Soapmaking Resources

Web Sites

Handcrafted Soap Makers Guild – We are proud members of this Guild, which is an international non-profit professional trade association with a mission "to make everyone aware of the wonderful goodness of handcrafted soaps." The quarterly journal is an invaluable resource.

Liberty Natural Products, based in Oregon, is our supplier of lavender essential oil. They grow their own lavender, and the essential oil that they distill from it is the best we have ever smelled. It transports us instantly to a sunny day in a lavender field. Absolutely divine.

New Directions Aromatics is a wonderful resource for essential oils, base oils, and other soap making supplies. Their website also gives detailed information about the origins, scent, and therapeutic properties of the essential oils that they carry.

Saponifier magazine is a fantastic online digital magazine for soap, toiletry and candle makers. I have found great information in this magazine. It is published 6 times a year and is e-mailed in PDF format.

Soaper's Choice is an Illinois-based, family-owned wholesale oil company with high quality, fairly priced oils, including Organic Palm Oil. YEAH!

Spiritual-path.com – This is the one of the main web resources that we turn to for the magical and spiritual properties of essential oils.

Soap Making Forum – This forum is invaluable for soap makers. Its members are friendly, knowledgeable, and supportive. If you are interested in making your own soap, be sure to browse this forum for any questions you may have.

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Software

We are big supporters of the use and development of free and open source software, as well as the philosophy behind it. We use the following programs to run Sacred Suds, and we would like to thank and give credit to the developers of each. Keep up the great work!

  • Zen Cart: the ecommerce software that runs our site
  • Ubuntu: our favorite distribution of the Linux operating system
  • OpenOffice: for office productivity
  • Firefox: for browsing the web
  • Bluefish: for editing html and other programming languages
  • GNUCash: for financial accounting
  • Scribus: for desktop publishing
  • GIMP: for photo editing and image manipulation
  • Inkscape: for editing vector graphics

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