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Not be dense, but that's the same as Lampe Berger, right? If so, there is a good thread on BC's message board about it. www.candlesupply.com then their messgae board icon, and then on their main "BC Message Board", it's about halfway down the page and titled "Lampe Berger".

Those are beautiful! Wow, I wish I could make some soap. I'm green with envy over here!

I'm only repeating something I read here, so I can't vouch for the truth of it, but I thought I'd mention it - I read that soy wax is softer in general than beeswax, so it's advisable to use approximately 2x the amount of soy wax than you would have beeswax. I'd love to hear about the results, I've been toying with lip balm and I want to make my own using my soy flakes as well.

Oops, never mind then!

Thank you so much prairieanne! Of course, I'm biased, but he really is just the most beautiful boy on the planet. And the smartest, and the sweetest, and the best behaved...... Vicky - after you posted, I went to look, and you were right, HUGE air bubbles. Everywhere. Annoying. I hate that it was so beautiful, but didn't work out so well in the end. I love the beautiful smooth tops, but the frosting this morning, when I woke up?! Fuggedaboudit. It's everywhere. It's like it snowed inside my containers. So, there you are if you read this far...something boring for the day.

I just spent about three months trying to find some information about this as well, no kidding. It's frustrating.. I also only ordered red, yellow, blue and black. I finally broke down and ordered an artist's color wheel from BCN. http://www.candlesupply.com/accessories.html - about 1/2 way down the page. However, in my search, found these helpful links: http://www.xmission.com/~daina/tips/pub/tip0419.html http://www.chromacryl.com/col_mixing/chromacryl_colourwheel.pdf http://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/cwheel.pdf So far, the color wheel I bought has been the easiest, since I have it in hand and can reference it when I'm mixing. HTH!

Get the facts out of the way: I use 100% EZ Soy, no additives, just color and FO. I heat to approx. 180-185 to mix in the color, then add scent at 175. Pour at about 100, or when verrrrry slushy. I've been making candles since we lived in AZ, and here in TX now, so I've poured until 0 humidity to about 90% humidity, now, so I've had some wide experience as for weather. So I just poured about 5 pounds of candles, colored a darkish blue. They're looking fine so far. Anyway, here's the interesting thing: they're looking fine, slightly frosted, but minimally, now that I've worked it out with the humidity and we've come to sort of a truce. After I poured the main candles, I had about 6 oz left over, and I needed to pour a test candle to test a new wick. So, I added another 10 oz of flakes, straight from the box, and zapped it in the micro for about 1.5 minutes. It was fairly melted, the flakes were a little resistant, b/c I didn't get it super hot, probably only up to about 130-140. I stirred it very well for a few minutes, and all the flakes melted into the older, darker stuff and came out a lighter blue. So, here's the thing: the result of this mixture was this incredibly creamy, beautiful, perfect and smooth wax with absolutely NO frosting and seriously, it looked like silk. I mean, I've never seen a more perfect candle anywhere. HOW can I make this happen on a consistent basis? I'm thinking that the lower melt temp had something to do with it, but then if I try to incorporate FO and dye at 130-140, we all know what happens. So then I was thinking, well, maybe I could do like a 4 oz of wax with 1 oz of FO and the appropriate dye for a pound of wax, and then let it cool to the slushy stage, then try to replicate what I did by adding plain wax flakes and mix the heck out of it, but then, wouldn't the added wax not be scented, because the FO wouldn't bind very well to the new stuff at a lower temp and then it would end up burning weird, or not smelling strong? I KNOW you people have some ideas for me. I'm absolutely in awe of this perfect, beautiful candle, it looks good enough to eat, seriously. It's the best candle I've ever made, and I have no idea how to do it again! Update: I just tried the method where I melt about .25 pound to 185, add dye, add FO at 175, then let cool. Then I barely melted .75 pounds of flakes, mixed it until it was really creamy, then added the warmer .25 to the cooler plain creamy mixture. Mixed great, poured AWESOME, but have to wait to burn to see the results of it. Okay, the candles are diff colors, so it's hard to tell, but here's the two side by side: See the frosting speckled throughout the darker one? tops: This is the new experiment, so it's a darker blue, but it's the creamy wax, a new batch so don't get it confused with the darker candle above. And the wax itself before pour, look how CREAMY! Whoa! How'd that get there?!

www.mcsoywax.com has a killer soy lotion base. Love it. Don't know of a soy linen spray, I'd prob. do what someone else said - mix a little soybean oil with cyclo or FCO. And I'd like to add that Carmen's olive oil treatment is amazing, and if that's an indicator of her other products, I'm sure they are top notch.

Wow, I am so impressed! Beautiful site. I am especially fond of how the tree background is static while you scroll, a very classy and professional touch.

The only problem that I've found when I tried that is that glycerin is not oil-soluble, so it doesn't stay mixed in. You may be able to fix that with some PS 20, but that may be more trouble than you want to do.

