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Thank you Body Language Soaps for sharing this awesome tip about keeping your lip balm and lipstick areas clean. "I eliminated clean up all together with making lip balms. I have a pint sized canning jar designated for every flavor. I melt what I need, add flavor oil, and pour!!! When I'm done, I … Continue Reading
Isn't it a pain to clean the waxy mess after making lip balm? Here's the secret to cleaning those oily, waxy, messy containers.Gather up some of your old melt and poursoap scraps and melt them in the same container that contains your lip balm residue. Once it's melted, swirl the hot soap around in … Continue Reading
This is the last video in our Melt & Pour series on Soap Queen TV. We're going to take a little break before we come back with our next series in the Fall. What do you want to learn about? I know I've said this before but just to remind you - we really want to hear your suggestions! In this … Continue Reading
The Saponifier Survey was reset to 0 late Tuesday afternoon because of 'leading questions' in the original survey. The Saponifier, an industry magazine, does its 'Best Of' survey yearly and gets feedback from soapers everywhere on who their favorite online vendor is in a variety of categories: … Continue Reading
I love this Hamster Soap! Materials Liquid blue Non-Bleeding Red 2 lbs White Melt & Pour Base 1 lb Clear Melt & Pour Base 1.5 oz Love Spell Fragrance Oil Loaf Mold 8 Hamster Eraser Toys Soap Cutter Microwave safe bowl Spoon Tips for layers and embedding: Use the same … Continue Reading
Melissa Hutcheson is the owner and and founder of the Joy of Soap out of Hayward, California. They take pride in making their bath products from organic, natural and sustainably grown ingredients. The fabulous Melissa was kind enough to send us two bars of her handmade creations; Rosy Cheeks … Continue Reading
Krazy K on the Teach Soap forum posted some of her amazing soap art and I just had to share to inspire you too. She says that she made these using the Melt and Pour Tool kit and that the soaps didn't take too long with the kit. The soaps turned out quite stunning. On the Teach Soap Forum, Krazy K … Continue Reading
Saponifier's 3rd annual Readers Choice "Supplier Awards" are happening again and it's time to vote. If you would like to vote for your favorite vendor, you can vote for them here: http://saponifier.2009-awards.sgizmo.com The survey closes midnight on August 27th. The best soap supplies on the … Continue Reading
When we purchased the Heavy Duty Mold line back in June, we planned on expanding the already cool mold line. There are so many nifty mold ideas floating around my head and I've heard some incredible design thoughts from soapers over the years. Having the freedom to design new molds has long been a … Continue Reading
I love (love, love, love, love, love, love) seeing SoapQueenTV and SoapQueen-inspired ideas out on the marketplace. It's even better when the soaper flat out says that our soap'spiration inspired them to make cool works of soap art. Here are a few that I came across this week. First up, from … Continue Reading
This week I make these really cool retro soaps with an 80's look. These are so fun and simple to make I keep thinking of different color combinations I want to try! Episode 14: Geometric Soaps from Soap Queen on Vimeo.Here's what you'll need to make this soap: Clear Melt & Pour base Lemon … Continue Reading
Thank you for all the feedback on the previous post! Commenters SingingWolf and Maggie both mentioned that if you give the Lip Balm Tubes a little extra umph that you don't need to trim. They totally beat me to the punch. The lip balm on the left was pushed a little farther into the pour … Continue Reading
Lip Balm Pour Tray Directions Try my Fun Summer Lip Balm Recipe (It's a small recipe so I had to multiply it by 10 to fill the entire tray) Once you place all 50 lip balm tubes into the pouring tray (as far in as they can go), you have two pouring methods to choose from... "The … Continue Reading
Summer Lip Balm Recipe 2 tsp Coconut Oil 2 ½ tsp Beeswax 2 1/8 tsp Sweet Almond Oil 2/3 tsp Avocado Oil 25-30 drops of Coconut Flavor Oil Microwave safe dish Stir spoonMy Favorite Lip Balm Colorants (I love mixing these) Red Mica Super Pearly White Mica Copper Sparkle Mica Rose Pearl … Continue Reading