Edgewater Soaps
Hand
Crafted. Naturally Good.
Fun Stuff!
Farmers Market Faves
& Raves 2009
Having participated in four weekly farmers markets this year, we've had
the chance to meet and sample the wares of numerous other farmers
market vendors, and these are our hands-down favorites. Great
people, great products. We're proud to be
associated with
them and to recommend them.
Nichols Farm
&
Orchard
Top-notch
quality and unbelievable variety. Twenty different kinds of
tomatoes. Varieties of apples you've never even heard of.
Purple cauliflowers. Farm-fresh haricots
verts. Incredible.
And
speaking of farmers markets, Edgewater
Soaps was featured
as a
"Farmer's Market Find" in Time
Out
Chicago magazine.
We're
a member of the Handcrafted Soaps Makers Guild (HSMG), and very
proud to
say that we are a certified by the HSMG as a cold process/hot process
soap
maker.
About
Soap.
Wikipeida has a very good article about soap, it's
history, and it's manufacture. Very accurate and very complete.
To read more, click
here.
About
ingredients in cosmetic and personal care
products.
If you'd like to know more about certain kinds of
chemical ingredients, you might be
interested in the Environmental
Working Group's "Skin Deep"
database, which contains product
safety
ratings of thousands commercial cosmetic and personal care
products.
About
the Local Shopping
Movement. Local
First Chicago. Yes,
there
is such a movement! Who knew? But it makes a lot of
sense. Save gas. Stimulate the local
economy. And here's why
you might want to. Local businesses do more for the
communities in which they are located than national chain stores.
- They
do more of their purchasing locally.
- They
contribute more to local non-profits.
- They
add to the character and diversity of their communities.
- They
are owned by people who live in the community.
For
even more points to consider, click
here
.
The
website's local business directory is growing by the day. When I signed
up for a free listing a couple months ago, there were just two pages of
Edgewater businesses. Now there are six! I think this
is a
terrific resource.
About the Edgewater
Community.
Edgewater
Soaps takes its name from its location in Chicago's
diverse Edgewater neighborhood. For more information on the
Edgewater community area, click
here for a little background and
history of the
neighborhood from Wikipedia.
Edgetwater
Soaps is member of the Edgewater
Chamber of Commerce.
The
Edgewater Soaps website was constructed using a terrific, free, open
source web design program called Nvu. 
I
would like to offer all the wonderful techie geniuses and committed
open source advocates my greatest thanks for creating and continually
improving this terrific product! You're the best!
