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I've had success with Peak's version in my parasoy blend.

are they clumps of lavender buds...? how odd. I would not shell out $20 for that candle.

I use 6006 in clamshells, it works great for me. Pops right out, no issues.

wow! that IS one big candle lol, very cool display!

Those are neat, great work!

That's odd, I've always had very good luck with almost all of CS's oils

a regular 'ol bic

I've always had good luck with the Dragonsblood from CS, great in candles and tarts (and a big hit in soap too)

I quit trying to get things to fit on pre-cut labels, I order full page label sheets from online labels, design my labels in photoshop, set up a print sheet and then cut the labels out of the full sized sheet. I can fit more labels per sheet than with pre-cut, and I can make my labels any size or shape I want. Most have straight edges anyway, so I cut them with a self-healing cutting mat and one of those circle rolley quilt cutter things (whatever the technical term for one of those it), quick and easy!

Do you use social media to help drive traffic to your site? Facebook? Do you have an email newsletter? Do you advertise the site offline too? Papers? Radio? Add an "About Us" page, using lots of the same key words you think people would use when searching google for a candle website. On your contact page, you should add your city, state, and zip, and maybe a phone number you don't mind people calling. People like to know where in the world you're located. Is your website URL in your outgoing email signature? Is it plastered everywhere you can plaster it? Business cards, fliers, booth signage, on your vehicle? A blog, as previously suggested, is also a good idea, search engines like new and ever changing content, they pick up on content that refreshes often. Hope these few ideas are helpful!

Celtic Moonspice Dreamcatcher Corn Husk

A girl at work today was using some B&BW lotion that smelled pretty awesome, and I'd love to find a dupe of the scent. It's called Country Chic, and is described like this: Our exclusive Country Chic is an effortlessly sexy blend of sparkling lemon, bright wildflowers, and spring woods inspired by the fresh air and natural beauty of America's countryside Anyone have any leads?

my handy hubby makes my molds for me

I prefer the colloidal oatmeal, regular is just too rough. I add about 1/2 tbs ppo at trace. Colloidal oatmeal is ground super duper fine, and I got mine from WSP (before their prices went all wonky)

I'm saving toward a building myself. First monetary hurdle is the concrete pad... I've definitely outgrown the "dining room"

Lonestar's Leather FO is very strong, and very realistic to my nose.

I plan to focus more on landing wholesale accounts, increasing my production of popular items, ordering in greater bulk to reduce my cost per product even further, and finding some good shows/markets/venues in larger, more urban areas that will (hopefully) help increase my profit per show. I'm also vowing to start saving money back that I can put toward an addition on our house that will be used as my mad scientist laboratory - because I love my family, but the fact that as soon as I start making soap or pouring candles, they suddenly decide they NEED to muck around in the kitchen is eventually going to lead to justifiable homicide.

NDA has some nice EO blends too, they call them synergy blends I think. I've tried a couple, and been pleased. I echo what others have said - I no longer shop at WSP

I use photoshop.

If you don't mind me asking - Are these shows held in larger metropolitan areas? Or are they smaller town shows?

Weird. It's really popular for me, I use the one from CS too, in soap, lotion, candles, tarts... I've even made bubble bath, liquid soap, body spray... lol, wanna sell me your pound?

I just shortened mine to amaretto. It moves faster for me without the "nog" at the end, go figure....

I'll either pour it into tea lights to use around the house, or pour it into clamshells and call the result a "variety blend"

I like to call mine "formerly the dining room"

I finally sniffed some Scentsy samples the other day (one of the volunteers at work was having a party and asked if I wanted to buy anything. I just giggled.), but I figured it was a good time to smell the thing that so many people get all "squee" over. I was NOT impressed, very weak scents, and some of them smelled downright nasty. Over priced burners too. I just don't understand the draw, I guess it's the ungodly marketing budget and the legions of hypnotized salespeople.