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Excellent idea, Katie!

I agree with Shunt about keeping up your business image. I wouldn't sell it... I don't even like to give away ugly rebatches. I'd use it myself, shred it up for scrubs, or donate to a homeless shelter or other charity like the dog pound. Or just keep it several years until your family runs...

A lot of people on another forum, also mourning the loss of TSW, say that SC's is quite good... less sweet and perfumey than BB's, and stronger than MM's.

I wash my hair every time I get in the shower... I just don't use shampoo or conditioner. I don't usually use baking soda either... just water, then a diluted vinegar rinse. My thin, fine hair does not smell, look greasy or dirty or flat; it is not fly-away or static-y. It has shine and a lot...

Dry shampoos have been around for many decades, maybe hundreds of years, usually made of clays, starches and other powders. I used them back in the late 60's when the leather brace for my fractured neck didn't allow showers. Shake the powder on, massage it in, then brush brush brush it out. But...

I used coffee, patchouli and peppermint.

Fascinating NYTimes article about body smell receptors that help healing...so Aromatherapy is good after all!

Try UM violet with UM blue. From my files:

Specks are probably the calendula petals, but I rather like the lighter color soap myself! what brand of PT did you use?

I made some dental soap last night, with xylitol and salt, flavored with spearmint, fennel and peppermint EOs.

Joseph, do you have hard water? Hard water will make your skin feel dry even without soap. Adding salt can make a big difference... sort of like a built-in water softener. :)

I experimented with some Nutiva RPO a couple of years ago. Because I'd read a high percentage of RPO causes orange lather, I used 10% palm, which turned the batter quite yellow. I then split batter for a three-color swirl with charcoal, and red and yellow oxides. The palm turned the red...

I use a vinegar-Dawn mix, my main cleaner for most everything for the last two years. I make it by the gallon in old vinegar jugs: 1 qt vinegar, 1 qt water, 1/2-1 Tbsp Dawn (stronger for heavy-duty grease cleaning). It's very cheap, gentle and safe, removes scent pretty well, cuts grease...

I love avocado oil, plus it's more stable than almond oil.

Think about all the air that the seed oils are exposed to while being squeezed and tossed and rotated, etc during processing.

RBO and almond can go rancid fairly quickly without refrigeration and change fragrance, IME. Do you store your high-lino seed oils in the fridge or on a shelf? Considering the extensive processing most seed oils undergo, it's not surprising they can go rancid fairly quickly after opening.

Personally, I love this wispy-ness. Not everything has to be in-your-face obvious. :)

Check out how olive oil is made... I like how the processor sips the oil as soon as it's pressed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aieNV3V4b_s

Virgin coconut oil is naturally white anyway; further refining is done to remove the natural coconut scent, as with cocoa butter. RBD is mostly for palm oils and GMO seed oils. Watch this video that shows how canola oil requires solvents, industrial steaming, dewaxing, bleaching, and...

Having milked cows and goats over many years, I've made a ton of butter, both cultured and uncultured. Basically what remains after making sweet (uncultured) butter is a kind of grayish, skimmed milk... it is not the same as cultured buttermilk in stores and in powders. It's actually rather...