I’ve had quite a busy week! If you haven’t heard already, a local newspaper (The Schenectady Gazette) recently featured Alabu Soap on the front page of the Business section. It was a great article actually, I’d say it was the best article in Alabu history. Continue reading →
General
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Feb 08
Renovations: Part 2
Between college, renovating the production space, and moving www.alabu.com over to a new web server (more on that later), I haven’t had very much spare time lately. I know you all probably miss me (yes, I miss you, too), but don’t be too sad; I’ve brought pictures! Continue reading →
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Jan 08
Renovations
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 →
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Dec 07
This still blows my mind
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 →
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Nov 07
The History Of Alabu
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 →