Pleasant River Soap Blog

Thank you LA Examiner for featuring Pleasant River Soap in your Holiday Beauty Guide!  Check it out here or shop now.

Ramping it up: A story of taking your business to the next level By Gigi Guyton, Special to the BDN: Posted Oct. 27, 2011, at 4:13 p.m.       What started as a conversation over a hot cup of coffee on a cold winter’s night has turned into a full-time business for Mary Phipps. She [...]

Thank you to my design and branding team at Pulp+Wire for our two most recent packaging and branding awards! The Maine Ad Club every 18 months holds the Broderson Awards which showcases the best designs in Maine. This year Pleasant River Soap was awarded top recognition for our branding and soap packaging by a panel [...]

Check out Pleasant River Soap Co. featured on TheFrisky.com. Great article on our lip balms, thank you Frisky for such a great endorsement.  

Again! Awesome our packaging design (thanks to Pulp+Wire) was recently featured in the July 2011 issue of the French magazine Formes de Luxe, which features luxury packaging from around the world. Our design team crafted a “‘ye olde urban apothecary” aesthetic to reinvigorate the company’s soap and lip balm packaging. Each box allows the gorgeous, [...]

A New Beginning Thanks to everyone for your patience as Pleasant River Soap underwent its tremendous transformation in 2010.  As any new year brings new beginnings, new possibilities, new plans, so has it brought them to Pleasant River Soap Co., LLC.  First and foremost, for those of you who don’t know, the folks at Pulp+Wire in Portland, ME have [...]