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Thanks for the suggestions!

mmm i dont' have any mistletoe. I will have to get some.. sounds nice!

My lavender went dark almost like a vanilla. Did anyone run into that also??

Hi!

I wanted to see what you guys thought. I am doing my own baby shower favors. Where I do soaping I wanted to do something to help the shower planning that meant a lot to me.

My idea is to do a batch of CP soap in fresh powder. I am going to do a white and blue swirl type soap. I was planning on cutting them at about 2 oz bars and wrapping in fancy plastic once they are cured. And I was going to do melt and pour snow flakes in just white or baby blue. Those also at like 2 oz so everyone gets a total of 4 oz. ( I am having a boy) The shower theme is snow baby because he is due January 17th. I will have the snowflake wrapped in clear.

I was going to put them both in bags with blue and white ribbon and "Its a boy" tags or something like that. I can't decide if I should change the sent on the snow flakes or keep it the same. it is melt and pour so i have some time to think.

I also make body butters and other products so i didn't know if I should do other stuff instead of 2 bars of soap.

Feedback??

I need to take cut pictures.. sorry.

I will post later.

The colors faded a bit, but are still nice. I like the way it looks. But you can hardly smell it! i am going to let it cure and see how it does.

looking good... looks like you got real thick real fast. glad you got that in the mold. Was it hard?

I am no expert but I quickly relized I had to wrap mine in saran and quickly. I did some testing this summer and the soap got little bumps on it quickly from the high humidy. I would worry that parchment would let in too much moisture.

I would LOVE to be able to use you guy's soaps but my skin is so sensitive the only thing I can use is liquid baby soap. ;0(

Have you tried a Castile?

Beautiful soap! Great combo:-)

I have very oily skin and as much as I like the idea of using CP soap, and do have a few bars I have bought and do use them occasionally, I have oily skin and I do use dial because it doesnt add the oiliness. It is a little drying which I don't mind. If anyone can come up with and "oil free" soap then I'll be a customer for life. Lol! :-)

I bet you need a "cleansing" based soap with very little moisturing oils. Most people are looking for the high moisturizers so that is what is made.

I know.. I run into a lot of men that look, smell and really like the soaps but then walk away cause they "always used dial" or whatever type of soap they have been buying for 20 years.

I soaped up austrailan bamboo and I think that is a really nice "guy" smell. I also made sure I didn't decorate it too "girly". Men would sniff really like it then keep moving. I broke down and cut some bars into smaller pieces for them to try. I got a few guys to buy some after that.

But really ... MEN!

The kids really killed me. They are little wise guys.. the did it just to bug me... lol

Very nice! I love the layers. I agree a lable like that would be nice.

94lbs in a weekend.. You go girl. We need more pics!

I used Natures Garden Fresh strawberry...

http://www.naturesgardencandles.com/candlemaking-soap-supplies/item/rf-607

I never soaped this one and I should have done a test run. I don't know if it will discolor.

there was like a year that my kids demanded dial. I think they did it just to bother me.

I will never forgive them... lol

yeah i was thinking it was more of a hand/kitchen soap. But some people like the scratchy's. I don't like it every morning.

I also like lemon in the morning.. That and peppermint are nice eye openers.

I made this 2 nights ago and cut last night.

This is using Lemon sugar I purchased from classy's. Not sure what I will be calling this one.

poured:

Cut:

I did a big batch of fresh strawberry last night.

Did swirl of liquid colors -- 2 kinds of pink and 1 green.

I should have cut pictures later.

Awsome.. can't wait to see!

Brambleberry has some... I find their prices expensive but i don't use glitter so I have nothing to compare it to.

http://www.brambleberry.com/Glitter-C42.aspx

If the first one is Taylored Con. the last one Tennessee, what co. is the middle one (TCS)??

TIA

Taylored Concepts

Mexican Vanilla

TCS

Love Spell

True Lavender

*Tennessee

Warm Orange Gingerbread (turns very dark)

Anyone done the Mexican Vanilla lately?? I am looking for a good vanilla after my last one didn't harden up well in CP.

Ah ok... I think it is resonable then. I've been to some where I had to pay 5ish dollars and it was just a craft fair. I would pay that to take the kids to the carnival and wonder through the crafters if the money went to the school.

Sound like a good venue.

Because of the scent...I wanted to style the soap with Faux Candied Ginger. So I made a 1lb batch of crockpot HP. Scented it with BB's Ginger fish FO ( like a strong bitter ginger ale) smeared it very thin on a silicone matt then used a pizza cutter to cut it in tiny bits then tossed the bits in Turbanado Sugar. It looks like Candied Ginger IMO. Real happy with the results.

A person could probably make a real cute gumdrop top on a soap batch as well.

It looks like candied ginger! Good Job!!

I have clean cotton that I have to still use. I think I will soap that next.

Very nice! Are those just cubed soap on the top?

Hi... I've been to craft shows where you had to pay to get in. 15 dollars seems expensive? But is it for charity?