Order Placed!

[Cherry Bomb]

I just placed my order with Brambleberry for my first soap making supplies! All that is left to purchase is my plastic lye container, scale, spatulas, and metal mixing bowls. I can pick those up for a fairly inexpensive price according to what I am reading on this forum! My first batch will be a very simple recipe. It will be:

32% Coconut Oil
32% Palm Oil
32% Olive Oil
4% Castor Oil
3% Sodium Hydroxide
16.5 oz Water
4.43 oz Peach Fragrance Oil

This totals 73.84 oz and should produce about 19 bars according to SoapCalc. Unless my calculations are off! I am attaching a picture of my Soap Journal. My recipe is on the front page and on the back page I will include pics and my personal notes. I am exited!!!!! I will attach pics after I receive my supplies and make my first batch of CP soap! BTW: I have labeled my first batch and its name shall be: PEACHY KEEN! That's how it is when you live in the Peach State of Georgia! lol

 

[melstan775]

Awesome. Super excited for you, don't forget to post pics of your soap porn when it's done!

 

[Marilyna]

Are you going to leave it naturally colored? Love your journal! You should see my scribbly notes in a spiral notebook!!

 

[chicklet]

Welcome to your new addiction. Love your soaping journal. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I hope you're prepared for a bit of a wait on your supplies. I have no complaints about BB as far as their products, variety, price - and I love that they so much instruction on soaping ...but they're slow about shipping stuff. Then it has to travel across the country (I see you're in GA). But that will give you time to get all your other stuff together and learn more about soaping.

Good luck and yes, we want pics!

 

[CaliChan]

I cant wait to see the pictures!
My husband keeps trying to convince me to move to Georgia, but thats a pretty big leap from Washington.

 

[sue1965]

I know how excited you are!! I was just like you about 2 weeks ago I just placed my first soaping order also with BB. It took about 8 days to get to PA. Seemed like to longest 8 days ever!! I was like a kid in a candy shop opening my order. Good luck with your first batch. I plan on making mine soon also. I'm looking forward to seeing your pics!

 

[Pepsi Girl]

That is a really nice journal! I'm a notebook scribbler myself. Sometimes it's so bad that I can't even read it. So that brings me to my 2thoughts for you . Write neatly, and leave room the notes you'll have after the soap is done! :smile:

 

[shelley74]

How exciting!! i made my first batch around christmas time, it turned out pretty good.
love your soap journal, and looking forward to your pics.
Happy soaping!!

 

[SueSoap]

Ditto the above on the soap journal. You're so creative! I'm lucky if I remember to write everything down anywhere.

 

[deg195]

Thats so cool!

 

[Cherry Bomb]

Are you going to leave it naturally colored? Love your journal! You should see my scribbly notes in a spiral notebook!!

Thank you! If I don't stay organized then I will be so lost after a while! lol I am going to leave it naturally colored. I wanted to add in some peach mica or coloring but I didn't want to overwhelm myself on my first batch. I do believe that the peach fragrance will discolor my bar a little bit. I am thinking maybe to a light beige color. I think that I will play with a little bit of color after this first batch!

 

[Cherry Bomb]

Welcome to your new addiction. Love your soaping journal. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I hope you're prepared for a bit of a wait on your supplies. I have no complaints about BB as far as their products, variety, price - and I love that they so much instruction on soaping ...but they're slow about shipping stuff. Then it has to travel across the country (I see you're in GA). But that will give you time to get all your other stuff together and learn more about soaping.

Good luck and yes, we want pics!

Thank you so much! You didn't rain on my parade at all! This is my first time to order any soap supplies from any company and they seemed to have been pretty reputable. Thanks for the advice! I will be out of town most of this week so this will help with my anxiousness while waiting on my supplies! lol I have found a few other websites from reading this forum that I may try next. It is a bit of a travel for my supplies isn't it? lol

 

[Cherry Bomb]

I cant wait to see the pictures!
My husband keeps trying to convince me to move to Georgia, but thats a pretty big leap from Washington.

