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So I waited a but to long to cut my salt soap. It was super hot trying to gel and it crumbled:(. So it's a five lb batch in big chunks, smells devine, but what to do with it? Any ideas?

I make a ton of Salt soap and this is the formula I use. I only use 80% weight of my oils as salt. A rule you can follow is this; If your mold holds, say for easy figuring, 50 ounces of oils regularly; take 50 X .80 = 40. So you would use only 40 ounces of oils, not the 50 since the...

In my experience cigar bands I wrapped at two or three months never fits any more at nine or twelve months. So you have to do the work twice. That is why I switched to Muslin bags with hanging tags

At craft fairs are bath bombs good sellers? People go crazy for my bath tea but what are peoples experiences with bath bombs? Has that fad faded?

So how do you ship your lip balm? What kind of envelope do you use? Looking for ideas because I usually end up loosing money on shipping after buying envelope from post office. But I cant stand to charge my customer $3 shipping on a $3-4 product... Anyone with ideas? What works for you...

Thanks Lindy for the reply, I am kind of overwhelmed with this because usually the orders I have received have been 25 bars or less. Seems like a leap to take. Bobbie

Hi guys, I just got a large wholesale request 80- 100 bars. My questions are how do you ship and what are standard production times? Do you keep that much in stock or make them wait 6 weeks for a full cure? Also they are asking about free shipping and this is the largest order I have ever...

Maybe try a different vendor for you eo. But just soaped with anise this weekend and it really accelerated on me. Turned out fine thou just couldn't get the coloring I was going for. And personally I hate black licorice so I wanted to puke the entire time working with it. Making in molding and...

So with this decrease in water does it also decrease cure time? Sent from my iPhone using Soap Making

No temps here either. Lye is mixed before work then I make soap in the evening. I have very small children and just don't have time to wait an hour for they lye to cool. So it cools when no one is home all day. I only warm my hard oils on the stove till melted then add my liquid oils which cools...

Thanks for the update. I was wondering how it was going. Sent from my iPad using Soap Making

Hello, I just got done looking at the Labeling of Cosmetics guidlines from Canada and they are really useful in giving an example of what we can and cannot say. The original link never worked so I went and found another link to it...

I am curious about the same thing Sent from my iPhone using Soap Making

Hey All, I have only been using EO's but thinking of trying some FOs for more sent options and esp for the holiday season. But I have a question about using FOs. Most Ive seen have vanilla in them so don't they all turn brown. If so how do you prevent this or work around it. THanks for...

Thank you all for the advice. I guess it come down to the fact that people cant buy what you don't have.

can I see the back of 3?

I love the rustic chic of number 3. but I like number 1 as well. if it were me I would maybe do a combo of both. ex beer soap in one and regular in another or something like that

Hey all, I just received some benzoin eo from bulk apothecary and it smells divine. earthy vanilla. I have never worked with it before and really want to preserve that sweet smell in the final cp soap. Does anyone have experience working with this? It is kind of thick so does it need to be...

In everyone's experience how much variety of product do customers like to see? Only soap with lots of different scents or many different items along with soap? ex-soap, balms, scrubs, lotion bars? I am just trying to decide if selling and doing craft shows is something I want to do in the...

Would it work? Im in the heart of the oilfield in ND and am developing a line aimed at oil workers like my hubby. So I have various black soaps to play off OIL. I am wanting to add charcoal to a salt scrub to give it color and the detox properties. Has anyone tried this and how did it go...