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    Its a long shot !

    This is The One! As always IrishLass your help is worth its weight in GOLD. Thank you so very much.
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    Its a long shot !

    Years ago there was a poste on a cream/whipped soap recipe based on a famous French shaving cream I believe. It made the end of year high-lights for soapmakingforum. It had a lot of steric acid in it. Just taking a shot in the dark that anyone remembers and could lead me to the poste or if they...
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    Looking for a source for REAL Tiare flowers or absolute

    http://www.aftelier.com/perfumers-absolutes/
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    Mixing Leucidal & Aspen BE & Elderberry Extract

    Thanx itunu for the link and ideas, I like to see others questing for the right preservative. I use potassium sorbate in my cleaning products like laundry soap and counter spray, etc etc with EcoCert surfacants like the glucosides. I never used it in creams or lotions because I read that so...
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    essential oil suppliers

    Some I have ordered from and others I know colleges have ordered from. But all have great PR, and it is true in essentail oils, you get what you pay for unfortunatly, so when you find sellers selling oils with deals that seem to good to be true, wells thats because it is, there are also...
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    New to Essential oils and blends

    Yes, yes, and yes. I have read all kinds of things about children dying. One case involved a mother putting diluted peppermint oil on a young child/infants chest for a cold, and the child had some kind of respitory failure. How would that mother feel.The list goes on and on, I love essentail...
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    Any such thing as essential oil "samples"

    av-at.com also have sample sizes
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    Any such thing as essential oil "samples"

    edenbotanicals.com and there are a few others, just can't think of them right now
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    Raw Beeswax

    Thank you very much Thistle Creek Honey,, good info. Do you sell beeswax?
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    Raw Beeswax

    Wher are some good places to buy raw beeswax? I live in Canada, but sometimes US suppliers are cheaper even with shipping, so I'm open to the US as well. Moved from Candle
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    Liquid Dishwashing Soap with KOH?

    I don't "think" you can use regular soap of any kind for the dishwasher, it would sudz like crazy and you would have a leak and mess, like putting regular dish soap in the dishwasher when you were in college because you needed beer money and not soap money, and came home to a big mess! Dish...
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    liquid soap

    The best way i personally found was: When your diluting your soap paste, make a strong soap solution, by mxing equal parts soap paste to water. First you bring say 16oz of water to a boil, when boiling reduce heat to a min simmer, then add your 16oz soap paste, cover, let stand for 10 min...
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    liquid soap

    Are you talking about making liquid soap from bar (Naoh) soap or are asking about making a gel from (KOH) soaping like they use in the store kinda soap gel, even though most liquid soap you buy out of the store is actual surfactants.
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    Best places to buy essential oils?

    I live in Canada and use: http://www.canwax.com CA http://www.theorganicwitch.com US based http://www.saffireblue.ca CA Between the three, I can always find what I'm looking for.
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    liquid soap

    I have tried making liquid soap out of bars, it always tried to revert back to a solid, gets slimmy, its just the chemistry of Naoh soap. If you make it diluted enough, you will not get as much solidification, but it will be so weak of a solution it did not seem to be worth it to me. You...
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    Mixing Leucidal & Aspen BE & Elderberry Extract

    Alright, after much more conversation with Maggie at "The Formulator Shop", i have been better informed and have made a revision to my answer to my own question. Leucidal SF and Leucidal PT are Salicylate free, which is what I would use together in a lotion for children with many additives...
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    Mixing Leucidal & Aspen BE & Elderberry Extract

    Alright, after much more conversation with Maggie at "The Formulator Shop" , i have been better informed and have made a revision to my answer to my own question. Leucidal SF and Leucidal PT are Salicylate free, which is what I would use together in a lotion for children with many additives...
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    Mixing Leucidal & Aspen BE & Elderberry Extract

    So Maggie from the manufactures says, " Dear Eric, Thank you for your inquiry and interest in our products. 1.Our Shelf life for all the products mentioned is 1 year; After 1 year, we re-test to specification and possible extend another year. 2.The 4 mentioned do not need to be stabilized...
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    Mixing Leucidal & Aspen BE & Elderberry Extract

    the manufactures says, " Dear Eric, Thank you for your inquiry and interest in our products. 1.Our Shelf life for all the products mentioned is 1 year; After 1 year, we re-test to specification and possible extend another year. 2.The 4 mentioned do not need to be stabilized with Sodium...
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    Does anyone sell Raspberry EO?

    Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, leaf smell,lol. I'll just role around in the grass.:-P
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