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BotanicalBath
True Blue Farmgirl
1014 Posts
Elizabeth
Ohio
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Posted - Jun 01 2007 : 08:22:09 AM
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This is what I actually do for a living and probably my first love.
Top row Left to right:Almond scrub, Oatmeal milk & Honey, Inner peace, Lavender, Lemongrass Patchouli, Ginger Lemongrass, Dead Sea Spa.
row 2:Cinnamon Sandalwood, Orange clove, Lemon Verbena, Cured midnight sugar, Shanghi, honey Sandalwood
row 3: Patchouli Patchouli, winter solstice, full moon, neroli, red currant, Wishes, dragons blood
Bottom row: Beach, Teatree, Nag Champa, Midnight sugar, Spearmint Patchouli
E- BotanicalBath@peoplepc.com www.Botanical-Bath.com
"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
Edited by - BotanicalBath on Jun 01 2007 2:33:13 PM |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2007 : 09:07:24 AM
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Hi Elizabeth-
You soaps sound wonderful! For some reason your picture did not show on the forum.
I love the names you have given some of them, like Midnight Sugar, Full Moon, and Dragon's Blood!
I love making soaps and I am can tell you do too!
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nashbabe
True Blue Farmgirl
687 Posts
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Posted - Jun 01 2007 : 1:48:18 PM
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You can't see them, but trust me, they're good and they look scenic.
Told E that my soaps wanted to be her soaps when they grow up. :-)
Grew up on a farm...moved to da city...grew up a farmgirl! |
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22941 Posts
Alee
Worland
Wy
USA
22941 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2007 : 2:47:45 PM
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Very Nice! I haven't perfected my soap making to the point where they look that great! Wonderful job!
Alee |
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
6948 Posts |
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Mikki
True Blue Farmgirl
1510 Posts
Mikki
Austin
Indiana
USA
1510 Posts |
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queenofdreamsz4u
True Blue Farmgirl
3845 Posts
Stephanie Suzanne
Smoky Mountains Tennessee
USA
3845 Posts |
Posted - Jun 02 2007 : 01:30:09 AM
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Hey Elizabeth,
Your soaps are beautiful! Do you make them with the Cold Process method? Any do you have any dairy goats to make the goat's milk soap?
I used to have a herd of Nubians and American Saanens...All the soap makers like to use the Nubian milk due to it's higer butterfat.
I use unscented goat's milk soap now due to my skin becoming very sensitive to fragrance over the past 10 years. I miss the days where I could soap in a lavender bath :o)
Fortunately, my love for Rose and Lavender can be enjoyed through the organic lavender buds that I keep around and my incence. I enjoy making the lavender sugar to use in hot and cold tea.
Talk to ya later, Stephanie dreamkingdomdesigns.com
[quote]Originally posted by BotanicalBath
This is what I actually do for a living and probably my first love.
"hold close your inner child and always listen to the gentle whispers" ~queenofdreamsz
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BotanicalBath
True Blue Farmgirl
1014 Posts
Elizabeth
Ohio
1014 Posts |
Posted - Jun 02 2007 : 9:24:59 PM
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Yes these are CP soaps. But I dont have goats milk soap in the regular line. I made it about 10 yrs ago once. Because of my market segment, all of the soaps are vegan except for the Oatmeal milk & Honey and the Honey soap. Yep, honey is considered an animal product too, but I will be dropping if off the line because it is just not moving fast enough for me to keep it. But thanks everyone...
Who else makes soap? Lets see Pics!!!
E- BotanicalBath@peoplepc.com www.Botanical-Bath.com
"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
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goneriding
True Blue Farmgirl
1599 Posts
Winona
Central Oregon
USA
1599 Posts |
Posted - Jun 04 2007 : 11:58:53 AM
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I just bought a bunch of Amish soap the other day. The wrapping was so cute!! They took pieces of cloth that corresponded with the soap (example: the kitchen soap was wrapped in 'vegetable' printed cloth) and the info piece outside of that. Underneath the cloth it was wrapped in some sort of papery-stuff. Plus they smell a treat too.
I like anything that smells like Sunflowers or gardenia...yummy.
Winona :-)
Don't sweat the small stuff...
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BotanicalBath
True Blue Farmgirl
1014 Posts
Elizabeth
Ohio
1014 Posts |
Posted - Jun 04 2007 : 8:58:47 PM
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I know a lot of soapers who do the fabric thing. I dont, I use velumn. I also have never done well with floral scents... Just not my market, but I know others who can not keep Lily of the Valley and Lilac in stock. Which is great, when I feel like something that is not on my line, Usually a soaper will pull though for me and send me a bar.
http://www.moongarden.us/soaps_h-z.htm is a friend of mine and she makes a great Lily of the valley, lilac Gardinia soap.
E- BotanicalBath@peoplepc.com www.Botanical-Bath.com
"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
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Bluewrenn
True Blue Farmgirl
1122 Posts
Erin
Texas
USA
1122 Posts |
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Tracey
True Blue Farmgirl
766 Posts
Tracey
State of Confusion
USA
766 Posts |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 01:07:18 AM
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They're beautiful, Elizabeth!
I do sheep milk soap here.
Winona...I've got news for you...sometimes those Amish Soaps aren't Amish at all. I was contacted a couple years ago by an Amish store and they requested I make some soap for them that they could pass off as being Amish made. After a couple weeks of negotiations, they decided to go with someone else, which quite honestly I was happy for.
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BotanicalBath
True Blue Farmgirl
1014 Posts
Elizabeth
Ohio
1014 Posts |
Posted - Jun 10 2007 : 09:23:04 AM
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Erin, No idea if it will attract or repel bees. Since insects smell differently than humans, and I know little to nothing about entomology... dont know. The actual honey in it actually has no scent, and reacts like any other sugar in the soap. I do add a fragrance oil that smells just like honey tastes. I have been told that it actually smalls like propolis.
So who would be up for a soap swap?
E- BotanicalBath@peoplepc.com www.Botanical-Bath.com www.BotanicalBath.etsy.com http://botanicalbath.blogspot.com/
"I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible." |
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Bluewrenn
True Blue Farmgirl
1122 Posts
Erin
Texas
USA
1122 Posts |
Posted - Jun 11 2007 : 05:04:21 AM
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The reason why I was asking is that my hubby is buiding some more hives and some of the components smell like honey and apparently the honey pheromones attract the bees or something. They can't wait for him to finish the new hives...
My Homesteading Journal http://toomyvara.livejournal.com
My craft journal http://bluewrenn.livejournal.com
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Tracey
True Blue Farmgirl
766 Posts
Tracey
State of Confusion
USA
766 Posts |
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