0.33 oz Body Oil Roll on Body Oil Roll on for a long lasting scent! Try one of our travel size roll on oils. You can pick from various different brands. Designer: Egyptian Musk Scent life: 10-15 Hours Type: Body Oil Recommended Use: Anytime Age Group: Mature See more products by Body Oils

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A trailer for WitTank's upcoming horror film.

From WitTank's December 2008 show, Something Brewing.

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I have recently taken up soap making as a hobby. Can someone tell me the cheapest place online to purchase supplies such as molds, fragrances and such?

Thanks so much!

The best place that I've found for carrier oil:
Soaper's Choice - http://www.soaperschoice.com/
Sam's club or Costco for large quantities of soybean, canola and olive oils
If you know someone that has a business, Restaurant Depot is a great place for coconut, olive, soybean, canola, etc. oils in large quantities

The best places that I've found for everything else:
Brambleberry - http://www.brambleberry.com/
Camden Grey - http://www.camdengrey.com/
Ellen's Essentials - http://www.ellensessentials.com/catalog/
Fragrance and Flavors - http://www.fragranceandflavors.com/Default.aspx
Wellington Fragrance Company - http://www.wellingtonfragrance.com/index.cfm?UserID=1920597&jsessionid=5e3010fcf08ak$C9$84$
Majestic Mountain Sage - http://www.the-sage.com/
Pine Meadows - http://www.pinemeadows.net/
Southern Soapers - http://www.southernsoapers.com/cart/index.php?main_page=index

These are websites that I go to when I need specific essential oils, fragrance oils, colorants and botanicals. What you can't find at one the other may have.

I found that it's best to buy lye locally if you can, unless you're planning on buying large quantities. Most home improvement centers carry lye. My local sources in Franklin, WI (a suburb of Milwaukee) are: Lowe's, Blain's Farm & Fleet, Mill's Fleet Farm & Menards. You can find it in the plumbing areas of those stores. Make sure that you check the label and it says that it's 100% sodium hydroxide (lye). The brand that I purchase the most is Roebic 2 Lbs. Heavy Duty Crystal Drain Opener. The other brand is ROOTO CRYSTALS OF HOUSEHOLD LYE DRAIN OPENER in a 1 lb. container.

Best of luck with your new hobby.

hello,

Im a homeschool mom, that is looking for neat things for my son to do for art, thats real hands on. Thats something I dont like about homeschooling, its hard to find neat hands on art projects.

Anyways, I was curious about soap making kits, what I need to know is do any of you guys know, if the soap they use is hypoallergenic, my son has sever sensitive skin with certain scents. I cant even use detergents & fabric softners with perfumes of dyes it in.

Any help or advice you can give would be so helpful, my son is really wanting ot do this, but I worry about him getting sever skin rashes that end him in the hospital due ot perfumes or dyes.

Thanks guys

There's a very simple solution to your problem.

Go to Hobby Lobby, Jo~Ann's, Michael's, or somewhere like this. Find the glycerine Melt & Pour soap base, you'll want the clear, not the opaque. This soap base is pure glycerine soap, no colorings, no dyes, no scent. It'll probably come in a 2 lb. chunk.

Don't waste your money on the "kit" and don't waste your money on a soap mold. Use what you have at home.... the bottom of a 20 oz. soda bottle (cut it off to about 4 inches high), an ice cube tray, or even a paper cup, whatever you can find.

Ok... put some of the soap base in a cup and stick it in the microwave for about 15 to 20 seconds (Just cut off small chunks), check it and see if it's melting. Swirl it around a little bit to mix it up (not too much or you'll get air bubbles in it). Continue to do this until your soap base is melted. Then pour it into whatever you're using for a mold.

Now, find one of your son's little spiders, worms, snakes, something little enough to put into your mold and have it covered by the liquid soap base. Let it all set up for about 2 to 3 hours. Pop it out of your mold or peel the cup away.

Bippity-Boppity-Boo!! You have soap. And your son's soap will have a bug or worm in it and be completely visable because you used clear soap base! My Grandmonsters love for me to make soap like this for them. One of the grandmonsters even brought back her bug and asked me to put more soap around it. lol

Good Luck and Happy Soaping!!

I found this, looks OK.

How to Make Egyptian Musk Oil

http://www.ehow.com/how_2192586_egyptian-musk-oil.html

http://www.WatchMojo.com gets a behind-the-scenes perspective on all-natural beauty products. (http://www.mooka.ca/)

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Katie Puckrik smells Twilight

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Twilight the fragrance is the latest promotional ploy from Twilight the movie. In Twilight's big non-sex sex scene between Bella and her hot vampire boyfriend Edward, he gets all fuzzed up over her smell, which he describes as "florallike lavenderor freesia". He doesnt know. Hes a vampire, not a botanist.

Anyway, Twilight goes on fresh and grassy - almost herbal. You get the lavender, which has a pleasant aromatic twang. It's a big change from the all the generic fruity florals out there, and its my favorite part of the fragrance.

But in the blink of a bat's eyelash, the lavender quickly fades and you're left smelling exactly like a bar of white soap. Like you're the cleanest, sudsiest little Vampire bait in the whole wide world.

This is the freesia part of the evening's entertainment. Freesia is a tiny white or yellow flower that smells intensely sweet. Not candy sweet laundry detergent sweet.

