The Sunshine Soap Shop

600 bath bombs made this week! 💣🛁

And you might notice they look a little different.

We’ve made a small change to our bath bomb formula, simplifying some of the natural colourants we were using. We were running into too much breakage, sticking and wasted product — and honestly, it was getting to the point where we had to decide whether bath bombs were sustainable for us to keep making.

The good news? This little change has made a BIG difference. 🙌

Better batches, less waste, stronger bath bombs — and most importantly, it means we can keep making them for you. ❤️

Sometimes keeping a handmade product around means being willing to tweak, simplify and figure out a better way.

And after making 600 of these this week… I think we found it. 😅

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Low waste and Alberta made.

If you haven’t tried our Cleaning Concentrates yet, here’s the difference between the two:

🌿 Signature All-Purpose Blend — our gentler option, especially suited for surfaces like natural stone and wood, while still being a hardworking everyday cleaner.

🌱 Thieves — that warm, spicy, fresh Thieves scent you know and love, perfect for everyday cleaning around the home.

Both come concentrated, so you simply dilute at home as you need them. Less packaging, less waste, and 16 refills from one bottle.

Two blends. A whole lot of cleaning. 🧽✨

Find both on our website under Cleaning Concentrates.

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Descubre Beauty Bar | Nails Okotoks is its own vibe. Lemongrass and calm 🧖

Using natural, local products in a beautiful spa setting. Will definitely be booking some appointments here!

Have any of you been there?

🥣 Mix a few drops of Critter Blend into Unscented Tallow Butter (or your favourite unscented lotion or cream) to make your own leave-on critter blend. Start with a small amount, mix well, and adjust the scent to your preference.

It gives you the convenience of a leave-on product while keeping the ingredients simple.

Maybe next year I'll plan ahead and have a ready-made version for you. 😊 Until then, a little DIY works just fine!

Have you ever mixed your own custom moisturizer?

Did you know you can grab the Critter Blend as a pure essential oil and diffuse or use anyway you would like?

Fresh batche of Vanilla Rosemary Tallow Budder. Pouring double the large 9oz glass jars this time around. They sold out so fast last time.

No fillers. No fragrance. No 30-ingredient ingredient list.

Just grass-fed tallow, blue tansy, coffee oil, babchi seed oil, and myrrh—carefully blended into a rich face cream that supports dry, mature, and tired-looking skin.

And now available in three sizes, because skincare should fit your routine, not the other way around.

Handmade in small batches in Alberta. 🤍

Little behind-the-scenes things like this are one of my favorite parts of making bath bombs.

After they’re packed, they sometimes puff up slightly while they finish releasing gas from the reaction inside the bag… so I go through trays like this popping the extra air out one by one. 😂

The hiss. The smell. The rows of fresh bath bombs.

This is the kind of stuff you don’t see in mass production — just real handmade products being made in a real home workshop by real people who care about quality.

And yes… this is probably one of the reasons why my house always smells amazing. 🤍

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Excuse the tired face and bad angle. It's real 😂

Turns out… a few small tweaks make a big difference.

We upgraded our dish & laundry bar with washing soda, a touch of sugar, and citric acid—better suds, better rinse, and that actually clean feeling without the plastic bottles and sulfates.

It’s simple, it works, and it makes dish duty feel a little less… tragic.

PSA (said with love):
If you were using this bar on your body before… she’s been promoted.
She’s not a body bar anymore. She’s a get things seriously clean bar now.

Most skincare is overcomplicated.

So I went the other direction.

Today’s shop day:

cucumber eye rollers, face bars, lip balm, sun sticks ☀️

If simple ingredients matter to you, follow along.