Gigi's Handmade Products

Gigi's Handmade Products Handmade eco-friendly lotion bars and knitted goods created with vintage yarn The lotion bars came about as a result of making lemonade out of lemons.

The Story of Gigi’s Handmade products:

About me:

I am a 60 something grandmother (of 6 wonderful grandkids, and hopefully more) that raised 4 kids and worked fulltime in health care for 30+ years. When my husband and I decided to retire to Beech Mountain, I had the time to begin creating handmade products. I started knitting and then one thing led to another and there were bees, and beeswax, and

lotion bars. If you know a crafter, you know that many of us have a bad habit of buying the components of our craft but being unable to finish what we had hoped to create. A family member has stores of vintage wool yarn, that would otherwise end up in a landfill somewhere. They were kind enough to donate it to me, and I am creating several products with this warm wool. We raise bees, and we had 2 hives that decided to swarm in the fall, and we had many frames of comb, with nowhere to store it. I discovered a recipe to make lotion bars, and made them for Christmas presents, and they were a great hit. Doing more research, I discovered that lotions are mostly made of water and lots of chemicals like Phytosphingosine (and other unpronounceable ingredients) and the packaging is almost always plastic. Currently most of us have the equivalent of a credit cards worth of plastic in our bodies and every bottle of lotion we use and dispose of just adds to the pollution. When we buy bottles of lotion, we are paying mostly for water and creating more plastic waste. By using lotion bars, we are getting more product for our money, and as our packaging is compostable, the bar and the package are ecologically friendly. I hope you enjoy my crafts. About Gigi’s Handmade Products
The yarn for the knit goods is Vintage 100% Virgin Worsted Wool, purchased 30-40 years ago

Created in a pet friendly smoke free home. Each product was handwashed after knitting. To care for the products, hand wash only in gentle (made for hand washing) detergent gently squeeze out water, roll up in a towel to remove most of the water and then shape and allow to air dry. Do not machine wash or dry! The lotion bars are made of organic coconut oil, organic shea butter, organic essential oils for scent, and beeswax. We do not treat our bees with any chemicals, but with 50,000 bees in a hive, I can’t track where they go, so I do not label the wax as organic, because I can’t say so with certainty. Store lotion bars in the bag they came in, in a cool place out of the sun. A 3.5 ounce bar should last several months.

Luxurious Cashmere scarf $75
12/10/2025

Luxurious Cashmere scarf $75

Thanks to all that visited me at the Newland Christmas Tree Festival, the Beech Mountain Market, and Riverside Elementar...
12/06/2025

Thanks to all that visited me at the Newland Christmas Tree Festival, the Beech Mountain Market, and Riverside Elementary Market. Although my fairs are over for the year, those of you who live in the area can still get your lotion bar fix! Message me an we can arrange local pickup/ delivery. It’s not too late to get a great gift for you or a loved one!

It’s tomorrow! Come support local!
11/21/2025

It’s tomorrow! Come support local!

Darling toddler Christmas socks for Newland Christmas Tree Festival
11/12/2025

Darling toddler Christmas socks for Newland Christmas Tree Festival

Lotion bars in gift bags make great Hostess or Teacher gifts
11/05/2025

Lotion bars in gift bags make great Hostess or Teacher gifts

Luxurious Alpaca scarf just finished for Newland Christmas Tree Festival
10/30/2025

Luxurious Alpaca scarf just finished for Newland Christmas Tree Festival

Soft cuddly blanket for a cold winters snuggle
10/25/2025

Soft cuddly blanket for a cold winters snuggle

Fresh off the needles Super wash wool, warm and machine washable
10/19/2025

Fresh off the needles
Super wash wool, warm and machine washable

Keep your ears warm with a Brioche knit headband
10/14/2025

Keep your ears warm with a Brioche knit headband

Hand woven Snowflake Christmas towels made from American cotton.
10/08/2025

Hand woven Snowflake Christmas towels made from American cotton.

How do you use a lotion bar?Let me count the ways!After you get out of the bath or shower, dry off and rub the bar over ...
09/29/2025

How do you use a lotion bar?
Let me count the ways!
After you get out of the bath or shower, dry off and rub the bar over your skin.
Dry elbows? Rub the bar over them several times a day.

Dry cracked heels? Rub the bar over them and put on socks.

In the winter, do your fingers crack and bleed? Several times a day, especially after you wash your hands and before bed, rub the bar into your cuticles.
You can even cut your bar into pieces, use one for hands and body, another for feet, and a third as a lip balm. Store your bar into the bag it came in.
Also, remember, since is a solid, you can take it on planes, and take it with you!

So what is a lotion bar? Quite simply it’s lotion, but in bar form. Made from beeswax, coconut oil, and shea butter. Pac...
09/24/2025

So what is a lotion bar? Quite simply it’s lotion, but in bar form. Made from beeswax, coconut oil, and shea butter. Packaged in a compostable bag. The wax holds the moisturizing coconut oil and shea butter to your skin and prevents it from evaporating away.
Liquid lotion is over 70% water and the other 30% is lots of chemicals. You never get all the lotion out of the bottle and you then have plastic waste.

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