We have new labels!!!

This has been a long time coming. There is a constant tuning and fine tuning happening here at Frontier Angel. My personal mission is about growth and improvement and it makes sense that this business of mine is an outlet for my passion for betterment.
But unlike in my personal life, changes in procedure, or product, or packaging can understandably take a long time. This move to a new labeling system has been on my mind for years and one of the biggest hurdles has been making the leap to punch holes in my soap! "What if people don't like the hole?

Our new labels are rolling out for holiday season 2025. Along with our beautiful gift kits, and fun gingerbread people soaps, you will be able to get your hands on the new hangtag style labeling on the gorgeous handmade soaps you have always enjoyed from Frontier Angel.

The new hangtag labels sit on the front of the bar and are strung through the bar on a short length of jute. All parts of this bar are now zero waste with completely consumable and compostable product and packaging. No more tape! No more loose labels! AND you can now see the whole bar, with all of its swirls and waves of color, before you get it home. 

All of our packaging on our bar soap is PCW (post consumer waste) and recyclable and compostable. And all of our label art is still made by either myself or by local artists<3

Well, I've gone around and around about it and I have decided that this hole means that we have chosen the environment over the possible loss of sales. And when it sits on your sink or in your shower, it will also mean that you have chosen the environment over the familiar comfort of...a bar without a hole! Now that I've taken the leap, it seems silly to have hemmed and hawed about it for so long;)

One more little tidbit that comes to mind about the hole. I lived on Maui for several years when my son and I were young. In that time we picked up some cultural habits as many of us do when we love a place and its people. In Hawaiian "Puka" means hole. This could be any hole! A hole in a wall, in a board, many have heard of a shell called a puka shell, which usually refers to a certain kind of shell that when it wares down by the ocean, naturally forms a hole at the center of a spiral. But a puka could be a hole in any shell or rock. I have personally been referring to the new holes in my soap as pukas, and I invite you to as well.