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Hi! I make my own lip balms in tubes. And I use those lip balm trays for 50 tubes. after pouring the lip balm mixture in the tubes, then scrape of the overflowing mixture and pulling the tubes out from the trays, I always get ugly edges. Not smooth and good looking edges. How do I get a nice top...

Hi all! I'm looking for lip balm display box in craft paper(natural recycled paper) for 12 tubes. Its hard to find. Somewhere from UK or Europe. Does anyone know where to find it? I would like to order a small quantities and then more. /Kind regards

Hi all, I'm about to make some liquid soaps and after all research I've noticed that castile soap is used for many different products as a base. Now I'm not sure if I should make castille soap from scratch with KOH or make some castile soap bars with potassium carbonate(lye) and then add water...

Hi, 1: I made candles with organic beeswax but then realized that the wicks aren't organic. But I cant find any organic wicks that are suitable for beeswax candles. Isn't there any? 2: Is organic beeswax the only organic wax for candle making. Or wax in general? Doesn't the process that makes...

Hi all. I'm about to make some labels for my soaps, and would need to present the allergens present in the soap from the essential oils, like geraniol, linalool, limonene, citral etc. Is there any list of what all essential oil contain? It was a little bit harder to find that i thought. Cant...

Hi all, I think i searched everywhere. I cant find the amount of water to add to the KOH when making liquid soap in %. When i use soapcalc for calculating i use standard 38% water of oils. Do I use more or less water in recipe? And when diluting I read somewhere to use 60% water of finished...

Hi all! I wanted to share something that i made couple of days ago. I melted 4+4 kg of oils (8 oils,standard recipe of mine) Then made soap with the first 4 kg. Also made 2 batches of lye to each batch of oils. so 1 batch of oils and lye was left to the next day, (next day)I was a little...

Hi fellow soapers. I will tell you about my liquid soap testing. recipe: 100% organic oils. coconut 30% olive 30% castor 15% sunflower 15% apricot kernel 5% sheabutter 5% almond. 5 % KOH (1%lye discount) 224,4g water 680,6 oils:1000g +680g water/or ml. 1: melt oils on crocpot on high to about...

Hi! I want to make liquid soap and I saw somewhere that citrus scents does'nt to be to good for liquid soaps. Maybe that it evaporates etc. But what essential oils are good for liquid soap? Solo or blends. /Thank you!