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  1. kidsngarden
    I've been practicing with my new camera and photoshop! Lavender cucumber and sage Bring me flowers Pineapple Paradise Lavender
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    I love Lard and I soap it and sell it very well! The only time I think lard soap smells foul is if you don't fragrance it. I fragrance all my soap at .7 oz. ppo or less and it smells fab! To me palm bars smell not nearly as nice as my lard bars - even with the same FO. Lard makes the best soap IMO
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    I wanted to clarify that my RT oils were melted first, mixed, then cooled to RT.
  4. kidsngarden
    Here is some of my rosemary mint 6 layer. I think it's my favorite of may layered bars over all.
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    Hmm...it still doesn't fit that sugar or honey for that matter would wait a week to turn, if anything they are brighter to begin with and get lighter over time. Is it a different bottle of orange eo than before?
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    The sugar would have shown right away. My thinking is the EO's. natural colors seem to take a bit to true up.
  7. kidsngarden
    I love the look, but I find the technique a little labor intensive if you want clean layers. I have some with 6-7 stripes and those are 6 single and one double batch made one by one so there's a bit of setting up in between. I never look forward to those days...
  8. kidsngarden
    Actually my goat milk soap is creamy white generally like this Lilac Bar(the bottom layer has some TD - so the top is the real color if I don't color it): The AJP is Brambleberry's used at .7 oz ppo. Thanks for the kudos!
  9. kidsngarden
    Applejack Peel Goat Milk Soap Thought it was a fun look for Christmas! Thanks for looking!
  10. kidsngarden
    Only two a year. plus this tiny one at my husbands office that I do cause, well, it's his office. There are only 2 local that are worth my time.
  11. kidsngarden
    Me neither! I need RT oils and lye solution for consistent results!
  12. kidsngarden
    I've had a couple of FO's make my soap LOOK like mashed potatoes, LOL!
  13. kidsngarden
    Sorry, I misread and didn't catch that you were doing per pound, not for the gallon (I think reading about the gallon size bag thing put that in my head, lol!) Thank you!
  14. kidsngarden
    1% would be 1.28 oz...right? 1/8 oz. doesn't seem like enough. Thanks for the info...
  15. kidsngarden
    Yes, 10% or less fresh GM (or powdered even). I would highly recommend testing your lotion in a lab to make sure your preservative works before selling.
  16. kidsngarden
    Do you just add the fragrance to the sanitizer? you don't heat it up or anything? I can't find it on the site!
  17. kidsngarden
    Ditto to what Carebear said. We hardly ever get sick in our house and we don't use very much antibacterial anything. We have hand sanitizer for when we are out and about, but it's pretty much just the natural stuff here.
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    How much of those anti-bacterial qualities is left after saponfication is hard to gauge...you can't make claims like antibacterial unless you've proven it is by a lab or something. Risky business to try to claim stuff IMO. Lawsuit waiting to happen. Too bad though because it would be nice if we could!
  19. kidsngarden
    ugh, that's one bad bikini shot, LOL!
  20. kidsngarden
    My Black raspberry vanilla had amazingly crappy swirls this time - but look who was smiling at me when I cut - perfect for Halloween, yes?
  21. kidsngarden
    going to try ground loofa. how much are you all using ppo? thanks!
  22. kidsngarden
    Let's say your recipe required 40 ounces of liquid and 10 ounces of lye. I would take 10 ounces of water to mix with 10 oz of lye, then make up the balance of the liquid (30 oz) with milk. I don't wait for trace to add it, I add it when the lye mixture and the oils are emulsified.
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    I put saponified oils of.... as well. There is no need to put lye on there because there isn't any. And actually there is no more olive oil, etc. either. Excepting what is left over after superfat. This is why it is not required for us to have ingredients on our soap at all anyway as long as we are selling it as just "soap". I list my ingredients as a courtesy as people want to know, but again, just by saying "saponified" I am indicating a chemical change happened to the listed ingredients anyway, so now they are just soap.
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    For soap I use common names, for lotions INCI.
  25. kidsngarden
    19%!!! Holy crow! That's a lot for a scrub! Maybe a bath bomb, but no way for a scrub - Yeah 1% sounds much better!
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