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  1. I am up in Canada and I called all the Home Hardwares and found 3 kilograms of lye for $15.00. I think that was an ok price. I have lots of it now though lol It wasn't Red Devil lye though, just the Home Hardware brand
  2. Hey everyone, I was curious about doing water discounts with cp. When I do cp I follow the sage calc as well as a couple others, but I go with the minimum water that the sage suggests. I do 45 oz logs and the sage says to use between 11 and 17 oz water. I always go for 11 oz. Is that doing a water discount? I usually do a 6 - 7 % superfat with discounting my lye to what they suggest which usually is about 6.26 oz lye to 11 oz water. I then usually add in 1% (0.9 oz) shea at trace as well. What would be the best way to discount water and how exactly would I do it? TIA everyone!
  3. Oh please can I have the recipe too!!!! Thanks!
  4. I came across an article saying that you can add 1/2 tsp of salt to your water before adding the lye and this apparently makes for a harder bar. It says that it doesn't make an overall harder bar but it will harden the bar up more quickly and be more hard right after unmolding rather than if you didnt' have the salt in there. Anyone heard of this or try it out? I have seen many speak of adding in sugar to increase lather. Can you do both salt and sugar in the same recipe? Or would one counteract the other? Thanks for any advice you can give.
  5. I'm not sure how to make a liquid soap, but I'm guessing that I would have to add in a preservative to make the liquid soap? Sorry, I'm just really new to making all this B&B stuff.
  6. Hey everyone, I have a question for you all. I have been doing a lot of experiementing with sugar scrubs and my goal has been to keep it with all natural ingredients (with the exception of FO). I have tried MANY different oil/butter combos and I have been finding them all to be way too greasy. I find it leaves too much oil on my skin after and I feel greasy. I did come across one recipe that I thought may work. It was one with M&P soap base, oil, and sugar. I personally do not buy M&P, but I do make my own soap. Can I shave up my soap and try to melt it down and use it as a sub for M&P? I did try to do this and it worked very nicely in the end product although I found it very difficult to melt down the soap (it has been curing for a month). I was just curious if this is a good sub for M&P and is there an easier method to melt it down so it fully melts? Curious....has anyone tried putting in cornstarch in a scrub to cut down on oiliness? TIA everyone, I'm just at my wits end trying to come up with a non-greasy but still moisturizing scrub that is all natural. It is quite a challenge!!!
  7. Does it change the end product at all and make it waxy or tacky in any way?
  8. Hey there, I have been doing lots of research on recipes for B&B. I have noticed that some body butters and scrubs have beeswax in them. What is the purpose of doing this and what is everyone's opinions on it and is it helpful in the final product? TIA:cheesy2:
  9. I see that most recipes for scrubs have a butter/oil/sugar combo. What about vegetable glycerin and sugar combo? Can you mix glycerin with oils and butters or does it need to be a straight glycerin/sugar mix? I was just thinking that if I took out some oil or butter in a scrub and substituted what I took out with vegetable glycerin, maybe it would leave less of an oily feel after. What do you guys think? TIA!
  10. I had posted a recipe before for a shea sugar scrub that I have revised to this: 1 oz whipped shea 3/4 oz whipped cocoa butter 1 3/4 oz turbinado sugar 4 oz white sugar 3/4 oz grapeseed oil Basically I find it much better in regard to greasiness since I took out the castor oil and slightly reduced the shea and cocoa. My question is this, to further reduce the oily afterfeel, would you guys recommend taking out the cocoa butter altogether and adding in more shea? I cannot figure out if shea or cocoa butter is more greasy. Also, when making a sugar scrub, is it supposed to be really soft or more like a brown sugar consistency? I have been whipping the heck out of mine in the mixer to get it fluffy and find that it binds nicely together but when I put it in the jar it sets up after awhile and has a consistency of damp sand. Is this the consistency to be aiming for? Or is a scrub supposed to have less sugar and more oils? I'm not going for one of the scrubs that has a layer of oil on top though. When you are doing an emulsified scrub, do you need to use chemicals? Sorry this is such a long post, I'm fairly new to this scrub thing. Thanks so much everyone!
  11. Thanks for the info everyone. I was playing around with the recipe and I put in only 1 oz shea and 3/4 oz cocoa. I took out the castor oil completely and found that helped with the major greasiness.
  12. Hi there, I wanted to run this recipe by everyone to see if there are any suggestions to change it to something less oily feeling. I was originally going to do a 90% shea butter and 10% grapeseed oil recipe but I find that in my area shea is quite expensive so I was hoping to come up with a recipe that would be just as nice. I find that the following recipe is nice and creamy but it seems to be oily when you pick it up, it sort of melts in your hand and has too much of an oily afterfeel. I was wondering if I should add in vegetable glycerin (I dont know much about using it) or if that wouldn't work in this type of recipe. This is the recipe: 2 oz whipped shea butter 1 oz whipped cocoa butter 2 oz turbinado sugar 4 oz white sugar 1 oz grapeseed oil 1/2 oz castor oil I whipped the shea and cocoa then added the rest in and it whipped up nice and fluffy, but seems too oily, although it isn't runny at all. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to go for a thick and creamy scrub without any additives or preservatives (other than vitamin E). Are most sugar scrubs on the oily side? I see alot of recipes with just sugar and oil combo so I'm wondering if thats how they are. TIA everyone!
  13. I was hoping that someone could give me an idea for a great sugar scrub recipe using shea butter. I tried one that had shea/cocoa butter/grapeseed and turbinado sugar as well as white sugar but I found it to be quite greasy in the sense that when you picked up some in your hands, it turned instantly to oil. I basically melted all ingredients and put in freezer then whipped the heck out of it and did that 3 times. Then I added the sugar. I was hoping someone out there had a good recipe for a whipped shea sugar scrub, or a sugar scrub that had shea in it. TIA!
  14. Hey everyone, I have a slight dilemma I was hoping someone could help me out with. I have tried 3 different lip balm recipes. They were all with different combinations of wax/shea/cocoa butter/oils. When they harden, all were nice and hard the way I was hoping, but then when you apply it to your lips, it is horribly oily. All three of them were like this. I was hoping that someone had a recipe for a more "creamy" non oily lip balm. I plan on using them in the tubes as well. I am substituting pure soy wax instead of the beeswas, I just up the wax amount slightly. TIA!
  15. I was using a basic recipe with no color in it. The recipe is 2 oz wax, 1 oz cocoa butter, 1 oz shea and 1 oz grapeseed/AKO. I was using just regular muffin tin size but now I'm wondering if people would like the deodorant stick thing or not.
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