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I finally made the scrubby eucalyptus artists' bar I've been planning for months!!! I weight everything out last night and mixed it this morning. I wanna cut it NOW

After some experimentation I found my face preferred grapeseed oil and quite a light lotion. I wouldn't put those butters in. I love Shea but not on my face.

I find SoapCalc the most useful thing ever, but I haven't come across anything similar for lotions. The numbers for lotion formulas do my head in. So I made a spreadsheet to save my brain hurting every time I want to create a new lotion recipe. :x Here it is, feel free to make your own copy and...

Just wanted to thank everyone for the kind comments. I didn't make a lot of money and I have tons of soap and lip balm left, and the next market isn't until the fall, so I guess I better get cracking adding the products to my website!

The green one is gorgeous.

I'd love to be all natural but I use liquid germall plus and no issues so far I've been using my lotions for quite a few months. They are only used by me and my husband so they haven't been challenge tested but they look feel and smell just like the day I made them. I heat and hold 20 mins and...

Haha well there were a lot of admirers and one girl commented on the display. I sold about a dozen soaps and a few lip balms. I was pleased to see some guys buying them too. Plenty left for a future market whenever that may be.

Thanks all :) Oh here's a pic of my ghetto labels made this morning.

Most of them are green ! :D The woods Euc/spearmint White sage Are the green shampoo bars Also seaweed swirl salt bar is one of my faves

Thanks :) I've been planning it for six months. Just had to wait for the warm weather and market season. Three sales so far. Lots of sniffing!

I'm 30 minutes into my first craft market with my soaps and lip balms. No sales yet... hoping that will change. Update. First sale :)

Oh good. I've never thought to look. I have about a cup left.

I use ground walnut shells. Really nice on the arms and legs. Quite rounded though so doesn't cut the skin at all. It's like very fine sand. I don't have much left - hubby got it at a spa he used to work in. I don't know where I am going to get more from.

I just found my post-it note and put all the numbers in a spreadsheet. I'm at 0.55% so I guess I'm OK.

A few weeks ago I made a facial scrub - I forget exactly what's in it (I wrote it down, somewhere) but basically I was trying to do my own version of Angels on Bare Skin. I used rose water, glycerine, EOs etc, kaolin, dried lavender flowers and ground almond and other stuff I can't remember...

I like palm. I won't use animal fats and I was struggling for hardness before I got the palm. I use CO as well. No streaks and traces fine. But I'm used to a fairly fast trace! I tend to stick blend only to near-trace and hand stir a lot with the spatula to get even colour. Today I used EOs...

I tilted it from end to end a few times to see what shape it would make. :)

I unmoulded my disaster batch this morning to find out I saved it! Long story short the day before yesterday I made my regular shampoo bar recipe but wanted to try a new fragrance - white sage from Saffire Blue. Well after the close call with their eucalyptus spearmint I decided to put the...

You wash your dog in the shower?

Hey pics please! I have five in my shower. Lavender bar from the first batch a plain white salt bar a blue half salt bar (failed ombré) and a shampoo bar as well as the seaweed swirl. But my new bar is the one I am most excited about.