The elves at Out Of Eden Soaps are workin’ their behinds, shaking and a groovin’ to all things Holiday.  Laying big ol’ blocks of custom soaps filled with rosemary, peppermint, pine, cranberry, pumpkin spice and oh so much more!  We have so many cool and fun things in store for the holidays we want to share it all!

Don’t you love those infomercials that push you to “call now” by telling you “this product is only available for a limited time”.  They make us feel that there is a sense of urgency and try to close the deal immediately. 

Although we will never tell you “it’s available for a limited time”, all of our products are made by hand and are one of a kind.  Each time we put the ingredients together to make a batch of our handmade soaps, we might put in an extra pinch of this, or an extra dash of that.  They are never 100% reproductions and often change the way they look (sometimes drastically) between each run we make of the product.

This means that every batch of our all natural handcrafted soaps are “limited editions”.  When we sell out of that batch, we will make another batch but it will always be slightly different than the last.  We show pictures of all of our products here on the website, but the actual...

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All things that are “natural” are not organic, but all things “organic” are natural!  Ok, are you confused yet?

Most people use the word organic interchangeably with natural but the two don’t mean the same thing.  When our products are “organic” we mean that we have gone through every means necessary to make sure that every component that goes into our “organic products” is an organic ingredient. If every part is organic, then we consider it an “organic” product, it can only be an organic product if all the sum of its parts is 100% organic.

This week Siser and I started our first of many You Tube films.Here in Wilmington,we live in the film industry. We have screen gem studios, which films One Tree Hill. Many other films such as A Walk To Remember, I know what you did last Summer and Sleeping with the Enemy just to name a few. With that being said ,we had a professional camera guy with    50 million lights shinning on us. Needless to say Siser and I being the country girls that we are, felt like a bug in a jar .To make matters worse we had to be filmed  separately.



Carol starting her first take

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She was born Alda Lene Keener on August 12,1914 in Lincolnton, NC.Her parents Louie and Emma were both mill workers.She had one brother named Blair AKA Uncle Dick.Growing up very poor she was determine to make a name for herself,and better her life.As a gift ,her Father gave her a second hand sewing machine.With allot of practice she taught  herself how to make dresses  out of flour sacks,without patterns.This seemed to be a God given talent to be able to sew from a vision in her mind.Eventually she was ask to custom make gowns for certain galas, such as weddings, debutantes, and inaugural balls.With such popularity she designed gowns for Sacks Fifth Ave,and later opened her own store.

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To kick off the month of October,we thought it would be fun to talk about Halloween from the past. In 1994  Siser and I decided we would dress up as two old ladies.Our costumes were found at a charity shop,complete with the smells of mothballs,Wind song perfume,and armpit stains.The glasses came from our Grandmother’s old stash from the fifties.One wig came from a mannequin from our Grandmother’s store window.The other wig came from Uncle Dick.To finish the look off Siser had a Mt.Everest hump on her back to look like a severe case of osteoporosis,and a walker.We went to a Halloween fundraiser event complete with a dance floor,and contest.We were a hit.We broke it down old lady style  dancing with  the walker and cane to house music. Now 15 years later, we are starting to turn into old ladies.Since we are in our early 40s.We are extra gassy,hairy,grouchy,picky,and food sensitive.For example Siser (Eilene) can no longer digest peanut butter,coffee,orange juice,and ice cream without paying for it.Siser (carol) can...

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