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Oooooohhhhhh dear..... And let's not let the knitters off either.

Oh - I've used Mystic Moments on Amazon, but I have Prime and not all their stock is available on Prime, so I have been limited. Thanks for that! (Edited to add that now I've explored it I do recognise their website, but I had been put off by the fact that all the items are listed at £0.00 - I...

Have a wonderful day. :)

Brilliant ideas. I am definitely going to do this - we have a lake very close to us, which is mountaintop, and as pure as can be (since there is no run-off into it and we are far from any air pollution). (Obviously I will boil and filter, but the lake is a worthy contributor anyway.)

Surf's Up!! That looks amazing. :thumbup:

I made a marshmallow body cream a few days ago, which separated out overnight. (I'm pretty sure I simply didn't add enough emulsifying wax - BTMS.) The following day I reheated it and added more emulsifying wax (emulsifying wax SF - I have a hunch that BTMS might not like being added at this...

It was in the recipe - this one. It is also in every recipe in my (otherwise excellent) first soap book. That was before I'd read around the subject very much. I haven't used it in soap since I discovered that it's at best only minimally a preservative, a preservative isn't necessary anyway...

As promised on another thread, I am starting this thread so that those of us in the UK can share our favourite suppliers and hopefully make some great discoveries. My favourite online shops for all things soapy are Gracefruit, The Soap Kitchen and Plush Folly. Oh, and Naturally Thinking for...

I'm going to go and start a thread for recommended suppliers in the UK, so that we can find it when we need it, and maybe even stop coveting Brambleberry... (Edited to add that I did, and the thread is here.)

It is very interesting looking at it now, because it was a straightforward recipe and I didn't do any checking (I hadn't learned to use soapcalc myself then). The amounts are all in weights rather than percentages so I didn't have an immediate perception of the overall balance of it. I can see...

Thanks for that nframe - I know of Fresh Skin, but have had trouble displaying their website. I'll have a good look in a different browser. Free postage is too good to pass by - I always seem to have one or two small things I need, and paying £6 postage makes it unviable, so I end up getting...

I'm in luck! I have a folder with lots of printed out recipes for soap and lotions etc, and I knew it was one of those that I had used. Fortunately I had halved the quantities, so there was writing all over the recipe - no question at all about the one I used! I won't be putting witch hazel...

Hi You can get shea butter and palm oil - and all sorts of lovely things - from any number of places on the internet. I'm fairly new to this too (and in the UK), but my favourite online shops for all things soapy are Gracefruit, The Soap Kitchen and Plush Folly. Oh, and Naturally Thinking for...

Thank you for that seven - I had the same question about Trex, which is also covered in that thread. :thumbup:

Well! I tried my scrambled egg and aniseed soap this morning. It's wonderful! I don't much like the scent, and it's extremely ugly, but it lathered beautifully and felt lovely, and where the soap has dissolved in use the bar is very nice and smooth. Before you ask, no pictures... just...

I think a spam post has been removed since Tienne and I posted - our comments weren't addressed to you, but to someone who was very clumsily trying to promote their business while pretending they weren't connected with it. :-)

My parcels arrived yesterday, but because I had done something incredibly stupid with my websites I couldn't even open them until the evening when I had finally sorted things out. (I design, create and maintain websites - luckily this stupidity was with my own non-public sites. I do take more...

Thank you - that's really helpful. :thumbup: Following through links from the blog I found a list of links to articles about the oils, which is also extremely helpful. This is the master list, and there is a short list of the properties of exotic oils here, too.

Today I am waiting for two exciting parcels of supplies, and planning what to do with them when they come. Almond soap! Marshmallow body cream! Magic anti-ageing potion!! Two more parcels to come in the next few days, too. :grin::grin::grin: Hmm. Would be a good idea to get boring stuff...

I am going to make an anti-ageing cream, with argan, hempseed, evening primrose, rosehip, carrot seed and apricot kernel oils (and mango butter). I've been reading conflicting advice about heating these oils, but having dug out certificates of analysis, and MSDS sheets for most of them, all but...