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I have no idea what I did wrong guys but I have a big problem and feel like I may have wasted a lot of great ingredients. My lotion/cream is refusing to thicken. Like, it’s literally water consistency. My recipe is: 68% water 7.5 % Shea butter 7.5 % Mango butter 1.5% capuacu butter 1.5% kokum...

I am having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day, y'all. I'm all out of can, my even is non existent. Online labels is killing me. I can't seem to get these labels to print right for anything. Everything is always off center and if I don't buy weatherproof paper they smudge and the...

I am reformulating my clay masks and I'm having trouble deciding on an emulsifying wax. I have both water and oil in my recipes. Does anyone have any suggestions for what type of emulsifying wax would be best? Does it matter which preservative I use? I'm using optiphen, if it's important.

Hi, I bought a great wooden slab mold off of Etsy but I assembled it wrong. I put the bottom acrylic/plastic liner piece inside before lining the mold with parchment paper and now I can remove it. Anyone else ever have this issue? It fit very snugly and I can barely get a butter knife down...

Hi! So, does anyone have any experience with coloring soap with a fragrance oil that has a 3% or higher vanillin content? I'm wondering what happens to the colors. Do they darken or do they turn brown and leave no color whatsoever? I know there isn't a exact science when it comes to this...

My first ever real swirl! It came out so awesome even though the colors are off and I got some color that was being a bit of a pain; I'm hoping it morphs further along into cure. This is a goat milk soap, super creamy.

I decided to experiment a little more this week and went on ahead and mixed up a batch of goat's milk soap. I'm really, really pleased with how the process went. I added my milk after I had mixed my lye and oils and had zero problems with acceleration. It didn't even get any warmer when I...

So, I've been having some trouble with my skin so I decided to try a salt bar. I did some research and took a leap of faith and...I'm not really sure if I've done it. I used 95% coconut oil, 5% grape seed oil and 80% of the total amount of oils in salt. I read all of these blogs and websites...

This is my fourth batch of soap! Scented with lemongrass eo and a little fragrance oil I had left. Smells yum. It reached trace at a reasonable pace, popped right out of the mold after barely a full day. It took no time at all to set up and it's already pretty firm. So happy with how it...

Hi guys, I have a question about Egyptian musk. My dad wants to try to make a bath bomb with the fragrance of Egyptian musk and he has a body oil. I'm a little confused about what exactly Egyptian musk is though. Is it a fragrance oil, an essential oil or something else? Obviously, my...

Hi! I was just wondering if any of you guys have tried Brambeberry's sniffy samples. I ordered some a few weeks ago because I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with their fragrances. They haven't come back yet and I was just wondering when I should be looking for them because I'm...

Hello everyone; I'm super excited to be here! My name is Naseerah. I've been lurking for the past six months and experimenting so I thought it was about time to step in. I took a semester of college my freshman year this past fall and decided it might not be for me. I had been obsessing over...