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  1. Paul Kimberlin

    coal tar soap

    We still have Wrights Coal Tar soap in the UK.. i love the smell of it, it reminds me off when i was a kid in the 1960's...:-)
  2. Paul Kimberlin

    Oil's into soaps

    Hi everyone, im just branching out and have started making miniature bath bullets (small bath bombs) and a very good seller at the moment is my Chamomile and CBD oil, im also making Bath melt bars with Calendula petals and CBD oil. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried making a M&P soap with...
  3. Paul Kimberlin

    Weights

    Can anyone explain please, that, when im making a new item using a mould, i make one first.. then weigh it. It weighs in at 170 grams. If i use 170 grams of M&P to make another, its never enough. I have to use about 240 grams to end up with a 170 gram item.. where does the other 70 grams go to...
  4. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    Thats the way i do them Loralei, i add the liquids very slowly.. mix, then a bit more and mix, i only use the minimal of oil now as a carrier oil for the fragrance oil.. so i'd say liquids are 40% Sweet almond, 3% F.Oil, 5 - 8% Polysorbitol80 and 50% water, quantities subject to the dry...
  5. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    Pink Parma Violet Cherub Bath Bombs.. 2 turned out.. 3 lost their heads...lol.. i think the mould's are a bit too tough.. But i will try again.. :-)
  6. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    My next attempt is Jasmine cherubs.. i havent got a clue if it will work.. but.. here goes.. I had made these a few days back, i think i had tried to dry them too quick in the oven.. but rather than throw them away, i painted gold mica and turned them into Golden Earthquake bath bombs, oozing...
  7. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    right.. not too sure if i'm NOT using enough oil.. but they are hardening quite quick now.. heres my recipe for my tutti frutti snow pies.. 500g Sodium Bicarb 240g citric acid 30g SLSA (Sodium laurel Sulfoacetate) 80g Cornflour Pearl white mica ice blue glitter liquids.. 5ml Sweet almond oil...
  8. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    The trouble is though, as i live in a humid area, (Blackpool) if i leave them to dry by a radiator, there's still moisture in the air and thats why i think the outer layers were very crumbly.. the ingredients were reacting while drying out over a day.. I may try yo to reduc e the temperature of...
  9. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    Right.. i made some last night using water, oil and i thing ..just a little too much polysorbate80 as, when i removed them from the oven, they had cracked.. but they are really solid. I did put in a little red glitter, with cornflour. I have just dropped one of the small ones 4cm ball, into some...
  10. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    Trouble is though ..water doesnt mix with oil so thats a bit of a problem, i added some polysorbate 80 and it all turned to a soft runny gel.. so hopefully thats worked.. i have put them in an oven now up to 170.. and turned it off.. fingers crossed they dry out and are solid in the morning. I'm...
  11. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    Thankyou ... i may just try this recipe..i havent added a butter as yet to any bath bomb.. i have 3 ltrs of polysorbate 80.. i did actually put it in my first bath bombs.. they were okay.. its everything ive done since then, but as i didnt use mica, i didnt put any in.. i might just add it to...
  12. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    Still having lots of problems making bath bombs.. i seem to wasting ingredients like they're going out of fashion. I make 5 or 6 at a time.. Day after i only have to touch them.. and they crumble of are still so soft they fall apart.. Beginning to loose my patience with them.. I mixed 360gm of...
  13. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    i may try that with one of the plastic moulds, i wouldnt want to ruin my metal ones.. Thankyou.. great idea.
  14. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    I may try adding coconut butter as its more of a solid butter rather than an oil.. it may help stop them crumbling.. Another question too.. hope i'm not asking too much here.. I have seen here many bath bombs with insets in the top with either soap flowers or soap miniature items on the top...
  15. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Products

    I have only just started out making Candle melt tarts, bath bombs, soaps and bath melts.. with a little success and little failure too in the melts and bombs.. bombs are too crumbly, and the bath melts are too soft.. making the melts i use 70% cocoa butter and 30% shea, i think it should be more...
  16. Paul Kimberlin

    Bath Bomb Questions

    I have just started making them.. some success.. some failure.. ones i made first are realy hard.. just the way they should be.. the last ones i made.. just crumble. I dont know if im putting too much or too little oil in them .. im also adding some Kaolin clay powder as ive heard that help...
  17. Paul Kimberlin

    Colouring Bath melts

    I tried the food colouring.. it didnt colour it, used antique copper mica and its worked.. Thankyou.
  18. Paul Kimberlin

    Colouring Bath melts

    I think its still quite new in the UK shunt2011, bath melts are still being used, but as its a butter, its difficult to get a colour into it tbh.. most dyes for wax and M&P are waterbased so they dont seem to colour it. I may try food colour powders to see how that comes out.. cheers.. :-)
  19. Paul Kimberlin

    Colouring Bath melts

    Hi there, i'm still new to this hobby, i have made a few bath bars using just Cocoa butter and a small amount of shea butter, with a fragrance oil and a bit of Sweet almond oil, as with candle wax and M&P .. is there anything that can colour butters or does everything have to be made in this...
  20. Paul Kimberlin

    Hi from England - Blackpool

    Hi folks, i'm Paul, just started making bath bombs, melts and candle melts so i'm still learning.. Anyone else in England, please say hello.. :-)
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