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Bitter Creek North has one here: http://www.candlesupply.com/how2bathsalt.html

It's a good start and you can customize it to your liking.

I assume you're talking about a bath salt recipe using DSS

Thank you both. I just ordered some from essentials by catalina.

I've found a few places online that sell these wholesale. The best price I've found so far is at Cotton Blossom Crafts. They end up being $1.63 each after shipping if I get 12 of them and $.75 each if I get 216. I really don't want to get 216 of them until I've tested my market. Does anyone know where to get them for less?

How about "Psychadelic" or "The 60's"

Grumpy already has "Acid Trip"

Good job, Julie. Glad you finally found your mold and got to use it. I'd hate to have to make you a new one. *wink, wink*

Are you talking about melt & pour glycerin soap or making a transparent CP soap? If it's the later, I know you will need to use alcohol or ethanol. Some people even use grain alcohol that you get from a liquor store.

Just make sure some of the grain alcohol actually gets into the soap.

I ended up going to The Home Depot and got a work light that looks like a metal bowl with a clamp and a 250 watt infrared heat lamp. After about 2 hours, the bucket is about half melted.

Thanks for all the great ideas everyone.

Don't have a funace here in TX. Don't think a heater vent would be hot enough. Going to look for a heat lamp at Walmart or Target after work.

Keep the ideas coming.

Won't fit in the oven even with no racks.

I talked to Mike on the phone about the Homogenized no-stir PO and he told me he wouldn't ship that to TX because it would probably be melted and leaking by the time it got to me. Would have been fine this week with the temperatures. You should have no problem in NY, Top.

I just got a 50 lb pail of Palm oil (Yeah, I know. Not "green" of me.) from Columbus Foods and it's completely solid. I need to warm it up so I can mix it and separate it into 2 lb bags. During the summer, this wouldn't be an issue because I could just put it in a car in the sun. That won't work when it's cloudy and 35* to 40* outside. I've looked at pail heaters but the cheapest I've found is in the $100 range. I've tried hot water in a bath tub and a heating pad wrapped around it (not at the same time). I'm considering getting a heat gun but that probably wouldn't do it either.

Anyone have any brilliant ideas? Please help!

I'm not changing my recipe. In fact, I just bought 50 lbs of it.

Retail is always slow during the "J" months (January, June & July).

Have you tried looking at scrapbooking supplies? If not a hole punch, how about an ink stamp?

I'm not sure if you can get it by the roll but I get mine by the sheet at http://handmade-paper.us/

The sheets I get are 25"x37" and I cut them down myself. I use them to wrap individual bars of soap and can get 15 pieces out of a sheet. These are the sheets I get http://handmade-paper.us/page/CPO/PROD/tis/34-15-02

The ones I get are listed at $2.00 a sheet but I contacted Susan for bulk pricing.

Here's what she gave me:

$1.60/sheet for 50 or more

$1.45/sheet for 100 or more

They will also custom cut them for you for a fee.

Oh hell ya I want in on this.

Let's see, we are going to be on a island. Hummmm. We are going to be wealthy. Island, water, beach, hot, nakid...I got it!

I will be in charge of the Cabana Boys! I can teach them how to serve drinks, apply suntan lotion, towel dry us, give massages, hold our hair back while we sip beverages and eat fruit, etc. I can do this!

VE, you always make me laugh. I'm good at drinking wine so we would make a good team. I'm in! Where's my wine glass?

Well thank you for the tips and understanding as well. One day I want to try it. Tell me, can lye water be covered tightly? Or does it give off gasses where it can explode? If I could put it in a container, I know I would worry less.

I'm going to keep reading, and will try a soap this Sept when 5 year old goes to school full day. I'll be much more at ease then.

No fumes once it's finished mixing. I wait until mine is cooled down and store it in plastic gallon water jugs.

That's my best seller and personal favorite.

Does anyone know if these soaps work in hard water, or is there an additive or something special you can do to get a good hard water soap? Just curious!

That's going to depend mostly on your recipe not your method of making the soap. I have very hard water at my house and get a great lather. One thing you can do to get more lather is add sugar to your water before you mix your lye.

I got so sick of having to mix everything everytime I made a batch. I make 30 to 40 lbs of my base oil/butter mixture at a time and store it in an 8 gallon bucket with a spigot I got at a Home Brew supply store. I also have a couple gallons of pre-mixed lye solution. It's all at room temp and I just pour out what I need for a batch. If the recipe calls for something extra that's not in the base (like vitamin E, honey, oatmeal, etc...), I add it with the colorant and fragrance.

Welcome to your new addiction.

I like the first set of labels with the wording. The seascape is my favorite of the 2 pictures but the text is hard to read in the darker areas. I agree with Lindsay that the text would look nice centered.

My suggestion would be to keep the long label with the text centered but fade the seascape picture by about 50% so the text is easier to read.

Just a note to say the original poster is a-okay with hijacking when it involves adult beverages!

And body shots are all Jeff does. He is a wild man I tell ya!

Scented~ I'm a tequila drinker without tools. Cuervo 1800- straight.

Man up and get with the times.

Body shots? Hmmm. Me thinks what goes on in TX, stays in TX.

If you can handle Cuervo, you're more of a man than I am. That stuff is HARSH! Heradura Silver is my personal poison. If I can't get that, I'll settle for Patron.

Never heard of it but you can download a free trial of it here:

http://www.filedudes.com/ManageMore_Simple_Start_Edition-download-38861.html

Now MA may not appreciate that one, but hellooooooooooo lol! You makin' it? Got my attention with the mention of tequila lol.

Not to hijack the thread but you got my attention. Something really good I discovered lately. Instead of doing a tequila shot with the normal lime and salt, substitute those for ground cinnamon and an orange slice.