Published by Hal Mayes on 18 Jan 2008
I’ve gotten this question a lot over the years. People ask me “You have such amazing soap. Where is the Alabu Shampoo?” Well, I’d like to explain why we don’t make Shampoo:
Liquid Soap in general has a very short shelf life. Most manufacturers remedy this by adding preservatives. A preservative is just a chemical that kills bacteria and doesn’t allow it to grow. The problem with these Continue Reading »
Published by Hal Mayes on 03 Jan 2008
Boy was that a busy Christmas season. Of course we decided to renovate the manufacturing facility during our busiest time of year. When it rains it pours.
Since we’ve revved up our batch size, we have seen a real need to reconfigure our production space. We’ve made a dedicated place for extracting the soap from the soap molds, and we now have three large sinks in place solely for washing molds (having dedicated sinks makes it easier to avoid contamination). We’ve also added a much bigger Continue Reading »
Published by Hal Mayes on 10 Dec 2007
About once or twice a week we at Alabu get a testimonial from one of our customers. They are always very nice and remind us why we have Alabu, but more and more the testimonials we receive are just amazing. Here’s are a few that we received this week: Continue Reading »
Published by Hal Mayes on 27 Nov 2007
I think I was about ten when my mom dragged my sister Nell and me to a friends house. We were going to make soap—out of goat milk! Goat milk never thrilled me to begin with. It tasted fine—as long as it was fresh—but the idea of mixing it into my soap and then washing my skin with it was pretty weird.
We pulled up to the house. The stone driveway crackled under the tires of my mom’s navy blue 1989 Taurus Station Wagon. I was pretty excited. I was always into magic tricks as a kid. Chemistry seemed sort of like a magic trick to me. My mom’s friend had already tried to make soap once before with disastrous results, so we measured everything Continue Reading »
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