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Hi Inez, I'm with you. I love to mix up fragrances into something new. I have a few scents I use as basic mixers that seem to jazz up whatever I add them to. Ambra del Nepal, Vaniglia del Madagascar, Mysore Sandalwood, Cardamom, and Hawaiian Black Ginger (all from Scent Works) are fabulous additions to many other scents. There are several EO's I like to use, too, to add a little something to a fragrance. Most notably are: 5-fold orange, lemongrass, spearmint, lime, and litsea cubeba. Here are two quick recipes I recently devised for woodsy Christmas scents: 1) Canadian Balsam: 1 part Ambra del Nepal: 2 parts Here the Canadian Balsam is a masculine top note, with the Ambra being a rich, smoothing base note. The full-bodied Ambra envelopes the brisk pine scent of the Balsam like an aura of golden warmth. I'm going to try this one in wax because it smells like "Christmas" to me. A touch of red currant or cranberry FO would be nice with this blend, too. 2) Canadian Balsam: 1 part Ambra del Nepal: 2 parts Mysore Sandalwood: 1 part The addition of the sandalwood cuts through Balsam pine scent until it's barely discernable after dry-down. It lends an earthy, vanilla-like sweetness to the top note, and softens the heavier, amber bottom that was apparent in the first recipe. This is a very sultry, unisex scent that will be good for all year round. I'm currently using it as a linen spray, but will put it in soap, too. Happy mixing!

LOL that's some "banner"! Yeah you need to fix a couple of safety glitches here. Okay, so what you have to do is go into the backend of your website via the Control Panel or FTP. Find the folder for ZenCart titled: "zc_install" and delete it. If you can, first FTP download a copy of it from your website to store on your computer for safe keeping, in case you ever need it again. Next you have to open your "includes" folder and CHMOD the "configure.php" file to 644 (rw-r--r--). That is, you're changing the file's write access permissions so that other people can only read the contents of the file, not change it. There are a few other things you should do to shore up the security of your Zen Cart. Here's the official list of them: http://tutorials.zen-cart.com/index.php?article=73 HTH! Oh, and "kunden" is probably just the name of the server you're on.

Congrats on the fabulous show, girlfriend. Sounds like you even exceeded your goal for it! :whoohoo: You've worked hard on everything and it's paid off. I'm so proud of you!!! :highfive:

I could live with it too, so send some to me. LOL! I've been wondering what padparadscha smells like. Bet it's as lovely as it looks!

Of your list I have: Creamy Coconut- Love this coconut scent. Haven't soaped it yet, but I mixed it with Lime EO to make a Coconut Lime scrub and it's awesome! Peach Mango- Very strong mango and peach...they blend beautifully together. I'm wild about this scent in scrubs, butters & lotions. Haven't soaped it so I can't tell you if it holds up there. The lime sugar sounds nice--I may have to go shopping. LOL!

DiamondK: Yes, tell us what you got!! Scented: I agree with you about the Black Currant being great. I *love* the scent. I'm not wild about currant/berry soap, but in candles or a scrub it would be delish! I'm a big fan of: Kojiki Ginger (OMG this is warm and rich and beautiful--best ginger I've ever smelled!) Frosted Snowdrops (yummy girlie perfume and more!) Brown Sugar & Fig Vanilla Plum White Tea & Ginger (droolworthy) Linden (floral, jasminy, lily-of-the-valleyish, green) Halloween Spice (would be awesome in a candle...just rename it for year 'round) Angel Food Cake- I was shocked to find it smells just like an angel food cake! Not such a fan of: Lavender, Cucumber, Sage- It must be me. Everyone is digging this one and it smells flat OOB to me. Needs a sharper top note and a heavier base note. I'm thinking of jazzing it up with a touch of spearmint EO and/or some Ambra de Nepal for the bottom. Or maybe I'll soap it as is and hope it blossoms. Lime, Basil, & Mandarin- fresh & spa clean...pretty but light. Another one that I hope blossoms in soap. Peach- Not sweet, but fresh & peachy with a hint of green. Which is great! But...OOB a very light scent. I'm hesitant to soap this one. I think maybe wax will bring out some oomph in it. Remember, these are just my opinions...YMMV.

