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    Website finished! Hooray!

    Nice site; easy to navigate, soothing colors...looks good!
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    Bath Bombs...UPDATE

    no prob Ashley. Yes, depending on the size of the bomb, I would wait a min of 24 hrs and a max of 48 before packaging.
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    Bath Bombs...UPDATE

    Try lowering your liquids-i.e. water, oils, etc. Warting usually occurs when there is too much liquid.
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    Help name that lipbalm...

    I like beach berry bingo...
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    Bath Bomb goo....

    Maybe if you lessen the oil amount and use lighter oils, that will elimate the problem of the bomb being "too greasy". I use either grapeseed or apricot kernel in my bombs and the after-bath feeling is wonderful.
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    FO and EO measurement question??

    The general rule of thumb for measuring EOs and FOs is by weight. Shani
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    how many soaps(handmade) in y shower?

    My shower is so small, I can only have one at a time. :cry:
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    Making cupcake soaps! PIC

    Wow! They look fantastic and edible! Great job!
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    bath bomb speckles....GRRR!!

    It depends on the colorant. It looks like the color is clumping with some of the bath bomb mixture and is not being distributed evenly. Are you mixing with your hands? The colorants I used in the past blended beautifully and the colors I'm using now has speckles, but hey, I think it adds...
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    Some of my recent soaps!

    How did you mix your oxides and ultramarines? In the past, I would mix the oxides and ultra with 2-3 tablespoons of oil from the batch. After I reached trace I would pour some of the soap in with the color and mix well and then add the colored soap to the batch. (I hope that makes sense) I...
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    New CP Soap & Sample Pics

    Nice packaging!
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    Newbie soap maker

    Hello Angela and welcome! If you do a search on google for "shea butter soap recipes" I'm sure you'll come up with ton of results. You can try this site for a start http://www.millersoap.com I'm not sure which state you hail from, but again a quick search for handmade soap supplies in or...
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    Updated Website

    Thanks Chay! I originally wanted to go with the parchment paper theme for the site, but I'm having a bit of a difficult time getting it to work. I'll see what I can do.
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    Clay in soap

    I find clay gives a more of a dense lather. I'm interested to see what others feel...
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    Facing Discouragement

    If you don't have money to pour into your company, developing an image of your own takes an enormous amount of time with trial & error. Within the past year and a half, I have changed my co.'s image (not name) so many times, I lost count. I took some time and really thought about the direction...
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