Twilight is a very light and innocent fragrance that for my taste, needs more of a bite. Try layering it with musk oil I used Egyptian Goddess by Auric Blends just to cover your bases. That way, you'll get a sexy vampire sneaking into your bedroom, and the attention of some cute humans. Perfect!

And talk about covering your bases, now you can smell like Bella and look like a smokin' vamp chick. Follow the link to Panacea81's YouTube channel to check out Lauren's Twilight-inspired make-up tutorial. Shes so creative and always fun. What else do you want?

I'm Katie Puckrik, and I smell.

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From 20090603_Wed_Alex.mp3. They discuss how the eugenics agenda uses chemicalization as part of their agenda and Margaret Sanger and the colgate foundation. Everything was real and pure until the 30s, 40s, 50s, until the soap companies were using nazi germany chemical formulas called detergents - many of them toxic chemicals. Includes a limerick at the end !! Don't miss it.
http://www.calbenpuresoap.com/

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Perfume is a complex combination of sometimes a hundred scents derived from a variety of sources. Sometimes it can be as common as a house plant or as valuable as an endangered animal's musk. It is said that the secret to great perfume is how well the qualities of each ingredient blend with each other to form the three notes of the perfume. Here are a few common sources:

Plant
Every part of the plant can actually be used as an ingredient for perfume. In fact almost all of them are extracted in order to get the essential oil or the natural fragrant compound plants are known for. Plants are actually the greatest contributors of fragrances in the perfume industry. The south of France, Grasse, has been known to produce a lot of sweet smelling flowers and herbs.

*    Bark
Frankincense, a religious icon in the bible, is a product of the Bosswallia tree. They are so expensive not only because of their rarity but because of the intense labor involved in harvesting the oil involved. Today, cinnamon and cascarilla are common oils extracted from the bark.

*    Flowers
The biggest contributor for aroma is undoubtedly the flower bearing plants. Everything from citrus trees to roses can be used in perfume. Flower scents are usually used as head notes for perfume.

*    Fruits
Rind from the fruit and not the fruit itself is usually what's extracted for perfume. Oranges, lemon and lime are common rinds for extraction while vanilla and juniper berry can use the fruit itself for perfume.

Animals
*    Musk
This is a scent picked up from the Asian musk deer and is now being imitated synthetically.

*    Honeycomb
As the name itself suggests, this is literally the home of the honey bees.

*    Civet
This is a kind of musk extracted from the sacs of civets, a relative of mongooses.

Other Natural Sources

*    Lichens
Lichens are complex organisms found usually living symbiotically with trees and fungus.

*    Seaweeds
They are sometimes used as essential oils in perfumes.

Synthetic Sources
These are a combination of chemicals added to provide fragrances that are not in nature or to give the perfume a more full-bodied effect that natural ingredients cannot make or capture such as orchid scents or fruit scents not gotten from the rind. Most companies make their own synthetic scents.

Majority of perfumes nowadays are actually more synthetic than natural. Such is the price of marketing and modern chemistry. 

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The art of soap making mainly has three ingredients: lye, fat and additives. All soaps undergo the saponification process wherein these three ingredients react to each to form a thin pudding, like material called Trace. With our technology today, the soap maker can now choose from a variety of these three ingredients in order to produce different kinds of soaps.

Lye
Lye known as Sodium Hydroxide or Caustic Soda (historically Potassium Hydroxide) is a caustic alkaline substance. Sodium Hydroxide lye is used to make soap mixtures more stable and firmer while Potassium hydroxide soap is used to make liquid soap or soft soap.

Lye is corrosive and should be handled with care. It can irritate the skin if too much is placed on your soap substance. When in high concentrations, it can cause blindness, chemical burns or internal damage.

It is best not to use aluminium with your soap mixture whether by a container or as a mixing tool. Aluminium reacts badly with lye because it forms hydrogen gas. It forms Sodium Monoxide when mixed with sugar in a closed environment, so it's best not to keep such ingredients in the working area.

Fat
Fat is the foundation of soap. It is often referred to as oil in soap making processes. Originally, in the earlier days of soap making, animal fat was used in order to create the first batch of soap such as pig lard or cow tallow. Animal fats are considered as hard fats and do not produce a lot of suds. However, with modern chemistry, they have since turned to vegetable and plant based oils. These oils have are milder and more conducive to human skin, and for the health conscious, more natural. On top of that, plant based oils are wider in variety as each plant, grain or nut has a different kind of oil. Plant oils are also readily more absorbed by the skin.

Additives
Additives are chemicals that do not include fat or lye, added to the mixture in order to cause a different chemical reaction that only fat or lye cannot produce, no matter what the quantity. These include fragrances, essential oil, colorants, preservatives or boosters. Here are a few additives and their uses:

*    Glycerine - used to add that moisturizing factor to soap
*    Benzalkonium chloride - used to fight bacteria or fungi
*    Caustic Potash - is a hardener for bar soaps
*    Sodium Silicate - used to bind ingredients more effectively in liquid soap
*    Coco Diethanol Amide (CDEA) - boosts the production of foam

One should familiarize with each ingredient first in order to mix a more effective batch of soap. Each combination gives a different effect in soap making.

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