Delightful soap
for your skin
Skin care is top o mind at G f in Thomas S ger oap Company
By Kevin Druley | Photos by Tue Cramer Photography
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tirred awake by the occasional dream, Michelle George keeps a pen near her bedside so as not to lose her train of thought.
“I tease people and say that’s absolutely embedded in my DNA,” she says.
The downtown Oswego shop offers an impressive selection of artisan bath and body soaps, body butters and other products made from natural ingredients. Hospitality remains in full supply, too, with George and Co. wishing customers, “Happy skin, happy life,” upon exiting and passing the two large, yellow trumpet flowers — also known as Ginger Thomases — situated in the front window.
A third-generation soap-maker who spent much of her upbringing in the U.S. Virgin Islands, George connected her family’s geographical background with its vocational one by opening Ginger Thomas Soap Company in September 2020.
“It’s just a neat local business with good people running it and a good product,” customer
In the daylight hours, chances are good George’s mind reverberates with reflections of one thing: soap.
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Brian Bella of Oswego says. George, who works alongside her husband and “No. 1” of 40-plus years, Russell, says, “Ginger
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