Recent content by La Bamba

Hi everyone I wonder if someone could help me please. I'm hoping to make a room spray (and a linen spray too, at some point) and I'm going round in circles! I market my products as 100% natural ingredients so that complicates things. I found a COSMOS/ECOCERT room spray base but it's horrible...

I understand, and no, I don’t think you’re being mean. I’m not selling my soaps yet. I have a distribution business in the beauty industry with nearly a thousand salon trade customers as well as a beauty salon, and I already produce other beauty products with the support of a cosmetic chemistry...

Ah, no, I've made many batches of the same variant!

Oh no! You can submit one basic formula and 8 variants on the one safety assessment!

Yep, that's the one I'm using.

Crikey! No, it's not "quite" that bad, but bad enough! It's fading a bit but it still looks yucky. it smells lovely though. I think I'm going to colour my mint soaps with one of the ultramarines in future! That's a fair point, but since November I've made over 100 batches, all of which have...

Yep, I was thinking of marketing it to men!

Thanks for your reply - lesson learnt!

Hi everyone I'm about to start making reed diffusers using EOs only, not fragrance oils. I was wondering if anyone else makes them, and if so which base they use, popular blends etc. I can't start yet though because I've been sick off and on for 6 weeks with a flu like virus, and I can't even...

Hi everyone I made some garden mint CP soap this morning. The recipe called for mint leaves to be steeped in hot water for 30 mins. All is fine and dandy until I add the lye to the water which promptly when a rich chestnut colour. (I'm trying to make it sound aesthetically pleasing; trust me...

Thank you for your help!

Is it just me? I have so many ideas about which soaps to make that I just keep looking at my recipes and don’t know where to start! I don’t want to use palm oil, or tallow, and so many of the recipes I like the idea of have these in them. I’m not experienced enough to go off piste just yet! Will...

Welcome to the sniffers' club! I keep staring at my first ever batch of Castile soap with lavender EO. It smells SO good!

Thank you! I was shaking like a big gurl and my heart rate is still up in the 70s (normally 54!)

I did it! I made my very first soap this evening. I made a teeny tiny batch of Castile soap with lavender EO. It was enough to make 6 cubes, that’s all, but I wanted to just get the hang of it with a little batch. Everything went to plan but I was surprised that the lye didn’t get as hot as I...