Melly

I made these the other day, used deoderized coco and lavender FO, and they are incredible. They make you feel soooo soft!. THanks for the recipie.

http://www.fatherandson.scent-team.com/canada.samplebags.php

Sorry to bring a Mia Bella site in here, but I was wondering if anyone knew where to get bags like this? They would be great for those who do candle parties.

They look great!!

psst only the soaper knows they were supposed to go to the bottom, not the customers

Much Better!! The border and the darker colours really make it pop!

Will give it a shot, thank you

i was poking 3 or 4 holes on one side and in the corner, maybe i should do a few more? I have a bunch of votives that need to be remelted and repoured, guess i will practice on those, do you do a second on one side a second on the other and back and forth? or one side at a time? Is low setting the proper setting for the heatgun?

Could someone please give me a detailed description on how to do this without melting the buggers. It seems as soon as i place enough heat on them to move the shrink wrap, it melts the votive. It's also bubbling in ugly patterns rather then being smooth and proffessional looking. I have my heat gun on low, and am lightly moving around the votive from a few inches away. This is the 4 inch shrink wrap tubing from Packco.

Actaully My board is not the scent review, The scent review is Todds Board, which is the original link posted at the top of the message. I run grand scentral staion. I am setting up a new domain because I decided I would do this if the board took off , which it has. The www.szenasi.ca was originally for a family website, and we're overexceeding the traffic limit on it within the first week of each month. No copyright issues, also wanted to have a nice address for it. I am not going to get a chance to switch domains today, wedding shower I have to help organize and attend, and last minute baby sitting duties. The old address scentreview.szenasi.ca will always still work, it will just forward you to the new URL once i have it setup.

www.grandscentral.com (oops gonna have to fix this on my site, I typod it) should hopefully be up and running soon. Ignore the "See told you it was up" on the main page, its a result of nagging my husband , not this message

Looks great! I really like the white top on it.

Third Page??? Akk! Bump

Oh my was I ever Nieave (sp?) on that one, I figured the alligators and emus survived this process.

You have 12% cocoa butter aswell, which is a bit high, you might want to keep your butters back to 5%.

hahah, guess i'll have to look up how to get oil from an emu

This tutorial has been a godsent when it came to lining my soap molds, it's something I used to dread, and this makes it soooo easy

http://www.candletech.com/cgi-local/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=bathandbody;action=display;num=1088130010;start=0

Or if you have room put the whole mold in the fridge, I do this if i want to prevent gel on the batch, soap comes out a lighter colour after cure if it dosnt gel.

Great idea about the ice cubes, going to go freeze my leftover goatsmilk right now before the carton expires

Dont worry Carmen, Ive gotten my husband to try my soap once, he still uses Zest. I even removed all traces of commercial soap from my bathroom, and he used my sons baby dove soap to wash his hands...grrrr. I am going to keep trying, but I know how you feel, my mother in law wont try my soap either.

I use my normal base oils and replace my water with goatsmilk. I add the lye to it when its frozen to slushy. It will turn a light yellowish brown color. Just make sure you add the lye slowly and stir.

You could try adding a 1 TBS of Honey and 2 tsp of ground oatmeal PP to make an oatmeal milk and honey soap.

I was advised by a supplier to use stevia to sweeten my lip balms, does anyone else use this? Where do you find it (I am thinking health food store) and how much do you use?

TIA

Melanie

OOh how soft and pretty, I Like those.

I buy mine in large quantities, 25kg bags from a soap and candle supplier about an hour and a half away. I have to pic it up, they will not ship it. Here, not only is it hard to find, its horribly expensive, $9.99 for 9oz, $13.99 a pound. Guess they figure they can make Meth unaffordable too. From the supplier i get it for about $2.00 a pound. You might want to try chemical warehouses too if you make enough soap to warrent a large quantity, I like knowing I wont run out for a LONG LONG time

umm... all i can think of is "How do they get the oil from the Alligator?" and the second thought of course was does it stink?

ahhh how sweet, cant wait till mine is that way Right now he just screams in terror when I turn on the stick blender.

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Thank you for posting that bunny, it's a great help. I was always under the impression that Hard Oils were the ones that remained solid at room temp, and soft oils were in liquid form. I see soybean oil as a soft oil, does hydroginating it to make it solid at room temp change this?

Yup, basically what you would do is pick 1 product that you make, so say for example, you decide to send sweet pea soap. You send in 9 bars of sweet pea soap, and each person gets one.