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Who came up with the idea anyway? What's the story behind it? Inquiring minds... *curious*

Hi folks, I branched into candles (yup, another newbie). I do wicked and wickless candles for the kinky crowd (wickless candles go in water baths or are melted with heat guns). (It's a TON of fun. Think pedicures with paraffin wax, only this is all over your whole body... ^_^) I have a soy...

DISCLAIMER: SMF is not responsible for any sale, trade, co-op, pre-buy, fast buy, garage sale, ad or other transactions between members. All parties enter into transactions at their own will/risk. My customers have asked me to move towards fragrance-free as much as possible. Sadly for me, I am...

Hi all, For those of you who use masterbatched lye solutions, do you get lye precipitating to the bottom after a while? I always have to shake up my storage containers before use. I always wait for my lye solution to cool and I ensure it’s 50% before I pour it into the jugs and store it, but i...

DISCLAIMER: SMF is not responsible for any sale, trade, co-op, pre-buy, fast buy, garage sale, ad or other transactions between members. All parties enter into transactions at their own will/risk. Hello all! I am trying to make some room and need to find a good home for these things. Edited to...

One of my friends who is also a customer came by recently to hang out, and she mentioned in passing that she needed to buy more bath bombs that “don’t turn my tub pink”. When I asked for detail, she told me that she had gotten a bath bomb from an in law for Christmas that gave her a horrible...

It’s only my fourth batch of liquid soap (glycerin method). I currently have a 50% success rate. The successful batches are gorgeously transparent and clear. The previous unsuccessful batch was cloudy though it seemed like it was cooking fine, and I think I mis-measured the KOH, so I eventually...

I use olive oil and olive pomace oil. I now have extra virgin olive oil as well (supplier sent it to me when they didn't have pomace!) When labeling, can I call ALL of these just "olive oil" or must I specify?

(Yay I’m finally at three months!) My first craft fair was yesterday! A couple of learning points I got: 1. Too many soap vendors! There were maybe 25 stalls in total. Three were soap. Thankfully I was off in a hall and was not in the main area with all the other soap vendors. The other two...

I’ve used knives, flat cutters in miter boxes and out of them, and cheese slicers, trying to avoid having to pay for a multi bar cutter, but I eventually bit the bullet and bought one. And oh my lord. It used to take me forever. Wipe down the wire or blade with every cut. Measure and re-measure...

Leftover canned pumpkin from Thanksgiving is sitting in my fridge, and I’m thinking of sticking it in some soap. What’s a typical way to go about doing this sort of thing?

DH is still sick (he seems to have caught my sinus infection, which means he’s in for a couple more weeks of ick.) He shuffled by just now and said, “I love you and I’ll miss you when I die.” (He’s a big baby when sick. *laugh*) I said, “No, I’ll miss you when you die. And I’ll be very sad. But...

Posting mainly because I’ve been dozing all day. I’m in the middle of the Christmas production rush (too late for the soaps but I’m making bath bombs and bubble bath as well as liquid soaps like there’s no tomorrow...). And yet today I’ve just been down and out the entire day. It’s just a sore...

I had so much fun building my store (www.bathgeek.com) that I want to build more. I am for hire if you want someone to build your site! Domain - $10/yr, or don’t get a domain and your site will be www.outlookcreek.com/yoursite for no extra cost. (Outlook Creek is my consulting identity.) Site...

On liquid soap bottles, regular labels that get wet run like mad. I find weatherproof label paper very expensive, so I’m experimenting with spray-sealing my labels. I bought a can of matte-finish acrylic spray seal for this from Amazon (the kind people use on finished paintings.) I find that it...

This is going to be a strange question, but... here goes. Does anyone know how to get that “doing laundry” smell in soap? You know, when you smell this smell immediately you think “someone’s doing their laundry”.

Hi all, Some of you may know that allergens are a big thing for me when making soap. My friend with the coconut allergy actually has allergic reactions to anything that contains glycerin sourced from coconuts. My own soy allergy is not super strong, but I know some people are allergic to...

I have a bar-height table I use, but because I have issues with stick blending at bar height, I've recently (last week) added a lower regular-height table. They are on opposite sides of the room, because that's how the traffic flow in the room works, so when I work at one table the other one is...