blazerina

Sally makes a good point! My minds eye agrees.

You are so right Scented!!! Call it Georgia Cooler

You CAN use it for that, in that sense it's similar to glycerine....but it's not usually what is recommended or preferred. But it is a pretty well rounded versitile safe medium for lots of applications. I guess you could almost think of it as a modern version of Mineral oil. Maybe, lol. Here is a quick descrption I grabbed for ya off an Essential Oil Wholesaler site Dipropylene Glycol,(DPG) Dipropylene Glycol,(DPG),is used to tone down reactive agents found within chemicals, therefore producing a skin safe oil. Dipropylene Glycol is often used to make fragrance oils and essential oils safe for use on the skin, as well as ensuring they are suitable to use in potpourri mixes and oil burners. Our Dipropylene Glycol is panel selected to ensure low odor, superior quality and frangrance grade. Our DPG is Lo Odor Fragrance Grade, Manufactured by Dow Chemical. Our Dipropylene Glycol is a water-soluble, colorless, low-odor liquid with low volatility, which means it is also perfect for body sprays and perfumes. Use our Dypropylene Glycol to dilute your fragrance oils & essential oils without additional (unwanted) odor. Our DPG is colorless, so it will not change the color of your products. We recommend using Dipropylene Glycol with other carrier oils and aromatherapy essential oils to create the perfect consitency fragranced body spray that will keep your skin silky smooth and provide all of the benefits our high quality essential oils have to offer. I've purchased 'fragrance oils' off ebay as well, but they were not meant to be for candles... it was an actual 'perfume oil' more than anything. It would be like me buying a zillion 1 oz bottles half a zillion oz's of straight FO, and adding some to some Sweet Almond Oil, and selling it as a perfume or massage oil. They just don't describe very well so if you are new to this hobby it would seem like you are buying actual FO's.

How bout..... Southern Breeze Sweetest of the South Peachberry Magnolia orrrrrr BerryPeach(y) Magnolia Farmhouse Fruits Maggie May Georgia Breeze(s) Umm.... s' all I got I do really like Southern Belle and Southern Sunshine!

Gosh, that's hard this time. I think the border gives it a more upscale classy look... but the no border is so un busy that it's pretty nice. I can't decide. Sue me, lol.

Looks awesome and very 'guy appealing'. You got your props and picture set up rockin'!

Lol, yanno, I went to bed worried that I probably used the wrong abbreviation. I guess CS is actually CandleScience... I was meaning Candlesoylutions. Sorry about that. :embarasse

Here is a description I just saw on CS Clove Pomander Synthetic Base, delightful clove, cinnamon, fruity scent. Remember putting cloves in oranges? This is it!

I gotta say though- be that as it may, lol... I feel the need to add that at least from my limited exposure he seems very involved, very responsive and seems to care a lot about his business. IF it is the same person- he's very responsive and active on their EZboard and elsewhere. I totally plan on doing a lot of business with them and I'll just have to see for myself, lol. (but-- does a reference from a strange person about a supposed strange person count for anything even? I've never been known to be 'normal' so i'm sure we will get a long fine!) I will definitely post my experience if it helps anyone.

Just thought I would toss in here that they may not be too crazy asking for an apple scent for men... DH ALWAYS wants something that smells like apple pie. I don't think he expects to smell like it all day- but wants to enjoy it in the shower. And I think Applewood is a great name. The wood from apple trees is often used in curing and smoking meats. Did you try apple and cedar? Or apple and pine? Also, I don't know if it's manly ENOUGH or not... but I recently tried a product that had Pumpkin Cornbread FO- and to me, it's pretty strong with apple- is NOT floral-y at all. It's at least unisex if not all out manly. Give it a sniff, lol. :laugh2:Roflmbo.. ok that first paragraph sounds VERY hinky and 'American Pie-ish' Didn't mean it that way....he always asks for it in a wax melt too, lmboooooooooooo

Lmboo... yep. You got that right... Eugene Oregon (about 2hrs from Portland)... also known as hippieville. Maybe he moved here to fit in, lol.

