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I use on line labels as well. I design in print artist label program.

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I used this wax when it first came on the market years ago. I loved it at first, but it later had issues with consistency in the way the blend behaved. It started to get frosting, and no scent throw. It is a soy blend. I tried it again a couple of years ago, and it smoked and was sooty. It may have changed in the past couple of years, but I won't try it again. The same thing happened with perfect blend from KY. That even got discontinued.

I don't want to use a wax that I can't depend on to perform the same from case to case. I make my own blend now, to avoid all of this.

I haven't found any drawbacks. I work in larger batches, so I don't know about one pound batches. For me it's quick and easy. Yes, you can use milk. You are just skipping the melting of the oils phase of the process, and the waiting for the lye to cool.

I do it this way. It is a time saver, because the hot lye water melts the hard oils. I do try to cut up my large chunks of hard oils, so they melt faster. By using the natural heat created by the lye mix, I don't need to use electric to heat up the oils. I just mix up my lye water, and once it is completely dissolved, I add it to the oils. In a few minutes everything is melted down.

Many years ago when I first started making soap, I would heat up the oils, and then mix the lye water, and have to wait, and wait for everything to get to the right temp. Time is money, when you are in business, so anything I can do to save time is helpful.

I love their Christmas tree, Emerald sea, and Secret Beach.

Do you have these items in inventory in QB? Or do you have just the basic version of QB? I'm used to QB pro, so I would have the craft business set up as a customer, and then invoice them for the stock that was sold, as a sale.

I get mine from Woodfields.

I use the lye guy. He's on the east coast though.

I'm thinking glycerin is going to attract moisture to your bath bombs and destroy them. M & P would give it a sheen, but may be hard to apply. Maybe if you brush it on?

It looks good. It will however, depending on the amount of vanilla, darken over the next few days. I don't like lining either, so I use silicone lined molds.

I usually let the leftover soap in the bowl harden and clean it out the next day. I fill it with hot water and let it sit a spell and then it should rinse clean. I then wash it with some dish soap. Just check the soap in the mold and see if it is hard. If so, you can take it out. I usually take mine out the next day. Pudding consistency is okay.

Well, if your oils are already melted, let your lye solution cool down a little. But there are no adverse effects. Usually my oils are still hard and the hot solution melts them, so if yours are already liquid, you won't need to add real hot lye mixture. Let it cool down to maybe 115.

See I don't wait for 80 90 degrees. I add my lye to my water and stir until it is dissolved, and then add the hot mixture to my oils. This melts my oils without using any source of heat, other than the natural heat that the lye makes in the water. It saves time and electricity or gas.

No advantages I guess I'm just too impatient to microwave a little and check and re-microwave. But, I don't melt mine these days anyway, I use my hot lye mixture to do that for me.

It sounds like your oils got warm. They should be okay. I usually add all my oils together. I don't usually warm them in the microwave though. When I heated my oils, I did it on the stove. I don't tare the scale, I just put in say 6 oz coconut, and add palm until it weighs 12 oz, olive until it weighs 21 oz and castor at 22 oz.

Camden Grey is in Florida. They carry a lot of oils and fragrance as well as other ingredients.

Well, it depends on your location. Soaper's choice is in Ohio. Golden Barrel is in Pennsylvania. Those are two that I use.

I always get the money when they place their order.

I've used both, and prefer beads as well. I found the flakes to be dusty too.

For craft's sake has a guest bar mold and cutter.

I have one. What did you want to know?

Yes, you can mix it outside. As soon as you add your lye to your water, it will heat up. I don't cool down my lye. I add it to my oils immediately, and let the hot lye mixture melt the oils. No need to waste the heat of the lye mixture. In my early days of soapmaking, I waited for everything to cool down, and it took too long for me.

But, to answer your question, yes you can mix it outside.

Soapmaker will also keep track of inventory and give cost of formula. It has a non soap category. I use this program for everything I make. It keeps inventory of ingredients plus inventory of finished products.

I saw some in Target, that looked like a soy blend, but the wick was way off center too. But they looked like that's how they were poured. The wax was level. It just looked like maybe their machine was putting the wicks in wrong, and there was no quality control checking. It was the same jar and lid, but it was labeled as soy.