, Halloween has come and gone again, and pretty soon the jolly fat man will be on his merry little way (and I am of course talking about Santa Claus, not Dom Deluise)  Have you been naughty or nice this year?  Regardless of how you’ve acted, we have the perfect gifts for those both naughty AND nice on your shopping list.  Tis the season to fight the cold weather by crawling into a  bubblebath with a hot chocolate and baileys, and The Soap Opera is your one stop shop for everything hot and bubbly.  Enjoy!

Happy Halloween everybody!  We are working on some interesting brews here at The Soap Opera.  Check out our variety of Spooky Halloween soaps.  They will scare the dirt right off your hands! 

Summer is in full swing at The Soap Opera.  Stop by and get your summer soaps so sweet they’re almost good enough to eat!  We’ll be celebrating one of the worlds greatest vegetables the Potato on August 5th 6th and 7th for the 38th annual Alliston Potatoe Festival.  Come by and enjoy the parade and sidewalk sale.  For further information about the Potato Festival follow CLICK HERE!

Good Riddance Winter!  Spring is here, and it’s time to do a little spring cleaning.  What better way then to pamper yourself with some  Soap Opera goodies?  Give your dry skin a much need drink… and while your at it, give yourself a Pina Colada, you deserve it! 

I know we haven’t blogged in a LONG time.  Christmas snuck up on me and clubbed me over the head and kept me hostage in it’s dank basement until I was able to break free after New Year.  So, Happy New Year everyone, we have a brand spanking new blog, and here it is.  Nikki wrote this one, so please pretend you like it or she will will be sulky and insufferable for ever.  Enjoy!

Yep. The ”blahs” are here. Holidays are over, most of us cooped up inside dreaming of tropical beaches. Unless of course, you’re one of those silly ”outdoorsy” types that like winter activities. Either way, we all have one common problem. Dry skin. In winter, low temperatures, low humidity and strong, harsh winds rob skin of its natural lipid layer, which keeps the skin from drying out. The dry air from furnaces and other heating sources also suck the moisture out of skin. To keep skin soft and supple, your goal is not to add moisture to skin, but to keep moisture in. Here are a few tips we’ve picked up along the way.

Keep Water Lukewarm, Not Hot. Hot water robs skin of moisture, so it’s best to shower in lukewarm water. If you can’t bear this rule — I can’t — try to keep your showers short and try showering only once per day. This also means skipping hot tubs (another rule I simply cannot bear). The hot, hot temperature, combined with drying chemicals, is torture on dry skin.

Moisturize After Showers or Hand Washing. Moisture is the key to soft, supple skin. Apply product when skin is slightly damp. For best effect, pat skin dry instead of rubbing with your towel before application. Our pure whipped shea butter is an absolute dream for thirsty skin.

Exfoliate on a Weekly or Semi-Weekly Basis. Moisturizer is much more effective on properly exfoliated skin. Use a sugar scrub in the shower and exfoliate your face with a mild facial scrub.

And finally,  Skip the Drying Soaps! Commercial soap can be drying. Stick with a creamy moisturizing cleanser that contains glycerin or goats milk, which all of yummy our soaps are chock full of.

Also coming to the site asap.  Bath melts, which are lovely little treats full of cocoa butter and fruit extracts, decadent melt in hand massage bars, and our new line of mineral shadow and lipsticks, finally!

Also, next weekend Nikki and I will be getting glammed up with S.W.A.K cosmetics and Shot by the lovely Dana Brushette, to show all of you just what S.W.A.K can do!    Keep an eye on the site for our pictures! And I SWEAR I will put up the S.W.A.K page soon.  Thanks for your continuing patience.

Love:

~The Soap Sisters

Pssssssssst…….. Don’t get your girlfriend THIS for Valentine’s day, she wants some Soap.  Believe us. 

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Love DOESN’T stink at the Soap Opera!  Valentines day is just around the corner, don’t get caught with your pants down (figuratively speaking, of course)  Get Ye to the Soap Opera and buy your lover some delicious handcrafted body care products today!

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Hello All.

We are in a real dilly of a pickle here at the Shop.  We are about to launch our mineral makeup line on the web.  We have been making and wearing our own makeup for quite some time and it has been available for purchase in the shop since last summer.  We decided that mineral makeup was the way to go after we started researching some of the absolutely disgusting and down right degradable ingredients that were going into the overpriced commercial makeup we were using before.  Ingredients such as human foreskin, whale vomit, bird poop, bull semen, snail secretions, SHEEPS PLACENTA!!!  Seriously, do the research for yourself, I couldn’t make that stuff up.  It makes me want to barf until I am dead.  Here is one of MANY articles that will open your eyes to what you are putting on your eyes.

Whats in YOUR makeup?

Needless to say, after we learned about the harsh and reppulsive ingredients that are in commercial makeup, we opted for a more natural, less disgusting solution.   Originally we were going to call our makeup line “Snooks Cosmetics” after our sweet and loving granny.  Snooks was her nickname and we adored her to bits.  This was our way of paying homage to a great great lady.  However this is where we run into a bit of a problem.  We are afraid that people will associate Snooks, with Snookie from Jersey Shore.  Urban dictionary describes Snookie best as a “4’9″ umpalumpa on Jersey Shore best known for being punched in the face”.  This is NOT the image we want people conjuring up when they hear “Snooks”.  The thought that somebody will confuse my sweet and innocent granny with a drunken, over-tanned skank, really gets my blood boiling.  So we thought of another name “S.W.A.K Cosmetics”.  S.W.A.K stands for Sealed With A Kiss (In case you didn’t know) and it was this word that granny printed on the envelope of every birthday card and letter she ever sent us.  She would also draw three tiny balloons with smiley faces.  It was completely and utterly adorable.   We have decided to put it to a vote, what do you like best?  Snooks or S.W.A.K?  THAT is the question.  We look forward to your responses.  Oh yeah and only  45 days 23 hours and 35 minutes left until Christmas, but who’s counting?

Whale Vomit….Seriously!

~The Soap Sisters

R.I.P Snooks, we miss you every day!

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