I figured this is the best place to post this since many of our crafts are represented in the supplier by state sticky in the General Candle Making thread. I looked at this site when I was brand new and only found two suppliers near me and one is not so great and the other was a very limited and specific product supplier. The site it's self was plain and -well- boring, lol. But now...ommigoodness ommigosh I'm sooo happy. I went there again 'just to see' what might be new and WOW. The site is updated (not sure since when exactly)and it's very inviting and user friendly. There were half a dozen or more suppliers located for my lil western (but not Cali) neck of the woods, lol. For instance, CandleSoylutions has recently relocated from OK to MY TOWN! And I had no clue! And the best part... they let you pick up from the warehouse!!! I just can't tell you what that means to a cheap-wad like me! I'll even learn to like and maybe love soy wax, just to be able to pick it up! I've been thoroughly checking out all these sites and I'm just so thrilled! It's a small thing in the scheme of life, lol... but have i mentioned how happy I am? So- moral of the long-winded-as-usual post is: if you haven't been there lately... CHECK IT OUT!

Thaks for the reply. I've been looking at a search just now and there is a lot of mentions of palm ,just not a lot of details, lol. I'm not stuck on using it... although- it is pretty. And you are right, I do recall that my warmer, which is a nice one(I beleive an OBI electric dual candle/tart warmer) , had a heck of a time melting the palm tart. And perhaps that is why I got little throw. Good point! I think I will stick with the soy... Which the local place sells too. I can't imagine that shipping anywhere for wax would make up for the higher price they may be charging though. Per lb on line might be cheaper, but not with shipping KWIM? Especially when I only use #10 at a time, lol. Thanks again.

Ok, I didn't know how else to put it, lol. ~ Please bear with me~ I was surfing my local suppliers web site because I need to replace my very first 10# slab of wax. So i'm kind of a wax newbie. I understand the different general types, but what I don't get is what is it they add or do to a wax to not only change the same wax from a container wax to a pillar wax, but which then also raises the price by $3/slab. I noticed the pillar was more expensive than the container. Is this because of the additives to make it harder? Or is it a different SOURCE of wax. This particular wax I seen was a palm wax. I've had palm wax tarts that didn't seem to have very good throw- but that could have been for a lot of reasons not due to the wax it's self, right? Do any of you have any opinions on using palm wax for tarts? I only make wickless and tarts for my family and friends and what I was able to get locally before was IGI 6006 (which last year was $13 for 10#- probably a close out price and they didn't inform me of the plan to stop selling it) and I would add straight paraffin and or steric to it. They stopped selling it though and now only have $20 for #10 paraffin, or this palm or straight soy. So i'm just curious what to look for in why the costs are different and if I can buy the cheaper but softer wax and do my own blend/ additives. I hope this makes SOME sense and thanks in advance for ANY input!!!!

This may not be relevant, but everytime this comes up I wonder... isn't using the bi-product of petroleum processes a GOOD thing? I mean... aren't we giving useful life to something that otherwise would be put into other even more caustic materials? Are we not recycling in essence? And I would also have to agree- the burn time is STILL debateable. Doesn't matter if you said 'our candles' or not, you are still using the info from your own candles to prove a general theory across the board. The only thing that is factual about that is that YOUR soy candles burn longer than YOUR paraffin. But you are putting this information out there to inform others about the properties of soy in general and calling it an overall across the board fact based on YOUR candles. It's neither here nor there to me really but at the same time I'd be one of those skeptics who if reading that, would be thinking that you probably can't legally say that. So on that basis only I'm posting. I guess because i'm skeptical I really don't like when someone makes such statements that seem to obviously hope to CONVINCE someone of something. To me, very few things are set in stone and it really bugs me when people repeat things they have heard or read and rely wholey on it and treat it as though it's the end all be all no discussion truth. I realize your information comes from your research so when I say it bugs me when people do this, it's not 'you'. It's who ever started the whole one is 'better' than the other propaganda in the first place. If you are getting questioned about it all the time, I think it's a smart thing to do. I would just change my 'factual' approach into more of a 'I prefer soy because...it is said to be... generally speaking they often last longer... ' etc.

Roflmao- That's funny! They should at least call it Cinnamon Boquet and be up front about it, lol. It was probably a man who never cooked a day in his life - - who found this mold and decided it was a cinnamon bun. I'm sorry and I don't mean offense, but sometimes you men see things so simplisticly!

Ok, lest I look too dumb for very much longer, lol... I need to correct myself. It's not the butters it's the beeswax that gives balms their density. I totally forgot about beeswax:o The less beeswax, or any wax- which ever your recipie calls for...the softer it will be. I used the BCN-like version that is in the recipie section and made everything from lotion sticks to lip gloss to solid perfume to itch relief salves all by changing up the amounts and ratios of oils to beeswax.

