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The Mac Apple, Rice Flower & Shea and Lilac. I've been wanting to try some different ones because I wasn't in love with these from other suppliers I've tried so far in soap, so I'm gonna give it a go! ? Kelly

Great!! Y'all just made me go spend 45.00 on 3 fragrances. Terrible influences, all of you!! ? Ha!!

Yes, it will be used in the shower and people tend to stick wet fingers in the jars.

Here's another one for you also. The photo is the recipe I use. It's Kelly Blooms recipe and you can find a video on YouTube of her making it. I just changed the oils in it and use babassu oil instead of coconut oil. Weigh out the EWax, stearic acid and beeswax and melt on lowest heat. Weigh your other oils. I melt the babassu or coconut oil before adding to liquid oils and mix my sugars or salts in separate bowls. Once the EWax mixture is melted, you stir into your other liquid oils. It should start thickening pretty quickly and changing to a creamy color. Let it cool to recommended temperature before adding preservative. Mix well. Then add your sugars or salts and fragrance. Mix well and spoon into your containers. It will harden as it sets overnight. This makes a gallon of scrub, which is about 15-16 8oz jars. It's a pretty large batch so use a big bowl. Hope that all makes sense. ?

Hahahaha!! I was a good kid, I swear!! ? Lying on my rear watching too many YouTube videos is my excuse ?

LOL. I know!! Now!! I did carry the soap a little at a time but that was apparently too much and I don't recommend vacuuming either. And while I'm not recommending things, do not, I repeat DO NOT try the diy facial mask with activated charcoal and school glue!! ? I had to stop and sneeze, almost cried trying to pull that thing off!! ?

It was a week yesterday that I had my surgery (hysterectomy) so on Tuesday I thought I felt good enough to vacuum, laundry and carry 50lbs of soap to my living room table. I should not have done that!!! So yesterday was spent on the couch. ? Today I felt much better and was able to trim, clean, steam, photograph and package some of my new soaps. Getting there!! Kelly

Yes, I believe so and it was a year or two ago. I was buying from them then also but didn't have issues although many did.

I also buy most of my oils and butters from Soapers Choice. I still buy my lye thru ED, although some had issues, I didn't and I love their prices on lye. Kelly

I used to make the foaming sugar scrubs. Everyone loved them but I didn't like all the ingredients in the foaming bath butter so I started making an emulsified scrub. The emulsified scrub doesn't leave my skin feeling oily like just mixing sugar and oil does. It makes the scrub actually feel like you used lotion. The directions I put on my labels tell my customers to use after they shower to exfoliate then rinse. This way the oils stay on the skin longer to moisturize and don't get washed off with soap. I make one using unrefined pure cane sugar, one using a mixture of larger grained sugar, like turbinado and a sea salt scrub. I change up the oils I use depending on what I'm making. The ones I use the most are olive, avocado, rice bran, sunflower, babassu, pumpkin seed oil or coconut. For the fall this year, I made a coffee sugar scrub with olive, avocado, babassu, pumpkin seed and rice bran oil. Not sure I answered your question but this is my favorite type of scrub that I've used to exfoliate. Kelly

I personally do not like canola oil at all. I don't even cook with it. It's a cheap filler oil. I can almost (almost I said) tell just by looking at it or how it feels if someone uses canola oil in their soaps. It's greasy and feels slimy to me. My soaps don't feel like that. I've visited many soap vendors at various craft fairs and every time I think their soaps feel weird and I check ingredients, there is canola 90% of the time. Just my personal preference. Kelly

Yes, I have one base recipe that I use for most of my soaps. I change up liquids and other additives depending on what I am making. It took me about a year of playing around to find the recipe I use. Kelly

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Thanks everyone. It's such a pretty soap. It's just so weird that every pearl popped out in every bar just sitting on the curing rack. I do use sodium lactate in all my soaps to hardened them up but this is a first. ? Kelly

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Good ideas!! Ha! jcandleattic I found that out with black sugar crystals too. ?

Five years of making soap and I have never had sugar pearls just pop off while curing. Huh? Every bar, they are all gone. LOL I think once these are cured, when I steam them I might be able to reattach new ones while they are still wet. Crazy!!! Continuously learning while making soap. Just when you think you've got it all figured out. ? Kelly

I really couldn't say how high is too hot. Mine all cure indoors. I package my soaps at 4-6 weeks in clear cello bags that I cut vent holes in the sides of so people can smell them. I store them in plastic tubs that have air holes in the sides of them also. Benefit of having snakes. Ha! I repurposed all of our old snake tubs. Kelly

I think 80ish is fine. Especially if it's dehumidified. I don't find that my scents bleed onto each other. Even if they are right next to each other they may have the other scent for a short time but it doesn't last. Kelly

Nurture Soap has lots of Lush dupes but they are tested in soap and not candles so depends on what your making. Might check them out. Kelly

Yes, I struggled with alignment issues until I started using full sheet labels and cutting them myself and I downloaded Avery design pro. So much better now ?

Thank y'all!! It feels weird to not have any soap to make. I think I'll do some Castile so it will be ready next fall season. ?

I know!!! I can't even read this thread right now!! ?

I use Avery Design Pro to make all my labels. I make square labels and round labels so it's either scissors or the extra large Fiskars hole punch that I use to cut with. I really really REALLY want one of those cricut machines but I don't want to spend 250.00 and not like it. Does any one here use those?? Kelly

I use full sheet labels from Online Labels. I get matte, glossy and weatherproof. Kelly