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    How to get cocoa butter out of tub

    Yeah i thought about not using it too. Decided that want going to happen. Thanks for the suggestions. At least i know that nuking it is a bad idea.
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    How to get cocoa butter out of tub

    Is there an easy way to get cocoa butter out of the jar? I tried chipping it out with an ice cream scoop but that takes forever. Microwave didn't like tiny bits of leftover bits of foil.
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    MMS Apple Jack Review

    I just got a bottle of MMS Apple Jack and wanted to post my thoughts. This is the catalog description: "A festive combination of McIntosh red apples, juicy oranges and Madagascar vanilla perfectly complimented with our own special blend of spices". It definitely smells like apple but I'm not...
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    JackFrost in CP soap?

    Has anybody ever used jack frost in cp soap? Does the fragrance hold? Personally I don' like it in lotion but i thought peppermint soap might be nice.
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    Fragrance of rosehips in CP

    Super! Thanks...
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    Fragrance of rosehips in CP

    Does ground rose hips scent CP soap at all.?
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    Coconut Oil in Lotion?

    Just going thru my supplies and realized I also have brand new bottles of apricot kernel oil, avocado oil, castor oil, and evening primrose oil. And plenty of shea butter. Maybe I shouldn't mess with my formula quite so much for the first variation and just stick with 3 liquid oils and one...
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    Coconut Oil in Lotion?

    I'm so sorry - I totally confused everybody... I was just talking about the oils. My recipe is roughly 17.5% oil, 4% stearic acid, 4% e-wax, 68% water, 4% hydrovance, 0.7% optiphen and a couple of ml FO. It should make about 12 oz. (I rounded fractions - it's actually fairly even on the...
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    Coconut Oil in Lotion?

    I just got a big tub of virgin coconut oil and was thinking about using it in some lotion but I don't see a lot of recipes using it. Is it not a normal lotion oil? If it can be used, it the aroma overpowering? The recipe I was thinking about modifying uses 4 oils, so the coconut would be...
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    Good lotion recipe?

    Also check out MMS's blog (http://blog.thesage.com/). They've got tons of quick lotion recipes. Just heat everything up in a double-boiler or microwave. Tina claims that all the heat and hold is totally unnecessary and over-complicates things. All my recipes came from there and they've all...
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    Vanilla Fragrance Oils

    yeah - I'd be really careful about putting full-strength FOs on my skin. I was just playing with a blend, left 8 drops in the bottom of a plastic dixie cup and went off to run some errands. When I came back a couple hours later, it had completely eaten through the bottom of the plastic cup.
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    Lotion with Virgin Coconut Oil

    If I use about 25% coconut oil in a lotion, how overpowering will the aroma be? Do I need to stick with foody FOs in the lotion? I really like the feel of it but I'm not sure I want to slather my body in tropical fruit fragrances right now. I don't have much else in the food variety - just...
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    Coconut

    It's not pure coconut, but I totally love MMS's Coconut Lemongrass.
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    Large Lotion Batch to Scent Later?

    <head> Ziplock baggies.... what a marvelous idea. I had visions of trying to spoon it into jars and making a huge mess of it. Y'all are genuises!! Thanks so much!!!
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    Large Lotion Batch to Scent Later?

    Considering the vendors sell large quantities of unscented lotion, it seems like I should be able to do that also with my own recipes. But how do you go about adding fragrance? Just measure the lotion, add fragrance, stir well? Or do I need to heat it up again? Would I be better off not...
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