Crystala25

I found these recipes on another website quite awhile ago and have tried a few of them. A note on the essential oils - I wouldn't recommend peppermint essential oil for children or toddlers. Maybe try some lavender or chamomile.

I did some researching and found what I was doing wrong. I'm looking for the texture to be more of a salve/balm than a buttery texture. I am going to try a ratio of butters/oils 4:1 beeswax and see if that works, if not I will come back with my percentages and see whats not working.

Can anyone help me to formulate a baby balm (diaper cream)? I've tried a few different combos with these ingredients, but can't seem to get the texture right. This is what I am using: Beeswax Coconut Oil (or olive oil, I know they have different properties, but I can't decide on which one to use.) Jojoba Oil Apricot Kernel Oil Calendula Oil Cocoa Butter Vitamin E Any suggestions?

I love Brambleberry, I buy from them quite often, never had any problems and great customer service!

Scented, it is a stick blender, I just call it a hand mixer, just a habit. Thanks for trying to help me out everyone. Not sure what happened. I think I might try rebatching, although rebatching and me is a whole other story, lol. The mojito cocktail isn't bad just ugly, so I'll keep that batch for me.

Same scale, it's been working fine for everything else. I measure my lye dry, then add it to the water.

I agree, I think the soap fairies are to blame, there's no other explanation, lol. I did search for reviews and those were scents that were reviewed as good in cp. I've soaped all of them before with no problems. As for water discount, my discount is always at 5%, I never change it. The colorants I use are micas from brambleberry, there the only ones I use. I did try to use a hand mixer to beat through the seizing of the sandalwood vanilla, but I think I made it worse.

Someone sent the soap fairies to me and they caused a bunch of trouble over the weekend. I made 7 batches of soap of which only 3 came out right. I've made these soaps before, same recipes, same scents and I have no idea what happened. 1st - Sandalwood Vanilla (bb), it riced. 2nd - Blue Sugar (js), went crumbly. 3rd - Mango Papaya (peaks), after I unmolded and cut it, there were lye pockets inside. 4th - Mojito Cocktail (js), I had green swirls inside, but the rest turned a poop yellow color, with a slight red tint on top? Asian Spice, Lavender Vanilla and Yuzu came out perfect! I'm wondering, besides the soap fairies messing around, if the cold weather has anything to do with my soaping. I usually only make my soap on warmer days, but even with the cold this weekend decided to soap anyways. Any thoughts?

Oh no, I wouldn't want to add it to my lip balms. I saw another shop selling and discussing this and thought it would be unsafe and was just wondering your opinions on this. I agree that it would spoil and also go rancid very quickly.

Bacon, Ketchup, etc. I know it sounds gross, but I have seen it done and was wondering what can actually go wrong with this. I would think that people would get sick from something like this? Is this even legal for them to do?

Yes, thats the link. My computer can't seem to pull up the link, I guess I will try again later, it's just my computer then. Thanks.

Does anyone know what happened to this site? I needed to order more of the botanical extracts, but can't get the site to pull up.

Thanks for the help, I will go check out those suppliers. logcabinmomma, thanks for the suggestions.

Not what I was looking for, but that is a great site. I haven't seen it before, thanks. It's more like a votive jar, but with a wide opening I guess. I found a pic of a similar jar.

I'm looking for a glass jar container that looks like an oversized tealight container. No lid needed, anywhere from 2-8oz. Has anyone seen anything like this or know what I am talking about? I can't seem to find them online anywhere. Thanks.

I'm looking for a few candy scents that smell like the actual candies. Jelly Bean, Sweettarts, Peeps, Gummie Bears and a true Marshmallow scent. Or suggestions of other good candy scents. Does anyone know what supplier carries these scents? Thanks.

I shredded up the soap, put it in a boilable baggie and then in the crockpot with water on the bottom. I let it cook on low for about 2-3 hours and it was about 3/4 of the way melted, but I got impatient and took it out. I then blended it with a hand mixer (whipped soap effect). So far it it is a pretty light brown color and very creamy looking. I will post picks in a few days when I unmold it. I hope it comes out looking okay, because every time I have rebatched they come out looking like a mess.

Thank you. I've tried rebatching a few times and it just comes out crumbly, but I have so many scraps that I didn't want to throw out, so I'm trying to figure out this rebatching thing. I think I'll try it in a baggie this time, I haven't done that yet.

I can make cp soap, but I cannot rebatch soap for the life of me. If I want to rebatch in a crockpot should I still use one of those boilable baggies and add water to the crockpot or should I just put the shredded soap straight in the crockpot with the little bit of water? Any other advice or tips. Thanks.

Very pretty. I bet it smells so good.

The dollar tree and big lots in our area is already starting to carry a lot of christmas supplies.

I just got an email from Anne-Marie of Brambleberry letting me know that I was on her blog, I was so excited, here is the link to the post http://soap-queen.blogspot.com/2007/10/domaly-spiced-cranberry-sugar-scrub.html

Oops, Here are the images.

I had some trouble with one of my earlier batches of cream soap, I decided to start over and here are some pics of my newest cream soap, which thanks to some help from thecandlespastore, this batch came out much better. It's still super thick and I am going to wait a few days before whipping it up again.

I had whipped it up again a few days ago and it was a pretty texture, then I let it sit over the weekend and it ended up seperating and losing its whipped texture, is this batch savable or should I start over?