Kaylors Kreations

So far, I've had great luck with all the scents I've gotten from NG I've looked at others, but i guess its like anything, don't knock it till ya try it, but usually I just dont want to pay those darn shipping charges from 2-3 different places. Though I did do that back on the first when I split an order for startup B&B stuff among 4 different places... this time it was actually a better deal.. Go fig

just remember Jill, they're having you add that amount of oil to 10# of wax, not just a lil pour pot's worth...

Lil one just had to have a fizzy bath, man do those things fizz... went quick though, probably because we just made them earlier today, and hadn't had much time to sit and dry out, n mmm... they smell so good, though i think maybe upping the FO a bit will help in the future, at least with this one, it seems to me OOB that its the least strong of the Kama Sutra FO line from NG

I'm loving the NG Ginger Peach Scent Beads I have in the kid's bathroom right now. At first i thought it might be too foodie, with the peach in it, but its ended up just making it smell just yummy, which with a 10yo boy as one of the main users of the facility isn't always an easy job... Lots of luck whatever you pick. I kinda hate it when ppl tell me whatever you think is good, its like... grrr, just gimme an idea lady!! ---- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

WOW!! what fun, I've finally tried and hopefully succeeded at my first attempt at anything bath and body besides marrying two half empty lotions. They are all mine, and what fun! Now a question ... If I make a bigger batch of bomb powder than I have room in my molds for, and it hardens while i wait for the stuff in the mold to set enough to unmold, can i just re-dampen it with the witch hazel, or is it just better left to be fuzzy bath powder? And how long should i let them dry and set-up for before using them? since this is my first batch/set of them I really have no idea. My bombs are a basic mix of BS, citric, color, FO and witch hazel... You guys are all great, and really inspiring to make me ditch my candles for an afternoon to give this a shot... Though it just seems the two go together naturally... Oh yeah... I added a pic of them freshly unmolded in the gallery... ---- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

OK, so after (not so) patiently waiting all weekend, most of the stuff I ordered on the first has come in, my orders from NG and MMS came in early this afternoon. So after taking a minute to stop and smell the menthol crystals, I decided to give bath bombs a try.. but wait I need a mixing bowl and i probably shouldn't use my personal flour and sugar measuring cups on these, so ima make a quick run to the exchange n pick em up... OK now its time to try these things, measure measure measure... wow this is a lot of dry.. maybe i should just try a half cup of the powder... find a smaller bowl.. drop drop in goes the FO and "mmmm.. it smells soo good..." ok now the witch hazel... just a couple spritzes at a time, geeze if i can make these ima have Popeye arms when I get done with a couple full batches... OK into the molds, wow a half cup is still a lot.. quick grab the second mold... let em sit... now turn em out and WOW!! They are cute... now hopefully they harden up the way they should.. these will be fun in the bath tonight!! Not bad for a first try... I remember my first candle.. now that was a disaster! ---- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

Oh I LOVE LOVE LOVE him, he would fit in with all my other little Ice Fliers. I'm a total penguin nut, and he is adorable. I may just have to put down my wax and gloves to whip a copy of him up. And now I know I'm going crazy.. wonder how well he would do injected with scent... or maybe if use a fuzzyish yarn and try to dip him.. or maybe I should be dipped and left to harden, who knows the possibilities now?!? ---- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

Blaze, thanks for the input. the original stuff I have, I've had for a couple years now.. a little goes a long way with it. Especially since I only use it when I'm being fancy, n with my busting my booty on my candles n such n him working 11pm-7am, not much time for going out fancy very often. I took a look at the back of one of the packages of glittery glossy stuff aimed at kids, but since most of us are kids at heart, would work for us too... its ingredients were more or less similar to the lip balm recipes I've seen floating around the recipe part of the board, candelilla, beeswax and a couple other basic ingredients. Though it was hard to tell without buying and opening it if the base was see through or a little milky like a balm. Maybe I'll just keep my eyes and brain open and eventually as I'm a little more into B&B it'll come to me. ---- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

Maybe I'm just being a big giant chicken, lye scares me... ever seen that scene from Fight Club... yeah.. Though I may have to try it here near the end of summer, my mom will be out visiting us and she's done CP before, I think a lot of my hesitance is lack of actual knowledge.. its fine to know what trace is, but how do i know I've actually got it.. and what exactly is zap? that kind of stuff. Maybe with the help of someone that actually knows whats going down it'll be a little less scary?! I do know that when i do my Danish cookies at Christmas time, and boy do I make cookies... the cookie dough never touched the plunger rod, so it may still be a good idea for you ladies and your clever soaps, which I always go tot he pics board and drool over...

