Brandica2013
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« on: February 18, 2013, 01:04:56 PM »
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Hello everyone!! I'm Jessica. I am 33 & my friend & I just started a small business,we had been making lotions & scrubs for a little while now and we love it & so does are customers but we are new to soap making. We started with a beginners recipe/kit from brambleberry.com and we added are skin safe F.O & the suggested % rate after trace and then we split in 3 equal parts & added a white,teal and purple mica and i noticed that the soap looked lumpy after that and when poured in the small 2lbs box mold it did not flow in easy and looked real thick. After we cut around the 2 day mark it was hard and a little crumbly @ edges. Other than that it looked beautiful and smelled great just waiting on the curing process.
We decided to go @ it again but double the recipe with a different F.O this time @ the same % rate and this time we added the purple mica only to the whole thing & again the same it was lumpy and thick after adding the mica. Real hard to pour in are pringle can we made into a mold. We could not even use a large funnel....
Do you all think its the mica? What do you think? What do you suggest we do if the mica is the problem? Any colorant suggestions?
Thanks so much for any input I hope to get to know you all!!
« on: February 18, 2013, 01:04:56 PM »
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Hello everyone!! I'm Jessica. I am 33 & my friend & I just started a small business,we had been making lotions & scrubs for a little while now and we love it & so does are customers but we are new to soap making. We started with a beginners recipe/kit from brambleberry.com and we added are skin safe F.O & the suggested % rate after trace and then we split in 3 equal parts & added a white,teal and purple mica and i noticed that the soap looked lumpy after that and when poured in the small 2lbs box mold it did not flow in easy and looked real thick. After we cut around the 2 day mark it was hard and a little crumbly @ edges. Other than that it looked beautiful and smelled great just waiting on the curing process.
We decided to go @ it again but double the recipe with a different F.O this time @ the same % rate and this time we added the purple mica only to the whole thing & again the same it was lumpy and thick after adding the mica. Real hard to pour in are pringle can we made into a mold. We could not even use a large funnel....
Do you all think its the mica? What do you think? What do you suggest we do if the mica is the problem? Any colorant suggestions?
Thanks so much for any input I hope to get to know you all!!