Chronic_Sniffer

They have a YouTube channel with all kinds of how-to videos. You could start there and then decide if you need more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVwxpRZ4b1wMBox7_TVCjjw

I have soaps I made over 10 years ago, then got out of the business for a while. I've opened a few up, and found no loss of scent. Somehow, fragrances seem to hold up better when they are put into a product (I also have 10 year old candles that are mostly the same way - a few have lost some scent, but most are still good - but again, they've been "sealed" in a container with a lid). My only issue, like Shari said, is if the packaging somehow got loose and let in some air, then there is a 'crust' across the soap surface where the air sat I would suggest just taking 1 sample of each fragrance and try it out first, before selling them, but I don't think you'll have a problem.

Have you tried Bittercreek's? https://cart.candlesupply.com/Bird-of-Paradise-pr-21225.html They've always claimed it to be identical. I don't know if it is, but I used to buy it when it was from BCS, and really liked it.

Carving requires a special wax be used. I have one I did 10 years ago, and I can still make impressions in the wax. That's not usually what you get with a pillar wax.

I love the tail end of the email. "We're not going out of business, not this year." Next year? Those other suppliers are probably not actually selling Peak oils - in most cases they've just had them duped (usually at the request of Craft Server members)

20% off FOs until midnight 1/31/19. I have only gotten a couple of 2 oz. samples, and they seem good, but WSP FO's have always seemed a bit pricey, even with the free shipping. Are they generally worth the price?

I don't know about clothing, but I've always had good luck with plain old margarine (the soft kind) for hands, tabletops, tools, etc. I try to catch it before drying completely, but the margarine always absorbed the dye so that you ended up with a colored paste My experience was with BC dyes

To all you standing up for USPS, just order some labels from online labels shipped to an apartment-sized mailbox. You'll change your mind. The package gets shipped with the full sheet labels, and a clear marking 'Do not Bend'. Apparently, that's considered a joke, because I've never had a problem with them getting this 9x12 package into a 5x5 mailbox.

Assuming you clicked File>Open, and you have your large image. When you hit the resize button in Paint menu (right below Crop), you are presented with 2 sets of options - resize and skew. Ignore skew for now. Under resize, you have a box 'maintain aspect ratio'. Keep this checked. At the top, if you keep it set to percentages, not pixels, you can just enter the percentage you want it downsized to in one of the boxes. With the aspect ratio checked, both boxes will change. Click OK, and you should see a smaller image on the canvas. Now, just File>Save and you will have your downsized image.

Another FYI - filtering by some of the other keywords doesn't work. I tried Sandalwood, and it totally missed Peak's Asian Sandalwood, but displayed Peak's Amber Romance and Nag Champa. I think they are showing up because Sandalwood is in their description, but then again, so does Asian Sandalwood, so go figure!!

FYI - on Keystone's site, in the upper left-hand corner, there is a 'Filter' button. If you click it, you can scroll down and select Peak, it will only show Peak fragrances. At this moment, there are 143 (out of 271 total) Peak fragrances showing. So they have more than doubled their offerings by adding Peak. And yes, Black Canyon is there

I found their prices to be very high, the one ounce of Old Spice was $10 something. SaveonScents has a really goofy sales strategy. No other way to put it - they've lost their minds. They have a lot of other products at decent enough prices, but unless you are a member of their 'club', you pay a ridiculous upcharge. So how do you become a member of their 'club'? You have to buy $66 of their grossly overpriced fragrance oils (some are not bad, but most are pretty expensive). Now here is the real kicker - you have 2 months to buy whatever else you want at reasonable prices (without the upcharge). After the 2 months, you have to waste another $33/month (on average) on fragrances just to stay in the club, or start paying the upcharge for other products. I think if you do a search on this board, SOS does not have a real good reputation for the quality of their oils.

Some sites (and of COURSE I couldn't find one quickly to show an example) offer a checkbox where you can designate whether you want everything to ship together or will allow partial shipments. Whenever I see this I automatically click 'ship all items on one shipment'. Maybe if they incorporated this into their order form, they could avoid these types of problems.

FYI - if it's truly shipping costs you want to save on, try signing up for Peak's (owner of this board) and Candlewic. I know they periodically offer discount shipping their newsletters. Having said that, I have never taken advantage of discount shipping, because for me, it was always better to wait for sales on the products I wanted, and pay full price for shipping. So do the math before ordering. I would assume that the shipping discount works better for small quantities where you get stuck paying $12-$15 for an $8 dollar item, or for glassware, which has a huge shipping cost per jar.

The easiest way to handle this is to sign up for newsletters. Every supplier that you see that you think you may do business with, look for a newsletter signup. Some actually periodically have discounts on shipping. Occasionally, someone will post a sale on this site, but you will usually need to know a promotion code to enter somewhere on the order to get the discount. As far as 'seasonality', think about the 'seasonality' of candles, and the supplier will often follow suit. They know that summer is the time for testing, not selling (meaning everyone's sales are down), so they do a lot of 'Christmas in July' sales and sample sales, etc. But if you sign up for the newsletters, you will be alerted to all of these sales.