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I think there is potential in the first event if your friend wants to try again next year or even in a few months. It takes time for people to become aware of new events. We did a monthly market in an alley with live bands etc in our city's downtown corridor. Sales were slow the first month but...

I make a pressed syndet bar but I melt my sci and slsa. Because they have such a high melt point and the recipe includes btms 50 and Cetyl alcohol by the time it cools enough to add my preservative it is a very moldable, play doh like consistency.

We don't use either water or stearic acid in our body butters. We do add isopropyl myristate to help with absorption. You can use arrow root powder instead.

So cool of you to use something right at your doorstep! I made a soap with aloe, coconut milk, and avocado pulp as 1/5 of my water and then a 50/50 lye/water solution so the final ratio is 2:1 but I think it is slightly less than 2 because of all the solids in the fancy pants ingredients. And...

Last night I made one with 50% sci 18%slsa 7.5 btms50 5 Cetyl alcohol 5 kokum butter 10 capB 1 panthenol (b5) 2 vegekeratin 1 fragrance .5 optiphen I use a press to make by shampoo bars into a puck shape. I didn't like it as much as the one I made with 70% sci and slightly lower btms 50 and...

I’ve been working on syndet bars for about 5 months now. I broke down and bought an ebook from Etsy because I wasn’t confident I could piece together the info I needed that was our there for free. I can’t find it now so I’m not sure she’s still selling it. I also, just today, bought Switch Craft...

I have made one with sci, ctab, btms 50, cetyl alcohol, kokum butter, panthenol, lotus flower extract stearic acid, preservative and I forget which but a liquid oil. I used one of the recipes from Bespoke Book from Etsy. It was my 3rd attempt and the first time with the sci as the only dry...

UPDATE: I tried both lip balm and lotion sticks in the cardboard tubes and decided that they won’t work for selling. They get grease marks all over. So it looks like tins for lip balm and lotion bars it is. For me anyway. @Lin19687 here’s a screenshot of the straws. Sorry I didn’t reply...

So I was working on shave soap and ended up with this. Just wanted to say this is my best soap disaster yet. It’s what comes from trying to do too much as once. Hope everyone else is having a great summer. With my kids home from school, I haven’t been able to share much.

Update: so I tried a bigger tube for solid lotion sticks and it was a bit of a pain to keep from getting smudges on the tube. After a few days of setting inside and just occasionally looking at the 2 samples I made, I concluded that these would be problematic for customers. I just didn’t like...

Thank you!

Thanks for catching that. I fixed it. It was on the bath salts which are a new item. Weight on the soap label is on the side under my ingredients

What is happening on your tops?

I only put together 10 total for a small Popup Market I’m at this Friday and Saturday. I have not yet tried the cardboard tubes for chapstick and lotion bars. I’m pretty convinced they won’t work for chapstick but will try. I have hopes for lotion sticks. Hope everyone is having fun with their...

You might try coconut milk too.

Root beer float soap. FO is from WSP. It sure is easier to pipe “ice cream” than it is roses. I’ve missed being on this forum of late. It was a bad month for migraines.

Found these while taking my mom to the library. My Instagram name is gardenbibliophile I LOVE books. Bonus my 2 favorite British sci fi authors both had books on the “new” shelf.

I went ahead and shelled out 15 bucks to get a sample box of paper balm tubes from Benny’s Balms (Etsy). I’ll report back in a week or so how well they hold up to the pocket and car test. Am hopeful but guarded.

I only have to refrigerate if I soap at 90 or higher. I have never put soap in the freezer. I use 50/50 water/coconut milk. As long as I am at room temp and no other additives like sugar my soap won’t gel at all and it cures just fine. One caveat I’m using the smaller standalone silicone loaf...