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In your experience, as you sell your soap, have you found it better to have around a dozen different types of soap fragrances and then one without fragrance or do you just do a bunch of soaps and just hope that they sell? TYIA!

Is there such thing as Blueberry Essential oil or is this a Fragrance Oil in disguise? I am thinking it is a Fragrance Oil because it says fragrance oil at the bottom of the page. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 1720wt_698

A while back I got some lip balm base from a well known supplier, I opened it today and noticed that it has a funky smell, kind of like lard smells or maybe it is older lard smell?? Is this normal? I hadn't opened it because I wasn't using it, so now that I am making gifts, I dont know if this...

I would like to make some homemade lotion just to try it out but I am at a loss as where to start. I have several lotion ingredients but I do not know how much of each to put in. I have: Apricot Oil Sweet Almond Oil Steric Acid E-wax Xanthum gum Liquid Germall Plus Cocoa Butter...

I have been using my soap on my face for a while now and just recently, I have noticed that it looks like the sun damage that I have on my face is actually coming off. It is weird, my mother even noticed it, she asked me what makeup that I was wearing because it looked like I had too much on...

I have been looking through some of the flickr packaging and I notice that some of them say handmade soaps but the ingredients listing says sorbital. I thought sorbital was what was needed to make melt and pour or is this something you can add to CP and make it better? Here is an example...

I am making some body butter with the three butters Mango, Shea and Cocoa, I want to add some arrow root to get rid of some of the greasy feeling it leaves behind. I also want to add some Lavender essential oil to go with the lavender soap that I have for a prize at our family reunion. How...

A while back I bought some of this stuff http://www.newdirectionsaromatics.com/l ... -1276.html and I followed the recipe to be exact and it came out way too watery even after adding a ton of salt to it. I didnt use common salt though, I used sea salt because I thought it would be...

Has anyone used the Snowdrift farms check it kit for yuckies in your lotion? Can it be used for other products like lip balm or does that need to be checked? TYIA!

If you do hot process, how do you do swirls? I have tried a few times but my HP is very thick when I pour it and it kinda looks like globs instead of swirls. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! TYIA

Hi! I am trying to make soap the way that you add the hot lye to the oils to let them melt method (cannot remember the initials) and so far, it isn't looking too good. I have it in the oven right now waiting for it to harden up. Does anyone else use this method and can you tell me how it...

This is Melt and Pour Orange, grapefruit, lemon and lime EO's Uploaded with ImageShack.us This is the CP soap that I made with butter Uploaded with ImageShack.us CP Coffee/Chocolate soap and a Very Berry Cupcake Uploaded with ImageShack.us HP Orange Cranberry Uploaded with...

Why do some people put grapefruit seed extract in CP soap? Does it give the soap any good qualities?

There is a seller on ebay that is selling Goat milk glycerin soap on ebay from SFIC for 2.25 for a 2 pound block, is this a good deal or not? Is SFIC a good reputable company? TYIA!

Do you use a fragrance fixative in your CP soap or is there such a thing? If so, what do you use? I have gotten orris root and it doesn't seem to do anything special to fix the scents, have you tried orris root and how do you use it? TY!

Can anyone tell me what it means by milk fat (any bovine) on the Soap Calc and what you use to get milk fat? Is it butter or is it milk? TY!

Anyone have any experience with Black Cumin in their soap? I have been debating whether to do an oil infusion with it or just to throw it right into the soap. I have made one recipe with Black Cumin Oil and then threw some but I dont want to waste the powder if it needs to be oil infused first...

Hi, I am new here, my name is Tina. I joined looking to see if anyone knew how to make melt and pour soap. I see it sold on Ebay all the time and I figured someone knew how to make it here. So far, I haven't seen it any recipes for it. I have been making cold and hot process soaps for a few...