Recent content by KateInBrightPlaces

Does anyone have experience substituting candellila wax for beeswax in lip balm? I'm trying it out as a vegan and more bee-friendly option, since all my other recipes use beeswax, but I'm not sure I'm using it right. The lip balm has been turning out slightly grainy in texture. Not like...

I recently took a class at the local Small Business Center titled Foundations of Small Business, and the teacher went over the different business structures in detail. What he told us, and what he made a very strong case for, was that hardly ANY small businesses should register as anything...

Kersten's point about transparency brings up a couple more questions I had. One is how sellers who use bases label their ingredients (does it mention the base in there, or just the ingredients of the base?). And the second is about the etiquette when selling products made from bases with...

Wow, those are gorgeous! How do you do that? Thanks for your responses. I do know from experience that just because you're using a pre-made base, that does NOT mean your products are not your own creations. There are practically endless ways to modify a base to make it its own unique...

There's something I've been wondering for awhile, and I hope I don't offend anyone with this question. Do people make bath and body products from purchased, pre-made bases, and then sell them as new products? I've been making b&b stuff from bases that I bought from some of the good online...

Hi everyone! I'm new to the Soap Making Forum, and I apologize if this question has been addressed before. I wasn't sure what search terms to use for it. My question is this: What, if any, is your formal training in soap and/or bath and body product making? I do not in any way mean this...

Thanks for the welcomes! And thanks, Hazel, for directing me to those stickies in the General Business forum. There's a lot of food for thought there, definitely. And I think having read those will alter my coarse of action, hopefully for the better. I kind of feel like I don't know how to...

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to have found this message board! (Not that it was that hard, with it being the first Google result I got. Ha ha.) I've had many great experiences with message boards in the past, and it looks like this one is another awesome group of people for me to connect...