That is a huge leap from Washington. I have never been to Washington! I grew up in Texas, lived a few years in Mississippi and Alabama and now I am in Georgia. My boyfriend grew up in North Dakota and he said that moving to Georgia was the best move he ever made. See, I don't quite understand that because I want to live where I at least have winters! lol He had too many winters I believe! It tends to get a bit warm in the summer but it is a very nice area. I live very close to the city (Atlanta) and I never run out of things to do. Even if it is just hanging around downtown where I live. It gets busy because yes, I live in the town where they film many movies, including The Walking Dead and it tends to get busy with tourists. You can walk downtown at any time and watch the filming. It is pretty cool. Don't expect much rain and not much snow unless you are moving to North Georgia.

 

[Cherry Bomb]

I know how excited you are!! I was just like you about 2 weeks ago I just placed my first soaping order also with BB. It took about 8 days to get to PA. Seemed like to longest 8 days ever!! I was like a kid in a candy shop opening my order. Good luck with your first batch. I plan on making mine soon also. I'm looking forward to seeing your pics!

I am very much looking forward to seeing your pics as well! Thanks for the info on the shipping time. I found that the shipping was a little expensive but I can't wait to open my box and play!!!! Good luck with your first batch as well!

 

[Cherry Bomb]

That is a really nice journal! I'm a notebook scribbler myself. Sometimes it's so bad that I can't even read it. So that brings me to my 2thoughts for you . Write neatly, and leave room the notes you'll have after the soap is done! :smile:

Thank you so much for the great advice! I will be sure that I leave plenty of room for my notes

 

[Cherry Bomb]

Ditto the above on the soap journal. You're so creative! I'm lucky if I remember to write everything down anywhere.

I write down a lot of things when I am cooking. I love cooking and sometimes I tend to just throw a bunch of stuff together and when it turns out pretty good I have to write it down to duplicate it! lol

 

[Cherry Bomb]

Thats so cool!

Thank you

 

[CaliChan]

That is a huge leap from Washington. I have never been to Washington! I grew up in Texas, lived a few years in Mississippi and Alabama and now I am in Georgia. My boyfriend grew up in North Dakota and he said that moving to Georgia was the best move he ever made. See, I don't quite understand that because I want to live where I at least have winters! lol He had too many winters I believe! It tends to get a bit warm in the summer but it is a very nice area. I live very close to the city (Atlanta) and I never run out of things to do. Even if it is just hanging around downtown where I live. It gets busy because yes, I live in the town where they film many movies, including The Walking Dead and it tends to get busy with tourists. You can walk downtown at any time and watch the filming. It is pretty cool. Don't expect much rain and not much snow unless you are moving to North Georgia.

it might just be worth moving to GA just for the walking dead lol
I was up till 4 am last night catching up on missed episodes!! haha
my husband said the same thing, hes lived just about any were you can think of, his dad teaches ppl how to run nuclear reactors so they lived everywhere. and GA was his favorite, im just worried cause im 1/2 Mexican and I know there's still alot of racism down there.. my mother in law is from that area and i cant begin to explain how upset she was when i got with her son... then again when she learned she was going to have Mexican grand-children

 

[marghewitt]

Man after reading all of your posts I am excited for you! I love soapmaking as much as cooking. I think they are so similar. I like BB too but they take about 10 to 14 days to deliver to me and it's sooooo hard to wait sometimes. Check out Essentialdepot.com for your lye. They have the best quality and shipping is fast. Looking forward to your pictures.

 

[danahuff]

That is a huge leap from Washington. I have never been to Washington! I grew up in Texas, lived a few years in Mississippi and Alabama and now I am in Georgia. My boyfriend grew up in North Dakota and he said that moving to Georgia was the best move he ever made. See, I don't quite understand that because I want to live where I at least have winters! lol He had too many winters I believe! It tends to get a bit warm in the summer but it is a very nice area. I live very close to the city (Atlanta) and I never run out of things to do. Even if it is just hanging around downtown where I live. It gets busy because yes, I live in the town where they film many movies, including The Walking Dead and it tends to get busy with tourists. You can walk downtown at any time and watch the filming. It is pretty cool. Don't expect much rain and not much snow unless you are moving to North Georgia.

I used to live in Roswell, just north of Atlanta. Now I'm in Worcester, MA, and we are having a pretty serious winter! There is a soap supplier I found in Smyrna called Soap Goods. Might be worth it for you to check them out. http://www.soapgoods.com/