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  1. firedancer

    Soap samples - do you hand them out at shows?

    Because everyone is handing out samples at our Farmers Market, ie samples of strawberries, peaches, baked goods, etc. We weren't able to complete for customer attention, without some kinda of free sample So, we hand out little sugar scrub samples, or bath bomb samples. The sugar scrubs are...
  2. firedancer

    Soap additives & specialty ingredients - what do you use?

    have used: Almond milk - unsweetened. added to the lye water after it lye dissolved. Pepper mint leaves from the garden (and others in my herb garden, sage, thyme, ect) - made into a tea, refrigerated the tea with leaves and about 2 weeks later used in place of water Kaolin Clay - cant...
  3. firedancer

    Wrapping Cured Soap

    We sell weekly at a farmers market and the left over soaps are stored in a box, in a cool room. They go back on sale the next week. I use a variety of wrapping methods, shrink wrap (lasts the longest without damage), gift wrapping and ribbon (depending on the paper will last as long as the...
  4. firedancer

    CP Soap Sugar Scrub Cubes

    I use my left over soap, from planing. Melt the soap (2 cups) after soap flakes have melted I add 1 cup oil of choice and then 3 cups of sugar. I also add color and fragrance, as i notice both are needed. I mold while still warm, as the mix gets kinda like playdough if I fiddle about. I like to...
  5. firedancer

    So... You can do colour, can you?

    Embeds to the big dog! Very nice Sent from my iPad using Soap Making
  6. firedancer

    Figured out a new way to line my molds

    While looking at back to school stuff the other day, it dawned on me that those plastic folders might work to line my molds. So for a dollar I bought a purple and orange folders. Measured my mold and cut out sides, and the bottom from the folders. I then taped the whole thing together with...
  7. firedancer

    Red Color Question

    with liquid colors especially red you need to use about 7-12 drops of color per pound, sometimes MORE!! then you will get a really nice red!
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