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Thank you! I've placed a couple of orders with y'all since this post and I LOVE the FOs!! Cilantro + Dark Coconut is my current fave - please don't EVER stop making this one! Gorgeous scent with amazing cold and hot throw!!

Pumpkin Powder 16 oz - Unopened - Purchased September 2020 from Bramble Berry. Cedar Closet Fragrance Oil for CANDLES ONLY 16 fl oz - Unused - Purchased March 2020 from Bulk Apothecary. I accidentally bought this, thinking it was for soap. I'm interested in these. Please PM for suggested...

8-oz White Plastic Powder Container with Sifter Lid 8-ct - Purchased from Nature's Garden February 2020 2.65-oz Oval Deodorant with Lid - Approx 22 - Kakum Japanese Planer - for beveling soap corners. I'm interested in these. PM for donation suggestions/shipping please.

Turning your bars during cure? Nope, I don't do that - didn't even know it was a thing. Curing a 2 lb loaf for 6 weeks before cutting? I know for sure that that wouldn't work for my recipes, but maybe it would work for others. I once left a 2 lb loaf sitting on my curing shelf for a week due to...

Thank you Irish Lass!!! I've only tried putting mine in the freezer for a couple of hours, but now I see that that isn't nearly long enough! I dread making these every year (and I make a few hundred bars!), so your advice is a VERY much appreciated!!

I've never had very good results with Milky Way molds for CP soap. I've tried lightly painting them with mineral oil / liberally painting them with mineral oil / putting them in the freezer / waiting up to 2 weeks to unmold the soap and nothing works well for me. I can get them out of the mold...

I would 100% buy a brown, chocolate-scented bath bomb called Augustus Gloop!! But then again, I have a weird sense of humor.

Aside from needing a larger wooden wick to create a full melt pool, wooden wicks usually need to be trimmed with each burn. You can use a wick trimmer or just pinch off the blackened portion of the wick with your fingers before lighting the candle. This should give you more of the fire...

I have a customer who has requested products with a dupe of the discontinued Bath and Body Works 'Vanilla Patchouli' scent. I'm unfamiliar with this scent so I looked it up and all BBW states for the scent is this: "Vanilla Absolute and Patchouli oil." and "Made with natural essential oils."...

I would buy 2 pounds!

Ooohhh, I love mortadella!! Now I'm craving a muffaletta!! I bought some really cute silicone lamb molds from Brambleberry a year or so ago, but when I searched for them just now I couldn't find them on their site. And honestly, your lace soaps are pretty perfect for a christening anyway! I'm...

I've used freezer paper for years, but I would really like to have silicone liners for the wooden molds made by my husband. I have 16 of them so I don't want to buy new molds to make sure the liners will fit correctly. We have so many multi-talented people in this group that I thought it was...

Hit it with the heat gun and it should be fine! I agree with Tara H that the wicks were probably held too taut.

I've always found Stacy to be very ethical, kind, and friendly in the years I've done business with Day Star. You DO realize that she's been dealing with her mother's critical illness (and most likely death at this point), right? And that as an only child her father needs her by his side? I...

For hardness + longevity, it would be 5 year old Castile soap for me! Back in the summer of 2016 I got on a Castile kick and made several batches. They most likely aren't true Castile soap because I added Sodium Lactate and silk to my lye water along with sea salt. I let them cure for a year and...

I usually start with an idea and then choose a fragrance that feels like a good fit with that concept. Like "Hmmm, let's make a Southern Gothic soap. What should that smell like? It should evoke thoughts of eccentric characters, decaying plantation houses, madness, and mystery." My choice of a...

Some of my favorites: Brambleberry Passionfruit Rose WSP Cake Batter Strawberry Sorbet Tupelo Honey Bulk Apothecary Rose

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A resounding YES to this!! But I've found that my customers like (and now expect) something a little different and out of the ordinary from me. Like amd said, you need to find your target market. For me this also varies regionally. For instance: my Voodoo soap collection isn't going to sell at a...

It looks like too much mica in the swirls. When I zoom in on the soap it seems as if the problems are only in the areas with the colored batter. Is this correct? When I first started using micas, I had this happen when I added more mica to get a deeper color (instead of getting a darker mica)...