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I love your SIMPLE soaps, they look awesome, one of my best-sellers is a plain cream bar

Great Job!

How did you get it into those little pieces, it looks yummy!

I poured each half at the same time (good thing I have 2 hands), one along each side. I read about putting in a divider and pouring one on each side of it but figured I'd test my dexterity first. Then I swirled back and forth with a spoon handle.

I have a lavender one in the mold right now - did it the same way. Have to see later how that one turns out!

They look divine, I have that method on my list to try, looks like I will have to soon, yours are awesome

OK so are you saying that Instant Karma improves in something? I'm sure I've got it, but wasn't ga ga over it so I've done nothing with it.

Scented, Yes, is smells better in product but in addition, after smelling it in the bottle the 2nd time I liked it better, this is a very good dupe

For someone else who asked, the water will turn purple but your tub does not stain:)

The first is TSW Baryrum, swirled w/French Green Clay, smells wonderful

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2nd is NG Clean Cotton, not exactly my favorite but I had a LB and it is a good seller so I took the plunge, I call this one Fresh Linen but would like to get a better name for this one. For some reason I have been into the reverse swirl lately

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3rd is a restock of SC Amazing Grace, reverse swirl, body safe glitter on top, I call it Purely Graceful, one of my favorites

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Ok, on first smell of TSW Instant Karma I didn't get the whole hoopla over this fragrance, then Carol sent me a sliver of her Karma soap from Lush and I finally got it, and upon smelling TSW again they smelled identical, so here is my interpretation of Instant Karma in soap and bath bombs, these bombs are 4.5 oz and I used the Wilton colors, my hands are a nice purple color right now:) I am not sure if I like the Wilton colors or not, in the pic they look like different colors of purple bombs but they are all the same just the lighting of my camera. My bath bombs just continuously get better, they are rock hard.

These are all headed to a 3 day outdoor show this weekend

Thanks for looking!

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One dollar is cheap! Don't deviate from that price, IMO.

You have to pay yourself for time, product development, supplies and advertising. Your wholesale price should be at least twice the amount of all your expense PER unit. Including waste, and if the cat climbs on the table.

Congrats on the big order!

My thoughts exactly, your $1 retail price is lower than my wholesale amount, when you compare homemade lip balms to those cheap, petroleum, mineral oil based ones our should be more since we, or I do, use high quality ingredients. I wholesale mine for $1.75

HTH

All my shows are pay in advance, but I do a local show 2 x a year and have done it for 4 yrs and they have let me pay as late as the day of the show. They know I am good for it, I have the same spot and tons of repeat customers come looking for me.

But, I would never expect anyone to save me a spot, $$$ is due with application, the instance above is not the norm

Grumpy those that is FAB...move over Primal Elements

OMG...you are freakin killing me, let me see you make a fairy out of manure:laugh2:

TSW has it but under Bubba Bees Babymilk...HTH

This is why I don't use it on my skin or put in my products, I did a lot of research on it even before I started making my own products, I hope this helps and maybe directs you to finding some more info on the subject.

Mineral Oil is a harmful ingredient derived from petroleum that coats the skin with an unhealthy seal. Mineral Oil and petroleum products prevent the skin from breathing. Mineral oil (classed as a petrochemical pollutant and

xenohormone) can have negative effects on hormones and the skin’s ability to breathe, attract moisture and detoxify. It can also slow down cell renewal and be the second (after the sun) most likely cause of premature aging. In fact, sunscreens produced from mineral oil may promote skin cancer as well as colon and breast cancer. However, no cosmetic manufacturers put health warnings on their products, and in the US, the FDA does not require this information to be on packaging. One of the many sources on the topic of Mineral Oil: Positive Health Medical Magazine

no problem - i did the same thing myself - I just created a ton of "sweetgrass, cedar and sage" candles and labelled them "sweetgrass, cedric and sage" - I was watching the Big Brother final and was SO not concentrating!

