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Never made one but google lip scrub recipes and maybe some good ones will come up. I would think maybe some shea butter with either sunflower or almond oil and a bunch of sugar mixed in might be a good start.

Thanks Trudi, great links but I am looking for colored caps for the roll on style bottles rather than the lip balm tubes. I do love the sage's lip balm caps though:)

Thanks guys. Scented I will have a little display for testing/sniffing the perfume oils, but not the lip glosses for obvious reasons. I think I'll shrink wrap both and maybe make small "lip" stickers to go on top of the lip gloss.

I could use different color caps but I already have the bottles with white caps and I'm not sure where to order just the colored caps for them. Open to getting them if anyone know where I can order caps.

Later this Spring I'm going to do a charity craft fair for my daughter's church. I was only going to take lotions, perfume oils and little gift sets of the same. Lately I've been re-visiting lava lip glosses that I use to make many moons ago and think the young crowd will like those.

So my dilema is... my perfume oils are packaged in roll on bottles and of course, that is what lava gloss is packaged in. I know I can label them differently so it's clear what is what, but I can just see someone rolling lip gloss on their wrists and perfume oil on their lips anyway.

Any ideas of how I can change up the packaging for the glosses or the perfumes?

If I remember correctly, the $5000 limit is what caused Indie Beauty Network and the Soap Guild to go hunting for a new carrier a few years back and then offer those policies with membership in their organizations.

Ha! I was trying to figure out how you did lava without it:)

Try using a lighter oil in there like sweet almond. Mine are a mix of jojoba, SAO, castor and vitamin e.

Good tip. I'm going to play around with different formulas this weekend. Do you use glycerin for the lava too?

It looks like a lava lamp. You color glycerin and fill a roll on bottle about 1/3 full. Then you flavor and sweeten a viscous oil (like castor) or a mix of others...just so it's thick. Fill the rest of the bottle with the oil. They should stay separated.

When you tip the bottle up and down the glycerin flows through the oil like the "lava" in the lamps.

NG has it

Thanks, lovestosoap! I figured they would be a big hit with the teen set. I'm playing with my recipe a bit more to see if I can get them to taste better. I used castor oil with flavor, but the castor taste is still in there. Going to some sweetened with stevia.

Thanks 2 of 7. Good info to have. I too use sks 10ml roll ons and love them! Just wish they had the mini size too.

Thanks Sliver, I checked out the site and they may have something that will work.

Thanks sycamore. Are you talking about the ones they currently have on their site?

Searching for the mini (approx 5ml) roll on bottles that are about the same height and diameter of a lip balm tube...not the short/squatty version of the 10 ml roller bottles. I've googled for them all day with no luck. Does anyone know where I might find this size?

Thank you both. I have all of those flavors so will make a few of each as well as some others. It was much easier to find teen testers when I was still teaching high school. Just don't want to come out of retirement just for the testers ha!

thanks for the reply. I figured tweens and teens would love them. Do you mind telling what flavors are their favorites? I literally have dozens of flavors ha!

I was bored last night and made some up for my daughters church youth group. They are so pretty and really fun to make. Got to wondering if any of you make and sell them? If so, how do they do for you?

Definately print your own postage online if using UPS or Fedex. Those privately owned stores really mark things up.

Snowdrift has excellent online shipping customer service, but don't expect an email answer. Many sent, none answered. I do like their selection and their "organic, but not certified" shea butter is outstanding.

I would not add preservative. It may not be compatible with what they already have in there, plus some are temperature sensitive and need to be added at a certain point in the emulsification process.

Maybe you are thinking of concentrated bases that are meant for you to add additional ingredients...i.e. add water for cream or lotion consistency etc.

I would call the manufacturer and ask if in doubt.

I haven't, but so glad you posted this site. Just what I need, more samples to try out. Getting my credit card out now:rolleyes2

Cedar, just a friendly word of warning. Adding to a preserved base could throw off the preservative balance of the final product. Usually a base is preserved at the % required for the water, oils and butters already in it.

Ugh, Aquatech was less painful to order from when they included shipping in their prices. However, it's the only place I can find the hemp lotion.

If you ship to a business address it's bunches cheaper. I did a test cart for just one gallon of hemp lotion and saved $4.00 on just that one item. I live in Arizona and they are in New York, so the shipping included was a great deal for me. Now I just ship to hubby's work...I'm retired and have no place of business anymore or I would ship to mine.

The more you order, the more the shipping goes down,

who is WHS?

Maybe call it southern kitchen or country kitchen spice or something like that? I don't sell candles anymore but I love this scent.