The Official Blog of Sailor Mouth Soaps

One of my online witchy friends recently opened the most gorgeous boutique. It's called Juniper Moon and they have a wide variety of witchy-goodness, such as altar tools, statues, an apothecary for your botanical needs and so much more. I was also insanely flattered to be listed in their list of recommended sites. Please check out some of their other favourites below. They have good taste https://www.junipermoon.com.au/recommended-sites/

The incredible Sandi from Unic0rn Pies made this awesome video about Sailor Mouth Soaps and it's so good! I just had to share. Please check it out and give her a big thumbs up and subscribe. She's one of the coolest chicks on YouTube and she's Australian too

Thank you for an amazing 2018 Phew! Now that all of the making craziness is over and all Xmas orders have been shipped, I wanted to take a moment and say a very big thank you to all of my customers that have supported me since relaunching in August this year. I’ve hit milestones I really didn’t expect to reach so soon and found my rhythm with making again; reminding myself how much I freaking LOVE soap. It’s pure joy to be able to do something I love so dearly as a business and I want to thank my amazing customers for this honour. Especially the ones that have been with me since the start, even sharing photos of their retro Sailor Mouth Soap stashes with me. You're legends! It gives me great joy to think of how many people are out there, giving gifts of Sailor Mouth Soaps for Xmas and how many more of you have jealously guarded them for yourself! I’m sure a lot of visiting family will have a good laugh (or freakout) when they see what’s sitting on your sink. So, what's next...

As an ethical business and consumer, I’m very cautious about the products I purchase; especially packaging. This blog post seeks to anticipate and answer some of your questions about the packaging I use, especially in preparation for some new product releases coming out this year and next. When I began soap making nearly 10 years ago, we were in much less enlightened times, especially about the plastic waste problem we have globally. It was pretty naïve, but I genuinely assumed that most people were like me - avoiding excessive packaging, carefully recycling and that our councils were actually recycling what was put in our recycling bin.  But as we’ve sadly found out, plastic waste is a massive global problem and our world leaders have no clue how to or any inclination on how to solve it. It’s only been in the last, say five years that eco-friendly packaging options have become available for small and micro businesses like mine so while I’m regretful about previous choices, ...

Continuing on from Part Two After I'd been on maternity leave for around 6 months, I realised the thought of going back to work at Lush, made me anxious. Having had distance from the job, I realised in many ways it was entirely unsuitable for me and my skills and opinions would never be valued there. I wasn't one of the cool kids and therefore missed out on every opportunity for travel and further developing my skills with the international teams. I constantly had demeaning tasks allocated to me and was subject to bullying on more occasions than I can count. I have to be careful about the level of detail I go into here because honestly, it's so upsetting to even think about it, so instead I'll focus on what didn't make me feel at all welcome to come back.  For starters, my bosses didn't call or message me or send flowers when I had the baby which struck me as very odd because we did flowers, card and cake for every birthday and when someone left the busines...