Yuan in the news. February 8, 2009. Sin Chew Jit Poh

Limited Edition Soaps

What you get?

150g Bitter tea soap (Not available in Malaysia yet)

Great for extreme dry skin, pregnant women will adore it.
Its also anti inflammatory, great for combination skin, and if use as shampoo, it helps to prevent further hair greying.

150g Cypress Soap
100G GO

150g Liquorice Hair Soap

(Usual soaps are 100g each)

Free one Eco bag as shown above, with brown paper box(shown above too)



Sets ready for booking. Original Price RM142. Now only for RM128 only. Kindly email for details

Only 60 sets available in Singapore and Malaysia.

Feb 4, 2009. Jin shan and Yang Ming Shan

After reading and imagining myself on visiting Yuan's workshop for so many months, I was finally there this morning. Before I arrived in Jinshan, I already imagined throwing myself on the grass and making butterfly strokes

We were served more tea and snacks upon arrival

Yuan himself showing us how much stirring needed to make soaps. Stirring itself can take up to 6 hours and temperature has to remain low to ensure essential oils would not evaporate and herbs' efficacies do not dwindle to high heat. One of the reason Yuan soaps are softer than other soaps is also due to the low temperature, commercial soaps are much harder as they are made with high temperature which also result in water and mineral lost.

Soaps balls - great as gifts, for hand wash as well as a decorations. Might be selling these soon as requests from friends have been overwhelming.

While we were listening to Yuan's, these were our backgrounds, workers were busy wrapping and slicing up soaps.

Soaps are then left to dry, some up to 45 to 60 days naturally.

To BE CONTINUED...

Feb 3, 2009. Yuan's office in Danshui

My brains went dead on me on my first day at Yuan's office, we spent a full day from 9am to 6pm, even eating lunch boxes in the office to ensure we can crammed various and sufficient informations to be on schedule. Met counterparts from other countries, kept drinking some strangely nice tea called Recovery tea from Aveda (apparently its good for the complexions I was told) and bitting into dried limes to keep me awake for the entire training.

Feb 2, 2009 Touch down in Taipei

Ok, when my sister mentioned we are going to stay in Shih Lin, the district where the famous Shihlin Night Market is located, I was secrectly delighted! I can just walk across the street and voila! I am in for a gastronomical treat!

Taipei

Where am I?

I just visited Yuan's workshop this morning, Yuan is the guy with the black cardigan and khakis pants. Stay in touch with me here while I update the little details from my trip....