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Yes im planning combo deals on everything I found people like those too when i worked in retail.

I'll have to look up the drink, Im not a drinker myself. Thanks for the suggestions guys! Off to go type something containing the word sex into a search engine, this should be educational

No , its not a propisition, exactly what colour do you guys make this in?

Im up to my elbows in wax, just finished pouring 48 creme brulee and 48 christmas tree votives, preparing some colour tests for this afternoon too, then maybe a batch of soap and lots of lip balms. did candy cane yesterday, red and white layers, they turned out so cute. Next weekend I start selling at the farmers market, and tommarrow my mother in law is taking some of my candles down to the flea market she works at to see how people react to them there.

Send them the link for party light and mia bella

It's insane how people thing this is fast money. Granted,that's what I thought about 5 years ago too.....i've learned my lesson now

Votives, Soap, Bath Bombs, Lip Balms. I am hoping to have a few more jar candles ready to go in a few weeks, but right now they are still testing, and im not going to rush it . I might also put together some bath salts and a few other simple items to take along.

I finally got the courage to go and get myself a booth at our local farmers market. I will be selling there starting next saturday, luckily it is an indoor market. This is my first time selling, and IM soooo nervous!! Any advice fron anyone whos done markets before? I scoped it out, no candles, no b&b, only one lady who had a few bars of very plain CP soap. Wish me luck

hahah, Danie thats just too cute. I was surprised it arrived this fast too, im still waiting on Flavour oils that where shipped 2 weeks ago today. Lets go ahead and start talking about the product, im pretty sure everyone is accounted for!

YAY!! I finally got mine today!! Love everything, I am soo having a bath and pampering myself today, after them temper tantrums my 2 year old has been throwing today, I NEED it!!

My best friend tried to steal my sweet pea perfume, had to bat her off of it, promised to order some sweet pea FO next time round. Great job on everything guys!!

Putting them in the oven prevents them from puffing up due to too much humidity in the air. This is the recipie / turtorial that works for me. http://www.ncf.ca/~aj471/BathBombs.html

The only change i made is to add my wet ingredients to my baking soda/corn starch mix then add my citric well after everything is blended. I also run the dehumidifier in my workshop several hours before making them.

It takes practice, i was considering selling half bombs at one point, here is what works for me. I fill both halves of the mold so they are overflowing, then I squeeze the two halves together really really hard for about 12 - 15 seconds. I put the bomb, still in the mold on my cookie tray and let it sit for about 5 minutes, very important to leave both halves on for the first few minutes, I have lots of ornament molds. After about 5 minutes, i VERY carefully remove the first half, and let the bomb remain in the second half for as long as possible, 30 minutes if I can, this gives me nice whole balls with no flat bottoms. If it is not staying in a ball because the mix is too dry, just add a little drizzle of oil to the mix. Good Luck~~

Awsome! let me know how you like it.

Try health food stores.

Sigh, mine will be a while before it gets here, gotta love customs. SOOOO jealous of you guys right now. Im even out of bath products to use here at home.

I have 2 uplands and love them, easy to assemble, soap comes out like a dream, and they do come with liners, they also sell the liners seperatly for people who like to make thier own molds.

dosnt your soap end up getting all creasy?? How do you get it to lay smooth?

what do you mean sort of?? They look great!

Heres a feature of the Just scent site not alot of people know about. If you hold your mouse cursor over the picture that is associated with each scent, it will pop up and give you a small review of how that scent works in soy. It might help you get an idea of which scents to order. I also have hundred of reviews on Just scent scents on my message board, www.grandscentral.com

Have you tried making lip balm from scratch. It's honestly sooo easy, I dont know if I would worry about finding a base for it, have you looked into lip balm recipies?

You need to buy Flavour oil for the lip balms, its usually used at around 4%

You can buy the flavour oils presweetened, if you are using one that is not sweetened , you may want to add a lip balm sweetener to it.

The site that darwin gave you also carries a HUGE supply or flavour for lip balm.

You could try tempering the base. Just melt it, turn the heat source off and let the base sit in the hot water for atleast 10 minutes. This can sometimes prevent certain butters from going grainy. Some inendtation is normal when lip balm cools. Mine always have a small little hole in the middle where the stick of the tube is. Try overfilling them so that there is a bubble of melted lip balm sitting ontop. when it shrinks it will be a bit more level with the top of the tube.

Yes, i tried it, silk goes in every batch from now on It makes the lather feel very smooth and luxerious, hard to describe, but I definatly recommend it, I just cut up a piece of 100% silk i bought at the fabric store and added it into my lye.

Since you have alot of veggie shortening already, i would probably try lard. make sure you run it through the lye calc , Is your veggie shortening made of pure corn oil?

yes definatly much firmer going to stick to a water discount if im not looking for a really good swirl from now on.

Need to know what you guys think of this soap, it was just cut and needs to be cleaned up a bit. This is scented lavender with shea butter and silk. First time using a water discount, first time using silk, and im still kind of new to oxides. Was downstairs soaping last night after I get the little one in bed, and hubby starts yelling for me to come to bed with him, saying its ridiculas that im making soap at this hour, and he needs to get up early (its only 9:30 pm at this point ) So, needless to say I rushed this poor batch. Im not sure if im happy with it or not, it has oxide specks in it and im not used to a textured top from a slab mold. Im hoping to start going to farmers market soon and trying to build up some stock, should I add this to it or keep this batch for personal use / christmas presents.