[Nfb-krafters-korner] soap revisited

[Diane]

I would love to buy a few lighthouse soaps from you!
I love lighthouses!
Di
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From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 9:01 PM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] soap revisited


> Hi all --
> I am at it again -- I had so much fun with the Christmas lighthouse soaps 
> I
> made last year that I decided to make shamrock soaps to give away for 
> Saint
> Patty's day.
> I have the materials -- the soap base, grassy fragrance, and a jar of mica
> colorant in shamrock green, whatever shade that is -- my question for the
> list is the following:
> I purchased a scoop to go with the colorant as the person taking the order
> thought I needed one. I expected the scoop to be about a tablespoon in 
> size
> as that is how much I measured out the irridescent glitter that I used on
> the Christmas soaps -- but the scoop I received is this tiny little stick
> with a little depression at one end, only big enough to hold a few grains 
> of
> powder.
> My thought was maybe this is needed when making multicolored soap where 
> you
> color the shamrock green and the rest of the soap a different color -- but 
> I
> plan on just making the entire soap bar shamrock green.  Does anyone know
> how much of this type of colorant to use in a batch of soap? (the amount 
> is
> one block of soap base for a mold of 3 bars of shamrock soap.)
> Thanx
> Guess I will call branbleberry tomorrow but thought I'd ask here first. Is
> anyone here really into soap making? or is everyone just sampling the
> smorgus board of fun and easy crafts?
>
>
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