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byrd46740

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    Indiana
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    Sales & Marketing
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    Female - Age 41 - Daughter 23. Major love for animals and always want every dog I see.
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    Love animals and I love fragrance oils.
    I don't like discrimination in any form and I don't like mean, ignorant, miserable people who like to try to ruin other people's days :o )

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  1. Hexie: It is very hard to locate manufacturers and if you want quality, you must purchase US manufactured oils and not those from over seas. This is why people from other countries order their fragrances from here and pay the higher shipping costs. With any of the manufacturers here you will have a minumum drum size per scent, some have that set at 25 lbs and others at 35 lbs. They can manufacture to the price range you specify, but if you want quality and the ability for it to throw in soy, you will have to stick to the $8 and up price range per pound. I found this out personnaly by testing the same scents in the 8 to 9 dollar per pound vs the 6-7 dollar per pound and it was night and day - great throw in soy vs no throw in soy!!! Some of the manufacturers will even tell you this so that you don't bother testing. Now those prices will drop by $1 per pound if you order in the 100 # drum size, but only the big suppliers can afford do that. The big suppliers buy in such volume that they get the best prices available. Just don't assume like I did, that you can get these for next to nothing from a manufacturer because you can't. The manufacturers command a good $$ for their fragrances!! Hopefully that gives you a little more insight. Bert
  2. Thanks Care Bear! I asked, and the soap wasn't made with any additives, so maybe the fragrance is causing it. Maybe no one on here has experienced the volcano reactions from a scent because the scents were already proved out??? Maybe that's it? I don't know, because my chicken butt isn't going to burn down the house with science experments in the kitchen That lye scares me LOL
  3. I am not the one doing the soaping - I am way to big of a chicken for that bwak bwak Not to mention I don't have the much needed patience it requires. I am all about fast - quick - get er done LOL So it looks like soaping can produce as many different results as veggie wax candle making. And I guess I shouldn't judge on one result then. Well pooh :undecided If nothing else I sure learned a lot today. Thanks everyone for your help!
  4. So if you had a scent that caused the volcano thing you would say it volcanized? lol:undecided I am referring to the batter rising out of the mold, not the incorrect method of adding water to lye and exploding lol
  5. LOL - you're right, I haven't heard of them - brownies? lol I thought soap fairy was a member who likes to go hostile on people. I have seen one or two people on here do that when someone asks a question. So what terms do you use for the scent changing and for the volcano effect?
  6. What does that mean? Someone is going to go hostile on me for asking a question?
  7. Excuse me for sounding stupid, but I am confused on the term morphing. I have heard this term used in regards to the scent taking on a different smell once soaped, and now I have heard it used in terms of the soap bubbling up out of the mold like a volcano and leaving or blowing a crater in the loaf. What is the common and correct terms used for these conditions? Thanks in advance for your help Bert
  8. OMG - I had to laugh when reading this one. First of all, not only is moonlight path one of my favorites. I think it is absolutely beautiful. But what gags me is when I am sitting at our bar with my daughter on Christmas evening and I pick up my diet wild cherry pepsi and take a big ole swig, only to realize that my mouth is now filled with half warm nasty @$$ Budweiser beer that my darling Roger left sitting there I am sure the look on my face was priceless and I couldn't drink enough pepsi trying to get that God awful taste out of my mouth! How can people drink that stuff? I don't just mean Budweiser, I mean beer in general. I am convinced the stuff has to be canned horse urine or something. BLAH
  9. Yep, you will get that is some scents containing vanilla. I have that with a few of my scents. There is a chemical in some scents called benzyl benzoate and it crystalizes in the cold. Sometimes even after a warm water bath and the crystals disolve back in, you may still notice a seperation in the oils which may look like two layers of colors. It then is necessary to shake before using. None of this harms the fragrances in any way and is just something we deal with in cold weather shipping. You can always keep those fragrances out of the chill and order enough before cool weater sets in if the seperation is something you wish to avoid.
  10. A couple of years ago I got the bright idea that I would get some of that and make it up into sprays for the hunters and sell it. Of course I knew I would do well as I could beat the store prices by a long shot. NEVER AGAIN! I started mixing the sprays up in my kitchen and I about threw up. It smelled like a heard of dear urinated in my house This is quite a good little money maker for those of you who wish to try it next hunting season, but do not allow the stuff indoors - do it outside and multi bag it afterwards before putting it on your shelves inside!! I'll take all the stinky lavender you can throw at me before I mess with that stuff again
  11. Sally, you and Judy always seem to like scents that I rank in the PU classification, what's up with that? LOL I am a food scent person for the most part I guess. I like to eat, so maybe that's why
  12. Every day at work Most of the people I work with call me Bert or Birdie (and probably a few colorful names at times lol), but a few call me by my name and everyone I deal with outside of the office calls me by my real name. Hey, we finally have snow on the ground here! Not as much as I would like - but a few inches maybe
  13. Just going by what a perfumist told me about their head perfumist there at Lebermuth.
  14. Mystical Angel is right. Any fragrance manufacturer can duplicate those scents. Their highly skilled perfumists have noses like dogs and can smell something and sort out the individual scents involved. However, almost if not every manufacturer will require you to purchase a minimum of a 25 to 35 lb drum depending on the manufacturer. People ask me if I can get this scent or that scent and I tell them I can get any scent they want, but the price will run anywhere from about $8 a pound to $15 a pound. That is wholesale from a manufacturer and you have the min qty drum size to purchase. You may be fighting a losing battle if you don't have any way of contacting the place that made the candles
  15. It will depend on sales this summer. If they get so slow that stock won't turn frequently enough for my liking, then yes you will see pricing go lower again. Not concerned about making money from it right now, everything needs to roll back into it so it can grow. As for your other question about whether or not I have a site, yes I do but it still has a little more work to be done on it. One of the gals on here and I both are working hard to get it done, and it should be unveiled here shortly (within a few days or so)
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