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#21, News and Awards and #20, Meet You at the Markets are regularly updated. The date shows when the blog posts were started. Hope you enjoy diving into more depth about our story and motivation for creating our clean, green pristine products.
20. Meet You at the Markets!
20. Meet You at the Markets!
|Michelle Bennett
Since 2022, current and past market dates are posted here. Tasmanian Soap Farm sets up a booth at select markets and events in Tasmania to give you the opportunity to... Read more...
21. NEWS/AWARDS
21. NEWS/AWARDS
|Michelle Bennett
Tasmanian Soap Farm are humbled and grateful to be recognised in our wider community for championing our 100% Tasmanian provenance products. Thank you very much for your support as we... Read more...
16. The Elephant in the Room
16. The Elephant in the Room
|Michelle Bennett
What’s all this about then? I’m using the metaphor of the elephant in the room as a starting point to discuss the use of animal products in many of our... Read more...
19. Let Soap Be My Mouth Medicine
19. Let Soap Be My Mouth Medicine
|Michelle Bennett
This sharing puts mouth care centre stage. The title is also a pun on ‘Let food be thy medicine’. Of course you’ll be the judge once you start using the... Read more...
18. Let Soap Be My Skin Medicine
18. Let Soap Be My Skin Medicine
|Michelle Bennett
The title for this sharing plays with the adage, ‘Let food be thy medicine’. The images below let the known nutraceutical attributes of our soap ingredients speak for themselves .... Read more...
17. Devils in Distress
17. Devils in Distress
|Michelle Bennett
I heard that the dreaded Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) afflicting Tasmanian Devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) for more than 20 years was practically curable. Unfortunately, . . . Read more...
15. Eco-friendly Packaging
15. Eco-friendly Packaging
|Michelle Bennett
Because we care, and wanted Tasmanian Soap Farm to have a light footprint, we’ve gone to considerable effort to source eco-friendly, high-quality, cost-effective packaging . . . Read more...
14. Soap vs Virus
14. Soap vs Virus
|Michelle Bennett
Happy New Year for 2021! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Happy New Year of the Ox! In these weary days of COVID-19, ye olde bars of soap have stood the test... Read more...
13. Which Soap?
13. Which Soap?
|Michelle Bennett
This sharing addresses which of our soap bars I recommend for different skin types. To start off, let’s look at the five common skin types. Which one are you? Please... Read more...
12. No Nasties
12. No Nasties
|Michelle Bennett
You want to know that when you use Tasmanian Soap Farm’s skin care soap, or toothsoap, that it’s not going to harm you, but rather that it is going to... Read more...
11. Planet Mouth
11. Planet Mouth
|Michelle Bennett
Our oral microbiome is a fascinating and complex topic. To date, science doesn’t have all of the answers. That means that there is actually a lot of guesswork going on... Read more...
10. On Country
10. On Country
|Michelle Bennett
Today I have been reflecting on portents that have led me to where I am today. Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist called them omens. It means that we should... Read more...
9. Unconditional Love
9. Unconditional Love
|Michelle Bennett
My first near death experience was when I was 13 years old. I was on my way to school, racing downhill to catch my brother, on a dragster pushbike I’d... Read more...
8. Canola Conundrum
8. Canola Conundrum
|Michelle Bennett
I have a British friend who is a ‘thinker’ personality type. She played the devil’s advocate with me about the canola oil we use in our soap. I’m so grateful... Read more...
7. A Light Footprint
7. A Light Footprint
|Michelle Bennett
More people today are concerned about the lack of sustainability on our planet. To do our bit, at Tasmanian Soap Farm we ensured that our soap products and their packaging... Read more...
6. Happy Feet
6. Happy Feet
|Michelle Bennett
As a horse lover from way back, I know that the saying ‘No foot, no horse’ is a truism. We humans are able to keep going without any feet, thankfully,... Read more...
4. milk & honey Toothsoap
4. milk & honey Toothsoap
|Michelle Bennett
I started my toothsoap quest by making milk & honey. My research led me to believe that the combination of ingredients I used in my self-made recipe was the best... Read more...
3. Our Toothsoap Origins
3. Our Toothsoap Origins
|Michelle Bennett
I visited a dentist in Tasmania in 2019. He’d finished off some work started in Cairns, Queensland: dental implants for my two front teeth. (When I was 14, I’d been... Read more...
2. Perfect Skin
2. Perfect Skin
|Michelle Bennett
Everyone would love to have perfect skin. I guess that’s why we go ga ga over a newborn baby and how beautiful and soft their skin is. While we were... Read more...
A satellite image of Tasmania
1. Tasmanian Soap Farm Begins
|Michelle Bennett
Tasmanian Soap Farm was born out of a sense of frustration at not being able to find soap that was kind to my body. As an active lass (in my... Read more...