Bunny

More than 1% of stearic and it'll trace super duper fast and you'll have soap on a stick..

Bri, Laura, and Carmen have been quiet too.. Hope all is well and they will still be joining us!

Add 1% stearic acid to any recipe for a super hard bar. Traces quick, gels quick, and can be cut quick!

I'm getting so excited!!!!!!

Please read both of these articles, they explain it better than I ever could! HTH

http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com/library/preservatives.asp

http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com/library/preservativecontroversy.asp

Please keep in mind this is only one set on opinions, but do some research and I think you'll find just about the same anywhere you go.

Here's everything with the directions and stuff. Thanks Crafty1!

Bunny's Peppermint Foot Scrub

3.2oz Coconut Oil

.6oz Sweet Almond

.6oz Apricot Kernal Oil

2.3oz Jojoba

1.5 oz Silica (Bought from TDF)

.5oz polysorbate 80

4 g peppermint eo

2 g tea tree eo

8 oz Dead Sea Salts or Salt Blend

2 tsp pumice (I like the blue pumice from Brambleberry)

Preservative of choice at manufacturers recommendations.

Heat coconut in the microwave until completely melted, add other oils. Heat up for about 30 seconds, and add silica. Incorporate it well using a fork. Add PS 80.

Once cool, add eo and preservative. Then add salts and pumice and package. Viola! Awesome stuff!

Yes, you can use any oils you like, but note when you use kokum or shea or harder butters, the finished product will be harder. Adjust your recipe for the harder butters/oils.

No Callie! No No No!!! I really really really wanted to meet you!

So, no, you don't have to label the ingredients...lol

But if you list one, you list them all.

In section 701.20 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations [21 CFR 701.20], the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defines the term "soap" as a product in which the non-volatile portion consists principally of an alkali salt of fatty acids, i.e., the traditional composition of soap; the product is labeled as soap; and the label statements refer only to cleansing. If cosmetic claims, e.g., moisturizing, deodorizing, skin softening etc., are made on a label, the product is a cosmetic. Synthetic detergent bars are also considered cosmetics, although they may be labeled as "soap."

Taken from http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-lab3.html#clgi

www.todieforsoap.com

HTH

Oh Cindy, I am sooooo happy for you! Congrats, now get to work!

Yup, as long as it smells ok, go for it!

Those who are getting the "poof", are you sure you're not working with SLS, and SLSa doesn't poof that I've seen.

I put mine on a plate.. The Dollar tree just loves me!

Go to www.thesage.com and click on the lye calculator. (Even if you're not making soap) and enter in your stuff. Sub things, like for shea oil, note that it's really ewax and things like that. Click on go, and look on the second from the right box, percentages!

Girl, I'm impressed you were able to even get them blended at all!! lol

LMAO! It was the castor I was thinking of!

Glowlite, was just curious to the "method to your madness".

I still need to get my formula down. Used 1 TBS soil moist, 1/2 jar distilled water, candle dye 1/2 a drop, 1 tsp salt and 1/2 oz fo gonna test for

How were you able to get the candle dye to dispurse? I can only use water based colorants, not oil based in mine, or they get super nasty and don't blend. What brand candle colorants did you use?

10oz of olive oil

7oz of coconut oil

1 tbl castor oil

6 oz distilled water

2.6 oz lye

1/2 tsp tumeric for yellow color Don't really need to add this if you don't want too.

How in the heck do ya'll run 1 tbl of lye through the calc to make sure the lye amount is right? It's been buggin me since I saw the recipe posted. (and I'm sooo sorry, I don't remember who posted it.) Am not bashing the recipe in any way shape or form, would just like to know how it's done properly.

Please please please never *trust* a recipe's lye amount, always always always run it through a calculator. If you make a habit of this, you'll have just made better and safer soaping practices.

And warnings for certain ingredients if applicable.

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/cos-lab3.html#clgi

www.sfherb.com

You mentioned you were having problems with your rustics too.. What have you been doing? I add 3T ppwax stearic and pour just as the wax has started to skim over in the pot.

Trish, what about www.cheapseats.com or the one where you name your own price and stuff? You have just got to be there!!!!!