Giveaway Monday ~ Essential Journeys Soap & Lip Lube

I love tucking small, quality items into Christmas stockings and this year many of those items are coming from Essential Journeys. Located in Asheville, NC - not far from my hometown of Highlands, NC - Essential Journeys' founder Kimberly Masters combines her creativity with her love of cycling and travel to make some amazing soaps, lotions and chapsticks.

EJ's Soap By the Slice™ is handcrafted with "...fresh vegetable oils, vegetable glycerin, humectant moisturizers, aloe vera, vitamin E, essential oils, fragrance oils, FD&C Color and natural pigments." They're made from the finest ingredients with no animal products and are not tested on animals. Although, they do admit that their dog soaps are tested on humans! Soap by the Slice™ glycerin soaps are perfect for sensitive skin because the soaps leave your skin moisturized and feeling soft.

Check out a few of the amazing designs~

Creme Brulee

 Green Tea and Wasabi

Jasmine Dove

 Peace Dove

And that's just a small sampling. There are a ton of great seasonal scents like Apple Cider, Candy Cane, Cinnamon Cheer, Evergreen, Pumpkin Gingerbread and Snowflake.

As a cyclist and outdoor enthusiast, Kimberly has designed a line of SPF 15 Lube for the Lips™ which also protects ears, nose and face from sun and wind. Lube for the Lips is made with bees wax and vitamin E and is paraben-, paba- and mineral oil-free.

Essential Journeys also produces a line of Lotion for the Body™. Their lotions are vitamin-rich moisturizers that nourish your skin. The thick lotion formula absorbs quickly, keeping the skin soft, supple, and luxuriously hydrated. I've been using their Thai Lemongrass with Shea Butter and love both the light scent and the way it leaves my skin feeling soft and hydrated for an extended period of time.

This week you have a chance to win a great package that includes one travel size Lotion for the Body in Thai Lemongrass scent, one 4oz bar of Soap by the Slice in Lavender Vanilla, and three tubes of Lube for the Lips in Kiwi Lime, Pedaling Peppermint and Vanilla Swirl. Use the products yourself, split them up into stockings, or wrap them up in a gift basket.

Here's how to enter. You can do just one, or all, and you'll receive one entry for each task~

1. Visit the Essential Journeys website, then leave a comment here telling me which bar of soap you'd like to see in your stocking.
2. Follow @soapslice on Twitter.
3. Like Essential Journeys on Facebook.
4. Share this blog post on Facebook.
5. Retweet this blog post on Twitter.

Let me know in the comments which of these you've done, so I can be sure to give you the appropriate number of entries. And leave me a way to contact you!

Good luck!











PS: Be sure to check out my post on stocking stuffers at the Green Phone Booth today for some ideas and another giveaway! It's part of the Booth's Meaningful Memories series.