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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent, looking forward to this  Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've added a couple of stickies.

So when shall we do it? Do we have anything for March?

Do any of you have any special requests for recipes?

Skin type?

Smelly soap?

Easy to get ingredients?
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Highly perfumed things tend to bring me out in a rash, but I guess that's synthetic ingredients that do that.

I once bought some fabulous vanilla soap from the Eden Project - do you have a recipe along those lines?

I need to get a couple of sugar thermometers but apart from that, I think I've got everything...
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 2:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lizzie - for perfumes I've only used essential oils (mostly lavender and geranium) as I have very sensitive skin. i have got a recipe for vanilla soap, but it uses "fragrance oil" which i think is artifical. i've have a look around for more.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aqui wrote:
Lizzie - for perfumes I've only used essential oils (mostly lavender and geranium) as I have very sensitive skin. i have got a recipe for vanilla soap, but it uses "fragrance oil" which i think is artifical. i've have a look around for more.


if its for march you could always get a bottle of oil that you are going to use in the soap and add a vanilla pod now and it should be infused by march, you could spilt the pod open and scrape the seeds into hte oil and then add the pod but this would mean there was little black vanilla seeds in the finished soap
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Pilsbury - I'm ashamed to admit I don't know how big vanilla seeds are. I suppose you could add some oatmeal too and go with a gritty soap.

I think it would work with vanilla extract as long as it's oil based.
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll have to opt out of this one, I'll be following the thread with interest though.  Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

if you have ever had good quality vanilla ice cream it might have seeds in, they are about the size of grains of castor sugar or salt but they are soft not gritty



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