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I entered my wife to win a booth at An Affair of the Heart in July. She is a finalists and she needs votes to win. You can vote once a day now through Friday. Her shop is Crafted From The Heart. Here is the link...

http://essentialoilpresells.com/ is calling it quits. Selling off all EOs. I don't know anything else about, except I was on thier mail list.

Can you make soap if you replace the water with salt water?

Just cut my newest batch.

I unwrapped the towel from today's soap to take a picture. This is after about 5 hours. I will update when I cut it tomorrow evening.

I finally got some micas in.

Yesterday, I made shampoo bars for the first time. I was gone all day and got it sliced a few minutes ago. The scent is spearmint anf bergermot EOs. The coloring is white kaolin clay and grape leaf powder. The soap is very hard. Also, since did not put the loaf in the oven I was able to have...

Has any one ever downloaded the soap calculator from http://www.soapcalculator.com/ ? You get a 15 day trial and $20 to purchase. i am attaching a photo. the happy hace changes to a sad face based on your recipe. you can input your cost of oils and it tells you the cost of the batch based...

The first Batch was my first attempt at a pencil line. It is scented with NG's Vanilla Bean with some Grapefruit EO. I unmolded it at the 18 hour mark and was still soft so I just trimed the edges, but I think the line looks pretty good. The base is colored with a gold color from Michaels...

I made two different batch last night. This is the second one. i made one large batch and divided is soon after mixing the lye.water into the oils. By the time I got to this second half it was starting to thicken up. I poured 1/2 into a bowl and mixed green clay into it. Once that was mixed, I...

My wife is set up selling her Hair Bows this week at a Rhea Lana sales event. I thought I would share a picture of part of her booth. Yes, she did make all of them.

I just ran across this and thought I would share. http://essential-oil.theshoppad.com/#/product/microwave-essential-oil-extractor

Ok, have been looking at different pencil lines both here and other blogs. I have people use Micas Oxides Cinnamon Cocoa Can you use other spices? Like Parsley flakes Curry Thyme Ground Mustard And what about seeds? Ground poppy or chia Ground walnut shells? Can you make a...

Please give me feedback on the following Mix. Soybean, 27.5 hydrogenated 35% Coconut Oil, 76 deg 18% Olive Oil 25% Palm Kernel Oil Flakes 12% Shea Butter 5% Cocoa Butter 5% I plan to add sugar or Honey as well. What adjustments would you make? Do I want both Butters?

I CPOPed my last soap. I heated oven to 170 and put the mold in the oven and turned the oven off. I left it there overnight and unmolded and cut 24 hours after putting it into the oven. I just read a tutorial on CPOP for crunch time. The process called to keep the oven ON for 2 hours after...

Please help me out. I am thinking of making my first purchase of FOs. At NG the 16 oz. runs $14-$15, other places I see many of the same named FOs in the $20-$30 range. Plus if you buy five or more 16 oz bottles they discount $1 off each bottle. This makes thiers 40-50% less than the...

Which stick blender do you recommend? I bought a Procter-Silex from Amazon, spen less than $20 on it. But it burned out in the middle of my second batch. So I need to get another and maybe a backup as well. What does the group suggest? I saw a 200 watt Cusinart on Amazon for $34. It has a...

Here are pictures of my new batch it was poured yesterday at about 3:00 PM. My stick blender went out before trace. I seperated it into two bowls and made a pink maroon swirl. I used Island Orchard from WSP. Since i use my garage as my work space and that my first batch did not gel completly, I...

Can shredded coconut be used in soap as either a decoration on top or as an exfoliant?

Hello all, Here is papaw first attempt at soap. It was made two weeks ago. Recipe: ( in percents) 35 evoo 28 po 28 co 9 sb Plus jasmine eo and green color (both from Michael's) They are hard bars now. There is no noticeable scent. When I washed to pot and molds it was like I had...