Recent content by KatyP

Good morning, all! I have an accurate scale that I use to weigh my ingredients, but it has a 3 pound limit. I am working on a new adventure, and I am using the crockpot to cook the soap. I want to make sure that my final product is consistent from batch to batch, so it seems that it would be...

For me, I soap with only organic oils. Not because I am concerned with what might be in the oil itself, but because before I was a soap maker I was a beekeeper. I still am. I raise 4 different types of bees, only one of which is a honeybee. I use organic oils so that I know that my soap did not...

I make a whipped soap (the texture of purchased frosting) that I usually sell in an 8 oz.plastic tub. But I'm thinking about switching the packaging, because some customers say that it is too easy to use large amounts. (To be honest, they don't have a problem using too much, they say their...

Thank you! I used to pour them in the red silicone liners, then transfer them to a paper liner when packaging. But I didn't like the way the final product looked. You can see in that photo that the second row has been moved to liners, and there is a gap all the way around between the cupcake and...

I use 60% eucalyptus with 40% peppermint.

I think you can use just about any color, as long as you can make it fit with a holiday theme based on its scent (or name, if you're a Namer like me). I've made plenty of holiday soaps that are shades of brown, or that include orange, and even though they aren't a holiday color they still sell...

As others have mentioned, eucalyptus and peppermint EO. That blend has been my top selling regular bar soap (as opposed to shampoo bars or shave soaps) every month for 2 years straight.

Thanks everyone! Lots of great suggestions. I'll try a couple out and see what works best. :)

Just a bit of a whine, hoping for some advice. I do CP ITP and ITM swirls pretty regularly in loaf molds and slab molds. I had a request to do a swirled soap in some small (guest sized) silicone flower molds. Each one holds about 1 ounce. My customer wanted whispy swirls, so I went with a...

I know this is an old post, but I thought I'd throw my comment out there for anyone searching for information. So my two cents: I have made 6 batches of lavender soap. Of those 6 batches, two were with an old recipe, 4 were with a new recipe. All of them used matte lavender ultramarines and...

YESSSS! Thank you! Exactly what I needed. I wonder why they didn't pop up when I was searching? Order is going in TONIGHT! Sustainable AND organic would be my preference, but I'm trying to focus on improving one thing at a time. Right now I am trying to reach the magic 70% minimum organic...

Has anyone found organic palm oil? I can source red palm butter/oil pretty easily. But regular palm oil doesn't seem to exist. According to Google, the only place to get it is on Ebay from Dr. Adorable, and I don't trust them for a second. (Their prices are too good to be true, nothing has a...

The seal is on the front panel of the bottle in black (the rest of the label being in blue). Unless I need to find my glasses. ;) So for Dr. Bronner's to legally use the USDA seal, they have to be a minimum of 95% organic. Which means no more than 5% is lye + citric acid + tocopherol. For the...

I'll be honest, without an ingredient list it's pretty hard to say what is in that bottle, especially since it is a pet product. It may not contain lye at all. Who knows? But I was having a similar thought when I saw this: https://www.drbronner.com/DBMS/ORGANICPUMPSOAP/SD0504.html This is...

YESSSSS! This is exactly what I need. A picture is worth a thousand words, so a thousand pictures is the best "description" I could hope for. Thank you! My apologies good sir, I must have been typing without caffeine and not been clear. I LOVE oxides, micas as well. I prefer to use natural...