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bethann said:
I love love zum bars, sandalwood citrus is my fave.

The Whole Foods store here gets this stuff in by the slabs and lets you cut off the amount you want.
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I love sandlewood citrus, too! Clove-mint is my favorite especially because I won't soap it -- clove tends to "seize" and it's not easy to work with.

Making soap is so much fun to me and I get into all the other companies, too. Here's a couple of photos of some of my handmade soaps on the curing rack (the green ones in the lower right hand corner with the white tops are Margarita soaps! The white tops is sea salt :yes: ):

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Wildflower said:
I love sandlewood citrus, too! Clove-mint is my favorite especially because I won't soap it -- clove tends to "seize" and it's not easy to work with.

Making soap is so much fun to me and I get into all the other companies, too. Here's a couple of photos of some of my handmade soaps on the curing rack (the green ones in the lower right hand corner with the white tops are Margarita soaps! The white tops is sea salt :yes: ):

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How cool! They're all so pretty! What do you do with them all?
 
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Lush report!

Love the new Karma solid shampoo, love the smell (I had used some other Karma products before). However, the bar does tend to get a bit soft. I would definitely not keep it in the shower when you are not using it.

The Jungle conditioner took a bit longer to use, perhaps I need to cut my piece down, however my hair feels so nice and soft. The smell is very clean.

The shower jelly was weird. It lathered nicely, but feels funny. Not in a bad way, but in a hard giggly jello sort of way. Jury is still out....but I did like the scent.
 
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Wildflower said:
I love sandlewood citrus, too! Clove-mint is my favorite especially because I won't soap it -- clove tends to "seize" and it's not easy to work with.

Making soap is so much fun to me and I get into all the other companies, too. Here's a couple of photos of some of my handmade soaps on the curing rack (the green ones in the lower right hand corner with the white tops are Margarita soaps! The white tops is sea salt :yes: ):
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Wow! Look at all that soap, it looks yummy!
 
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Thanks for the compliments y'all!

I make soaps just as a hobby and then I also sell them (mostly locally) at Christmastime. Since I'm such a small-time operation, I hardly make money but I'm just glad to break even and pay for all the supplies! :yes: I was going to become a business and believe it or not -- I was so successful I couldn't keep up with orders! So I decided to just keep it a hobby -- for now.

I give out soaps as gifts and just recently put together a few packages for my church to thank the Sunday School teachers. I've gotten reqests for weddings, bridal and baby showers, and once made a bunch of soap for a HS football team in their school colors. That was fun.

Those pictured are all different scents. Many are "type" scents and my biggest requests are Karma and Snowcake (Lush-types), Sweet Pea and MANY of the B&BW types; Rosemary-Mint (Aveda-type) and a few others that are very popular. I usually make 35 total different scents. Many are fragrance oils (very high quality and VERY expensive) and a about a dozen or so are essential oil soaps.

The margarita soap is one of my favorites! Those pictured are D&G Light Blue, Sweet Pea, Oatmeal Milk and Honey, Pink Sugar (dark brown soap -- all vanilla scents turn brown but smell wonderful!), Rosemary-Mint and some orange-vanilla and I can't remember the rest.

All are natural ingredients - made with olive oil, palm oil, palm kernal oil, coconut oil and a few things like shea butter or other butters. Some are goat's milk or other type milk soaps, too.

The process I use to make them is called Cold Process. It's an ancient way of making soap and makes fantastic soap. The 'fancy' soaps you see with all the imbeds in stores is not the same thing and not as good a soap but pretty. Soaps that you buy in grocery stores or drugstores is actually detergent!

Anyway, besides handbags and birds -- I can talk forever about soap! :p I also make scrubs, lotions, bath bombs, etc. and I teach classes on soapmaking.

BTW, kathyrose is also a soapmaker! I know i've seen pics of her soaps on the forum somewhere...
 
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Here's a few others... the hearts are bath melts; the rose was made for a bridal shower (made 24 of them); the block of soap is just unwrapped and uncut -- it is pumpkin pie scented! The rolls of soap are cut into small round guest-size soaps. I usually shrink wrap them with 5 to a roll and they look like LifeSavers and I call them SoapSavers. The colors look odd on these rolls - normally they are bright.

Tricky to work with some bright colors because you want to keep the lather white. Nothing worse than a red soap giving off red lather and looking like blood washing down the drain! LOL!
 

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Wildflower - such a wonderful hobby/talent you have! I love all of the colors and the scents sound delicious. Thank you for sharing your pics and descriptions.

All this Lush talk - went to their website early this am and put in an order for soap, shampoo, toner...the whole nine yards it seemed. Krispin, your descriptions are great.
 
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