Well, the only recipe I've tried that actually worked called for aloe vera juice. I subbed aloe vera gel that I get from Essential Wholesale, it's very thin like water but is aloe. That's a common sub, from what I've seen. You can also make a body butter regular or whipped, without water or any kind of liquid, just oils and butters, but they tend to be much heavier and greasier than a lotion.

Cyn, You just made my day!

I scented mine Lemon Verbena (my FAVE scent right now), and I used shea butter, mango butter, sweet almond oil, jojoba, triglycerides of coconut oil (the dry oil stuff from MMS), soy wax (in place of beeswax), and that's about it, I think. Pretty basic. I doubled the recipe and made my mom a bottle scented Lilies of the Valley, and she is hilarious about it! She carries it everywhere. She said, "This is the most amazing lotion I've ever used!" She has appointed herself as my protector for life in case anything ever happened to me, just so she doesn't lose her lotion dealer, LOL! She just called me from her office (she's a therapist and was waiting on a client) and had forgotten her lotion at home and was seriously almost in tears because she was so sad. She's hilarious.

Sara and Cynthia - you guys both have such nice, navigable and clean sites! I love them!

I actually made lotion!!!!!!!! :highfive: I have to just brag on a fellow CT member. When I posted my lotion making woes a few weeks ago, you guys were so helpful about encouraging me and helping me. Well, right after that, I got a few PMs with great recipes to try, and one of them was from Purple Lilac. She gave me some really good tips, including details on every step! I mentioned that I was going to have to wait until I bought some e-wax to try the recipes, and lo and behold, guess what arrived on my doorstep via Priority Mail a few days later? A box containing, not just e-wax, but citric acid, jojoba oil and glycerin. Isn't that amazing? So, I have to give her TONS of credit for my first successful batch of lotion! Whee!

The very first wax I used was from MC, and it was great. I ordered random wicks from them, and so of course, it didn't burn well. I ended up with EZ Soy, but not because MC's wasn't good...it was more than BC had more info on their site and I was persuaded by all the information. I have ordered other things from MC, and I've been beyond happy with every single thing. THeir soy lotion base is fantastic, and the few FOs I've used were very good.

Actually, I get the most beautiful sage from green with just a touch of red. I use my "rust" liquid for the red, and it comes out a gorgeous sage!

I love looking at other people's sites! This is will be fun! www.purehenry.com

I did a few searches, and nothing comes up. Is it possible to find out what brand she uses and then you can look up their description of the scent. Sounds like a floral blend, and if you get the description, you can try to dupe it.

Wow...I'm really dumb. Thanks for the heads up, I fixed the name. :embarasse

Oh, how frustrating! Can you market it as an unscented soap, for those who don't like anything smelly? I would totally buy one, as a consumer. I don't care for scented stuff very much, ironic, huh?

Unless you do a recipe with M&P in it, you're generally going to find that a "sugar scrub" is only oils and sugar. Yep, it's oily, and greasy and stuff...and unless you add some soap or cleanser, it's just going to be greasy. I use a fabulous scrub base from MMS that I offer in addition to a oil sugar scrub, for my customers who like a cleaning scrub instead of a moisturizing one. HTH!

Ambra del Nepal (Profumi di Firenze type) Vaniglia del Madagascar (Firenze type) Ambadilla™ Malabar Peppercorn Frankincense and Myrrh Frankincense & Myrrh (Lebermuth original) Fata Morgana™ Neroli Di Orsini™ Pomegranate Moroccan Cumin & Comice Mandarin Coriander (The Thymes® type) Belgian Chocolate I just ordered sniffies of them all, so I'm really excited about getting them...but I thought I'd get some feedback from you guys about them...I'm primarily looking for some new scents for my 100% soy candles, but the Belgian Choc will go in Bunny's Bath Melts. I'd love to hear your opinions and thoughts on them, thanks!

Personally, I prefer turbinado, but many of my customers like the regular. I sell both. I have had quite a number of people who have bought the turb scrub tell me that it's really "scrubby" and seems to work better. I think some people prefer that harsher exfoliation so they get that instant gratification of the harsh scrubbiness. Personally, I don't care for the small sugar granules, because I have very dry skin, so I think the turb deals with flakies and stuff better. Here's my take on her "melting" issue. Many times, when I use a scrub with normal sugar granules, I almost can't tell they're there. I'm so used, and I think many consumers are, to harsh exfoliation, that a mild and discreet exfoliant is like nothing to them. Perhaps you can market it as more of a long-term, soothing scrub, rather than a vigorous exfoliant. Just my $.02.

I was going to do this for a kids' room spray, but I nixed the idea, I just had too many moral issues with it. Yep, I'm a dork, and I admit it. I have no problem with the concept, I just had a problem making it and selling it. So, please know that I don't judge anyone who does it, I just choose not to myself. Anyway, my plan was to use a few hydrosols for the spray, perhaps diluted with water, depending on how strong they were OOB. Many people claim that hydrosols have calming and soothing effects on people, esp children, and I was going to market one as a infant soothing room spray and one as a monster spray. I guess I can still do the other, but oh well. MMS has some good prices on hydrosols. www.thesage.com