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I am undecided on this as well. I make soap and b&b as well and the only thing I've been coloring is my soap. Lotions, creams, body glazes, I leave as is and rely on my labels for coloring. For scrubs, I add a little bit of jojoba beads for color.

I want to add soy wax melts to my line and am deciding on whether I want to add color or not. While color catches attention, it can be subjective to the customer as well. Since I package the melts in clamshells, I will also have a label that will be eyecatching as well.

I use the TD from MMS, but it is water dispersible. I can still add it to my CP by stickblending it the oils right before I add my lye water.

I use the Vanilla Stabilizer from BB. I did a MP bar in SC's Pink Sugar that is white with pink swirls. The stabilizer was able to keep the bar from discoloring. When I used the Pink Sugar from SW, I got a little discolor, but nothing major.

Thanks for responding. It's too bad, since being able to custom mix your own colors would be the most practical for my needs. I'd rather have just a few bottles that I can mix to get various colors instead of having a whole bunch of different colored bottles floating around.

I will keep looking, and if I do happen to find anything, I'll provide an update.

Maybe try and add a little beeswax to it to cut down on the greasiness? I use BCN's base and love it.

Hi all, I am a soapmaker and make bath & body products. I usually use Select Shades to color my soaps. What I like about them is I can just purchase a set of their basic colors and I can make my own colors by combining them using the color chart is is supplied by them. Unfortunately, Select Shades only does bath & body colorants.

I've been perusing various candle suppliers sites and have found individual liquid dyes, blocks, chips, etc. But they are usually sold by the bottle only for each specific color. Does anyone know if there is a specific supplier out there that carries a set of candle dyes (liquid preferred) that I can mix my own custom shades? I want to start making soy tarts.

Thanks in advance.

If your soap is lye heavy, you will be a zap when you do a tongue test. You wet your finger, then rub on the surface of the soap until it lathers. Then touch the lather with the tip of your tongue. If it's lye heavy...you will definitely feel the "zap" or a sting. You'll know when you're zapped...it's like sticking your tongue on a 9 volt battery.

I store my cured soaps in these drawers.

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11134034&whse=BC&topnav=&browse=&s=1

I've had my TOG mold in the oven at 175 for an hour and had no problems at all.

Sometimes that happens to me. I saved the site onto my computer so that I can still use it when it's not coming up for me or if I lose my internet connection (again).

Paul's molds are excellent. Very good quality and a pleasure to deal with. I have 2 of his molds. One of them, he custom built for me to my specs. I love them!

And great customer service as well!

That looks absolutely yummy!

How did I miss this thread? It looks absolutely amazing!

Jojoba beads

ooh, actually, maybe I can use the dyed chocolate chips for candy.... then again I don't want everone running around licking everyone..*l*

Wouldn't that be an interesting sight!

The base is poured first and then the topping is whipped soap. It was actually a pain because I would get about 4 piped out, then the soap would start getting hard again, so I would have to remelt and rewhip. It was a total PITA but I ended up liking the results. I scented the bases with the FO that they were named after. For the frosting, I used a non-discoloring vanilla for both.

Very pretty!

I made these for a craft fair last week. They were pretty popular. The yellow is Lemon Creme and the pink one is Sugar Kisses.

Thanks for looking.

I made some confetti soap and poured it into the log molds about 9 hours ago. I placed plastic and covered the molds with a wooden lid. The soap got pretty hot and is still very warm to the touch. But it has not gelled all the way, since the surface still looks like the cream colored soap that I poured in. Is it too late to put in the oven to force gel to reach the surface?

I used a 40% lye solution for this batch.

Nice. I bet it smells wonderful!

Gee...thanks guys. I really loved making this soap. It's the first time for me not using any FOs and colorants. It was quite nice having not to worry whether the FO will speed up my batch or make it act wonky.

As far as my photos, I am a total amateur. I used my little, itty, bitty Canon SD450 for the photos. It's a little 5 megapixel camera that's a good point and shoot. I would so looove a DSLR though.

Whadayamean you don't like it? I think it's pretty!

I've been known to soap at 2am. Can't do anything about it when the urge suddenly hits you.

Very pretty!

Thank you! This is the first time I used honey for a batch. I've read that honey can cause heating issues, so I soaped everything room temperature. I also added some silk to help with the lather. I am totally hooked making this soap.

I made this over the weekend and finally just had a chance to cut it. I used coconut milk powder and yogurt powder for this. At first, I couldn't really smell much of anything since I didn't use any FO. After unmolding and cutting, it's starting to smell like Bit O Honey candy.

Here they are cut...

Thanks for looking.