Here’s the last giveaway! It has been a fun two weeks giving away things I love and use. Thanks for all the support!
Have you ever used a good bar of handmade goat’s milk soap? They seem to last forever, lather wonderfully, and are so good for your skin. I enjoy using them so much I really should learn how to make my own. Today’s giveaway includes one bar of each of the following from Country Soaps by Marlene:
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| Tangerine Twist |
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| Oatmeal Milk and Honey |
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| Kickin Cocoa |
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| Cherokee Creek |
To enter leave a comment sharing what scents take you back to your childhood. Enter using the rafflecopter.
Several of the giveaways are still open! All will end by Saturday morning. Winners will be chosen and displayed in one post on Sunday.
So many scents remind me of my childhood, but one of the top would have to be Vaseline lotion. To me, that is synonymous with my grandparents’ house. Other scents are baking bread, the brine from canning pickles, and cow manure.
Apples and applesauce. I love fall and when I eat a Golden or Red Delicious apple, I am home. Most apples smell the same, but I can taste when I am eating applesauce from Golden and Red Delicious. It is heaven and home.
These look wonderful! I love scented soaps although I didn’t grow up using bar soap. I need to get some though because my skin is too sensitive for all the chemical soaps in the store.
I would have to say the childhood scent I most remember is biscuits baking. My mom made them to go with dinner almost nightly. That amount of lard in my childhood explains so much! Anyway, I love a good goat milk soap, as you know. As a matter of fact, my favorite soap maker is having a sale this weekend. I see a purchase in my future…
Now that my parents live in the mountains, I love catching the moment on the drive up where you no longer smell city, but forest.
Ivory Soap and roses take me to my Great Grandmothers house in Salt Lake City. My sister and I stayed with her for some time while my mom recovered from a bull attack. I remember being in her bathroom and smelling the soap. And the roses…well any time I smell roses I am taken back to the time when we drove all the way from Idaho and pulled into her driveway. I jumped out of our red truck and was enveloped in the sweet smell of roses that lined her driveway.
So many smells! Wood stove smoke is a general home smell as well as pine trees. The rest are easy-chocolate chip cookies and lilacs for mom, ivory soap for my dad, and that super duty orange soap and motor oil for my grandpa.
I would have to say fresh from the oven chocolate chip cookies
My mom would bake homemade bread which smelled so great and I also love the smell of wood stove smoke. It reminds me of the cold winters growing up.
The smell of low tide. It’s a salty, damp, old smell, but it brings me right back to the Alaskan fishing boat I grew up on. I love it, but I sure don’t want a soap that smells that way.
I love, Love, LOVE goat soap! Thanks for a chance to win!
I grew up in an OLD house in Walla Walla, Washington that had a long staircase leading to the attic. We loved to play up there in the wintertime, but it was HOT in the summer. This is a little gross, but the attic smelled of dead flies when we’d go up when it started to get cold. How’s that for a childhood memory? I can imagine the smell to this day….
A scent that takes me back to childhood is menthol. My mom would always use Vicks Vap o Rub when we were sick. It sure helped to clear up my stuffy nose!
One scent that really takes me back is the smell of an orange tree. Not the sweet smell of oranges, but the tangy scent of the tree.
The sauce of a particular pasta salad my mother made (which we now make about twice a month), the scent of old furniture or closets, which reminds me of visits to my grandmother’s house, and (playing off rneweyfamily’s comment above) the scent of orange trees in blossom – which used to grow in groves along the streets in Mesa and pervade the air with their delicious scent.
Campfire. We grew up poor, and although we knew we were poorer than others, never felt poor because we always had so much fun. We loved camping. I still love camping and we do it often.
I also like the smell of hot tar. The smell of a HOT summer day, with rain that has just fallen and hot tar off the road, takes me back to childhood. I know, it is wierd, but I love the smell.
Homemade bread reminds me of my childhood. I used to help make bread and loved to let it raise by the fireplace! Also the smell of fresh cut grass reminds me of laying down and watching the clouds go by and seeing animals. Need to make more time for that.
The scent that comes to mind would be the smell of my strawberry shortcake doll. 🙂
The scent of bacon reminds me of my Grandma’s house.
the scent that really takes me back to my childhood is freshly mowed grass. But not for the reason that seems typical, as a kid I was so allergic to grass, I had to stay inside from recess when they mowed the grass at school. So it was never something I liked, as soon as I caught a whiff I’d seek shelter inside. Now I can breathe it in without problems and I find myself enjoying it!
When I was in junior high school, my mom often had homemade cinnamon rolls waiting when I walked in the door. MMMMmmmmm!
Certain types of makeup and face creams remind me of my mom, and Watkins medicated ointment reminds me of my dad. And I totally have to agree with Richelle above who said Strawberry Shortcake doll. Oh yeah! I smell that and I’m taken right back in time!
Certain types of makeup and face creams remind me of my mom, and Watkins medicated ointment reminds me of my dad. And I totally have to agree with Richelle above who said Strawberry Shortcake doll. Oh yeah! I smell that and I’m taken right back in time!
Chocolate, new mown grass, clean clothes fresh off the line.
Lilacs. They were all over in the small town I grew up in. I love those things.
The oatmeal and Honey look wonderful, and I bet smell great!
Roses, pine trees, and chlorine bring me back to being a child. 🙂
Baking smells, mostly…pinetrees, wet chapparel
Pine trees, honey and carnations.
I would have to say fresh baked bread. It reminds me of elementary school lunch and of Thanksgiving at my grandma’s house.
Fresh chocolate chip cookies and french bread. Two of my favorite things my mom made.
The smell of licorice, my adopted grandmother (eldery neighbor) from across our street used to smell like red licorice. She ate it all the time:)
vanilla, mmm
Ah shucks! I snoozed, thus I “loosed”… Sigh… I love nice soaps. LOL How cool of you to do this! 🙂