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Soapbuddy, How does her paraben free formula compare to her moisturizing hand and body lotion? I am wanting to switch to the paraben free, but have a few friends that love that lotion(that contains paraben). Hoping the switch will be alright.

The preservative should not make much of a difference. It's what is in the formula as far as oils or butters that counts.

I love the color!

Great job!

Congrats! It looks good!

How pretty!

Very nice! Will you be using different fonts for different products?

Very nice!

Looks great!

Grape seed oil

Grapeseed oil works well however it stains the sheets.

I presume this is for Swedish massage? I would try jojoba, but it's pricey.

Thanks Irena,

I have seen a bunch of fountains and wall hangings with similar Buddha composition. I find them very oriental, I took my inspiration from Indian Buddhist sculptures. I am fan of Buddha sculptures and like them to be peaceful to look at. I tried to bring the same to my candle.

Where can I find these Canadian molds? might learn a thing or two.

It was Lorie Martin from soapmoldsuperstore. I tried to find her store online, but nothing comes up. I went to the wayback machine and this a cached page from 2011 http://web.archive.org/web/20110208054428/http://soapmoldsuperstore.com/ Your mold looks just like hers.

That looks cool! It almost looks like one of the molds that a lady from Canada makes for sale.

Pretty! Goes well with an ocean theme.

Congrats!

Looks good!

That's pretty!

Pretty!

That looks cool!

I prefer to stay away from parabens due to customer requests. Take a look at the base from Essentials By Catalina.

They're cute!

Very nice!

Wow! Is each petal made by hand or are you using a mold?

I don't know how many lotions NG offers, or which one you are using - but here's a quote from their website:

"Making natural creams and lotions could not be easier or more affordable! Create up to 6 different products simply by adding warm distilled or deionized water! Our multi-use cream base can also be colored with soap coloring, and fragranced with Natures Garden's Body safe fragrances. When using fragrances in the multi-cream, we suggest using 1-3% fragrance in your finished product."

Most b&b bases that I have used allow up to 3% FO.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I would be leery adding any water to this base cream. Does it have extra preservative, so when you add water it's still safe? What if someone adds regular tap water because that's all they have? If you need a lotion or a cream base, I would get one that's ready to go; not one where you have to add water yourself. I can see many things going wrong in this instance.

Very nice!

For a 50 gram batch, I would start with 0.5 grams. You can always add more, but you can't take it away.