Phew…today started off with steaming, stifling heat at 5.30 in the morning and it just got hotter and hotter.  In the dry season, strategy is the key and there is a small window of opportunity from 6am to 10am to “get things done” and in our case this means brush-mowing the farm, collecting coconuts and processing them into cream, weeding, watering plants, housework, making soap and packing products.  It is indeed a mad rush before the wall of heat gets the better of you and you collapse into a red-faced, sweaty heap.  What Fun!!

Here are the Artisan Chocolate Soaps that we made yesterday:

The soaps turned out to be more of an “impressionist” style of art, as you will see from the following Rorscharch examples.  For those of you who are not familiar with Rorscharch, it is a test which uses a system of ink-blot pictures as psychological analysis.  Being a doctor, I think it is fun to try to perceive impressions from our Artisan chocolate swirl soaps.

Rorscharch Gallery:

A Crab…

A Pig Snout… 

A Willow Tree Bending in The Wind…

I do have quite an imagination!  Do you see it too?  Or am I just getting googly-eyed from the heat?

Last but not least, there have been new additions to The Apothecary which include: Body Salt Scrubs (Lavender, Lemongrass, Passionflower, Ylang-Ylang) and Foot Soaks in the same scents.  This completes our Spa range of products.