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Essential Oils Enhance Your Life
I pored over our sales reports for the last few months today. I realized that our essential oil line has been sadly underutilized in sales lately. I’m unsure if it’s because we started out as a fragrance oil company ten years ago and are mostly thought of as primarily a…
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Palm Oil – A mixed bag
Palm Oil is one of my favorite oils in soapmaking. It contributes to a harder bar and also helps Coconut Oil do its job and lather up big bubbles. Unfortunately, there are some negative repercussions from using Palm Oil to the environment. How can something natural be harmful to…
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Essential Oil Safety Guidelines
General Guidelines for working with essential oils – keep away from fire or naked flame – store in a cool place – keep out of sunlight – plastic bottles are a no as they allow the essential oil to evaporate and take on the plastic smell; additionally, plastic bottles generally…
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How to Felt Soap
Thank you to Two Tadpoles, Teresa, One Bubble, Amber’s Ambry, and Soapaholics Anonymous for the blog shout outs this week. Heidi, your heat transfer method soap pictured above looks amazing. The texture really adds interest to the bar. Teresa, the soap (pictured on right) that…
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Weight Versus Volume
This is a candle I made with 100% Stearic Acid. Why Stearic Acid? Because I saw some candles at a high end gift shop that were made with “Palm Wax.” They were very expensive candles and I thought, “Gosh, Stearic Acid is derived from Palm Oil. I wonder if I could just use Stearic…
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Hot Oil Hair Treatment – Recipe & Technique
I have been addicted to hot oil hair treatments since I was about 12 years old. I used to warm the oil up, put it on my hair, and then rinse it out with apple cider vinegar/baking soda. I’m not sure that the last part of my hair treatment was all that healthy but I […] The post…
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Tips on Soap Photography
Since I started making soaps, I always wanted to take pictures of my projects. Even before I sold them online I wanted to keep an album of what I made. When I started to sell them on Etsy I realized that good photography was essential to being successful. Unfortunately I had no…
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Test post
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Grapefruit Lily Blends
Have you tried Grapefruit Lily before? It’s a lighter, romantic fragrance with a clean finish. Though this fragrance is heavy on the Lily notes, the touch of Grapefruit makes it an intriguing scent. It’s also a fun scent to blend. I’ve included a few blends below that really…
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Lori Nova’s Top Ten Essential Oils
Big thanks to Lori Nova from The Nova Studio for this Guest Blog. Lori is going to be teaching her amazing swirl technique and colorant class at the Soap Intensive Weekend at Otion this year. Class attendees are in for a huge treat. Lori’s Guest Blog is below: While preparing…