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    Wax bowl lit

    in Old Style Candle Gallery

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    soapbuddy, the bowl is exactly a shell made in palm wax, then filled with soy! I didn't think about a separate candle.. I envisioned this and made it. How would you do that?

    Palm wax melts at a higher temp then soy. You could take a candle safe bowl, use soy wax and double wick to get a better burn pool. Use that for the inside of the palm wax shell. Or take a couple of small containers, fill up as normal, then put those inside the shell. Or possibly tealights inside the shell.

    types of soap?

    in General Soap Making

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    French milled soap from Provence region of France is very nice. The soap base is crystalized and then ingredients are added and rolled between stainless steel rollers to make the paste uniform and this is done three times. I love French milled soap and this high end soap seems to have a long history pedigree and uses costly herbs in their product. You can normally get a huge bar of lavnder bud soap from de Provence for about $5.00. There have been countless discussions on what ingredients survive the saponification process and in answer to the question, I would say no. Rebatching and triple milling aren't the same thing and few soapers would afford the chemists and perfumers to concoct the formulas that would equal such a companies product. But yes, I believe you could aproximate that product and be just as satisfied with the results. I didn't find the French soap to be extrordinary for my skin but it was very nice and it stayed in the dish for a long time. There are hand crafters that produce soap as good or better than commercial (Irena of Ginger's Garden comes to mind) but the results are always subjective to the person using the produt and the type of skin and water hardness or softness in any given area of the world. IMHO

    Steve

    Thank you Steve. I didn't find this thread til now.
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