W hile the delicious scent of brown sugar bundt cake may be tempting, you should really follow the advice of a cute duck painting on the wall and "don't eat the soap" when you visit The Plucky Duck.

And there are numerous tantalizing scents inviting you in for a closer sniff at the new soap shop on the border of Spokane's Kendall Yards and West Central neighborhoods, where you can buy premade soap — and a variety of other items — or make your own in a hands-on workshop.

Before The Plucky Duck opened in May of this year, its home inside the Pelican Building at the corner of College Avenue and Cedar Street was an empty space with great potential — including a kitchen space — in the eyes of shop owner Cristina Aranda.

When she and her family moved to Spokane last August, Aranda decided o

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