Do you know Soak? If not you totally should! Soak is the fine washing product that makes life a little more happy, keeps fabric (from knit goods to quilts to baby things) as lovely as the day you bought them and it smells divine. Happy smells = Happy Maddie
For those with sensitivities the fine Soak-folk have unscented products as well….but heaven help me I am hooked on the happy aromatherapy scents that make up the soak line.
I am currently crushing on Pineapple Grove, but the Fig has a place in my heart and Celebration lifts my spirits every time I use it. And use it I do!… you can find all three parts of the Soak family line of products in my house.
You can find a bottle of Soak up in my bathroom for washing out delicates and knits as well as one in the laundry room for when I wash quilts. This is really a wonderful mild wash that works for so many things and I learn a bit more about it each time I visit their Soak School page . I am going to try it next on my beauty tools!
You can find Flatter in my sewing studio as well as in my closet! Flatter not only makes ironing smoother and faster it smells amazing, but since it is also a static eliminator and relaxes wrinkles I keep a bottle in my closet to spritz clothes that ~might~ have been left to sit in the dryer a bit too long and therefore have a few wrinkles (ahem).
Check in my purse and you will a find a bottle of their Handmaid lotion in my scent-dejour helping keep my hands soft (handling fabric all the time really dries out the skin!)
This company rocks! and we are so very excited to have them as one of our new BadAss sponsors for 2017…. so you can look forward to a lot more Soak education as well as giveaways… hint hint.. keep reading!
But possibly the best thing is that I know the owner and think of her as a friend. Jacqueline Sava is one rockin’ woman.
Canadian business woman, new mother of twins and a rather stunning human all while being wickedly funny. I have a serious heart for woman-owned businesses and part of the mission of BAQS is to highlight the good… and Soak is good stuff for sure! I encourage you to support them when you see their products at your local quilt and knit shops or online at www.soak.com Free shipping on order over $25!
You know how this works…. we love a good party here at BAQS and what is a party without favors!!! This time we are going to be giving away THREE of the Travel size Soak Holiday sets! Perfect for traveling in the new year! You really are going to adore Soak…. so come to the party! We will have THREE happy winners this time!
Leave a comment here telling us about your best scent related memory and you will be entered for one of the THREE sets we will be giving away. We will pick our winner on the 30th of December and announce your name by live stream! So make sure to check back in!
So please dont laugh at this but there is a particular scent to clay that we use to use when I was in nursery and kindergarten. It was this gray clay that we would make items with and leave it to harden. That smell always takes me back to those days with fond childhood memories.
Mmmmm. Scents in the sewing room. Lovely.
Vanilla cinnamon lavender grapefruit… all scents i enjoy… Its all in what mood I’m in.
My best scent related memory is whenever I smell orange citrus I thing about being at Disney Epcot riding Soarin…love it
My favorite scent of the holidays is the smell of grandma’s home made pies. Since she can’t make em anymore it’s up to me to carry on the tradition
Growing up, we used to go apple picking every fall and I took my children this year to the same orchard. The sweet and tangy smell of the over ripe and bruised apples underfoot brought me all the way back to those family adventures…
I would love to try Soak. Hope I win!
Every time I smell honey almond lotion I’m 7 years old again! The grocery store near us had the giant (to me?) bottles of the stuff that smelled marvelous. I always made sure my mother kept us supplied in it!
I just got a bottle of Flatter in fig. Very nice.
My favorite scented memory is the smell of my grandmother’s house. It always smelled like tea cookies and a fire.
My favorite smell is the smell of my son’s head 🙂
I love the smell of any fruit!! It always brings a happy feeling instantly!! Fruity smells always seem to freshen the air. Of course bread and cookies baking bring family memories and a smile on my face plus inches on my hips!! LOL!! Merry Christmas!
Cinnamon that’s the scent that I love. I’m in heaven when ever I bake with it or walk by somewhere that is baking with it. Nothing better.
The scent of fresh pineapple reminds me of my sweet grandma and her love of everything new and fresh. She loved pineapples, the prickly outside that had such a sweet, smooth inside…..just like many people! Never judge someone by there looks. Yum pineapple and grandma too
Fresh baked bread on a cold winters day.
My Grandmother got me into quilting. She stored all her fabric in a cedar lined closet and when she passed I was given that fabric. It has been year, but whenever I use a piece of that fabric (press it) I smell that cedar and it takes me instantly to her. love
Love Christmas scents! They always make me smile.
The sneak if lavender from a small ceramic bottle that my Nana had and loved. I’m not sure how the bottle got scented but I would always find it and take a whiff every time I got the chance to go to her house! As I remember that small bottle, I remember the times I spent with her!
