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. . . but does anyone remember the *perfume* called Straw Hat? (I think it was one of my fave waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the 70's?) If anyone is as old as I am and remembers this, do you know if there's any FO close to the scent? I would love to have a lotion made with it! Thanks in advance.

Ok, this might sound weird, but my 14-year-old said the bathrooms at school were out of soap and wanted to take some of mine to school. I don't make liquid soap but as a way to test a theory and appease my daughter, I grated some of my bar soap into a sample foamer bottle, added some hot water, waited for about an hour to let the soap flakes dissolve and OMG, it worked! Simple as that. She's happy and now all of her friends are borrowing her bottle of soap to wash their hands. It's a quick, easy solution to try out if you have the foamer bottles. For me, I'm more determined than ever to try a batch of liquid soap so I can do it *right*. Hope that helps.

I use packing tape - I don't go all the way around the bottle/jar, though. What I do is lay my label on the tape and trim the tape up a little. I taper the ends so they don't crinkle up where they meet the curve of the bottle. (Does that make sense to you because it sounds a little confusing seeing it written out.) Maybe it's just me or my so-called labels but I don't really like the way it looks - to me it looks kind of tacky so I'm going to bite the bullet and get me some *real* labels. Hope that helps a little?

I got mine too - HOLY COW! I can't stop smearing it on my face and hands.

I just received a newsletter from BCN - apparently they bought BNL.

I'll let ya know. My only experience with this particular scent is from a 2 oz bottle that Scent Cellar sent to me (she's so sweet) to try out. I'm pretty sure it was from ICS and I really liked it in the batch of lotion and sugar scrubs that I made. I also found some at MC for a little less than BCN so now I'm weighing my options. In either case, when I get it, I'll try to remember to give a review. Thanks again!!!!!!! :smiley2:

Thanks, Angela!

I've been shopping around for the best price on Pink Sugar too but I'm not finding it on BCN's site. Is it listed in a weird place or am I just blind?

I think that looks awesome! Reminds me of watermelon tourmaline!

Oh - thanks for that info on Walmart's. I don't want pre-cut either. :smiley2:

I asked the same question on another forum - the answer I got is papermart.com and sometimes you can find smaller amounts at Walmart. HTH :smiley2:

I'm wishing I wouldn't have said I'd post results now. The past 2 days of soaping have not been good ones and yesterday's experiment with the cranberries was the absolute worst experience with soap making I've had so far. My first mistake (I think) was using lye water that was 1/2 coconut milk and 1/2 distilled water made up from the day before. As soon as this hit my oils I had a big glob of un-stirrable mess. Once the panic subsided, I glopped it all into the pan and headed to the house where the computer is set up. On the way in, I tripped over the hose, recovered, hit the top step of the porch and tripped over one cat, managed to recover enough to step on the other cat causing her to run between my legs. Finally got into the house, put the pan on the stove on warm and got the idea to bring up the HP tutorial. I scanned through the tutorial and *thought* I knew what I was doing. (Not a clue!) When everything was all smooth and thick, I added the cranberry puree and some orange EO, stirred it in and was so pleased by the beautiful color of soap being poured into the mold. As I finished scraping the last of the mix out, the stuff in the mold was separating right before my eyes and I now had a mold full of oily-applesauce looking stuff. So I poured it all back into the pan, went back for another quick scan of the tutorial and cooked it some more. It all went back together nicely but the beautiful pink color is now butt-ugly brown. Now, I was determined that I hated HP after that scary episode but as I filled my pan up with hot water, I had the biggest bubble explosion I've ever seen so now I'm thinking I might have to take the time to really REALLY read the tutorial, get a firm grasp on what it's telling me to do and try it again. No cranberries this time, though. Sorry this is so long when all I really wanted to say was I don't care for the fresh cranberries in CP soap. Thanks for all the input! :embarasse

No results yet - I got side-tracked by a box full of Green Tea Seed Oil that my hubby picked up at Big Lots on his way home from work. Probably a good thing because now I see how bad things might have turned out if I had added cranberries to the lye. (DUH! What was I thinking?) I'm getting ready to give it go now, though, and will post the results. Thanks for all the great input! Don't know what I'd do without this board's members and the great advise:)!

Thanks, Robin! Somehow I knew I could count on you to steer me in the right direction. I'm going to try adding some to my lye water (don't know how stupid that might be but . . . I'm a risk taker, what can I say! ) and then I thought I'd maybe add a little at trace. I'll definitely post my results. Thanks again.

Alrighty then - guess I'll just take this as one of those "try it and see" lessons. Thanks anyway.

Hi everyone! Just wondering - has anyone here used fresh cranberries in CP? Seems I've seen pics of some soaps somewhere that claim to contain "real cranberries". I was given 4 bags of cranberries and much prefer the idea of making soap over cranberry sauce (How bad is that!) so any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!