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Welcome, neighbor! I’m outside of Tampa. While I aspire to your farm, my claim to fame is six cats currently. Please enjoy this photo, which was not staged at all. They were just sitting like this, and I had to capture their album cover before they moved. The one missing from this is a tabby...

She did say that she left the type name in the description so that they could be found. Hopefully that’s helpful.

I also use the water soluble TD. Funny story… I thought it was oil soluble, and it just wouldn’t incorporate. I thought I had a bad batch. Nope. It blends perfectly with water. I tend to use it sparingly, enough to notice a batter change. You can always add more, but you can’t take it back.

Beach Walk by SM smells exactly like the perfume after which it is modeled. I used to buy it but stopped because I gravitated towards another perfume. I recently ordered it to see if it was close so I could make my own perfume. I do love it.

I'm not sure where you live, but I recently had an issue with a fragrance while making bath bombs. My husband has recently discovered that he has allergies, and he could smell one particular fragrance from my in-home studio. It filled the entire house, despite the door being shut. He had to step...

I have a laser thermometer as well. It’s been really handy for soap, candles, wax melts, etc. I, uh, like @Zing had a candy thermometer that I no longer have. :oops:

I know this is super late, but I bought two custom acrylic stamps on Etsy. I adore them. I measured exactly how large my bars are and decided how much space I wanted my stamps to take. From there, I found someone who makes custom sizes. They weren’t more than $20 or so a piece, but they also are...

What a neat find! I, too, collect old books, whether they are cookbooks, novels, sewing manuals, etc. There’s something enchanting about flipping a page and finding a note written by someone who you’ll never meet.

I didn’t follow her guide for the essential oils because I knew how I wanted mine to smell. I’ve used fragrance oils in place of her essential oils, mostly because I didn’t have the same ones she mentioned but also because the IFRA rates for the scents I wanted to use were able to be used at 9%...

Nope. I used the same ratios.

I hope I’m not too late. Humblebee and Me has a great formula that I’ve modified a bit. This is the link to her page: Steamer Trunk Solid Perfume. My modifications include using candelilla wax in place of beeswax. I find it’s less sticky, and it also makes it vegan friendly for those that mind...

I moved to Florida in January 2020, and I am happy I traded snowmen for sand castles. I don’t miss scraping ice from my windshield or my face hurting when the wind hits it. Like @AliOop, the tourists are a bit much when it comes to driving this time of year, but I’ll keep my palm trees.

This thread is calling me out, LOL. I always have a bunch of plans for fragrances like soap, candles, sugar scrubs, bath bombs, etc. I get distracted and end up with a horde of fragrances that I forget I have, which leads me to order more. Then, I remember the plans I had before when I go to put...

Would the kaolin be added as a mattifying ingredient?

I purchase my olive and coconut oils from Sam’s Club. I tend to shop around Bull Apothecary, WSP, and Essential Wholesale for my other supplies. I feel like the prices at WSP balance out when you consider you get free shipping over $25. I just made a fairly large purchase through Essential where...

No problem. 😊 It’s easy to scale it from there once you figure out what you like.

I add kaolin at 1% of my oil weight. For my 80oz oil batches, this comes to 0.8oz. It’s easier for me to scale it this way. I take a small portion of my oils that don’t need to be melted and stick blend the kaolin into a small container off to the side. It’s probably about a cup or so of oil...

Yup. I just received the email, too. I have found WSP’s customer service has definitely been better lately than normal. Save for the hefty delay in shipping, they were very attentive when something was left out.

My soap did snap the only time I did a pencil line. 🤣 I haven’t tried it since. Your soaps are beautiful! I love the colors you chose.

I started with CP. it took a while for me to do it, and that was due to concerns over lye safety. Once I watched what seemed like an eternity of videos, I felt comfortable giving it a go. It took a year or so into making CP when I finally tried M&P. To be frank, I wasn’t impressed. Was it cool...