There are cookie presses on the market that are all plastic except for the push rod, and then the anything your using in it doesn't touch that. Wilton makes mine, called a Cookie Max Cookie Press It came in a box with a few different Spritz shapes and a pair of dec heats, plain and fluted. Check it out here Hope this helps, not a soaper.. yet. I'm just afraid that it will finish taking over the bits of the house the rest of my crafts and hobbies and business haven't. Though eventually I will have to try it! ---- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

Signs of Spring around here, little bits of green grass n such, and my Long-Tailed Swallows have returned to build another nest over my front patio electric plugs. Jill, don't feel too witchy, I've always got kids in my pot for the weekend.. theres just no school to send em off to Probably not too much in the pot otherwise, we have some uninvited guests in the kitchen and its time to blitz them. So all my candle stuff and the beginnings of my B&B stuff has to be packed up and put into my storage room for the day. I don't even want to think about the possibility of bug juice embedding itself into my 20#s of wax or my what seems like a hundred jars and mods n stuff.... And I'm pretty sure that stuff is no good as an addition to B&B:o So I'm off to the home show on Saturday and I'll prolly spend Sunday cleaning up the aftermath of carcasses... Anyone wanna help? ---- Libby Kaylors Kreations

I've been all over the boards, n figured it would be easier to ask than continuing to read 80 more pages of information im not looking for. A few years back i bought this glitter stuff, the bottom of the little compact calls it Eye Glossers or something like that. It's basically a glitter gel thats an eye make-up. I've never used it as that, i like to use it as body glitter, n I'm sure its what others do with it. BUT.. what I'm wondering, is if i use just a touch of Aloe Vera Gel with body-safe glitter, if it would be thick like this stuff, or could i 'cook down' the gel to get a thicker product? would I have to put in a touch more preservative if i did that. The original stuff I have is a little thicker than glitter glue but in a little compact, and obviously isn't glue... Any ideas would be appreciated. ---- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

I made a mold from real coffee beans with some liquid latex mold stuff. I made a straight forward wax/FO (in cafe caramel since that was the scent i was ging to put the beans in) making them a really dark brown just like real beans. molded up a bunch then froze em till i was ready to use em. I poured my candle then once it was cooled, hit the top with my heat gun n sprinkled the beans on top. Came out looking awesome, and have gotten quite a few comments on them, and they've become one of my better sellers, since i added the beans on top, go figure:o Hope it gives you an idea or two maybe! ---- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

you could try a really dark violet, like almost black violet. Though I'll bet it smells delish no matter the color.

oohh.. i need to try to pick one to be my favorite?? Thats a tough call... I love my Cinnamon rolls scent, I've had ppl try to take a bite out of my cinn. roll candles.... But i really love love love lately ginger peach and my Tasty Apple, which is my name for a totally yummy tart Green Apple from NG.

when you make a fresh batch of an older scent and find out it now matches one of your wonderful new scents in color!?! I hadn't poured any of my Tasty Apple since back at Thanksgiving, it sells really good then and again in Spring/Summer, and it matches mt new Cinderella. GRRR!!! Well I guess a remelt and color correction will fix that right up.. now to remember to write the changes in my color/scent journal... and on a final side note... man I need to pour this more often I my yummy yummy Apple... prolly why I named it tasty in the first place....

Ohh.. finally caught one that isn't a month old! This weekend "im planning on another 4 batches of T-lights, maybe some votives, and definately more wickless and pillars. I'm stockin up for a week-long kiosk at my exchange, so got to have as much cash n carry as i can... so i need more Spring scents and just filling in on my Everydays that I moved back at Christmas... Need more coffee and hurry up and wait on my cooling wax... --- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

I keep a couple notebooks, though it will prolly turn to a third when i get to soy and maybe gel. In my first i list my FOs and leave a few lines between em, when i build my color for it, i write how many drops and of what colors... i.e... Ginger Peach 5drops orange 1 drop yellow this notebook has a pocket on the inside cover and i have a sheet with my different formulas, since i only use straight paraffin and add what i need for my different blends. I only have one melter, so i leave it straight and add as i pour, so im not stuck with a pot of pillar and need to pour containers or tea lights... My second notebook is similar, but is for my containers, pillar molds, tartlet molds and such. this has the container name, wax weight, container weight empty and poured and after a test burn (for calcing burn times), how much wax, how many and what kind of wick, ect... It works well for me, and as im pouring if i need to make notes i keep index cards and a pen, n scribble away. Then as i clean up for the night, or at the end of the week i look at my index cards n update my notebooks if i need to. And all of this is prolly just as clear as mud:) ---- Libby Kaylor's Kreations

from what i've seen in nearly 100lbs of wax over the last few months, my wax mottles or 'snowflakes' from none to a lot from slab to slab. Though thankfully for the most part, my coloring and the fact i hit my containers with the heat gun to smooth those 'bottom bubbles' i sometimes get when i have the air on and I'm pouring hides any snowflakes in the middle. My customers and I haven't noticed a difference in burning of the snowier slabs so i don't think its much of a deal for me at least. It also seems the staric i add to make my pillar formula practically eliminates the snowflaking for my pillars... go figure.