About Our Company and Family

Almost fifteen years ago, I was having serious problems with my hands developing cracks that would swell and bleed. I saw a doctor regularly, took medications for two years without success, then started radiation treatment as a last resort. Then a friend asked me if I had ever made or used handmade soaps. I had not tried handmade soap and didn't know where to get any, so I went to a bookstore and bought the only book they had on soap making. I went home and made soap with olive oil, coconut oil, and Crisco, scented with essential oil from a health food store, then waited four weeks for it to cure. When it was time for her next radiation treatment, I did not need it. My doctor now buys soap from me to sell to patients at his clinic.

From there it went to more soapmaking, more craft shows, more giving to friends and family and then a website after my husband, Max, had made me some molds. At the time we went on the net, we never dreamed the molds and soap making supplies would take over and do so well, but they have and we thank the Lord each day for this. Now it is soap making for me, packing up soap making supplies, soap molds, doing the computer and taking care of our wonderful granddaughter, Kelsei, who is thirteen years old now and in eighth grade. We have raised Kelsei since she was born and she is our pride and joy.

My favorite soap is oatmeal, milk, and honey, which has always been one of my bestsellers. I mostly do cold process soaps, as I like them much better than M&P. I love meeting and talking to other soapmakers and helping them to make soaps if I can. I have met so many wonderful people here on the internet and have gotten to meet some in person as well. Which has been and is a blessing to me.

I teach soapmaking classes to adults and to children at area elementary schools, giving the kids a bar of either M&P or CP soap to take home with them. The kids love being able to take a bar of soap home with them, and the adults do as well.

About my family, I have been married to Max for 40 years. We live on a farm in West Texas. We have had some hard times, as most people have, but we have survived them and made well with what God has to offer us. We have one daughter, Me'Linda, and we have two granddaughters, which one is Kelsei, which our Company is named after, and she is fixing to be 15, where does the time go? We raise Kelsei and she is our pride and joy. Our other granddaugher is Lauren and she is ten years old now and in the fourth grade. Lauren is a sweet girl. Kelsei came to us at the time Max was getting over chemo and we needed her bad, and God must have known that.

Max started making soap molds, when I could not cut my bars of soap for the life of me. I had all size bars, all shape bars because cutting soap was not my thing. So he decided he would make me a mold. Well it took him awhile to get the mold I wanted, because some he made me just did not work at all, so back to the drawing board he would go. Finally he came up with one that worked great for me. Well that is where our life went with the molds he makes. Now Max can make custom molds to what you want, logo, size bars, shape bars. But we still make the Original Divider Soap Molds and will keep making them.

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