Good morning, John.

A couple of years ago, I found out a cool secret that there is a warehouse in my hometown, right behind me right now, that used to be part of a lumber mill and-and there's still lumber mill stuff going on right now. It smells like wood here. But now in that building, they make the soap for, like, organic luxury beauty brands. Brands that you have heard of, but that I cannot say the names of because this is like a secret. But I can tell you why they do this because it's hard to bake great soap. 

So what happens is companies work with suppliers, and if you wanna get amazing soap that feels great and smells delicious and is 100% organic, there's a good chance that you're gonna end up working with Botanie. It is fascinating to me that there could very easily be two fancy soaps right next to each other on the grocery store shelf with two totally different brands and looks and feels marketed to different groups of people and you might also have one at a farmer's market, and they are all made in this building. 

Now Botianie’s client list is extremely secret. Companies want the people buying their products to imagine that they had, like, a perfect image of a soap in their mind, and then it just started to exist somehow. But, like, this is the way that it actually works, and the fact that I know people who work at a company who make a high-quality luxury bath stuff for some of the most respected companies in the beauty industry is super cool. And the only thing cooler is that I can just work with them, which is what we have been doing. They know so much about soap, about which oils are best to clean while still moisturizing, how to source all the best ingredients, and we've been talking to them for over a year now and we are creating our own brand called Sun Basin Soap, which just like all of the other unnameable people who work with this company is extremely nice high-quality velvety soap, but unlike them, the Sun Basin Soap Club, you guessed it, donates all of its profit to charity. And because we don't have to do a bunch of fancy marketing around it, the final product is actually cheaper than the brands that work with Botanie.

You could go now, you can order a sample pack with all five of our current fragrance options each a different experience with different exfoliants and different fragrances. Everybody in the office has a different favorite, but I think that mine is probably Navigator which just for like a fresh smell. Its one word description is “clean.” But one of the best parts of the Sun Basin experience has got to be our product descriptions, right. 

Here's-here's Navigator’s: Waves cradling a weathered boat. A globe of stars, pointillism as a glittering map. Steady eyes, searching. Open fields with horizons obscured by humid haze. A clasping hand, firmly pulling forward. Inexorable motion, determined cessation.

And, no, an artificial intelligence did not write that. You could subscribe for every month, every two months, or every three months, and for either one, two, three, or six bars with more bulk buying resulting in cheaper individual bars because bulk ordering lowers our costs. FYI on average, a well-drained bar of soap will last a person who showers once a day about a month. Domestic shipping is $4, no matter how much you order, and of course, you can cancel your subscription at any time. I love this soap. I've been using it for years, and it is made among the mountains of Montana by people who care about their impact on the world. And I'm excited to share it with more people. So you can check out Sun Basin Soap by going to good.store.

John, I'll see you on Tuesday.