Confession: This post was supposed to go up last month. In fact, I’ve actually had this post ready to post for a few weeks now, but for some reason I couldn’t muster up the motivation to do a final edit on it and press post. What’s that about?
Things have been a little quiet here on Granny Girls for a bit. Life lately has been swamped with a healthy dose of changes, a new job, press for a new show, side projects and anything else you can file under “Makes Me Overwhelmed.” I’m the first to admit that I’m not good with change. And I’m also not good at managing my time wisely (aka I tend to overload my plate with way too many commitments, exhaust myself trying to “do it all,” then throw my hands up in the air in defeat and not finish any of them). It’s a Classic Crew syndrome, as I like to call it. All joking aside, it frustrates me to no end because it’s a repeated pattern that I always seem to battle.
So here I am a month late on posting this, but still doing it. So that’s something.
Last month Amber & I were invited to check out a cute shop called Bath Bar in Hermosa Beach. Side note: If you live in Los Angeles but hate driving to Santa Monica and dealing with the crowds, I highly recommend checking out this adorable little beach town.
Created & owned by Kristina Vogel, Bath Bar is a place where you can create your own custom fragrance (with plenty of help from their excellently scent-trained staff) and then add it to a wide range of bath products from lotions to perfumes to body washes and so much more.
Obviously Amber & I jumped at the opportunity to make our own personal scents.
After drooling over the decor in the shop (hello adorable couch), Kristina and her awesome associate Kelsey helped us create our own fragrances.
As you can see, Bath Bar offers a HUGE range of scents from floral to fruity to woodsy. It was a bit intimidating to choose from their giant selection of scented essential oils but Kristina & Kelsey were extremely knowledgable and helped guide us through the process.
We each started with one scent that we knew we loved. I chose Egyptian Musk & Amber chose Black Current. From there, the girls showed us scents that paired well with our base scent to compliment and balance it out. After much humming and hawing, Amber & I finally settled on our custom scent cocktail.
Mine: Egyptian Musk, Vanilla and White Patchouli Flower
Amber’s: Coconut, Black Current, China Musk & China Rain
After you create your signature scent, you can choose what product you want to get with your scent whether it be a body lotion, a body wash, bath salts or hair butter. We both decided on a a roll-on perfume and Kristina whipped it up right in front of us!
Added bonus, Bath Bar’s products contain biodegradable, natural and organic ingredients, have no parabens and are free of cruelty testing.
Kristina was an absolute delight to meet. Her passion for what she does is so apparent from the details in her shop to her personal care for her customers.
Also, Kelsey has an amazing line of candles that are sold at Bath Bar called Piece by Paz. They are made from recycled wine bottles and smell AMAZING! Naturally I had to buy one. I chose Bad Habit, a mix of “sweet tobacco, creamy vanilla and crisp white tea.”
We had so much fun learning about scents and meeting Kristina and Kelsey. If you are ever in the Hermosa Beach area you should definitely check them out. They also host parties in their space where everyone gets to make their own scented bath product. And if you aren’t in Southern California, you can buy their products online here.
And thanks for being cool with my absence around here.