My favorite scent memory is walking into my grandma’s house and smelling all the cooking and baking going on. She never bought bread. She baked and cooked all the time.
Baking chocolate chip cookies with my brother and sister on Christmas Eve for Santa! Every time I smell a chocolate chip cookie, it takes me back to childhood.
Honeysuckle and gardenia are my favorite scents, they remind me of my mom who passed in 1997.
I am a Florida girl born and raised but have lived elsewhere for 20+ years. The beach is my happy pace and I miss it terribly so I keep a beach scented air freshener in my car. It takes me back to the place that I love and I can pretend that I am driving to or from the beach every time I get in my car!
I love and use Flatter (the Fig scent is currently in my sewing room). I can’t wait to try the new Pineapple Grove scent!
Lilacs in my grandmother’s yard were always a welcome scent.
One whiff of honeysuckle and I am a small child in my grandmothers garden. She had an amazing honeysuckle bush growing just outside the garden, up and over a cement block wall. I am blessed that she gave a clipping to my mother who gave me a clipping when I settled in a house. I now have my very own honeysuckle bush sweetening the summer breeze to share with my own granddaughter.
The smell of lilacs always reminds me of my Grandma, who was always my hero and the person I most wanted to be like it the world….
One day I was in my sewing room and all of a sudden smelled chocolate cookies baking. It was actually my husband roastinga new coffee.
My favorite scent related memory was being out at the mall perfume store, checking out the smell goods (and a few smell bads lol) and I came across one that a good friend and I used to wear–I had no idea they even still made it! One whiff and I was back in Florida at happy hours Friday at our old haunts…having a good time! It was such a powerful memory that I bought a bottle right then. Now every time I wear it, I’m taken back to those fun times in my 20s and my best friend.
My favorite scent memory is the smell of the freshly laundered and ironed sheets at my grandmother’s house. She made a mean tight bed (I’ve never seen sheets that crisp and smooth). I don’t know if the scent was laundry detergent, spray starch or what…but if I smelled it right now…it would take me right back to gramma’s house (spending a week or two at her house in the summers was the bomb).
Have never tried Soak. sounds like it would be a great product
My grandparents’ house always smelled of toast and coffee in the mornings when I visited as a child. Sometimes, we make my house smell just like that and it arrests me for a moment. I get to stop and remember happy summer days, with the kindest people I’ve ever known. ❤️
My best memory is smelling a chunk of Amber during an aromatherapy class. I just love that scent!
Forgot to add my scent memory. My Mother wore este lauded youth dew. Maddie was talking about it yesterday. That stuff was awful! Just hearing the words brought back stinky memories. Lol ?
The best memory is smelling bacon cooking on Sunday morning with my grandpa smoking a cigarette. Sounds icky doesn’t it. But those two smells together always brings back memories of my beloved grandpa. Oh lordy I am tearing up. Must be dust in the air.
Chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven…yummm!
The smell of home made candy being made in my mothers kitchen at Christmas time. Ohhh what a wonderful smell.
I love that first lawn mowing each spring… nothing quite beats the smell of freshly cut grass.
Except maybe freshly baked bread… or chocolate chip cookies… or when you brew that first cup of coffee in the morning…
Wait, wait… you said one… oh well! 🙂
Walking in from the cold, snowy outdoors and the heavenly smell of Mom’s bread baking in the oven!
This time of year I rock on the aroma of my Italian grandmother”s chicken soup. She made sure all the kiddos had a steaming bowl of goodness while we waited for Santa on Christmas Eve.
The smell of lilac and honeysuckle take me back immediately to my dearly loved grandmother who had them in her yard! She often cut branches and brought them in the house so her whole house smelled like flowers!
My grandfather’s pipe tobacco- ugly cried when I could no longer smell it in his house
(I learned once that our olfactory organs and scents trigger more memories than any of our other senses!)
My paternal grandmother planted sweet peas in her front yard every year. As a very young girl, I spent a lot of time in that tiny fenced yard, drawing with chalk on the sidewalk, playing hopscotch, picking sweet peas, and popping fuchsia blossoms. Whenever I smell sweet peas, I’m transported back to being five years old and I can literally feel the warm cement on my legs and hands!
I always have a Cranberry Original Cake Candle during the holiday season. My two mid-twenty sons now think of it as the smell of Christmas. When they visit they comment fondly of how the scent brings back fond memories. Thank you!
I can smell when the cookies are done. That’s my super scent power!
My favorite scent memory is when I got a bacon scented candle as a gag gift one year for Christmas. Since I love the smell of bacon I lit it and went about my morning. My poor dog was going crazy running from the kitchen to my sewing room whining the whole time. It took me a while to realize he thought there was bacon in the house because of that candle. After a good giggle I took pity on my poor pooch and made him some bacon.