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Yea just the fresh fruit. No cooked notes or other fun stuff.

Oh great. I actually just need it to smell right OOB! I know - that's weird. So if any of them are decent straight please let me know!

I wish it was a matter of liking - I need one that smells as much like fresh raspberries as possible.

Doesn't matter if it's skin safe - just has to be as real as possible. Thanks,

Cannot CP 100% stearic acid soap. Ask me how I know.

I find that milk works better than water.

Really lovely. I've piped gelling soap onto soap cupcakes and can tell you that stuff is HOT!!! I was able to pipe it while it was gelling - it still came out smooth, but wouldn't wish that experience on anyone. It was for a bridal shower and I was up against the clock so had to push through, but ouchouchouchouch!!!

I don't do candles much any longer, but with soy wax it's often recommended to pour as the wax approaches the "slushy" stage - and is somewhat thick. But regardless of the pour temp, I generally added my FO at about 170, if memory serves - then let it cool in the pour pot until it was the correct temp.

To make fab softener itself toss the epsom salt with bentonite clay to very lightly coat the crystals. You can use regular salt, too. add the oils after, I guess. FOs are more likely to be stable than EOs (in general)

Why would you have to wait for it to come back to them? They need to refund it now. Seriously.

Eden Botanicals used to sell heavenly amber resin chunks until they found out they'd been synthetically fragranced - now they don't have that item any longer...

The amber we think of as amber isn't really a thing, per se - well not amber fragrance. It's fantasy (made up then compounded) and then crystallized for some reason. True amber extract does exist and it doesn't smell like that, sadly. What we think of as amber is typically a blend of labdanum, vanilla, patch, some carmelized notes and some other stuff.

define chemical free

I aim for the same STRENGTH of SCENT across my candle scents, so the use level of the FO can vary based on the scent and on the supplier. It's impossible to be spot on for all, so clearly there's lots of wiggle room but that's my goal. How much is too much? It depends on for what you are looking and what happens in your candles and how much you are willing to spend in raw materials for your candles. As for 6% for batches and 8% for individual candles I have only this to say - hunh?

I never washed out my red ED molds and never had any bleeding. Wilton baking pans - the red silicone ones - now THOSE bleed!