New Release: Gift Bags - Gift Giving for Her

When it's time to spoil a special gal in your life, a pampering gift bag from Batty's Bath makes the perfect gift! These gift bags are now available in the online shop to make all your gift giving super easy!

Each bag is packed full of skin-loving and totally pampering goodies! No bag is ever the same, and it's the goodies you get will be a surprise every time!

Each bag contains $30 worth of Batty's Bath products. The products are packaged in a reusable, eco-friendly, cloth drawstrings bag! When you receive the gift bag it will be ready for gift giving - no more wrapping paper required!

Head over to the online shop on Etsy to snag a gift bag for you or something you love :)

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Turning Label Reading into a Nightmare

If you've been keeping up with my blog, you've read about ingredient labels (as they are right now), and about my opposition to the SCA (a bill currently proposed in the US). If you haven't been keeping up with my blog, have a look at those posts if you aren't already up-to-date with industry standards for labeling bath & body products and aren't aware of the SCA.

Today I wanted to show you what labels will look like if the SCA bill passes. The bill requires that trace elements be listed on every label. So for example, water on a label would look like this: "Aqua, Arsenic, Cadmium, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Silver, Zinc" (and depending on where you live, you'd also have to include caffeine, oral contraceptives and antibiotics in your water labeling requirement).

A bit over kill for "water" don't you think? ... and that's just ONE ingredient. Let's look at a product that has very few ingredients and see what the label for it would look like under the SCA.

For a lotion bar that contains Cocoa Buter, Olive Oil and Lavender Essential Oil, the label would go from having these 3 ingredients to looking like this:

Ingredients: Olive Oil (Tri-Glycerides of Palmitic, Di-Glycerides of Palmitic, Palmitoleic, Stearic, Oleic, Linoleic, Arachidic Acid, Linolenic Acid, Squalene, Beta Carotene, Campesterol, Methylenecholesterol, Stigmasterol, Sitosterol, Fucosterol, 28-Isofucosterol, Stigmadienol, Brassicasterol, 7-Cholestenol,Ergostadienol, Avenasterol, Triterpene Alcohols, Tirucallol, Taraxerol, Dammaradienol Beta-Amyrin Germanicol, Butyrospermol, Parkeol, Cycloartenol, Tirucalladienol, 24-Methlene 24-Dihydroparkeol, 24-Methlenecycloartanol, Cyclobranol, 4-Methyl Sterols, Esters of Tyrosol, Esters of Hydroxytyrosol, Vitamin E (Tocopherols), Carotenoids, Oleuropein) Cocoa Butter (Tri and Diglycerides of Stearic Acid, Palmitic Acid, Lead, Oleic Acid, Linoleic Acid, Isoleic Acid, Beta Carotene, p-Hydroxybenzoic Acid, Vanillic Acid, Ferulic Acid, Syringic Acid, Phenylehtylamine, Theophylline, Aliphatic Esters, Aromatic Carbonyls, Caffeine, Theobromine, Diketopiperazines and Alkylpryazines), Lavender Essential Oil ( Cineole Octanol, Octanone, Alpha Bisabolol, Alpha Cadinol, Alpha Humelene, Alpha Phellandrene, Apha Pinene, Alpha Terpinene, Alpha Terpineol, Alpha Terpinyl Acetate, Alpha Thujene, Alpha Thujone, Beta Bisabolol, Beta Pinene, Beta Thujone, Borneol, Bornyl Acetate, Camphene Camphor, Cineolealpha Terpineol, Carvone, Caryophyllene, Carophyllene Oxide, CIS Alpha Terpineol, CIS Alpha Bisabolene, CIS Carveol, CIA Linalol Epoxide, CIS Ocimene, Citronellal, Citronellol, Coumarine, Cuminaldehyde, Eugenol, Furfural, Geraniol, Geranyl Acetate, Geranyl Butyrate, Hexanol, Hexyl Tiglate, Isoborneol, Lavandulol, Lavandulyl Acetate, Limonene, Linanlol, Linalyl Acetate, Methyl Heptenone, Myrcene, Nerol, Neryl Acetate, Oleanolic Acid, P Cymene, Rosemarinic Acid, Sabinen, Terpinenol, Terpinolene, Trans Carveol, Trans Epoxy Linalyl Acetate, Trans Linanol Epoxide, Trans Ocimene, Ursolic Acid)

Now THAT'S over kill!!! Not only is this ridiculous, but having all those trace elements listed makes it a lot harder to quickly figure out what is in the lotion bar (note that the 3 basic ingredients wouldn't be bolded like they are above). Can you imagine reading through ALL those trace elements for this simple lotion bar? Now imagine what a label would look like for a product that has a lot more ingredients like my body butter! That would take up more room that I have on my blog! And I can't imagine trying to make a label for that... I would have to attach a booklet or scroll to the packaging!

