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When the mare gets very close to having her foal her udders will fill up with milk and she may start to drip a little. As the mare gets even closer to delivery the teats have almost a 'waxy' like coating on the ends of them and the whole udder has a wax like appearance also. I know that this can happen around 2 weeks before a mare actually gives birth, but it most often times is one of those signs that folks are looking for! My dad said he's noticed it only AFTER the foal was born a few times too. And here a cool little tidbit.. horses can actually delay the foaling for a time. It's maddening for sure. But if they don't want anyone around when they foal, they will wait until no one is!!

Ahhhh...thanks for the info. Goes to show you learn something new every day.

Beautiful as always Brenda!!! Don't change a thing

I'm about 4 hours from you... I'll come. *s*

What is "foal" and what is "mare wax"?

Nice display and some lucky co-workers. But I would like to know what this is too.

Looks great

Everything looks wonderful!!:highfive:

Very nice. They did a great job!!!

Very Cute!!

I have used that guideline from Snowdrift and it works but is very stinky. But is a nice soap. I have also just made my paste as usual and diluted with liquid Goat's milk too.

Those are beautiful!!!

Very Nice Brenda!!

They look great. You have busy

I don't think they are ugly at all. They look pretty neat to me

Very nice and very professional looking

Perfect as always. It's always nice to see your soaps

That's really neat

I like it. It has a very clean feel to it. Not sure if I like that flower or not but over all I like it.

Those look great!!!

Dilution also depends on the types of oils you use for the paste. As least that's what I have found. Some oils don't require as much water to dilute while others take more. It's trial and error. Take REALLY GOOD NOTES so you can repeat your process the next time.

Ingredient list looks a little scant to be a rebatched shampoo base with SLS added. Here's the list for one of them:

Sodium Lauryl Sulfate (Shampoo Base) Coconut Oil, Water, Fragrance

Unless they aren't listing everything in the base?

I know SLS makes the bubbles but I wonder what other purpose it serves. I mean if you just made a shampoo bar wouldn't that almost be the same thing. I guess I am just trying to figure out why it's in there. I may just have to try it myself I guess...LOL

but I thought you cant add stuff like real eggs to mp?? Wont it go rancid? It could be a rebatch shampoo base like bb has.

Don't know about the eggs but it's possible it's a rebatched shampoo base like you said with SLS added.

Also just read that it will prolong and enhance the shelf life of your finished product.

I guess I am answering my own questions here...LOL

Thanks. I did some more searching and read that it will act as a 'medium' which will allow your product to hold fragrances longer..

Anyone ever seen these before? Basin Shampoo Bars

They look interesting. I can't tell if they are CP/HP or just M&P but according to the ingredients I don't think they could be M&P.

Any one know what purpose this serves? My sister went to this B&B store and brought me an information sheet on what goes into each of their bath bombs and dextrose is listed in quite a few of them but not all of them. Just curious if any one knows what it does or more importantly why is it in there?

I was looking at this yesterday, but didn't know how it worked. Can you put money into it like paypal and have a debit card. Or can you use paypal and google checkout combined? It looks interesting, but I was interested in the pros and cons of it.

They don't offer a debit card like paypal but there are no processing fees until 12/31/07. You can use both on your site. I offer both but have only had one person use it so far. You have to set up a google account during checkout in order to process the order. The one order I did have google didn't correctly add the total right which I thought was pretty funny myself. It was only off a few scents. They do however have the option of creating coupons for the customer.