Giveaway: Zook’s Farmhouse Soaps

This giveaway is closed as of 3/16/2020. Thank you for joining!

Confession: I’ve always been a patsy for artisan products made by people I love. I enjoy promoting awareness of homemade pottery, DIY crafts, roasted coffee beans, fresh cheese, and lovely soaps.

Today, we’re talking lovely soaps – handmade in the kitchen of my friend Wendy Zook. She’s been making soap for three or four years, and selling it for two, branded as Farmhouse Soaps. In fact, I hosted a giveaway for her a year and a half ago.

But her business recently changed locations, and she’s got some exciting new products in the works, including a natural line coming soon!

Wendy and I go way back to when we were teens, where I loved her for her energy, quirky optimism, and good cooking. She now lives in south central Pennsylvania with her husband Travis (whom I grew up with) (and who turned out to be the cousin of my sweetheart)… and their eight children, including ten-month-old twins.

With Farmhouse Soaps, Wendy uses simple recipes: mostly coconut, olive, and palm oils, with fragrance oils for scent and micas for coloring. All are homemade in small batches, and hand-cut.

Farmhouse Soaps are hypoallergenic, easy on skin, and a pleasure to use as hand, facial, or body soap. They come packaged in pretty vellum wrappers.

As a promotion, Farmhouse Soaps is offering a giveaway to Confessions readers. To one first-place winner, four bars of your choice. To a runner-up, two bars of choice.

Winners will be permitted to choose their own scents, from available bars in stock. Current fragrances are noted on the Etsy shop at Farmhouse Enterprises – but they include:

• some toasty scents for those of us who still have a month left of cold (Marshmallow Fireside – Pepperberry Mistletoe – Pumpkin Souffle –Gingerbread – Crisp Air & Winterberry)
• scrumptious botanicals (White Tea & Ginger – Black Raspberry Vanilla – Apple Sage – Blood Orange & Goji Berry)
• romantic fragrances (Sapphire Nights – Dark Kisses – Moon Lake Musk – Lovespell – Passionate Kisses)
• and summery sunshine scents for the seasons just ahead (Hibiscus Guava Fresca – Grapefruit Mint – Cashmere Petals – Bahama Vacation).

Now I’m so in the mood for summer! Though I’m sure the only Bahama Vacation I will be taking is in my bathtub, which suits me fine – as long as there’s sunshine outside the window.

All Farmhouse Soaps are made using what’s called “cold process.” When you heat soap to create it, some of the benefits of the good oils are lost. Cold process allows those natural benefits to be preserved.

Wendy’s new line of purely natural soaps is being poured and cured right now, and will be available mid-April. This line features essential oils for scent, and natural colorants like clays, beet root, and safflower. Oooh. First fragrances include Eucalyptus & Mint, Orange, Woodsy, and Lemongrass. The Zooks are hoping to expand line that soon, with more delicious options.

Farmhouse Soaps is on Facebook and Instagram. They also have an email list, so you can sign up for updates that way. Just drop a note to [email protected].

And again, the easiest place to buy is their Etsy shop, here at Farmhouse Enterprises, where the shipping options are best: including free shipping over $35!

To enter to win some great soap:

• Please share this post and giveaway: either online (social media buttons below), or with a real life friend or two via text/email/word of mouth/you get the idea.
• Then leave a comment below saying one thing you like to do in the sunshine – or a craft you enjoy creating yourself.

I was given a generous collection of Farmhouse Soaps in exchange for my hosting of this giveaway. All facts are correct to the best of my knowledge, and all opinions expressed are my own.

Giveaway will remain open for one week, closing at midnight on March 16. Open to anyone with a US or Canada mailing address. Two winners will be chosen by random.org, contacted privately by me, and announced on this blog on March 17, if all goes smoothly.

Both of the Mrs. Zooks wish you well!

This giveaway is closed as of 3/16/2020. Thank you for joining!