Recent content by CatahoulaBubble

I was shocked when I went to Costco and it was $52 for 6 liters. The last time I bought it the price was $25. But admittedly I hadn't needed to buy it for 2 years because I'd stocked up when a store had a sale 2 years ago.

So I buy goat milk from a local and freeze dry it to powder. Mainly because it's easier to store, I don't have to freeze it to mix in my soap, and I can keep a stock of it whenever the nannies stop giving milk until they have their next kid. It seems to perform just the same as raw milk.

Ha I mean May 17th! Oops. I grow peppers, tomatoes, and herbs for sale. All heirloom vegetables. Occasionally I grow some more obscure plants like cucamelons, hyacinth beans, and kuri kuri squash to sell as well.

After not making soap for over a year I finally got motivated and decided to go all out. 4 batches in one night. Lilac blossom Ginger and Lime Cobalt Sea Glass And Awakenings I've a plant sale coming up May 17th so I'm going to take soap and candles with me along with my vegetable starts. Gotta...

I order 5 gallon buckets on Amazon. I don't have a preferred brand but I do prefer the microbeads as they dissolve better.

I put the whole egg in a blender and just blended it together with the oils. I didn't notice any exfoliating properties.

I've not had any issues with DOS and I've a bar of it that I first made with the whole egg 6 years ago and it's still fine. I don't know that the shell adds anything, it was more of just an experiment that I wanted to see if there was any issue with it. The cure time was normal, no...

Does anyone know if there's a dupe out there of the fragrance of the dove pink beauty bar? I can't figure out what notes are in it but I'd like to try and replicate it for a friend of mine.

Mine's not so odd in that I add a whole egg shell and all to my soaps sometimes but I had an acquaintance that added her cats' and dogs' fur to her soap on purpose. She also added her own hair. Here I am cleaning everything to make sure I don't get pet hair in my soap and she was adding it...

It's the curse of the stick blender. Even though I've been making soap for years I still sometimes stick blend longer than I should. I think "just one more pulse" and pop! I'm over the edge into a heavy trace. I've started stirring with a spatula for a bit and then a quick 2 second pulse and...

I don't know of any place that lists out ml to gram weights for oils. I do everything in oz.

You should check your state laws. Some states require that you have your address on the label. I didn't run into that until I moved to a different state and got dinged at a craft fair in my new state. Had to take my whole booth down and print all new labels for all of the soap I had already...

So I've done something similar in 2 different ways. One is I pour my cold process soap in the molds and once it's hard I unmold it then place it on a wire cooling rack and mix gold mica with melt and pour and then pour it over the top like pouring chocolate over truffles. I put it in a squeeze...

I don't say anything to them. I just thank them and then usually donate what I'm given to the local shelter. I only rant to myself and here. ;-)

Considering they've seen the racks and boxes full of my inventory I don't think that really holds water. I just think they just choose the standard "I don't know what to get you gift" to be honest.