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Great! Thank you all. I like the ruler marking until I get one of those harp looking cutters. Thanks for the feedback.

I'm in the same boat. I don't want chemical synthetic ingredients. I forego lotion and make body butter or "lotion" bars instead. I just tried beeswax to harden a sugar scrub and it was so stickey. I used all the hot water in the shower trying to wash the sugar off me! I was trying to avoid...

What a cool idea! I've been telling people to just put my bath salt in the shower with them if they don't take baths, you still get the aroma. This is even better. What do you use as a base; Baking soda and citric acid?

I'm having trouble getting uniform bars from my soap loaves. I'm using a plastic cutter from eBay. I'm ready to move on to something that can give me a 5oz bar, or quite close, every time. I charge the same price for each bar but some are up to an oz more of where I want them. I would never sell...

LIKE! I hope you can figure this one out and then Do it intentionally for a marbled soap. I know you didn't mean to but it looks neat like this. Like stone. Once you know for sure what caused it, can you do a tutorial on marbled soap? The green looks kind of like turquoise.

Awesome! Why is coffee so huge right now? My coffee sugars scrub pins on Pinterest are going crazy. Did Dr. Oz recently do a special or something? These look great. It looks just like when you pour and swirl creamer in coffee.

I'm looking for more info on cyclomethicone. I came across some for free and wanted to see how much to add to lotions and other products. Any ideas? Is it safe as an additive in any amount? I'm also looking for a lotion recipe using polysorbate20 or 80. I'm going to give it a try! I've only been...