October 8, 2008

Paradise Found

NuMe Natural Soap

The last oils you rubbed on your skin were of the Hawaiian Tropic variety. There were top notes of artificial coconut.

Alas, no exotic beach locale was involved.

Deanna Sellers, creator of essential oil-based NuMe soaps, slathers on only the good stuff.

Sellers is one part chemist (who knew it was so scientific to make soap?), one part hippie (she started making bars for her kids’ sensitive skin), and one part fragrance tailor (take her four ounces of an essential oil, and she’ll create a few dozen bars of your signature scent).

She mixes and stamps batches in her Woodstock kitchen. Our favorite scents are rosemary eucalyptus, lavender vanilla, and honey almond.

Your own lathered paradise. No passport required.

NuMe Natural Soap (770-366-0793 or numenaturalsoap.com). Available at The Broadwell Cottage, 765 Mid Broadwell Road, Milton (770-777-0444); Davonshire Home and Garden, 1430 Dresden Drive, suite 200, Brookhaven (404-437-7826).