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Saturday, June 11, 2016

Skin Care Saturday: Father's Day Gift Guide




Our Father's Day and Men's Grooming options include beard and face care, spa treatments, shampoo bars, as well as everyday soap and soap for sensitive skin. Check out our selections below.


Beard & Facial Care

Our Vegan Beard Oil has seven oils including Argan Oil, Jamaican Black Castor Oil, and Vitamin E.










Beard Wash
Our beard cream is made similar to our shampoo bars, except instead of bar form it have a creamy texture so that it is easy to apply to the beard. 










Beard Oil & Beard Wash Boxed Set 
Our beard cream is made similar to our shampoo bars, except with a creamy texture. Our Vegan Beard Oil has seven oils including Argan Oil, Jamaican Black Castor Oil, and Vitamin E.










Wet Shaving Soap
Our old fashioned shaving soap includes shea butter for softening and kaolin clay for slip. It is comes unscented or you can requested lemongrass, orange, tea tree, or orange scents. 









Men's Grooming Boxed Set 
This is the ultimate men's grooming set with two bars of soap (a jumbo and large), beard oil, beard wash, salt scrub soap, foot soak, and a facial bar. The set comes in an upcycled cigar box and includes the cost of flat rate shipping. 









Avocado Facial Bar
One of our best-selling soap bars, his skin-nourishing bar includes pureed avocado. Facial bars differ from our regular soap and salt bars in that they are lower cleansing rates, making them more sensitive for your face.









Combination Skin Facial Bar 
Our facial soap is a great daily facial bar that will clean the face without leaving it overly dry.










Shampoo Bars 
Guinness Beer Shampoo Bar Large
Our Beer Shampoo bar has cocoa butter, coconut milk, Moroccan Argan oil. Shampoo bars are used as a replacement for liquid shampoo and omit fillers like silicone often found in store-bought shampoos.









Guinness Beer Shampoo Bar Sample
The beer in this shampoo bar acts as a tonic for the hair. Cocoa butter help nourish the hair coconut oil helps cleanse the hair. Moroccan Argan oil helps nourish the hair.









Ginger Shampoo for Dry Scalp Bar Large 
This bar has real ginger, neem oil, babbasu oil, and tacuma butter. The apple-cider vinegar combined with the babassu and tacuma butter works to cleanses the hair. 









Ginger Shampoo for Dry Scalp Small 
Olive oil and neem oil help nourish the hair while apple-cider vinegar (ACV), tacuma butter, and babassu oil help cleanse the hair.









Men's Spa Care 
Foot Soak 
Our foot soak is made with olive oil and coconut milk making for a cleaning and skin-softening experience that will leave your feet feeling like they are floating on air.









Salt Scrub Bar 
Not messy like salt scrubs, salt bars are one of the awesome ways to naturally exfoliate your skin; gently stripping away old dead skin cells and leaving the skin clean, smooth, and soft.











Skin Care
Cool Water 
This bar is our handmade triple butter soap bar (mango, shea, and cocoa butters) with a dash of a fresh cool water scent. Our triple butter recipe makes for a creamy lather that moisturizers the skin.









Dragon Roll Large 
This fantastic soap is truly a beast. As one of our premium bars, our Dragon Roll artisan soap includes kelp powder, fresh avocado, cucumber juice, and ginger powder.









Dragon Roll Sample 
This decorative soap is scented with lime and ginger for a fresh smell that has the faint whiff of the sea.










Tiger Stripes
This bar just might make you roar because of its decadent creaminess. Olive oil, avocado oil, and cocoa butter to make for a nourishing bar of soap. It is great to combat seasonal dry skin. 












Sensitive Skin
Castile Large
Castile is said to be the mildest soap and one of the most conditioning. This unscented, all natural soap can also double as a gentle shampoo or conditioning bar.










Castile Small 
100% olive oil nourishes the skin and because it is unscented, it makes for our most gentle bar.









Bastille Oversized Bar 
This bar included our signature recipe in jumbo sized bars. Our standard recipe conditions the skin and gently cleanses without leaving your skin feeling dry. 