I share my soaps from swaps with my sister. She gets half, I get half. Unless I love love love it of course, lol. Anyhoo, she has reported that a few of them left her smellin kind of rotten after wards. It has only been glycerine soaps though. But since we both use the same bar of soap and I don't notice it.. I either stink to high heaven or it's a personal chemical reaction. I HAVE noticed though that the weaker the scent is/ the milder the scent, the worse you smell afterward- so I think it's either the scent of the soap base/chemicals, oils etc- and or how they mix with you chemically.

I only know of one site that has one listed... but it's a really great all around one. Just go to Glorybee.com. It is a calendula salve.

I couldn't be for sure but I think that it would still work. Balms are not always really as solid as you might think. But it depends on where you live, time of year, etc. Sometimes the heat of a hand or lip can make it turn to something very soft very fast. I would suggest maybe adding a bit more oil % (glycerin or Apricot Kernal, both, etc.) to prevent the setting up. OR there is one ingredient that you use less of as well.... I think it's Shea. It's the butters that give balm their 'stiff' properties. Good luck.

Hey E... just in case you are still feeling generous, lol... could I ask what the ewax, steric and alcohol do in/for a scrub. This is the first i've seen of this kind of recipie. And does it take any special equipment? I've only been extremely basic in mine so i'm jes curious. Thanks much Oh wise and generous one.

Howdy! I was hoping some of you very creative people could give me a few pointers and inspirations that I could pass on to my Mom, who was the lucky recipient of LOTS of crushed glass. There are buckets of almost sand like sized and buckets of 1/4 Karat diamond size. Not very big at all really. But there is lots of it and its all divided up and in colors. She is very excited to use it but really doesn't know where to start, nor what to do with it, lol. She wants to make jewelry and more importantly...she wants to know how to decorate the pyramid shaped caps they put on their deck railing. Know what I mean? They are thinking of using some kind of epoxy to embed them in, but wouldn't that kill the prismatic effect? Etc etc. NO clue what so ever. Thanks sooooo very much for any ideas and all tips ya got. (I promise to post pics of any final product:D )

Well... because I don't have a scale yet and I just play around with experiments and small quantities- I can only tell ya in those terms. I don't know what a full lb of verm. would take far as FO, etc. I have those small canvas drawstring bags and used them for the bag. Tie a bow instead of a knot and the buyer can decide if they want it for under their car seat, a drawer OR to open it and dump about half the bag at a time across the carpet to be vac'd up. You don't even really need to wait to vac- the point is more to have it get in the vac bag so that the air can circulate and spread the scent around as they vac. The same idea as a room spray only you don't have as much nasty to breathe and get something clean all at the same time, lol. I think it lingers longer as well. Anyhoo, for each 3/4 bag (probably a cup + /- of Verm- and you don't want to fill it too full or air won't circulate around it as well and let it give off scent if they are using it as a sachet) I added 3 lid fulls ( I would say equals 1 1/2 tsp.) of FO. Back up, I forgot to mention to add the fo to the Verm. while the verm. is in an FO safe baggie or coverable small bowl. Stir and let sit covered for at least 24 hrs. It should not look or be wet at the 24 hr mark. Add a bit more or less of either as needed if the verm appears to not be drying. As long as it is dry you can bag it up. I think I will experiment with adding a scent fixative to help adhere and absorb the FO. But MINIMALLY, or it won't be cost effective. A bit of baking soda sprinkled in, in barely noticeable amts might also be a good idea. Just haven't gotten that far in my playing yet. :smiley2: They can sprinkle it across the floor or dump directly into canister. A word to the wise. For canister vacs, corn cob material that is not 110% dry is not a good idea, lol. Again, sorry I can't have full on instructions for a full batch and such. I hope this helps some though. Good luck!

Very kewl! I would love to see how that comes out for you! Will you be so kind as to post a pic? Please:D

If i'm not mistaken, a lot of companies add caffeine to anti cellulite creams. It's purpose is to plump up the skin to lesson the depth of the cellulite. (either that or it draws water retention out- can't remember now) Not sure how much they use but it's not entirely unusual. You would definitely have to soak in it and shower 3 times a day in it for it to have much if any effect. There was also a thread about this in the OT board a few months ago I beleive. Everyone pretty much agreed it was marketing. But if you beleive in it because it says so- it will probably work for you:D . No harm in that.