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You haven't been in my kitchen LOL the Shea butter is rock hard I need to melt it :)

Just the Shea butter, I melt that obviously but don't warm the oils and thinking about it it's pretty cold at the moment so could that be it do you think ?

I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the differing results I'm getting despite using the same ingredients, the same method etc.. sometimes a batch whips up 2 jars from x amount of ingredients sometimes only 1 ? ingredients from the same batch so it's not that... any ideas?

Also it hasn't gone live yet but you can register your interest and be informed when it is. www.soapysupplies.com

For those of you who sell both online and offline (or even just offline) what do you use to track your offline sales? a simple spreadsheet, a specific program, something else? or do you manually add the orders in at the back end of your online ecommerce system. Just trying to decide what is...

Re: Anyone else having a problem with lip balms not twisting ok tks Lindy, I'll try that, I've never used 25% beeswax I prefer a creamier feel but if that's what it takes for the twist tubes then I prob have no choice :)

I love the texture and feel of my lip balm formulation and so do my customers.. it would be fine in a jar, but on polling my customers they prefer twist tubes ! but I'm having an issue with them not being able to twist the balm down once it's twisted up. My initial reaction would be to...

I normally make my whipped body butter in very small batches enough for 2 7oz tubs and that works fine, sometimes I even make it smaller so half the amount of ingredients and I get one 7oz tub. today I decided to double the norm in order to make 4 7oz tubs and yet it didn't scale up very well...

well I'm open to any type of numbering but ideally I'd like a bit more than the actual batch number from the system ie. I'd like to be able to identify the product purely from the number also - without writing the name obviously ! Also do you guys just keep an excel spreadsheet or do you...

coming up with a batch numbering system that makes sense, is easy to record/follow/trace is doing my head in !! I just can't seem to find one. I keep changing my mind Anyone got any advice or tips on good batch numbering ? or what do you do? thanks :)

Just made my first batch with glycerin instead of water excited to see how it turns out.. it's still cooking as I write this so will update when I know more ! :D

Just a gel cleanser following their video instructions re adding the oil to the gel etc.. but I think my problem was I used too many oil types !! (5 !) it just didn't gel at all and looks awful. it feels ok on my skin so I'll be able to use it but not the way i thought

Just tried a new formulation with sucragel and it was a complete disaster :( I'm sure it will work ok but it looks awful is completely the wrong texture and I'm so cross because I made the decision to make a big batch because one of the things they say on their website is to make sure the...

thanks for that, I had actually just discovered Naturally thinking recently and loved their selection of foamer bottles, I'll definately check the other one out

The organic centre in Leitrim do them..http://www.theorganiccentre.ie I did one there a few years ago..

Great, I think it really fills a gap :)

ok now I see you've taken the "Beta" sign off it !!

Thanks for your response Nath as I said in the post I've only just started playing with it and within the first 10 mins I found 2 small issues which was around the time I posted the above message, when trying to delete a project (error page message, can't remember it exactly )and when trying to...

Just wondering if any of you have set up from scratch a soap and B&B making suppplies business? I'm looking to talk to someone who has gone this route? Don't worry I'm not looking for any trade secrets or names of suppliers just more to find the steps you took, for example did you go the...

Anybody using this? http://craftybase.com I've just signed up for the 14 day trial and am playing around with it.. a few issues it's still clearly in beta which is why I'm surprised they are actually charging for it ! I think they should probably have a base level with a limited number...