It's been a while since I've had time to write a blog post
So, it's 2025 already, I can hardly believe it. We had a good year at The Good Soap in 2024 and during September, October, November and December I hardly got chance to sit at my laptop. January has started with a fury too so let's go, let's be having you 2025! I'm currently sat on the couch, next to a warm radiator with the dog on my lap and a hot water bottle, writing this. It's freezing outside, literally!
So after the rush of the Christmas season Ruby dog and I went to stay at the prettiest Welsh cottage for a week over New Year, and had the most relaxing time spent with our family and friends. Cottage pictured above on the morning that we awoke to snow. It was just the break away that we needed. Some of you may relate that when you are self employed, and specifically when you run a business from home, you never ever switch off, and 24 hour social media also makes that difficult. 2024 was a year of fighting never ending spam and scammers, which drove me mad and is actually quite trying! So we switched off contact completely but left the website open. Gemma came in to post out parcels when we reopened on Thursday 2nd Jan and was inundated with orders, thankfully her partner was able to come in to help her get them dispatched. We also sold out of many products so the second I arrived home from my break on the Sunday I set my suitcase down in the hall and walked straight through to the workshop and grabbed my apron, hitting the ground running.
We are so grateful to still be thriving, in difficult economic times, it really is a blessing that our business will be 7 years old this year, and that it continues to keep 3 people employed, and keeps Ruby in gravy bones and blankets. So looking forward into 2025 we hope for more of the same, bringing our beautiful natural products to you. We are bringing back seasonal limited edition products so keep your eyes out for those.........Also there are a couple of products we'd like to make some changes to packaging, always remaining plastic free of course, and we may even think about some new products, how exciting!
So if you were with us through 2024 thank you so much, and going into 2025 thank you for being here. We love that you love our small business - love Dawn xx