Daaayuuum! You sure are a Fo Ho! LOL! Gorgeous storage cabinet, no doubt about it!

Care Bear, I know! I went into palpitations when I read the email! So I'm like, "Christmas for kids...FO's for me...Christmas for kids...Fo's for me...". I finally decided that even *I* am not that bad a mother.

The first number is the cap diameter in millimeters. The second number is a standardized industry number that refers to the height and thread configuration of the closure. Here's more info on caps and threads: http://www.all-pak.com/capneck.asp?navid=35 HTH!

Okay I was boggled by how LU$H managed to preserve their M&P bars with all the fresh fruits and stuff in them. Per their site: "One of the things that irritates us just slightly is when we're not having a good day is that it's perfectly legal to call something banana soap when it doesn't have any bananas in it, but merely a dab of synthetic banana fragrance. Our banana soap has lots of fresh bananas in it; we mash them up, mix them with yoghurt, soap flakes and essential oils and make a truly bananafied, moisturizing soap that smells of bananas because it's full of them." Here's the ingredients: Sodium Palm Kernelate, Propylene Glycol, Natural Yoghurt, Fresh Bananas (Musa paradisiaca), Sodium Stearate, Sodium Lauryl Sulfate, Perfume, EDTA, Tetrasodium Editronate, Glycerine, Sodium Chloride, Titanium Dioxide, Gardenia Extract (Gardenia jasminoides) But then I noticed the Sodium Palm Kernelate and Sodium Stearate. That's saponified PKO & tallow, right? Ah ha! I bet they add the raw foods during the lye process. Otherwise how could they keep it from spoiling?

Since Crisco is a single product you list it in order like anything else, but with the word (and) in parenthesis between each ingredient in Crisco. So based on your recipe, Crisco would be the second largest ingredient. You would list your ingredients as: Coconut oil, Hydrogenated soybean oil (and) cottonseed oil, olive oil, soybean oil, etc. Except use the proper INCI terms, of course. LOL!

I agree with what CareBear said. I don't think anyone's trying to pick on you, hon. While I don't have a specific recipe for you to follow, the reason I put up the link to Bonnebell is so you could see what the ingredients are for the Lip Smackers. And amazingly they also list the benefits each ingredient brings to the formula, including what makes their lip balms glossy. And once you have the ingredients that's the first step in searching on here and the 'net for a recipe you can use. KWIM?

Not a recipe, but you may find this helpful in concocting one: http://www.bonnebell.com/faq.html

Carrie, I like your first soaps but can understand you wanting the look of the Jericho soap. Maybe it would work to divide your water before adding the lye, and dissolve the mud in an ounce or two of it. Mix the lye as usual in the majority of water and incorporate that into your oils as you normally would. Then add in the mud water at trace? Or add the mud water to oils first and then the lye water? I was also thinking as someone else suggested, that a little black oxide might help hide the specks. Don't know...just throwing out suggestions here.

Chris, I figured the poster was being honest. You should see some of the posts I've seen over the years on hot glass artist's boards. People setting themselves on fire because they dropped molten glass on a Bic lighter, turning the valve the wrong way on a BBQ propane tank so propane spewed all over their kitchen, torching with no ventilation so they got carbon monoxide illness, and on and on. And yes, I've seen some consult first with an online forum to ask what to do instead of calling the fire dept. or going to the ER like they should have. I didn't see the poster's responses here before they were deleted, so I don't know if my reply was what caused the ruckus. What I wrote was accurate ventilation information based on my years of working with torches and indoor airborne hazards. I posted with the hope that something could be learned from his experience to avoid similar problems in the future.