Artisan Soap
Indigo Soap
Our Rain bar bar is part of Spring Collection, named after places in the city. Made with our modified signature recipe including coconut milk, castor, coconut, olive apricot, and avocado oils.









Indigo Soap Sample Size 
Made with our conditioning signature recipe, this bar is great to combat seasonal dry skin or gentle for most skin types.










Marquita Bell is soaper-in-chief and the owner of The BodyBuffet where foodie meets beauty. Based out of Philadelphia, The Body Buffet aims to cultivate beauty inside and out from foodie adventures, self-care tips, and via handmade artisan soap, shampoo bars, facial bars, laundry soap and more. They use local ingredients when possible and have aimed to make conditioning skin-loving, hair-loving, clothes-loving soap since 2009.

Friday, November 27, 2015

Philly Gift Guide


Thank you so much for viewing our hand-picked Philly artist gift guide. The majority of these artists we have met personally over the years of networking and buying their work. Please feel free to include any links in the comments to other locals you know and love in Philly. Bookmark our page and share with others to buy year round. Support these local artists and connect with them on social media to see their upcoming events.

Accessories


Carole Kyle Handbags
Beautiful handbags and totes with artsy prints.








Elegant Crochets
From knit hats to ponchos, this shop gives you an easy way to transform your wardrobe.
https://twitter.com/Elegantcrochets




 

The Pink Lapel
A new spin on ties and bow ties for those of style and flare.








Bath & Beauty
PiperWai Natural Deodorant
Makes are great personal gift to yourself or to friends who love natural products.
https://www.instagram.com/piperwai/

https://twitter.com/PiperWai






The Body Buffet
Handmade unique soaps, shampoo bars, whipped body butter and other natural products.
https://www.instagram.com/thebodybuffet







Clothing

Jawn Clothing
Nothing gets more Philly than “Jawn.” Shop here for Unisex Philly Gear.






Sowah Design
These colorful clothes are for those people who are full of life and joy.









Foodie

Affinity Confections
Divine desserts great for friends, parties, or yourself.
https://www.instagram.com/_affinityco/


Naturally Sweet Desserts
If you haven’t tried these divine vegan, dairy-free, low glycemic cupcakes, you are missing out!


Home

Don Yacovella Furniture Designs
Simply elegant furniture created that is customizable to match your decor.
https://www.instagram.com/dyfurniture/





Threet Ceramics
This beautiful stoneware makes for a practical gift that will suit those hard-to-please people.
 https://www.instagram.com/threetceramics/

Jewelry
Ilanation
Each piece is created with individual pieces of glass, semi-precious stones, and mixed metals.










Lovestruck Jewelry
This is great decorative jewelry that is also light-weight.







Metana Jewelry  
Stunning, bold pieces of jewelry that are unique and elegant.
https://twitter.com/MetanaJewelry
 
Real Fruit Jewelry
For the foodie and/or jewelry-lover, all of her pieces included real preserved fruit!
https://www.instagram.com/realfruitjewelry/






Unique Gifts

SheCre8s
Repurposed silverware makes for great key chains and jewelry.
https://www.instagram.com/shecre8s/









Make Pens Over Swords
Formerly local, this artist creates pens out of wood scraps in an act of peace-making.


Wrong World Ceramics
Handmade ceramic flasks from grotesque to decorative, it is great gift for those hard to please.
https://www.instagram.com/wrongworld/




Local Shops
Shop for wares from a variety of local artists and creatives.
Nice Things Handmade
1731 E Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia
https://www.instagram.com/nicethingsphila/
https://twitter.com/nicethingsphila







 
Vix Emporium
5009 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia
https://www.instagram.com/vix_emporium/
https://twitter.com/vixemporium








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The Body Buffet creates handmade artisan soap, shampoo bars, facial bars, laundry soap and more. They use local ingredients when possible and have aimed to make conditioning skin-loving, hair-loving, clothes-loving soap since 2009. Based out of Philadelphia, they aim to live healthier, more sustainable lives inside and out.