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  1. I am torn about the flouride. My kids have had that flouride stuff put on their teeth everysince I can remember. They have it done twice a year and have never had a cavities. One of my sons is 12 and the other 16. My 12 year old LOVES candy and has very bad brushing habit even though we try and get him to do it. Now, by the time I was 16, I can't remember how many cavities I had. So, I wished I had that flouride coating paste that my kids have been given. They are in perfect health and almost always on honor roll. So, for me - I think if I had the choice - I would be pro-flouride.
  2. Scented - I use 6" X 6" shrink wrap bags. I let my bombs sit for 12+ hours and then slide one carefully into a bag. I then trim the top off some into a fingernail like shape so when it is shrink wrapped it forms very nicely around the bomb. Once you cut one, you can use the cut off piece (as a guide) to cut all the other bags before you put the bombs in them. I also bought a lot of 2" square white boxes. I add a tiny bit of brown raffia to the bottom of the box, put a bomb in, close the box and affix my labels to the outside of the box. This is a very professional way of displaying the product and I have had none break since doing this. This is also a very safe way to ship the bombs.
  3. Meredith - you are so funny. I guess I'm a mold ho too. This is my first slab tray mold with dividers, so I am very curious how it works too. Carebear - YES YES YES - love Nizzy's site! Tried my first batch of whipped soap and I think I am hooked for life! I love doing it this way - give so much creativity. Only probiem is that you can't hardly cut it with a knife, so that's why I ordered the mold.
  4. Gosh - that is an expensive Bionicle sorting tray. Why have you never tried them? Are they bad or something? Maybe I should have ordered it. BUT - I am only going to use it for whipped soap so I think it will work. I'll let you know when I get it how it works.
  5. Yes - I weigh my oils and lye. I just don't do that with fragrances. I just kind of look and say "okay - that's good" AND normally it does work. This is just one odd case.
  6. I used a recipe calculator thing I got from Miller Soap. I put my oils in and it gave me how much lye and water. I mixed them at 100 degrees and then started to get my soaps to trace. In another container I have my fragrance oil/essential oil blend as I mentioned before. I, honestly, don't have a clue how much I added. I never weigh my fragrances, I do them by tablespoons and as a general rule normally add about 1/2 of what is called for, because I don't like strong fragranced soaps. Anyhow, I have been making soap for years and for some reason, this one recipe tends to suck up the fragrance oil so bad that I can't hardly smell it. I have made this same recipe 3 times now and it just doesn't smell strong. SO - next time I guess I will just double whatever I used. Bad thing though - when my soap start to very very mildly trace - this is when I add the fragrance and I can't hardly get it in the soap before it tries to seize on my. NEXT TIME, I am going to put it in the oils before I add the lye. Maybe that will fix it. Oh and I tried this recipe twice cold process and the last time whipped and I still get hardly any fragrance. Strange. I have never had this with any other batch I have ever made. Oh well.
  7. My husband and I just got back from pole'ing beans at his dad's farm. His dad had a stroke and just can't do what he used to - so we have been working since 8:30am this morning in this CRAZY HOT 90 degree temp getting this done. He has the biggest garden I have ever seen and I just kept asking my husband what in the world his dad was going to do with all those beans. GET THIS - his DAD IS GIVING THEM AWAY!!! Oh my gosh - I can't believe how hard we worked to find out he is giving them away. I want to die.:embarasse
  8. I am still "freaked" a little by the toothsoap. My husband just rolled his eyes at me like I was NUTZ when I mentioned it. BUT - it is on my long list of "to do's". Hey - does anyone know if there is a way to buy just flouride to incorporate in the soap? We don't drink the water in the city - only distilled - and we would get no flouride what-so-ever if we stopped using store bought soap.
  9. I ended up getting mine here http://nizzymoulds.com/ Terry has some great prices and even though they are shipped from australia, the smaller one was cheaper than getting it here in the states.
  10. Scented - you are too funny. Carebear - I have been soaping for 9 years, but only seriously this past year. I really want to dig in and learn a lot of things I never knew. Mostly, I just throw stuff in a pan and cross my fingers. The calculator I have has really kept me out of trouble. I think I found it on millersoap.com. It is a good one though.
  11. As much as I possibly can before the soap starts seizing. I don't have the recipe in front of me, but I had a bunch all mixed up and was able to nearly add it all and then the soap started going NUTZ and I had to pour it very fast in the mold. I really don't have a clue. Maybe it is one of these things, where when it sits a bit the scent will start coming back to life.
  12. WOW! Does anyone know how to make this soap? It looks very involved.
  13. What does HP'ing mean? How do I do that? Here are the scents I used: Musk F.O. Green Clover & Aloe F.O. Patchouli E.O. Cedarwood E.O. Pine F.O. Clean Cotton F.O. Ylang Ylang E.O. - There were more, but I don't have the recipe in front of me.
  14. I don't have any Neem and I have never in my life heard of Nag Champa. What is Nag Champa???
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