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SOAP
from her logger husband,
Clayton.
“It even removes pitch
from my husband’s beard
with ease,” she said.
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The essential oils add
scents to the soaps. Allen
uses lavender, pink grape-
fruit, tea tree, eucalyptus,
peppermint, rosemary and
geranium and many more.
“The sky’s the limit”
in what oils can be used,
she said.
According to Encyclo-
pedia Britannica, essen-
tial oils are considered
“essential” because they
are thought to represent
the very essence of odor
and fl avor.
Once the batch is thor-
oughly mixed, Allen pours
it into a mold. The mold
is a silicon liner she pur-
chased that’s placed in a
wooden frame built by
her husband.
She then adds her own
artistic fl air by decorating
what will become the tops
of the soap bars.
The block is allowed to
cool and saponify for 24
hours before being cut. The
bars are then left to cure
for four to six weeks before
they’re ready for market.
Marketing
Until now, Allen has
largely just sold her prod-
ucts in person but she has
expanded to include a few
local outlets, such as the
Lower Valley Farmers
Market in Wallowa, M.
Crow in Lostine and the
Josephy Center for Arts
and Culture in Joseph.
She intends to continue
to participate as a vendor
in such events as the
Christmas bazaars in the
county and expand to also
attend the “spring extrava-
The future?
Bill Bradshaw/Wallowa County Chieftain
Chrystal Allen, owner of Chrystal Springs Soapery in Wallowa,
pours the completed mixture into a mold Wednesday, April 13,
2022, to allow the soap she sells to set up before selling.
ganza” bazaar in Lewiston,
Idaho, as well as their
Christmas bazaar.
As for prices, most
soaps sell for $7 per bar
or $20 for three bars. But
that’s in person. When
sold on her website, www.
chrystalspringsoapery.
com, they go for $8 a bar
— plus shipping — and
$9 each at M Crow and
the Josephy Center. Other
prices are available online.
A one-woman show
what help her decide how
to adjust recipes. And
she’s gotten some valu-
able feedback.
One such opinion came
“I want to keep things
steady and keep growing,”
Allen said of her plans for
the future.
She said she’s always
interested in expanding,
but is taking it slowly. At
present, in addition to bar
soaps, she sells a solid
dish soap, an exfoliating
pouch, mineral bath salt
soaks, body butter and
beeswax lip balm, among
other products.
“Right now, I’m trying
to perfect my deodorant
recipe,” she said. “I won’t
sell something that I don’t
love or that I wouldn’t
use myself.”
She gives plenty of
weight to the opinions of
her friends and family who
try her products.
“When everyone says
it’s great, then I’ll start
selling it,” she said.
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2022
TECH
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Shutting down ad person-
alization won’t entirely
prevent advertisers from
stalking you, but it should
cut down on the number of
companies that have your
data, Germain says.
If you have an iPhone
or iPad, a feature in the
iOS 15 operating software
update called the “App Pri-
vacy Report “ can show
how you’re being pro-
fi led and tracked, sug-
gests Emory Roane, policy
counsel at Privacy Rights
Clearinghouse.
“Turn that on, leave it
running for a week or two,
and then it’ll tell you a very
detailed list of which apps
are doing what,” Roane
says. “It’s a great, great
resource for iOS users.”
Firefox or Brave, Germain
suggests.
Also, try to slow down.
Many sites and apps ask
you to make privacy deci-
sions on the fl y, making it
easy to click on the wrong
spot in your rush to get rid
of the pop-up screen.
“All it takes is that one
incorrect answer, and sud-
denly, you’ve given all these
permissions,” Sullivan says.
Finally, if you care about
privacy, let your lawmakers
know. Consumers are
“woefully ill equipped” to
fi ght all the ways our data
is being mined and used,
Roane says.
“The real ‘quick tip’ is
that you need to call your
representative and tell them
to support stronger privacy
laws,” he says.
Liz Weston, Certified Financial
Planner, is a personal finance
columnist for NerdWallet.
Questions may be sent to her
at 3940 Laurel Canyon, No.
238, Studio City, CA 91604, or
by using the “Contact” form at
asklizweston.com.
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on data mining is to switch
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Allen said her oper-
ation is largely a one-
woman show.
“I really do it all
myself, other than friends
and family trying them
out and giving me their
honest opinions,” she
said.
Those opinions are
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