jaybyrd

Beautiful!

Oo, slurp! Nice color & swirls. Also, great pic- the little porcelains are just right.

For no fail color with oil based products, I would suggest Wilton colors.

Use them sparingly! They are very concentrated. I have tried about every color system out there, these work the best, IMO. You can get them at Walmart in the crafters section.

http://www.sweetcakes.com/default.php?cPath=29

Second that in spades! I just dip a toothpick in the gel, dot it in a baggie of sugar & rub it around to get beautiful colored sugar which then goes into the scrub. Great stuff. I got mine at Coastal Scents.

Oo, Cheryl, what a great idea to gild them - they look so upscale! The third one looks like dark leopard jasper.

I'm so with you on cherry fo - I once got a bottle of "Cherry Blossom" or some such, and it smelled exactly like vomited-up children's cough syrup. (Unfortunately, I know whereof I speak.)

Heehee- "biker bar."

Scented, those are beautiful! Way to go !

Ok, from a guys point of view.... I just cant get past the 30 ounces per night statement !!! WOW My mind wandered and froze up right after I read that, sorry.

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Bruce

LMAO!!

I used the same recipe but 2 different FO's for CP soap. Is it possible for one soap to be drying (skin feels tight after shower) and the other ok? Or am I imagining things?

My sister and I occasionally have skin reactions to particular FO's - maybe that's going on. Also, if you've only tried the one time, I've noticed that some days my water may be dramatically different in quality - i.e. poorer than usual - which makes a difference too.

I love most "Bamboo" scents - these look wonderful, & what a great name!

Ooo, lovely!

I bet that smells wonderful. Lovely colors & dainty swirls - do you think they went all the way through? Great work -be sure to post cut pics!

Pretty pretty! Wish I could smell it.

They all look great, Christina! I say call it "Whitewater," especially since you got that frothy-choppy effect on the top. Then do another one, same scent, swirl it with clay or DSM and voila! "Muddy Waters." It's too good a name to let go.

I use Dry-Flo for things like lotions, bars & butters, and experimented a bit with NatraSorb in stuff that ends up dissolving, like tub products & scrubs. Anybody have a preference, or observed any differences? Just curious- looking at various recipes and vendor blurbs, the two products seem fairly interchangeable.

LOL - crickets . . . chirp chirp . . .

I had the same question a while back - haven't time to figure out how to link it, but see "Final cleanup?" on 6/12/07.

HTH!

:laugh2:LOL- Well, I guess the watchword here is "Holy Crap!" Because that's precisely what I was saying - out loud - before I scrolled down and saw everyone else's first thoughts. Unbelievably spectacular, lady - you so rule!! :bow:

Lovely - mmm, plumeria . . . very nice!:smiley2:

Awww . . .

Both really look great - I especially like the first one. And VBN is one of my favorites!

From what I can see your soaps look very nice, but I can't get them to enlarge by clicking. I get an error message.

On my laptop the pink does look very intense!

Ditto to all that - error & color & liking! And the jasmine is beautiful, too.

Great job!

Not only a great job on the GM, but I'm impressed by how perfect the edges are on your coloring. It's difficult enough getting a clean line using chocolate, let alone something that might be tracing any minute.

All gorgeous! The Banana & The Carrot Cake especially ring my bell. And that Snake Peel, oo, way cool!

I'm curious about this as well. I also have some Water Lock superabsorbent polymer. I was wondering if this would work the same as the Natrasorb. I guess I could try a little and see what happens. I also have some Pure-Gel and Pure Dent.

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Hadn't heard of those items! The water lock sounds like something you'd use to make ointments, I suppose. . .

:laugh2:LOL! Okay, I just caught myself doing this, and in the interests of full disclosure have to add:

1) I've been raiding my soap/B&B supplies for items to cook with, NOT the other way around, and

2) The entire bottom shelf of my small fridge is taken up with delicate oils, butters, etc, and in order to plan room for a slab of milk soap, I started edting my grocery list. Striking off things like, oh, milk. Eggs. You know, things that aren't necessary. Hey, shuttup, I NEED that mango butter!

I use Dry-Flo for things like lotions, bars & butters, and experimented a bit with NatraSorb in stuff that ends up dissolving, like tub products & scrubs. Anybody have a preference, or observed any differences? Just curious- looking at various recipes and vendor blurbs, the two products seem fairly interchangeable.

Thanks so much, everyone, for your kind feedback!

I wish I had the real deal to put into soap, but sadly the fragrance is a blend of two Sweet Cakes FOs. Sandalwood and their Oakmoss, both of which are very true to the EOs. Sandalwood and Oakmoss is one of my most favorite scents!

Hidden away in my cupboard is a small bottle of Oakmoss absolute that I'm saving for B&B stuff. Can't bring myself to put it in soap! I'd love to have some real sandalwood.

Lol, I SO know what you mean! I have some jasmine sambac absolute which I adore, but as I can't bear the thought that I might "waste" it I haven't actually used it in anything yet, just go for a bliss-sniff every so often. (precioussss . . .)

Good to know about these FOs - I use sandalwood as a base note in a lot of my blends, but the costs have gone up so much I've been wondering how I'll manage when I need to restock. Haven't even TRIED using pricey oakmoss. Thanks for the tip!