Dragon Soap!

[tank4102]

you should make specific scents for seasons
fall-pumpkin
winter-cinnamon
spring-unkown
summer- unkown

i preferably would like the cinnamon one =]

 

[ez2bbad64]

if you need a tester Ricco is a smelly dragon! loves making a mess out of himself if you dont clean his poo within the first couple minutes of him "leaving" it!. i have wanted to find a safe soap to make him smell better!lol

 

[FaaFaa]

How are things progressing?

 

[TheDragonKeepers]

Hallo folks! Sorry about the lack of reply, I've been laid low with a virus.

I received the first batch a couple of days ago and interestingly, it smells a lot like liquorice! The basil and lemon is definitely there, I'm guessing the water will bring the scent out better. The lizards will be getting their first dragon soap scrubbing today - if all goes well, I shall report back and let people know what's happening with the remaining bars

The chemist is also back, and he's said that I can get the soap put into my name for development if it goes forward as a business line.

 

[TheDragonKeepers]

Soap trial, test day one, assistant: Kyle.

Phase one - introduction.
Enter soap. Green with yellow highlights. Smells extraordinary, a delicate combination of plasticine and licorice at first sniff. Picture taken shortly after her first lick, considering the flavour. My personal initial lick is that it's quite salty. Himself and I had a nibble off a corner each (as promised) and have deduced it's quite like a salty margarine. He's never tried soap before, and has classed it as definitely quite salty. Not a surprise there, as soap is technically a salt. You've got the olive oil, a fatty acid, and lye, a powerful alkalide. Chemistry says combine the two, you get a salt.

Phase two - trial.
Scrub down. One wet dragon plus soap equals one very foamy dragon! A nice, fine lather, no extravagant bubbles, but a very pleasing cleansing effect. My secondary lick decides that it would probably be alright on toast with a savoury topping, not that I recommend anyone try it. The slightly bitter yucca flavour is quite dominant. Interestingly, yucca extract is often added to dragon food as it helps reduce the smell of the waste! Not the most flattering angle for Kyle there, but you can see a fine layer of foam across her scales.

Kyle enjoying her scrub, not a trace of grey in her usually grumpy features - in fact, a happy orange glow is just deducable in her soapy beard. She has a lick of the foam at this point and declares it bubbly on the tongue. Another lick confirms. A fine lather, but doing a grand job of cleaning the muck off her - the stains on her tail lifted admirably due to the lemon and yucca combination.

Phase three - rinseoff.
Looking much cleaner as we start to rinse her off. I noticed at this point that it'd been about 15 minutes and I still hadn't got prune fingers. Her scales are also surprisingly shiny - this soap's got some pretty good moisturising leet skills! I've never seen her ACTUALLY glitter!

Phase four - cleandown.
One very clean, surprisingly happy dragon. Kyle's not known for her smiles unless she's either eating or shoved in a jumper. The blend of fruits and herbs I've used has produced a good cleaning effect, and a rather good dragonstank neutraliser, rendering her normally yicky wet dragon smell (akin to wet dog with coffee thrown on it) to dragony but sweet smelling.

Some hours later, she's still smelling pretty decent, her scales are still very smooth and I'm rather impressed!

Those people that wanted some from me, I'm now selling pieces at cost (as they're a trial run) - please leave a message on here and drop me an address on my PM. Roughly 1.5" by 2.5" by 1" blocks, approx 50g.

UK: Soap: £2 ea. As it's classed as a packet (too fat for large letter), P&P will be £1.30.
USA: Soap: $3.25 ea. Not sure about postage, if Royal Mail's website makes sense, I can send it airmail (about 5 days) for roughly $4 but I need to check that first. I'll ask His Lordship to nip into our central post office and enquire.

Very limited supply, please remember this is a test batch at cost price, and to use with caution as it is not yet certified - repeat, this is an uncertified test batch, use at your own risk. (Though I and my partner have eaten bits of it, used it myself and tried it on the dragons.) The funds will go straight back to my dragons as a new supply of butterworms!

If you test-folks like the soap, I shall look into doing it properly. The certification costs about £150 and sorting some proper labelling (as will need under certification to sell legally). I need to look at a larger manufacturing supply and how much my overheads will be, but I will always try to keep my price fair. I'm only half-Jewish, so I stick by just half of the family saying: Buy Low. (Normally Buy Low, Sell High, but I'm trying to keep costs down all round. )

 

[ez2bbad64]

if you have enough i would like to buy some of your test batch from you

 

[Neromom39]

Sign me up...

 

[Pipandmerlin]

Sounds a really good idea. Merlin does smell a little when bathed so haveing a nice fresh smell is great. You should look into selling in UK through an outlet when your all sorted.

 

[TheDragonKeepers]

Being as the next two months are going to be fairly busy, I'll put the next stage aside until the beginning of the new year, as I have to find a larger scale supplier which might be tricky prior to certification.

However this will give me plenty of time to work on some ideas - I've been speaking with a couple of senior members whom make dragony stuff about gift-packs and bathtime treat kits - so watch this space!

I have still got bits of the test batch up for grabs, so swing me a PM

 

[bluesoda025]

I'd like to try a bar actually. How much would shipping to Canada cost?

 

[TheDragonKeepers]

Call it the same - it does say "rest of world" on the website. I'm not worried about a few "cents" over

 

[GraphiK]

Love to try a bar. I would also try it out on my Argentine Black and White Tegu. You may have yourself on all around reptile soap!

 

[TheDragonKeepers]

I love Tegus! A monitor is the next lizard on my "list" of dream pets - but I'm not getting one whilst I have the dragons - and I love my dragons huuuuuuge-much. You'll have to let me know if s/he likes it

I got your PM and winged one back - sling me an address and I'll fix you up an envelope.

Hmm - "Big Lizard Bubbles"?

 

[TheDragonKeepers]

I'm rather proud of my packing so far! I've done cute little rustic brown paper and string parcels for the soaps. It's taken me forever to do, but they look truly quaint and eccentric-ly English. I'm looking forwards to people receiving them

 

[atnas666]

well i've payed and every ting now so let hope the post dont hold it up to much looking foward to giving the two lil ones a bath.. and to see what they make of it...