Price list

I have decided to start accepting orders with cash or check until I can get the website up and going. Please email me at info@theepicbath.com for details or to place an order. Below is my product line and pricing.

Here are the available flavors:

Aether Escape - a fresh rain fragrance designed to refresh you!

Ahimsa - this blend of jasmine and honey is relaxing and rejuvinating

All Sorts - Available only in 4oz & 6oz bars, this has a little bit of something for everyone!

Butter Me Up - a mouth-watering blend that will have you craving fresh butter cookies!

Call Me - A seductive selection of lavender, vanilla & pikaki perfect for date night.

Carnival Candy - a fun, frisky apple & pear blend that will remind you of your favorite night at the carnival.

Clean Bee - Available only as 4oz or 6oz soap bars, this 'honey' of a soap will give you the best skin in the hive.

Day at the Beach - This will have you ready for a day of playing in the surf, searching for shells, and building sand castles. Perfect for the guys too!

Down Under - Down under the weather? Try this blend of eucalyptus, tea tree & arnica to help open up the sinuses and chase away the winter blues.

Hawaiian Goddess - Can't afford a trip the islands? Have your own hawaiian getaway with this mix of plumeria, pikaki and coconut. Pairs wonderfully with the Day at the Beach series.

Lemonade - a fun pairing of Lemon & Lime that will have you thirsty for a glass!

Pomander Faire - Orange, Clove & Pikaki will have you wondering through the trails at your favorite country fair in no time!

Summer Retreat - If you loved olde time cream soda, you'll love this orange and vanilla line.

When in Rome - Lavender, Vanilla and Honey where used to cure insomnia back in ancient times and it still works today. Forget the worries of the day and have lovely dreams with this series.

Except where noted above, all the flavors are available in these products:

4oz Soap Bar - $5.95 +tax

6oz Soap Bar - $7.95 +tax

2oz Bubble Bars - $6.95 +tax

These bubble bars are solid bubble bath, and are big enough to be used for 3 baths. Best used if crumbled into the tub before you turn on the water.

Bath Bombs - $7.95 +tax

Drop into the water to release the fizz and the oils into your bath

Fizzy Bath Salt 8oz - $7.95 +tax

Salt-n-Sugar Scrubs - $8.95 +tax

Bath Shots - $5.95 +tax

A smaller bath bomb wrapped in a 4oz soap shot glass. Drop into the bath for a quick get-away.

All products contain witch hazel and vitamin E. The soap bars are a vegetable glycerin base and contain no lye.

Please allow 12-14 days for delivery. Once I have your order, I will email you back and let you know what the total is (including shipping & tax), and where to mail the check.

Shipping will be as follows:

Under $30 order - $5

$30.01-$70 order - $11

$70.01 and above - I will have to calculate this and get back to you. It will depend on how many boxes it will fit into.

I am going to be using the flat rate boxes from the USPS, so make sure you get the most for your shipping cost!

Please see my facebook page for The Epic Bath to see pictures of the prodcuts, and email me at info@theepicbath.com to order.

Thanks!

~Mikki Kiger, Owner

The move and other business

So the move was hectic, but after 2 days, everything is in the new place and the old place has been cleaned and ready to be turned over. I am a little worried about getting back on track with the business, I have a payment gateway that is currently draining on the meager amount in the operations account, and a shopping cart that I haven't finished yet that I will need to use the main computer to figure out. I'm thinking of just launching the generic site for now, just to get some income going. I still don't have my logo, and I don't think I will have it in time for Cues & Tattoos. The other thing is that I need to get the tax stuff figured out and start book keeping. So far it's not that bad, because I haven't really had any income, it's mostly just been costs for set up and all that. But I need to get things on paper. I also am due a refund from my payment gateway because they charged me for equipment I didn't ask for.

I'm hoping to get a little relief on the money end of things soon, we need to get our taxes done and then I'm hoping we will get most of our deposit back. Our landlord has been acting a little weird ever since we told her we were moving out and she's been very cold and put out when talking to us, but we did a lot of work to restore the apartment to it's previous condition, and we even repaired a bunch of damage the people before us did, so I think she'll be pleased with the condition of the apartment and doesn't have a real reason to keep the deposit. it was $1600 all-together with the pet deposit, including $300 non-refundable, so that should more then enough to finish anything that may be needed.

The kids (kittens) seem to be adjusting well, Slinky is a new cat. He really likes the new place. They have their new fort (a 5-level cat tree) by the window, so they seem to be pretty content. I will be working on the website among job interviews, I have one on Friday and possibly one next week. I still haven't heard about the job that I will need to interview for in New Jersey. I really want to make that one work, of all the opportunities, I want that one, but I need to keep looking for my unemployment, but I need to keep my eyes open so I don't pass up a decent offer if it should come up.

I will continue to blog, and hope to be up and running website wise in a few days after more things get settled.

Stay tuned :)

~m

Some random bath facts

So ever wonder where some of those obscure sayings come from? Well, here's a few that I found out:

"Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater" refers to when people only took baths once a year or so. On "Bath Day" the head of the household would get to bathe with the clean water, then the sons (oldest to youngest) then the wife, and the daughters, and last of all, the babies. By that time, the water was so murky you could lose the little one in the water if you weren't careful!

Ever wonder why there are so many wedding in June? Or why the Bride carries a bouquet of flowers? With bathing only once a year, Bath Day was traditionally in May, so if you got married in June, you still smelled pretty good, as opposed to getting married after the summer swelter. But since it had been a month or so, the bride carried the bouquet of fragrant flowers to hide any odors from her intended.

Other amusing ones that don't really have anything to do with bathing are:

"Raining cats & dogs" is from the time when we used to thatch our houses with straw, and the animals would climb up into the roof to keep warm. When it rained, of course, the straw would get soft, and the animal's weight couldn't be supported, and the would fall through the roof, 'raining' into the house below.

Coincidently, that's why people had canopy beds, which were hard-topped to begin with. It kept the animals (and other various debris and bugs) from falling onto your head while you were sleeping.

And going a little morbid for a few minutes:

A 'Wake' comes from the times when lead cups were used in bars, and people occasionally succumbed to lead poisoning on their way home from the local pub, passing out "dead drunk" on the street and being mistaken for being dead. They would be brought home to their families, where they would be laid out on a table and the family would drink and eat and wait and see if the person woke up. If after 3 days they didn't, they were pronounced dead and buried.

Around this time, England was having a problem with overcrowding of cemeteries. They would dig up graves to bury more people in the same place. Because of the tendency to bury people who weren't actually dead, and because more then a few times when they dug someone up there were nail marks on the lid, they started to tie a string around the supposed deceased's wrist that was connected to a bell above ground. A person was stationed to sit in the graveyard all night and listen for the "dead ringers" to dig someone up should the need arise. That is where we get "Graveyard Shift" from.

Ok, that's enough. I hope you've enjoyed this random, yet semi-educational journey into the random facts in my mind, even if not totally bath-related. If you know any interesting facts, please comment with them because I just love this kind of stuff. It's very interesting.

Good Night Moon! (and everyone under it's gossamer glow)

~m