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3 hours ago, Moonstar said:

You don't happen to have a tiny bit of it do ya, I just wanna see what it smells like. If you do, just let me know how much or at a minimum shipping.

 

I think I have some, actually a whole 8 oz bottle.  I will check.  

10 minutes ago, olives said:

Thank you! This is a big help. Who is AGE? Couldn't find them on the supplier abbreviation list.

Used to be A Garden Eastward and I believe they carried the Original Salty Mariner fragrance oil

3 hours ago, redquilt said:

I'm an old fashioned lurker and don't post much( if at all) but I have used many of Peaks fo's, mainly in soaps, but several in tarts, and here are a few fos I've found to be nearly identical to Peaks:

Holiday Sparkle = Element's "Balsam & Citrus" 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balsam & Citrus is my absolute favorite oil from Elements.  I highly recommend it too!

-Almond Pastry - not exactly the same, but try BB Almond Biscotti

-Amish Harvest- Rustic Escentuals has one by the same name 

-Banana Nut Bread-The one from Candle Science and Cajun are good replacements in my opinion. Also, Banana Walnut Cake from RE.

-Birthday Cake - 

-Black Canyon

-Botanical Orchard and Nectar

-Cedar (it didn't have a lot of wood tones to it, but was refreshing)

-Cinnamon Balsam

-Cookie Cottage - smells identical to RE Grandma's Cupboard (KY)

-Cookies for Santa - BCN has one with the same name, but not sure if they are similar.  If they are not, please delete this rec.

-Fresh Baked Pie Crust

-Freshed Brewed Coffee  I made some melts with AH/RE Coffee bean....pretty strong oob

-Fruit Slices

-Fudge Brownie

-German Chocolate Cake

-Green Clover & Aloe

-Home for the Holidays 

-Lavender

-Leather - Texas Candle Supply, Lonestar were some suggestions

-Lemon Pound Cake -Candle Science version smells very close OOB. Have not put it in wax. - RE Lemon Sugar Bundt Cake

- Lilac - Candle Cocoon had a nice one that wasn't too floral to someone. 

-Mountain Lake

-Ocean

-Olde Towne Bake Shoppe

-Orange Chiffon Cake - RE Orange Chiffon Cake (KY) smells the same to me, both in tarts and OOB

-Paris Twilight

-Patchouli

-Pear Spice

-Pumpkin Honey Chai

-Purely Peppermint - Flamings "North Pole"

-Red Clove

-Rose Bouquet - (It isn't the RB, but a nice replacement, though not soap friendly that I recall, is Briar Rose from Candlewic)

-Sea Salt & Cocoa Bean

-Spiced Cranberry

-Spruce Christmas Tree - Flaming's Spruce, Candle Science's Blue Spruce 

-Sweet Pumpkin Spice

-Twilight Woods-samples ordered from Cierra and Lonestar

-Vermont Honey Apple BBW type

-Wild Mountain Honey - TT - I use the one from Brambleberry

-Wild Raspberry

-Wildberry Musk

-Winter Wonderland 

Added to the list those mentioned above

That is beautiful Barbara!  JulieJak was such a sweetie and sent me some of this....I'm going to soap it too!

First time smelling it and I LOVE the scent!

It appears it soaped great for you with all the time for swirls!

20 hours ago, Scented said:

 

Pheromones (don't worry it won't make you horny, but it is a nice scent)

 

Dang it....I was going to order that one too LOL.

kidding kidding....don't need any horniness around here

Gail, have fun tomorrow!  

23 hours ago, Moonstar said:

How's the sun & sand ? 

I LOVE it.  Smells just like a day at the beach, suntan lotion and all.  It's really a great dupe

Right now I am burning some Sun & Sand from WSP.  I wanted some "summer candles" so made these 2 weeks ago, along with

soap to match lol.

I am going to soap and make candles on wednesday, I hope...I'm taking Wednesdays off for the summer, and I have no idea

which scent to choose BECAUSE I HAVE SO DARN MANY THAT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I HAVE!!!!! LOLOLOLOL

I sold off a LOT and need to go thru and sell off more.  It is so hard to get rid of them though...especially if they still

smell good! 

So far it looks like the 22 is doing the best at this point.  I look forward to the larger wicks to see how they do.

The mushrooms are so annoying aren't they? lol  I think you will like the HTP wicks.  

This is great Nick. 

I have always used 4627 and HTP.  I have quite a bit of HTP wicks in various sizes.  I am happy to mail you out

at least 5 of each size you might need to test. No charge.  Let me know what you need and pm me

I agree, this looks like a straight paraffin wax which will mottle like you are seeing.

Sometimes I use Publisher and another old program called Scrapbook Factory, but most times I use the trusty  Avery Design and Print online!  It's free and I believe you

just need to sign in with an email to get started with that.  But, I mostly buy Avery Labels, so it works for me.

