Happy Labor Day weekend, everyone! We hope you will take the time to enjoy family and friends.

We are running a special in honor of Labor day:

All Charlie’s Soap laundry powder is 20% off!!!

We are taking the weekend to be with our family and friends. We are celebrating our youngest daughter’s birth 2 years ago on Labor Day! All shipping will resume on Tuesday Sept 8.

Happy Diapering!

We are beginning a series of write-ins and are asking for customer comments and stories. We want to get to know our customers and their cloth diapering routines. We are hoping to get a better idea of what you, the customer, wants from us, your friendly cloth diaper store.

How I started Cloth Diapering:
It was so long ago when I started cloth diapering my first, its hard to remember how I got into it. I was a young mom and being earthy wasn’t even popular yet. I saw a catalog in my midwife’s office and was immediately sold on the idea. This was almost 16 years ago, when all they had were prefolds and rubber pants! My fanciest diapers were prefolds that had velcro on them! I was nursing my baby, making my own baby food, recycling, and using reusable bags, why not cloth diaper as well. My children have rarely had diaper rashes, our utilities did not go up (even with 2 in cloth), and our house isn’t smelly with plastic poop bombs all wadded up in the trash can.

It did not take a lot of convincing to get my husband on board either. He was a little intimidated at first with the diaper origami, but willingly helped with flushing poop and watched closely as I folded and flipped those prefolds on the baby. When our son was born, 11 years later, I found pocket diapers for him. Daddy was on board 100%, and became the ultimate diaper daddy while I was away working a few nights a week. Even our oldest daughter helped out in changing diapers with the ease of pockets.

A little while after our son was born, we were presented with the opportunity to purchase the Sunshine Diapers company, and the rest is as they say, history! My husband immediately supported the endeavor and we have been on a mission to educate new parents on the benefits of cloth diapers to babies, economy, and the environment ever since. When our 3rd child was born, we used the opportunity to test out new and exciting diapers on her. Always striving to bring our customers quality and affordable cloth diapering products, that have been tested by us on our own children.

We want to know how you got into cloth diapers. Was your significant other on board immediately or need convincing? How about the rest of the family, did your mother-in-law turn up her nose, or quickly start knitting up wool soakers for you?

A letter from the President of Charlie’s Soap was recently sent out regarding the “soap bricks” that some of you may have been shipped. He informed us that the summer humidity and the new cloth bags did not go over too well and that they are working on the problem. As a matter of fact it may have been cleared up as we write this and bags shipping now should not arrive to you in bricks. However, if it does arrive to you all caked together, or becomes like a brick and is un scoopable here is what they recommend:

“So here’s the scoop…pun intended, sorry. If you can break up the Powder you may have in the old bag, it will still work just as fine, even if the consistency isn’t quite nice. If you have a completely solid brick that you can’t work with, let us know and we’ll get you another one.

That’s the news from the Charlie’s Soap front. We spend half the day in front of the drawing board always thinking and innovating for you, our loyal fans.” -Taylor Sutherland, President of Charlie’s Soap.

So they will replace any brick bags you may receive. Please contact us and we will let you know who to get in touch with. Thank you for your continued support as we strive to offer you the most superior products and customer service.

Rhea Bush, CDO
(Chief Diaper Officer)

We have made some changes to the Charlie’s soap products increase to better serve our customers. We have brought back free shipping on 3 bags, so now you can choose 3, 4, or more bags and get free shipping. 1 and 2 bags still have flat rate shipping of $4.95. We have dropped the price a little bit. Our price is now lower then the Charlie’s retail website. We are doing all we can in these trying economic times to help our customers. Thanks for your continued support!

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