PAgirl89

I use "highly scented" on all my candles. I think the "triple scented" is misleading and I know for me, I think triple scented means THREE scents in one candle. It's confusing and misleading to customers. Highly scented or highly fragrant is much better and self explanatory.

Thanks! Most of my product is in ziploc Polypropylene bags, but the larger 4 ounce tarts are packaged in cellophane bags. I guess I'll have to set up my displays with the sun in mind. The show is a week away, hopefully the forecast will change till then. I certainly don't want my wax products melting on me! LOL

I have a show coming up this Sunday (2pm to 6pm) and the weather forecast is for 94 degrees - hot & humid. I have a canopy that I will be using but that won't curb the heat. I'll be taking candles, tarts, and B&B products and won't have access to electricity. Any suggestions on how to handle the hot & humid weather with product?

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The lavender soap has dried lavender and lavender scent added to it. The orange mango has mandarin orange herbal tea, mango scent and orange soap dye added to it. I don't. The herbal tea and the herbs turned brown/black and bleed. The fresh fruit zest that I add haven't given me any issues like that, but I don't add a whole lot either and I mix it into the soap, so many times the zest isn't obvious unless the bar is cut in half and the inside of the bar is seen.

I use the fresh zest too and I've used lemon, lime, and orange zest in my MP soaps. I haven't had any trouble with the zest or soap discoloring. I also use herbal teas and dried flowers like lavender and chamomile. Sometimes the herbal tea discolors the soap and the tea bleeds into the soap, but I like the look and it adds to the scent of the soap, I think. When I use the herbs or the flowers, I will mix it in with the soap. I like the suspension soap from WSP, it will suspend the herbs, tea or flowers, so it doesn't sink to the bottom or float to the top of the soap.

Are these what you are looking for? http://www.candlesandsupplies.net/Candle-Making/Ball-Mason-Jars/16-oz-Plain-Mason-Jar-per-doz-NO-LID C&S also has them in 12oz size too.

I'm looking for the little spoons to tie on to a jar of sugar/salt scrub. Anyone know where I can get them? TIA

Yeah I noticed that too. The drops with the tartar had bubbles lasting more than an hour, in the drops without the tartar maybe half as long.

Tried another recipe and I think it will work better than the 2nd one I tried. The first recipe made them too squishy, the second recipe I think makes hard like a bath bomb, a bit crumbly, and the 3rd recipe I tried seems to be somewhere in the middle. LOL 1 cup baking soda 1 cup sodium laurel sulfoacetate 1 tablespoon cream of tartar liquid glycerin as needed http://www.notmartha.org/tomake/bubblebath/ Now I didn't have enough SLSA to make the cup it asks for, I only added 1/4 cup of SLSA. I also used about 1/2 cup of liquid glycerin. The second recipe I didn't use cream of tartar, I used corn starch instead, which is probably why it's drying hard like a bath bomb. But the consistency of bubbles between the two recipes seems to be about the same.

1/3 cup of glycerin

woohoo! I think I finally got it right! I used a different recipe and used corn starch instead of the cream of tartar, but I think I got it. I didn't use molds this time, just rolled the mixture with my hands and made 14 small sized balls and put them in aluminum cake pans. I'll let them sit till tomorrow but I think this time I got it right! The SLSA is a must with the recipe, without it, it makes no bubbles. The corn starch doesn't seem to make a difference, other than it's cheaper to buy than cream of tartar!

Okay then I added too much liquid, and I'll have to try them again. Thanks!

So I took a recipe from a board search I did and added some baking soda to it. I didn't have any of the dendritic salt the recipe called for but I think it turned out great without it. Recipe used 1 1/2 cups fine sea salt 1/2 cup corn starch 1/2 cup SLSA 1/4 cup baking soda 1/4 cup powdered milk ( I used goat's milk) FO and soap dye to suit Recipe makes about 18oz of salt mixture. Chamomile (yellow), Apples & Citrus (orange), Rice Petals & Shea (pink), Lavender Petals (purple), Lemongrass & Kiwi (light yellow/green), Cranberry Apple (dark pink).