I don't have anything intelligent to add right now....still reeling from the above gentleman *ahem* who gets turned on 

by a deep wax pool 

8 minutes ago, bfroberts said:

 

 

YIKES!  Gross! LOLOL.

 

 

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I actually heard a gentleman (and I use that term loosely) say that a deep wax pool turns him on.

 

I keep my 1 oz samples for lotion, room spray, aroma beads etc.  

I'm looking at Barbara's stash, and it looks like mine.

I did pare down some about 2 months ago.  Practically gave away cheap at least 50 bottles

to some girl on my local facebook yardsale site haha. 

What is upsetting, is I do not sell. Hobbyist so that amount

is downright ridiculous and even slightly embarrassing lol!

I have never seen an FO of Thieves oil to date.  I have the Young Living EO that I carry in my purse and

use often.  It's such a great smell and so useful!

Oh My.....GREAT set up Candybee!  It looks Awesome!  I love the colors, the way you have everything so nicely laid out!

Your soap boxes are such a great idea!  Well done! 

So....how did this one go?  I know if I was there, I would be buying lol!

It is a pretty candle, very creamy looking

Hello Obsessed. Is it possible to post a picture?  IMO, you should not expect a full melt pool on the first, or sometimes even the 2nd burn.

It would be helpful to see your container, and the wax that you are describing as hanging up on the sides.  

Thanks Candybee.  So far that raspberry is sticking.  I took a bar to work to just sit on my desk as an air freshener LOL...and everyone can smell it when they come over to my area. One of the ladies thought it was a giant eraser LOLOLOL.

I have a test bar in the shower already  and it smells great, though too sweet smelling for my husband.

Do post pics of your when you try it with your salt bars!

I twist my wicks as well.  I think I twist to the right, but I'm right handed, so I just naturally twist that way LOL.

I use mainly HTP wicks.

So this is a new technique to me, so I wasn't sure how my first try on this was going to come out.  I am not totally happy with it, because I just didn't get

the spin I wanted using the silicone 8 x 8 cake pan.  I only wanted to do 2 lbs,   Had I used my good slab mold which holds more, I probably could have

gotten a better spin action.  

Supplies Needed:

Slab mold, preferably

Measuring cups or other container for all of your colors ( I used 4 here)

Supplies recommended but not necessary:

spinning lazy susan type thingamajig....lol

My recipe for today. Just click on the pic, saves me from listing each thing.

I did use full water, and I use 1 oz pp of fragrance in all my soap.

It is a high lard recipe and a NICE bar of soap IMO

My color inspiration for this one.  I'm using an OLD True Raspberry fragrance from WSP that I got years and years ago that still smells awesome. 

I had never soaped with this oil, so I was hoping it didn't accelerate.  It didn't.

My little mold

Oils and lye water measured, cooled to about 115 

Blend until JUST emulsified.  You want a very thin batter.  I only gave it a few whirls with the SB

Separate all of your batter into your containers with your colorants.

Now start pouring your colors into the corners of your mold, alternating as shown

Keep pouring this way until you have used all of your batter.  In hindsight, I should have done the middle, but will do that next try.

Once filled, you want to quickly spin your mold, unfortunately, I did not get pictures of me spinning because I needed both hands.  

Also, because I was trying to spin my mold on a towel, on the counter top, I didn't get any spin action at all in the center.  I just couldn't

get a good spin.  This is where my wood mold would have worked better, or a lazy susan type deal. I didn't want to continue

spinning because the outside edges were getting muddied a bit.

Because I didn't get a good spin in the middle, I had to hit it with a bamboo skewer to get some swirls.  Plus, soap was going over the sides while 

trying to spin this thing.

I was a bit disappointed when I unmolded today.  Number 1, I unmolded from this mold way too soon LOL....I couldn't wait. It was way too soft

I was not impressed with my handiwork.  But because these were thick bars, I thought, hmmmm.....way too big, I'm going to cut them in half.

They will be small bars, about 1/2 inch, but who cares?   I don't sell my soap these days, they are for me, family, friends, coworkers etc....

so I cut them......and WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!  I am so happy with how these look INSIDE!

Next time I try this swirl technique, I will use my slab mold, which holds over 3.5 lbs

They smell FANTASTIC!  I think my colors came out pretty close to my inspiration colors.  

I plan to use those color palette inspiration things more often going forward.  I always get stumped on colors or

I just seem to use the same colors over and over.  

This was a really fun technique to try, and I'm so glad I did it, finally.  I hope some of you will try it, and show us pics!

These are great!  I am going to be giving this rebatch a try myself. 

I too see the horse lol

yep, I use canning jars too