Recent content by Paul Kimberlin

We still have Wrights Coal Tar soap in the UK.. i love the smell of it, it reminds me off when i was a kid in the 1960's...:-)

Hi everyone, im just branching out and have started making miniature bath bullets (small bath bombs) and a very good seller at the moment is my Chamomile and CBD oil, im also making Bath melt bars with Calendula petals and CBD oil. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried making a M&P soap with...

Can anyone explain please, that, when im making a new item using a mould, i make one first.. then weigh it. It weighs in at 170 grams. If i use 170 grams of M&P to make another, its never enough. I have to use about 240 grams to end up with a 170 gram item.. where does the other 70 grams go to...

Thats the way i do them Loralei, i add the liquids very slowly.. mix, then a bit more and mix, i only use the minimal of oil now as a carrier oil for the fragrance oil.. so i'd say liquids are 40% Sweet almond, 3% F.Oil, 5 - 8% Polysorbitol80 and 50% water, quantities subject to the dry...

Pink Parma Violet Cherub Bath Bombs.. 2 turned out.. 3 lost their heads...lol.. i think the mould's are a bit too tough.. But i will try again.. :-)

My next attempt is Jasmine cherubs.. i havent got a clue if it will work.. but.. here goes.. I had made these a few days back, i think i had tried to dry them too quick in the oven.. but rather than throw them away, i painted gold mica and turned them into Golden Earthquake bath bombs, oozing...

right.. not too sure if i'm NOT using enough oil.. but they are hardening quite quick now.. heres my recipe for my tutti frutti snow pies.. 500g Sodium Bicarb 240g citric acid 30g SLSA (Sodium laurel Sulfoacetate) 80g Cornflour Pearl white mica ice blue glitter liquids.. 5ml Sweet almond oil...

The trouble is though, as i live in a humid area, (Blackpool) if i leave them to dry by a radiator, there's still moisture in the air and thats why i think the outer layers were very crumbly.. the ingredients were reacting while drying out over a day.. I may try yo to reduc e the temperature of...

Right.. i made some last night using water, oil and i thing ..just a little too much polysorbate80 as, when i removed them from the oven, they had cracked.. but they are really solid. I did put in a little red glitter, with cornflour. I have just dropped one of the small ones 4cm ball, into some...

Trouble is though ..water doesnt mix with oil so thats a bit of a problem, i added some polysorbate 80 and it all turned to a soft runny gel.. so hopefully thats worked.. i have put them in an oven now up to 170.. and turned it off.. fingers crossed they dry out and are solid in the morning. I'm...

Thankyou ... i may just try this recipe..i havent added a butter as yet to any bath bomb.. i have 3 ltrs of polysorbate 80.. i did actually put it in my first bath bombs.. they were okay.. its everything ive done since then, but as i didnt use mica, i didnt put any in.. i might just add it to...

Still having lots of problems making bath bombs.. i seem to wasting ingredients like they're going out of fashion. I make 5 or 6 at a time.. Day after i only have to touch them.. and they crumble of are still so soft they fall apart.. Beginning to loose my patience with them.. I mixed 360gm of...

i may try that with one of the plastic moulds, i wouldnt want to ruin my metal ones.. Thankyou.. great idea.

I may try adding coconut butter as its more of a solid butter rather than an oil.. it may help stop them crumbling.. Another question too.. hope i'm not asking too much here.. I have seen here many bath bombs with insets in the top with either soap flowers or soap miniature items on the top...

I have only just started out making Candle melt tarts, bath bombs, soaps and bath melts.. with a little success and little failure too in the melts and bombs.. bombs are too crumbly, and the bath melts are too soft.. making the melts i use 70% cocoa butter and 30% shea, i think it should be more...