This picture was taken in 1953. Looking at it, for me, is like stepping back into those summer days almost sixty years ago. First, it makes me laugh... This "picture taking" was serious business!

So many memories...I once had a lovely mud-pie factory below the living room window on the south side of the house. It was there that I cooked up hundreds of "gumbo" cookies in my cardboard box oven. The ingredients have changed; the pot is bigger, but the commitment to a great product is still the same.

At the Montana Soap Lady shop we carefully craft natural soap made from saponified Olive Oil; Coconut Oil; Palm Fruit Oil; Sweet Almond Oil; Castor Oil, and Shea Butter using cosmetic-grade pigments, botanicals like oatmeal, and lavender buds with fragrance...or not.