Vicky_CO

The pictures do not do these soap justice at all they are beautiful. They also smell great now I have to wait for them to finish curing be for using. That wait is going to be hard LOL

For a power burn that is pretty good.

Nice, I hope you keep us updated on the progress. That just sounds cool.

32 minutes ago, iansmommaya said:

 

I'm not doing any sales because I am working on MY NEW AIRSTREAM! and turning it into a mobile boutique!

I hope you are going to share pictures of that. That sounds really cool.

I just set up an excel work sheet and had them listed in categories by supplier.  When I got a new oil in it was added to that suppliers section I would then add notes on testing with the final note being whether I added it to my line or not. I left it even if I did not add it so I would not accidently rebuy a FO that did not work.

How was yours I would love to hear about it.

We had Mike the Headless chicken here. I do not do it as a crafter anymore but I do stop by as a customer. The crowd here seemed really good but the vendor quality was not good for this event. I was supper disappointed. Almost no hand crafted at all mostly MLM or direct sales people. There was a few good ones but they seem to get lost among the manufactured stuff.

I take heart the Lavender Fest is just around the corner and the vendor quality is usually really good at that one.

Try moving your burner to a different part of your house. Air flow with burners makes a big difference in how fast and how far anything throws.

High traffic areas can actually move the scent away from the burner to fast and until the scent has built up you will not smell it as well. They same can be said for a room that sees little or no traffic you will not smell it till it has built up enough to smell unless you are standing right over it.

Your customers only ask that they throw well in a reasonable amount of time and a good throw at an hour is a reasonable time.

I am like Candy I just rename and label them. They are usually year round sellers any way.

The only colors I found that effected my burn was white and black. White because of the kind of pigment they use to create it is like a chalky substance and black for the sheer amount you have to use to create a true black.

If you are looking for a faster melt time you might look to votive blend over pillar blends.

Thank you I will put you in for it.

With a 1/4" trim I would say you are just a bit too big but you are almost there. For me and how I like my burns is I want that melt pool at about 2 1/2 hours to 3 hours on the first burn.

How short did you have your wick trimmed?

I thought so. I started with you guys will not believe this but gulf wax and string.  They did not make great candles LMAO.

When I got serious I had fallen in love with gel candles. I also found out they had some serious limitation mainly being no one want to burn them including me. Soy was just making it debut not many people where working with it at the time. There was almost no information on it so of course that had to be my wax. Why I chose it I believe what hype there was, which is the same hype as today but I swear the propaganda has gotten worse on it. I did fall in love with soy. Even when it would not throw a scent for a week and frosted like crazy. I just loved the way it burned still do. I did eventually move to a parasoy of my own creation but not because of the burn or scent throw but because I did most of my shows in the summer in temp that reach 110 I was having real melting and sweating issues.

Now pillar wax was a tough choice I tried all the palms, soy and a few pillar blends in the end I went with IGI 1343 mainly because it a straight pillar wax and I could add any additive I want to get it to do what I wanted.

Welcome Brittany 

Love the baby.

This is a good one let here how you selected yours and why you selected the wax you use.

I call dibs on 2 bars.

Hi guys we are starting a buy for the soap of the month.

Here is how it will work that months soap will be up for sale if the soaper doing has the soap to spare. They may not have it available for all kinds of reasons. If they do I will be posting a thread like this one. You need to contact the soaper for that month to order. This thread will close at the end of the month or when the soap is sold out which ever comes first. 

Candybee

June SOTM is $5 plus shipping per bar. She has 17 bars available.

She is use Square as her payment method.

Please leave a review for the soap in the SOTM thread

Those look yummy great job thank you.

My experience they get stronger over time.

11 minutes ago, Moonstar said:

WOW ! Nice work DO you paint the stones - are they called stones  lol ! Ive always admired people that do detailed, tedious work. I don't have the patience 

I love the hot pink + black combo - really cool pattern !

Thank you.

They are not stones but polymer clay cabochons. I make the cabochons with the polymer clay in different colors to get a look I want. Polymer clay is it own really neat medium

Sorry guys I am loading you up with a bunch of pictures again. All but the first to bracelets have polymer clay cabochons.

Humidity could do it my question would be are they all recently labeled or do some of the older ones doing it to?

Welcome Kima  I am glad you found us.

Welcome to the board