elle110

those are way cute, I have got to make something cute like that for my son...he just keeps getting bath bombs

Your swirls are very unique...I loved the ones in your other post as well w/your 1st soap...Nice work!

WOW..those are outstanding!

Did you see this article in the Denver Business Journal:

http://denver.bizjournals.com/denver/othercities/boston/stories/2006/04/24/daily35.html

WOW! Very interesting to say the least

Way to go...you did it, I knew you could, they look great. Congrats, they are going to go very well in your store

Elle

and the pepper candle is $10.00, are you kidding me? I am so temped to email her on her website and just say "Are you kidding me" LOL

you know I like it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Try here, they have a large selection and only require a $25 minimum order. I like they have the cupcake containers, they are the only place you don't have to buy a minimum of about 300 at a time.

I plan on putting an order in this week.

HTH

Michelle

http://www.plasticcontainercity.com/index.html

Good Luck! I feel your frustration

I would say then to give it some time and let her get to the point where she might be forced to sell and for a good price just to get herself out of hot water. Then maybe it can be yours someday. I'll keep my fingers and toes crossed for you.

I need another business like I need a hole in my head LOL

But it would be nice to have those prices and contacts

cut it...cut it...cut it

Oh, I so used to love to order from AH, then things went bad and I waited forever for a rush order, didn't get calls back or answers to my emails so I had to stop ordering. That was almost 2yrs ago, I love her prices and her shipping to me was almost rediculously low but I have to have things within a reasonable time.

Everytime this a thread comes up about her, I make the statement that I would love to buy her out along with all of her contact info. She is sitting on a gold mine but pretty much destroyed it.

AND people have bought them, I looked at feedback---lovely candles, smell great

OMG, I would be so urked if I purchased candles and this showed up at my door. It is such an insult to other crafters.

Ok, I am very nosy, so I went to ebay and typed in handmade votives, there is one person, may be the same one from your pic that has the worst votives I have ever seen, maybe the worst looking product I have ever seen on ebay.

Here is one pic of her candles, go look, you will be ROFL and be embarrassed for her at the same time

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what do you mean, they look awesome

Well, have you cut it yet, do we have to start chanting the "cut it" mantra? LOL

Big 3 day outdoor show in 2 weeks, need to put final touches on some things, make label, finish lotion bars, make some more lip balms, label some loofahs, and just some general organizing done b4 the big day...

I am really looking forward to the show, it is long and tiring but I love seeing my repeat customer and meeting new ones

Maryann,

I couldn't find them at Lowes and everyone there said they didn't carry them, I found them at Walmart.

Maybe since your hubby works there he can find them.

Good luck and post any info when you are testing them if you don't mind

Elle

Ok, everyone has been talking about the solar salts and the size etc. so I went and bought a bag. The pic below show the solar salt on the right and the sea salt I bye from Soap Wizards on the left, they really are very similar in size, the coin is a dime for reference.

I have a lot of customer's who like this larger size of salt and a large # of them use these in their hot tubs. Note: I have never used the Solar Salt in my salt blend but I did a test of dissolve time between the two and the solar salt dissolved a little bit slower, if that matters to anyone

HTH

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Ok, I gotta have some of that, it looks way bigger than 2oz, very pretty, as usual!

I pour mine whole & cut later, I never thought of wetting the luffa first.

Wickerbeal, that is how I used to do mine, I would wet my loofah, shove into pvc pipe and then pour my soap.

Now, because I hate cutting thru all the additives, I cut my loofah and wet, pour a capper into individual molds add the loofah, then pour my soap and top off each soap with more additives.

Both ways work, the wet loofah just makes it not so hard to cut through

By the way your candles are very pretty!

I would not add the cost of shipping, although tempting, everything stated above is true plus you would have to change your prices for local pick-up customers

Looks great to me! Can't wait to see it cut...did you say what fragrance it is?

Great color

You wet them first then squeeze the heck out of them as to get all the water out of them. They are much easier to work with, but if you buy them whole and cut them yourself don't wet until after you cut them

Today I made 30 loofahs, I make them similar to yours but I add pumice, oats and poppy seeds to mine for extra exfolitation, and mango butter for xtra moisturizing, its funny I was going to post the new ones I made today then saw yours. The new one is my own orange, tea tree and lavender blend, they smell awesome. I might post them later, I put some of the other fragrances up last year.

These are a very hot seller for me, I am taking a couple 100 of them to my next show, I will probably still run out, they sell for $7 but I run a show special 3/$15.

Yours are very pretty, nice bright colors!

Edited to add: What do you use for a mold?

Hi all,

Just had this discussion with experienced soapers at the OH/KY soap gathering. We had a pallet delivered from Columbus Foods and I was helping to sort the orders (and asking questions)

If you got the bucket, you have the palm that must be stirred. You will definitely want to stir it well, then put it in smaller containers.

Next time you order, you really want the no-stir, homogenized palm in the 50# cube.

They will act the same, but the cube is so much easier to deal with. (This from 3-4 different soapers, when I asked about the difference)

They are both solid if the temp is cool enough. Like Rebecca said, if it separates, then solidifies, you would need to melt the whole thing to stir it up --- UGGGH!!!

HTH!

Just a note, per their CF they will not ship the homogenized Palm in a cube during the summer months due to the fact it will melt and well, it will go all over the place, if you need the homogenized you might want to call them and see what there cut off date is.

HTH

Michelle