The labeling issue is just one of the many problems with the proposed SCA. I've shared the other issues in a previous post and I invite you to have a look at it.

If you feel the way I do about this bill, please sign the petition and let the lawmakers know that you don't support a bill with so many problems!

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Local Gift Baskets Available from Batty's Bath

When it's time to spoil someone close to you, a gift basket from Batty's Bath makes the perfect gift! Each basket is customizable; pick your budget and suggest scents or products to make it a truly memorable and unique gift! Gift baskets can be made for any occasion such as birthdays or showers and can be made for anybody including men! We offer local pick up or delivery for gift baskets and can usually fill orders within 24 - 48 hours!

Stay on budget, stay on time and pamper someone special with a gift basket today!

Go to the Gift Baskets page at BattysBath.com and fill out the form to get started!

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Spooky Spider Ring Halloween Soap

Eeek! There's a spider in my soap bar! Oh wait, that's a new Halloween release from Batty's Bath and the spider is an awesome plastic ring!

Snag a bar for yourself and your Halloween loving friends because once the ghouls and goblins are gone, so are these bars!

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Creative Soap Week Feature

I'm so excited to tell you that I was featured on the Creative Soap Week website!!

Check out the full feature here.

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Spooky Things Have Started Arriving in the Shop!

Ghouls and goblins alike will love this skull soap bar! I bet you'll catch a few pirates with these bars in their bathrooms this year too!

Ensure that all the little goblins wash their hands before digging into their trick or treat bags, while impress grown up ghouls with this perfectly spooky guest soap!

There's no "bones" about it - these fish bone soaps are super cool and spooky! Their bodies are gone, these fish are full of Halloween spirit!





Hidden in this bar of soap is a spooky, forgotten secret! Turns out that this bar was cut from a skeleton grave yard! After carefully exorcising any bad spirits that might be ready to haunt any handmade soap lovers, I've released these bars as part of my special Halloween collection! ....... Ok, so I didn't really find a soapy skeleton graveyard or perform any soapy exorcisms but it didn't make for a good intro didn't it? :)

I have LOTS more Halloween inspired bath and body goodies to come so keep an eye on my online shop!

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MEGA BODY WASH SALE!

All body wash bottles are currently

marked down to $8 (from $10)!

Head over to my Etsy shop and stock up

now because this sale wont last for long!!!

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Batty's Bath Tub Essentials

Many of you know that soaking in the tub is part of my health regiment. I'm still hoping for a hot tub right in our living room (haha), but for now the good old tub is working just fine. Over the last few years I've really "perfected" my baths to be a relaxing and healing time for me - both physically and mentally - and there are a few things I can't bathe without. Here are my bath tub essentials!

1) A Good Book

Without a good book to read I can't sit in the tub for very long because my mind starts racing with all the things I should, could, or would do if I wasn't having to soak my bones! One of the ways that I help myself feel "productive" in the tub is to read. I usually read anything I can get my hands on, but when I'm in a really bad flare up, I need more than a few newspaper articles to keep me soaking. Right now I'm reading a book that one of my best friends got me for Christmas called "Z.E.O: How to get a(head) in Business" (A zombie's guide to getting a(head) in business). Obviously it's a light read and not all that productive, but nonetheless, it keeps me entertained! I've also got the Zen of Zombie book too! If anyone has any suggestions for good handmade business related books when I decide to actually get some productive reading done, let me know :) I'm always on the hunt for something new to add to my bath tub library hehe.

2) Epsom Salts

Epsom Salt is said to have anti-inflammatory properties and when it is absorbed through the skin, such as in a bath, it draws toxins from the body, sedates the nervous system, reduces swelling and bruises and relaxes muscles - need I say anymore? If I'm using a bath bomb that isn't laced with epsom salts, I throw a handful in but if I'm using a bath tea instead, the epsom salt is already in the tea bag :)

3) Bath Bomb or Bath Tea

I make both bath bombs & bath teas and I couldn't have a bath without one of them! I decide on which to use depending on my mood and my body's particular needs at the time.

If my skin is feeling a bit dry (like in the winter), I use a bath bomb because mine are packed with olive oil that leave my skin feeling super soft. I also use a bath bomb if I'm extremely fatigued and can't even imagine having enough energy after a hot bath to moisturize.

If I feel like my soul needs a bit of nurturing I use a bath tea - lemongrass to lift my mood, peppermint to pick up my energy levels, or lavender to ease stress and promote a good sleep.

4) And Finally... a nice warm, fuzzy house coat to cuddle up in and my one-piece PJ's with built in butt flap to crawl into after I'm all dried off :) And no.. there wont be a pictures of these on the blog any time soon - I'll spare you all the horrors of me in my one-piece PJ's lol!!

Happy bathing :)

p.s. if I missed any of YOUR essentials, feel free to comment below :)

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New halloween display and a sneak peek at some spooky things to come

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