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Homespun Treats

Welcome to Mrs. D's store. We're stocked up with homemade specialties and adding new items all the time. Keep checkin' back for gift baskets, more soaps and lotions, hats, hand braided rugs and more.

FREE shipping on orders over $25.00 (continental U.S.)!! This is for soap and lotion/lip butter orders only. Baskets and other products will be charged regular shipping rates.

Priority Shipping available - Just make sure to mention you prefer priority or UPS shipping in the comments section of your order and we will email you a quote - you reply that you accept or prefer regular shipping.

Marvelous Mabel, the dancing Jersey milk cow, is still providing her lucious milk as the main ingredient in Maryruth Monahan's Jersey Cream soaps, available in our store. Maryruth's Castile and Vegan soaps are also available. Come on in and check out all our homespun treats. Here is Mabel dressed up for us in her royal tiara.

Fresh milk soap $4.00

Made with fresh, whole milk, honey, olive oil, palm oil and essential oils. Average 3 oz. bars, slight variations in color cream to brown.

Lavender and Tea tree - goat's milk

popular old-time fragrance.

Jasmine Rose - goat's milk

exotic jasmine and romantic rose with creamy goat's milk and raw honey. Spa treatment in a bar. (of soap!)

Serenity - coming soon

New Improved Bug Soap - goat's milk

repulsive - to bugs! Lemongrass and citronella with rosemary, tea tree and other people pleasing, bug repelling scents.

Oatmeal 'n' Honey - jersey milk

skin soothing oatmeal and nourishing honey.

Jersey Cream Soap - jersey milk

Plain unscented silky smooth creamy jersey milk soap. Great for sensitive skin.

Coconut Castille Soap -

NO MILK OR ANIMAL PRODUCTS. Just pure vegan oils, including palm oil and olive oil. Makes a great shampoo!

Vanilla Castille -

same as coconut castille only with a yummy vanilla fragrance.

Tea Tree Castille -

our wonderful cococut castille with healing Tea Tree oil.

Mudbath Soap - Goat's milk

Mmm...Chocolatey, almondy indulgence. Nuff said.

Soap 'n' Lotion Bags - $1.00

Put your soap ends in the bag and continue lathering 'til it's all used up!

Or use it to carry your lotion bar. Or your iPod!

Homestead Lotion Bars $3.00

dry, chapped hands love 'em. made with amazing rejuvenating african shea butter, cold pressed olive oil and right-from-the-beekeeper beeswax. Average 2 oz. bars.

What is a Lotion Bar? Pure and simple, it's lotion in a bar. Just rub it between your hands, then apply as desired to hands, face, feet, body...for tough dirt, auto grease, makeup remover - rub in and let set a few minutes, then wash with one of our fabulous soaps, viola! Then rub some in to moisturize.

Chocolate Truffle

Layer over our Mudbath Soap - is there such a thing as too much chocolate?

Lavender and Tea Tree

Popular with our customers with acne prone/oily skin; lavender and tea tree essential oils are reputed to be antiseptic and antifungal.

Bug Lotion bars

Use alone or layer over our Bug Soap. New improved formula includes citronella essential oil and other essential oils for bug repellency without DEET or other harsh chemicals.

Lemongrass Lotion Bar

Fresh and invigorating lemongrass essential oil. Cheerful, citrusy scent.

Jasmine Rose Lotion Bar

Exotic mix of rose and jasmine. Rose essential oil is especially good for dry skin.

Serenity Lotion Bar

Relaxing combination of citrus, floral and patchouli essential oils. Inhale deeply and release your anxieties.

Unscented Lotion Bars

Soothing and healing protection for those with sensitive skin. Contains only shea butter, pure cold-pressed olive oil and beeswax. The pleasant honey aroma is from the fresh beeswax.

L-l-lucious lip butters $1.50

Yummy healing for your lips - no sugar added. Made with the same all natural ingredients as our lotion bars, in handy twist tubes. Flavored butters sweetened with honey.

Vanilla 'n' Honey

Cool Peppermint

Juicy Watermelon

Chocolate Truffle

Lemongrass

Unscented/unflavored

Beeswax Candles

Now offering scented votives;)

Hand-dipped tapers - 6 inch - $2.00

Chunky Votives - $2

Unscented

Lavender 'n' Tea Tree

Vanilla

Chocolate Truffle

Lemongrass

Jasmine Rose

Cinnamon

Serenity

Gift Baskets

please specify color and fragrance preferences, etc. in remarks/comments section of order form.

Basic Treats $12.95

Includes one each: Fresh Milk Soap, Homestead Lotion Bar, L-l-lucious Lip Butter, Soap 'n' Lotion Bag and Votive candle nestled together in a cute little basket.

Homesteader Treats - Large $22.50

All the basics plus a large handcrafted hot/cold pad presented in an attractive gift basket.

Horseshoe Treats $18.95

All the basics plus a handcrafted horseshoe neck hot/cold pad all inside a very nice gift basket.

Boo-Boo Treats $17.50

All the basics plus a handcrafted boo-boo bag hot/cold pad all snuggled up in a cozy gift basket.

Handcrafted Hot/Cold Pads

Individually hand sewn pads, hand filled with natural heat/cold retaining rice. Heat in microwave approximately 3 minutes for heating pad; freeze for cold pack. Covers available in various calico prints.

Homesteader's heating pad $10.00