Recent content by bobbie.johnson

So I waited a but to long to cut my salt soap. It was super hot trying to gel and it crumbled:(. So it's a five lb batch in big chunks, smells devine, but what to do with it? Any ideas?

I make a ton of Salt soap and this is the formula I use. I only use 80% weight of my oils as salt. A rule you can follow is this; If your mold holds, say for easy figuring, 50 ounces of oils regularly; take 50 X .80 = 40. So you would use only 40 ounces of oils, not the 50 since the...

In my experience cigar bands I wrapped at two or three months never fits any more at nine or twelve months. So you have to do the work twice. That is why I switched to Muslin bags with hanging tags

At craft fairs are bath bombs good sellers? People go crazy for my bath tea but what are peoples experiences with bath bombs? Has that fad faded?

So how do you ship your lip balm? What kind of envelope do you use? Looking for ideas because I usually end up loosing money on shipping after buying envelope from post office. But I cant stand to charge my customer $3 shipping on a $3-4 product... Anyone with ideas? What works for you...

Thanks Lindy for the reply, I am kind of overwhelmed with this because usually the orders I have received have been 25 bars or less. Seems like a leap to take. Bobbie

Hi guys, I just got a large wholesale request 80- 100 bars. My questions are how do you ship and what are standard production times? Do you keep that much in stock or make them wait 6 weeks for a full cure? Also they are asking about free shipping and this is the largest order I have ever...

Maybe try a different vendor for you eo. But just soaped with anise this weekend and it really accelerated on me. Turned out fine thou just couldn't get the coloring I was going for. And personally I hate black licorice so I wanted to puke the entire time working with it. Making in molding and...

So with this decrease in water does it also decrease cure time? Sent from my iPhone using Soap Making

No temps here either. Lye is mixed before work then I make soap in the evening. I have very small children and just don't have time to wait an hour for they lye to cool. So it cools when no one is home all day. I only warm my hard oils on the stove till melted then add my liquid oils which cools...

Thanks for the update. I was wondering how it was going. Sent from my iPad using Soap Making

Hello, I just got done looking at the Labeling of Cosmetics guidlines from Canada and they are really useful in giving an example of what we can and cannot say. The original link never worked so I went and found another link to it...

I am curious about the same thing Sent from my iPhone using Soap Making

Hey All, I have only been using EO's but thinking of trying some FOs for more sent options and esp for the holiday season. But I have a question about using FOs. Most Ive seen have vanilla in them so don't they all turn brown. If so how do you prevent this or work around it. THanks for...

Thank you all for the advice. I guess it come down to the fact that people cant buy what you don't have.