Natasha

At least your typo didn't read SweetAss, Cedar and Sage:laugh2:

Love the Pink Peppercorn...but am partical to all your Graces, AG is my favorite, even in soap, it really comes alive in water:D

The ingredients in for the bubble bars and the bath melts say they have sugar and meringue powder, I aa guessing this is the icing...and they may or may not be silicone molds, I think each one looks exactly alike is bcs when they posted the pics they just used one pic but changed the icing color each time, which is very easy to do so you don't have to take a pic of each one.

I want my bubble bars in cupcake form but can't decide if I want to invest in a silicone mold (which usually only has one cavity) or fool around with something to make my own icing etc. I don't think whipped soap would work well with those, I am thinking more along the line of whipped Cocoa Butter or similar.

I wasn't making drama, I was stating how they got them to look like that, as that was the original ???? asked in the post

Thank You

Here are some ideas http://www.pvsoap.com/how_to_wrap_soap.htm

I just love pv soap, there products are nice and I love their site....

Have you seen the solid bubble bath cupcakes? Does any one have a idea on what they would use for icing these things?http://www.opensundaes.com/catalogue/catalog/index.php?cPath=1

I have seen these done as bath bombs and bubble bars and I have that down pat but would love to make some as cupcakes and have cute icing but my recipes seem to dry to pipe with a decorators bag, any ideas will help.

I think this will be a hit with my little one (8dd) HATES to take a bath and I have been making bombs and bubble bars and she is now sometimes taking 2 baths in 1 day, so now I basicly am making at least 1 bath product a day because she wants to try the "newest thing"

TIA

Angiestaff

The ingredients in for the bubble bars and the bath melts say they have sugar and meringue powder, I aa guessing this is the icing...and they may or may not be silicone molds, I think each one looks exactly alike is bcs when they posted the pics they just used one pic but changed the icing color each time, which is very easy to do so you don't have to take a pic of each one.

I want my bubble bars in cupcake form but can't decide if I want to invest in a silicone mold (which usually only has one cavity) or fool around with something to make my own icing etc. I don't think whipped soap would work well with those, I am thinking more along the line of whipped Cocoa Butter or similar.

I think you got it for sprays, that is why I have a bottle of it in my shop but I never used it, I used cyclo instead...Oh well, just a guess

I have had 2 really bad drunken experiences on this stuff when younger, I would not even think about putting in my body now, the memories of "what I can't remember" are to clear LOL

I think it looks awesome and I love how unique your product is, I think you will be able to market your product to a variety of customers

I think it smells like MILDEW, I love all their other products but the smell the soap had was hard to cover up...

I think they may have switched suppliers, you may want to call and find out

I always use dendredic salts and my salts don't get mushy, I use it to keep them from clumping, which I don't really think they would do w/o it but just for safe sakes I add it

I do believe that is what message boards like this are for Rachel - to bounce ideas off each other. I always think it this way - the more successful another soaper becomes, the more business rolls my way by creating awareness in other parts of the country!

I would not be where I am today without Lush and Me!Bath's bathbombs! I know they are competition, but I secretly hope they keep getting better and better (and busier), because that creates more business for me

Oh and as far as asking questions before - who the heck has all that extra time to keep tabs on what people are asking *SIGH* I certainly didn't see her ask this last week as well as most of us didn't & who cares anyway?

Sheesh, why so negative all the time?

I agree with Kristine, the better they do the better I do, whenever I do shows my stuff gets compared to LUSH...which I take as a huge compliment, I sold a TON of bathbombs this weekend, lots of 4 packs, and got quite a few LUSH comments again

People like unique items, my best-selling items are always lotion bars, loofahs, self serve bath salts and bathbombs because they are diffrent from from what everyone else carries

Patchouli and Sandalwood are similar but they both attract people that like one or the other..Patch lovers love Patch same for Sandalwood, can you believe Patch is still my best-seller with all the fragrances I carry? LOL

Pleeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzz, those ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can just say "we don't test on animals" or "finished product not tested on animals" it would be nearly impossible to verify every product you used that they did not, plus you don't know if the product they got from elsewhere was test on animals...