Crying Moon

Ok, I'm embarrassed to ask, but can you add say...grape juice to your water before you put the lye in? Will the sugar in it make the soap nasty?

Just wondering if anyone has tried it.

I'm wanting to soap some lavender, and don't have any purple coloring, and I'm raiding the kitchen trying to think of something to use.

Also, how do your figure out the lye calculator if adding a funky ingredient?

If anyone has tried this and it was a disaster, please tell me before I get myself in big time trouble.*getdown* Talk me off the ledge.

wow! Love those!

Looks good! The fun part is when you finally get to cut it. Can't wait to see it.

I found some here

http://www.freundcontainer.com/catalog.asp?category=252

You have to order a ton though.

I'm suddenly craving egg salad.

That bug bit you HARD didn't it??!! I just got a sample of the lemongrass orange and I bet it smells really good in soap. I will probably be ordering a Lb of it before long. I like your cool citrus basil too.

Do you find you need a 2nd pour in the status jars but not some other glass containers?

I've also poured into a 16oz. balmoral, and still need the repour.

I use the J223 in a 8oz. status, and no matter how cool I pour, or how slow my cool down, I always need a repour. I like my tops nice and flat, and repouring has been the only way to achieve this. I even have to repour my 6oz. tins. At first I tried hitting the tops with a heat gun, but it left them looking nasty.

I've been doing this all the time now. Don't have to worry about wrapping it, keeping it warm, wondering if it's going to gel. I have a kelsei mold and just pop it in a 160-170 oven for an hour unwrapped and let it do its thing. Turn off the oven after that, and it sits there all night. The mold holds up fine. For me this method has been real consistant and I'm happy with the results.

I always tape a note to my oven dial to be sure not to turn the oven on while the soap is still in there after the oven gets shut off.

Nag Champa - Gives me the urge to go out and buy a black light poster and put on a Deep Purple album. ====~

Success to me isn't growing into a zillion dollar company. I'd be happy to continue to do this at my own pace, but wouldn't mind being a little more busy at it. The biggest obstacle for me is the marketing. I just dread going out there and "selling" my product. I'd rather shrink wrap 10,000 votives than hit the road, so to speak. I enjoy doing the craft shows, where people come to me. I know I just have to get over it and get out there, but for me that's what's keeping me from moving forward.

I work in the basement and have a smoke alarm pretty much right above me. It's gone off once. I also have a shop light above me which is plugged into one of those power strips that has to be turned ON to work. I have my presto pots plugged into this. This gives me double protection if I ever forget to unplug the presto. If my light is off, my prestos are off. When I heat wax, I put one of those probe thermometers in the presto, and set if for 200. When the wax hits the temp, the alarm goes off.

I also keep a fire extinguisher handy in my work area.

I CP soaped the peaks juniper breeze a while ago. I'm pretty new at soap too. No trouble with it at all. It's been many months now, and the scent holds up real nice. You shouldn't have any trouble with it.

I really like your swirl. You'll never buy saop from the store ever again.

Columbus Foods now carries it!

Scent Cocktails

Scented Blends

How bout tart cassarole (lol...no don't use that one, it's really stupid,I'm in a weird mood)

I'd do without the scent if my soaps turned out that beautiful.

I really like how that soap came out. And I wanna try one

OK...I'll try a pillar, if you try soap!!

We're both chicken sh*ts!! lol

Mnhorsemom- I'm glad to hear your soap is still white after a few months.

Thanks everyone for the nice words.

Last week I saw an ad for our County Home & Garden show for vendor booth rental. Just under $600 smackaroos! I've been to those before and there are alot of siding & construction co., mixed in with a handfull of landscapers & window salespeople. I just don't see candles selling at a show like that. If I'm wrong...I'll be damned!

I tested JS Donut House Coffee in a J223 blended votive. To me it didn't smell anything like coffee at all. Throw was also barely there. I'm still searching for a good true coffee scent too.

That is some beautiful soap!

I was curious to see if the vanilla in this FO would discolor any. First picture is the soap freshly cut. The second is 3 weeks later. Very little discoloration.

Scent is very nice.

Soap freshly cut.

Soap 3 weeks later.

I use the USPS click & ship all the time, pay for and print the postage label usually in the evening. Now the post office is closed at 10pm when I'm in my jammies printin off postage labels, (making it impossible to get the package mailed the same day the label was printed), so I schedule a pickup usually the next day. It also gives you the option of picking any day you'd like to have it picked up. Excluding Sundays and the many postal holidays of course.

Tell the Dude he's been sniffin too much postage glue.

Holy-smoly! Love em.

I found mine at Lowes. ( if you don't have one in your area, it's like a Home Depot store) It was around $24