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There is a vendor at one of my shows that only makes and sells scrubs. She must do alright since she is there every year.

And I make and take a multitude of products. Tried the less thing and it did not work for me.

Whatever works for you is the way to go.

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For once, my obsession with saving money paid off. I have bought POP micas evrytime I saw them listed on the classifieds or anywhere else. I looked in to my mica drawer yesterday and I am a happy camper. I have plenty for a couple of years at least.

Now I know this doesn't help anyone else. :tiptoe:

Well, I don't make blends for EO sopaps but I do make one with just tea tree and one with just peppermint.

They are my two best sellers in EO CP soap.

Primera LX900 is too rich for my blood. I still just use a laser printer.

Lucky for me, the prices for most of the shows I do stayed the same. Thank goodness. Only one went up and it was $10 a show. It is for inside and I am more than willing to pay $10 extra dollars to be inside in the AC in summer and heat in winter.

Sorry the prices have jumped in your area.

Dilution water is in addition to the water used in making the paste.

And you make solution for the neutralizing based on the percentages she gives. Then you use a certain amount of that solution based on your formula. And yes it is confusing.

I love Red Sedona but it does not sell well in CP soap for me. I sure wish it did. I will keep making it cause I like it.

Glad to know about the crabapple blossom.

I just make soap and B&B, but I have been adding a few of Rhonda's scents and even though they are pricier than what I have been using I try to buy them when she has a prebuy and save a little. I like the FO's and they are steadily selling.

I have her plain Patchouli FO but she let the others go to Elements before I had a chance to order them. Sure hope she picks them back up for those that are using them.

Well, they were sold by Moonworks until recently. Moonworks is the original Flickers. THose scents are still listed on the Moonworks site too. Maybe Rhonda is going to start selling them again.

They are on sale but I did not see where they are being discontinued. I missed that part.

I sell B&B and it started as a hobby and I now call it my hobby business and no I do not make a living at this. I will retire in a couple of years and hope to be able to supplement my income at that time.

Best venue for me is craft type shows, monthly markets and a quarterly market I do. I do 25 shows a year. Gosh I had no idea until I actually counted them. Anyway, my sales at shows drive repeat customers to my website. I have one wholesale customer that is actually another vendor that a I make a couple of Celtic soaps for her. I have not enough time for more wholesale at this time plus I enjoy meeting the customers.

In my area, there are very few chandlers at the shows I go to being replaced by Scentsy it seems. But there are a few still around. But I only saw them at the fall and Christmas type shows this season. I do shows year round now whereas I used to start in October through the first two weeks of December.

Word of mouth is great too and I also have a booth in a craft mall. I pay rent, they sell, collect tax and send me a check. I don't consider that consignment but some people do. I do fairly well at the craft mall and there is one candle vendor in the mall. Used to be several when I started 3 years go at that mall.

I have used the same set of cardboard risers for 4 years from gershel bros. I cover them with the same fabric that I made my tablecloths from and load them up with soap. Easy to set up and they fold down flat. Never had them fall over or blow over.

Well, the standard for my area is 10x10 so the canopy frame works well. For 8x10 it won't work. Can you get another 2' grid to go with the two 3' which would be 8'? Plus you can always overlap your grids. I see that done a lot here. Tha way it can be any size you want it to be.

Plus I also have the PVC "pipe and drape" but I have 5 ' sections. I have corner posts and a post in between so when I break it down the longest pipe is only 6'. The posts are 6' tall. Then I have curtains or drapes that I made out of sheets. I also made tubes to cover the pvc pipe out of the same fabric and I scrunch it up and it looks fine. I can put it together by myself. I just tap the pieces together on the floor and then lift it up. Knock it down with a hammer too.

I have not seen cheap powdered goat milk but it available from suppliers that sell soap and lotion ingredients which would probably be cheaper than a health food store even with shipping.

My memory may be wrong but I thought Flickers Rosemary Mint was Aveda and it is sold by elements now. I like it a lot and it is the one I use. Elementsbathandbody.com Look under Flickers Fragrances

That was GoDaddy. I really should learn to type.

Now that I paid for my site I pay $150 a year for the same person to host my site and make any minor changes I think of.

I have turned in all of my applications for the markets and shows I plan on attending in 2011. Paid in advance for most of them. Only a few smaller one day shows that I don't pay until closer to the date since they do not have their applicatrions out too far in advance. Typed up my show schedle for the year, printed it on colored paper, cut and have them in my show box to give out.

Have sorted FO's and will post for sale the ones I will not use in bath and body since I have decided that candle making is not for me.

Have researched displays until I am cross eyed and have decided on some additional fixtures for my indoor shows. Have ordered them.

Am working on making solid shampoo and conditioner bars. Otherwise I will just keep the products I have now and try to keep up.

I ham planning a fabulous 2011.

I made my first one through DoDaddy and when I could not figure out a shopping cart, I hired someone to do a website for me. It has a template where I can add or delete, update or whatever AND a shopping cart. I actually wish I had hired someone to develop my website in the beginning because I spent a lot of time on it that I could have been doing something else.

Are you asking how to make the scent from the lotion remain on the skin longer?

The purpose of a lotion (in my opinion) is not for scenting the skin for an extended period of time so I do not try to do that.

www.fragranceoilfinder.com

has several woodberry scents listed

When I have this problem I heat water in a stock pot and set the oil container in the pot. Watch so the plastic doesn't get too hot. Usually melts enough oil for me to use.

I agree soap making may not be rocket science but I swear I believe making shampoo is. I have been researching this topic since I would like to learn how to make shampoo bars and liquid shampoo. My eyes are crossed from reading so much about surfactants, humectants, moisturizers, and so on and what works together and what doesn't. Yikes.

By the way I finally produced my very first shampoo bar and everyone in the family has used it and have all survived. It has been many years since I needed to know this much chemistry,

Anybody want to buy my first shampoo bar?? Based on the amount of money I have spent on various ingredients to try, it will only be $99.00 but is a large bar at 4 oz.

At my last monthly market in December I had a customer (man) who told me all about a friend of a friend who had a goat and wanted to make goat milk soap etc. He took a card and said he would have her contact me so maybe we could work together so I would have someone to keep the business going after - you know. Hey I am 60 years old, still work a fulltime very stressful job, raise dairy goats, milk them and show them and make and sell goat milk products. I am not elderly and about to keel over nor do I need someone to leave my business to. I was speechless which is a rare thing for me. I still shake my head when I think about it. At least I just looked at him and smiled since I had no idea what to say.

Don't you love people that assume we are just itching to teach others our craft? I do not want to teach anyone to do anything. Thank you very much. I learned the hard way. Trial and error.

Is that the cardboard one?