Soap Makers Help!

[chiknwhisperer]

Ok here is the soap that unmolded last night.

What do you think?

 

[breconbcs]

Very cool! I love the look of them.

 

[Backyard Buddies]

Wow! Those are cool looking chiknwhisperer! They look almost like some sort of marble or something, like a work of art. Which is what they are, right?

 

[Backyard Buddies]

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Looks wonderfully conditioning! Earlier, I ran it through Soapcalc, but as is typical with them lately, their website is down again. Now . . when is the next swap???

On some other topics:

1. What do you all run the hardness of your bar at? How much is enough and how much is too much?

2. I had a thought about Morgaine's sniffy swap idea and wanted to run it past you all for discussion. As I was at the PO sending her sniffies off, I got to thinking that as long as they're on cotton balls and in baggies, I don't see why we couldn't pass them along again to another person as long as the scent is holding up. Morgaine and I got to trading other soaping items which required bigger packaging, but sniffies could easily go into a regular envelope which wouldn't cost that much to send out to someone else.

 

[Backyard Buddies]

breconbcs - You can actually walk into a shop and pick up fragrances??????? How lucky but . . . Oh! That would be so dangerous for me! Congrats on all of the new goodies. Pictures please!

 

[Morgaine]

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Those are Beautiful! It looks so natural and earthy. I think you need to charge $4 for those bad boys. Seriously, they look awesome!

 

[chiknwhisperer]

Thanks everyone for your feed back

They turned out a lot better then I thought they would. I did a log mold first but it doesn't look anywhere near as good. The swirls didn't go all the way down at all. I think I will sell them for $3.75 or $4. I accidentally added an extra ounce and a half of castor oil so I hope it will be alright

 

[chiknwhisperer]

Here is the going away gift for my neighbour and only friend out here.

Any thoughts or suggestions?

 

[MissPrissy]

What a nice gift. Tie a big bow around it - use some inexpensive material if you have any cut with pinking shears to make a long ribbon. Also you could add a scrubby.

 

[BirdBrain]

Crinkle up some colored tissue paper in the bottom(fill the box half full) and arrange the soaps on top of that. Then wrap it in celophane with a ribbon. Make sure the cello is a big peice so itvsticks up well above the ribbon when you draw it up around the box so that it looks like one of those beautiful gift baskets they sell at Valentines day.