Okay I let them set over night in the molds and this is what I got this morning. They're still very squishy. Not sure I did them right, I can't unmold them without them losing their shape. They're not crumbly, just squishy.

That's a good description of it! LOL It's squishy. I was going to cut it and package it in a cello bag, but with it being squishy, I'm rethinking the packaging. I'm going to let it set overnight and see how it turns out tomorrow morning. Thanks Scented!

I got the recipe from Ponte Vedra website 1 cup cream of tartar 1 cup baking soda 1/4 cup SLSA 1/3 cup liquid glycerin FO and dye to suit your preference Now, I didn't have enough tartar to make a full cup, the jar I had gave me about 1/4 cup. So I used a 1/4 cup of tartar and a 1/4 cup of baking soda. I also cut back on the SLSA and the liquid glycerin. The recipe is suppose to make 18oz but since I couldn't make the full recipe, it was only enough to fill a muffin cavity in my silicone mold. I left it sit for about an hour, as per instructions with the recipe. I checked on it and it is puffed up like a cream puff! It's as soft as it was when I spooned it into the mold. Is it suppose to puff up and be soft? I guess I was expecting it to be hard like soap.

I too like my apple pie to be more about the apples and the crust and not so much the spice. I use NG's Apple Butter Pie for my apple pie candles. I also like Hot Apple Pie from Miami Erie. Believe me, I've tested quite a few apple FOs to find the one I liked and gave a good HT. A couple weeks ago I tested 10 apple pie/apple struessel/apple dumpling FOs and the Apple Butter Pie was my favorite.

Need a little help. I have a FO from NG called Cucumber Mint. I smell peppermint but cucumber is the primary scent that comes through. I was wondering if anyone could give me suggestions on what to add to it. Can I add cucumber to soap? LOL I have dried peppermint that I could add but I'd like to do something different with this one. Any kind of flavor herbal tea that would be a good combination with cucumber? TIA

I use a lot of their oils in my 464 soy wax candles. Banana Pancakes Strawberry Pancakes Banana Nut Muffins Buttercream Bliss Vanilla Bean Noel Sugar Cookies Pumpkin Cookies I recently got some of their new oils but I haven't tried them yet, but OOB they smell really good! I'm anxious to try them out in soy. They're shipping time is pretty good too, though I'm about a 7 hour drive from them, so I can get a package from them USPS in about 2 days.

Here are my clear soap results Honey Almond Oatmeal Honey Cinnamon

So I decided to try making some soaps from the M&P recipes Candybee posted here at the board. I got most of the ingredients so I thought I'd play around with it, these are some of the results. Oatmeal Honey Bars Pumice Bars I think the pumice soap needs more pumice, but the oatmeal soap turned out pretty good. I can't wait to try them out! I'll have to post the pics of my Honey & Almond soap when I un-mold it. I used clear glycerin soap base for that recipe.

For some of my desserts that get drizzled icing, I use those plastic pipettes. Mix the melted wax with the scent and color you want to use, then use the pipette to suck up the melted wax. Drizzle as much as you want on the dessert. The melted wax is at a low temp, but the wax is still clear liquid. I use the pipettes when frosting my cinnamon buns or other small dessert tarts.

That was my concern. The heat getting too high and not being able to control the temperature. Then when he mentioned about roping off the area to demonstrate, I'm thinking that may be okay for spectators but what about ME?! LOL And I normally wear old clothes, not loose fitting clothes when I make my candles or soaps, not full pioneer dress. I told him it was just a bad idea all the way around. Open flame and wax do not mix.

Modern conveniences of an electric/gas stove or the use of a Presto kettle pot gives us temperature control, but I've been asked to demonstrate melting of wax and making candles on a wood stove or open camp fire for our local Pioneer Days festival held in October. I initially turned down the invite telling the organizer it would be not be safe to melt wax on a stove or open fire without the temperature control, but he is persistent in finding a way for me to demonstrate at the event. I received an email this morning from the organizer telling me they'd be roping off areas for demonstrators so the public would be kept at a safe distance. I still have reservations about it. What do ya'll think?