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  1. cerelife

    Elusive Cucumber FO

    Thank you! That's a great idea and I will certainly give it a try. I didn't phrase my post very well, and for that I apologize. It's not that the scents don't stick, just that none of the cucumber scents I've used smell like a fresh cucumber. They either have a fresh, spa scent or are blends in...
  2. cerelife

    Elusive Cucumber FO

    I've tried sooo many Cucumber FOs and have yet to find a really good single-note cucumber scent that survives in CP. At the moment NS Cucumber Melon is the best I've found, but I would like more of a fresh cucumber scent. Any help would be much appreciated!
  3. cerelife

    Fragrance Buddy- anything I just *have* to get?

    @Shirley-D FB's Monkey Farts is way better than the WSP version to me since it plays nice in CP and doesn't discolor. Good scent retention at 1oz ppo. I don't personally care for this FO in general (which is why I didn't mention it in my last post), but it does sell well. Overall, I would rather...
  4. cerelife

    Fragrance Buddy- anything I just *have* to get?

    Citrus Tree smells exactly like walking through an orange grove when the trees are blooming according to my husband who grew up playing in his family's 40 acre citrus grove on Merritt Island in Florida. It moves a little fast but workable. Weather Vane is a wonderful complex scent that soaps...
  5. cerelife

    Tapioca Starch in Lotion Bars

    I just went and looked up my recipe and for 7.5 oz of butters/wax/oil I use 1T of tapioca starch. This is my sweet spot but you can adjust up or down depending on your recipe. I add the tapioca at the very end just before I pour into my molds. It does tend to clump, so I have a dedicated milk...
  6. cerelife

    Daystar Order

    Let me preface this by saying that this is just my personal take, everyone's nose is different. 8th & Ocean from Nurture is a very nice scent but smells nothing at all like DS Salty Sailor to me. It's more of a fruity beach drink scent rather than a true ocean scent, which is probably why it...
  7. cerelife

    New little man

    He looks like a Kevin to me. Or if you want to get fancy - Sir Kevin Smoochikins.
  8. cerelife

    Post your Gripe

    @Catscankim - Oh girl, I feel this down to my very bones! One of our techs was out last week with Covid, so I worked on my day off to cover for her because we're so short staffed. On one particularly busy day upstairs we had 15 outpatients (most of them contrast studies) scheduled/3 biopsies...
  9. cerelife

    Grrrr - Spotty Soap!

    OOOHHH...now I want to try this rice slurry/water and soap hot/gel to get the speckles. I have the perfect FO (with VCS and TD): https://www.fragrancebuddy.com/RICE-KRISPIE-TREATS-Type-Fragrance.aspx
  10. cerelife

    Post your Gripe

    @Catscankim We have all GE scanners at my current hospital and it was quite a change from working with Toshibas for over a decade! Plus I went from 128 slice machines to 64s. It took me a minute to adjust my timing, lol! We're getting a new scanner this spring and rumor is that it might be a...
  11. cerelife

    Post your Gripe

    @Catscankim What is it with these new grads?! We're short-staffed and have been cherry-picking students for CT. So we have this person who's bright, eager to learn, and whose goal is to be a CT tech. Sounds great and she shows promise. She was hired PRN as a student for Xray but we've kept her...
  12. cerelife

    Have Y'all Seen This??!!

    Apparently The Wooden Wick Co (now Makesy) is jumping hard into CP soaping supplies. I think what really cheeses my grits is that they keep repeating that their CP formula is safe to use after 48 hours. Well duh...so is everyone else's. The disregard for the quality of the soap we share or sell...
  13. cerelife

    Road Rage? Insurance Fraud Attempt? Who even does this stuff???

    First let me say that that I work in a busy hospital and I try to reduce stress outside of my job any way that I can! I have a 48 mile commute to work and I make it slightly longer by choosing to take 2-lane country roads rather than the highway. I prefer the beautiful scenery and less traffic...
  14. cerelife

    Post your Gripe

    Just to clarify: I don't usually tip 20% for take-out. But we love this place and want them to stay in business! The (unintended) upside of this is that they know our preferences - spicy, with all the fish sauce (don't Americanize it for us!) - and they always give us huge portions. Like one...
  15. cerelife

    Post your Gripe

    @Catscankim here's a breath of fresh air about tipping! There's a little Asian restaurant about 2 blocks from my house that we get take-out from often. We've seen 3 generations of the family running this place and have experienced very broken English to heavily accented English to very fluent...
  16. cerelife

    I've Gone Down The Foiling Rabbit Hole!

    If you know me from prior posts over the years then you know I'm very particular about my packaging/branding/booth display. If you don't, then suffice it to say that I tend to be a little 'over the top' - I have a mini chandelier in my booth if that tells you anything. Per foiling...I switched...
  17. cerelife

    Ranting

    @maxine289 Me too!! My Minou is now 12 years old!! That little booger better live as long as me!!
  18. cerelife

    Trying spider silk

    Yeah, we have crazy spiders down south. Grove spiders, wood spiders, black widows, brown recluse spiders.My parents' house where I grew up was surrounded by 20 acres of woods and pasture and the wood spiders (I don't know any other name for them) were nightmare creatures. They were the size of...
  19. cerelife

    Ranting

    Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things (unless they are dogs of course)! This song says it all:
  20. cerelife

    25% off FO's at WSP

    Wow!! Did they reformulate Farmhouse Cider?? The usage rate used to be less than 1% and now it's 8%?
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