Who We Are
Linda and Amy are a mother daughter duo with a passion for natural healing and the old fashioned way of doing things. Together they create each of the Augusta’s Way products, in small controlled batches to help ensure their effectiveness. They are always researching and learning new things, and before introducing any new products they go through a period of trial by family (and friends) before deciding if it is worthy to add to the product line. They take feedback and requests seriously and each event comes with both!
Linda Philllips
Amy Phillips Keel
Amy started Augusta’s Way sometime around 2002. She had branched out from making soap for her family to sharing it with friends and finally selling it at local farmers markets and festivals.
“I began making soap over 22 years ago when my children were babies. At that time I made it simply for our family to use, in an effort to limit the amount of chemicals we were exposing ourselves to on a daily basis. Prior to that I always purchased handmade soap from the markets, but the expense of it, and sheer curiosity, made me want to learn the process. So I researched, botched a few batches, and eventually got the process down to a science!”
As her children grew they were able to attend markets and events with her and it was a weekend thing for awhile. But as Amy’s other business began to grow, time became scarce and the soap making went back to family use and a few steady customers.
Until Linda moved closer to Amy in 2022, and the two of them began doing markets together. Amy taught Linda how to make soap and she ran with it!
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I make handmade soap in small, five pound batches to ensure a quality product using natural, vegetable-based oils. The process I use is called cold-process soap making and is performed by adding quality oils such as olive, palm and coconut oils to a mixture of an alkali (lye or “sodium hydroxide”) and distilled water. The combination creates a natural chemical reaction (called saponification) that creates soap.