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by Matthew Liebenberg

Barr Soap from Nipawin was selected as the producer of the best handmade soaps in Saskatchewan.

Readers of Prairie North, a magazine about prairie living in Saskatchewan, picked Barr Soap as their favorite soap maker in a recent vote that was co-ordinated by the magazine. The readers' choice of the best on offer in the province - from the best place to buy shoes to the best place to find fishing tackle - is featured in the winter edition of the magazine, which is currently available on newsstands across Canada.

"It's an absolute honour," Sonja Barr said about her selection. "It's one thing to say to your neighbours this is good soap, but it's another thing to take that time and actually send my name in. I guess you don't really realize how many people you touch when you have a hobby and you do things."

Barr, who has been a Nipawin resident since 1975, started to make soap about 10 years ago.

"I guess I'm a craft person," she said. "I like homemade products, I like doing stuff. We don't have a quilt on our beds that I haven't made."

Barr used to buy handmade soap before she tried to make her own. She admitted it took her a couple of years to get the process right....

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