Recent content by Jolene

I have found the soaps with tops to sell slower than the soaps without tops from my little bit of experience (two craft shows and two years of selling soap on Etsy.) Especially the ones with oatmeal, flower buds, and body safe glitter. Jojoba bead top ones, salt or sugar top ones sold fine. Just...

Hi, Are there any others who would like to see a category for bath and beauty under supplies on Etsy? Sure, we have plenty under handmade, but nothing really applicable under supplies that even comes close, it is all patterns, buttons, and yarn, lol. Perhaps some of us would like to destash...

Re: Teacher needs Help I know this is off topic, but I saw this in the thread and wanted to reply. As a former teacher myself, I do not recommend you have your students using sodium hydroxide (the neccessary ingredient) for making soap because just a little on the skin will burn them and...

Those sound good Tabitha, I hope you find some good replacements. I was interested in their Cold Water fragrance too, and about to send a SASE then I saw the price tag($44 for 16 oz.). I bet it is very good, must have a blend of essential oils in it to have that price tag. Most others are not...

BB offers FREE sniffies, you just have to send a sase for each sample so to keep the fragrances separate. They have no limit on how many you order. I sent an email asking and they said I could request as many as I wanted. The sniffy offer is listed at the bottom of their policy page. Here is the...

I purchased some low sweat base from BB and I think it was just about the same as their clear base with the more natural ingredients, except it was a little darker. However, it did sweat after I added color and fragrance. Now I do live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where it is very humid...

Hi, I stumbled on this link doing a search on a different topic, but thought I could offer some helpful information.New Directions Aromantics has a vanilla oleoresin 16 oz for only $53, and I use it. It does discolor and actually causes unique swirls throughout the cold process soap (which to me...