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The woad color has faded to grayish-green color similar to using French Green Clay. I still think it's pretty and this one smells so good!<br />
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Olive Oil- 1474 gr<br />
Coconut Oil- 623 gr<br />
Palm Oil- 396 gr<br />
Water- 855 gr<br />
Lye- 337 gr<br />
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Cambrian Blue Clay- 2 tbsp<br />
Indigo Root Powder- 1/3 tsp<br />
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Mix your sodium hydroxide into the water, then add your clay and indigo into the hot lye. You will want to extract the colors out of the indigo and the blue clay so we add it to the lye. Blue Clay can sometimes come out very greenish looking so I like to pump it up a little by adding some Indigo Root Powder.<br />
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<br />Mossy Creek Soaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14215755521070866121noreply@blogger.com0904 Northside Drive, Perry, GA 31069, USA32.460326 -83.73379499999998632.3531605 -83.895156499999985 32.5674915 -83.572433499999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060440640810064611.post-10449425098029172862013-03-21T09:06:00.001-04:002013-03-21T09:09:56.186-04:00Cosmetic Manufacturer or Drug Lord? Which one are you?<div style="text-align: center;">
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Education goes a long way when it concerns safe cosmetic manufacturing and I am not only talking about the "big guys" but also many small businesses as well. In our quest to make a fabulous product and our passion to share it's wonderful benefits we may in fact be selling drugs. Making health claims on your products is a BIG no no unless you have the data and the license from the FDA to make those claims. The FDA is very adamant about what you can and cannot say with your cosmetics-<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Intended use may be established in a number of ways. The following are some examples: </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">This principle also holds true for "essential oils." For example, a fragrance marketed for promoting attractiveness is a cosmetic. But a fragrance marketed with certain "aromatherapy" claims, such as assertions that the scent will help the consumer sleep or quit smoking, meets the definition of a drug because of its intended use. Similarly, a massage oil that is simply intended to lubricate the skin and impart fragrance is a cosmetic, but if the product is intended for a therapeutic use, such as relieving muscle pain, it's a drug."</span></i></div>
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Be very careful about making these claims because they do not play when they come knocking on your door. Whether you have stated in your description on your own online website, ETSY or distribute information at your craft shows--seller beware BIG brother is watching you. </div>
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Starting a business in a recession is never easy and most small soapmaking business owners fund all their purchases via personal credit. It’s fine to do in the beginning but when revenues increase and you are making larger purchases you may need to look for new funding. This is where your business comes in. You will need to first apply (if you have not done it already) for a EIN number with the IRS (this is an Employer Identification Number), Register your business with your local and state agencies and designate a legal entity for your business (sole proprietorship, LLC..etc). <br />
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Remember when you had to establish personal credit? You applied for credit and used your credit to build a history which was then reported to the various credit bureaus. Well in business the terminology is a little different and works like this: As a business you will try to establish trade credit and it is when another business issues your business credit= trade credit.<br />
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2.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Update or create your business plan<br />
3.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Find businesses willing to extend you small credit and ask to see if they report to the agencies<br />
4.<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Start at least 6- 8 months before you need the loan.<br />
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Today, My Husband Dan, sent me a very inspiring video that basically defines why businesses succeed and why others don’t. The questions presented are why do I do what I do? Or better yet why make soap at all? Or why teach it to other people? So I thought for a moment, thinking it’s going pretty good maybe I am doing the right things? Otherwise I would have been out of business already—right? Well we know where that came from… Let’s just say I have a healthy dose of EGO. Maybe my German Puerto Rican roots are showing now? Hmmmm..<br />
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Which brings me back to what motivated me in the first place to start making soap? Since early on in my childhood I knew I was different, I found out that scent would either: give me a headache, make me dizzy or make me feel good. So I set out for the “Feel Good” part. Since then I have developed that part of my senses to be very keen on what exactly everything smells like. Heck, I still smell my glass every time before I pour something in it. Weird huh? It’s a proven fact that our sense of smell is tied directly to the memory part of our brains, which is why scent is so inherently personal to each of us. Check out The Sense of Smell Institute for some smell good facts: <a href="http://www.senseofsmell.org/">http://www.senseofsmell.org/</a>.<br />
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Ok so then why soap? We’ll for me it’s the easiest way to facilitate the scent! Not really, it has to be a good skin loving bar as well. But it was the main reason I picked a bar in the first place. I spent a lot of money in the beginning buying all my fragrances and essential oils because unfortunately there are a lot of stinky fragrances. So I had to wade through the fragrances that didn’t last or with stand the process of soapmaking, ones that didn’t morph into a scent that I didn’t recognize and ones that were just plain “stinky”. Ultimately what came out of it was a new found knowledge of scent and where to find them. A bar of soap is only as good as it smells, if you don’t pick it up you will never know what you’re missing. I believe a scent memory is important to your wellbeing and genuinely want you to feel better. The scent for my soap is carefully chosen for their harmony with nature, clarity of mind, wellbeing of the body and quality to help keep you grounded.<br />
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I just found out yesterday- Our local county here in middle Georgia (not the big city--but really--the country), wants all home manufacturing (soapmaking, bath and body products) businesses to apply for a zoning variance, attend a hearing (waiting for at least 40 days before the hearing begins) and supply a survey of their home so they can apply for a business license. And it's not guaranteed they would even get approved. What are your thoughts? State Regs are not even this bad. Mind you we are a community of about 150,000 people. I guess weeding out new small business is what's in right now?<br />
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See this document on the requirements for Houston County- <a href="http://www.houstoncountyga.com/assets/downloads/BusLicHomeOccupationsRegulations.pdf">http://www.houstoncountyga.com/assets/downloads/BusLicHomeOccupationsRegulations.pdf</a>Mossy Creek Soaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14215755521070866121noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060440640810064611.post-55377997554777042902012-10-18T18:28:00.003-04:002013-07-11T07:01:49.945-04:00Southern Living Magazine "LOVES" our Soap!We were contacted back in Aug by Southern Living Magazine to share our Christmas 2012 Soaps. We'll I am happy to say the Issue is "Christmas At Home" 100 Ways to Celebrate The Season. They gave us placement on page 9!<br />
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There was some discussion about Olive Oil for soapmaking in our class this weekend. I thought I would go straight to the horse's mouth so to speak when I post this. I checked out the <a href="http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELDEV3011889" target="_blank">USDA's website</a> for the grade descriptions and this is what they say.<br />
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"<b>Olive oil </b>is the oil obtained solely from the fruit of the olive tree(Olea europaea L.), to the exclusion of oils obtained using solvents or re-esterification processes and of any mixture with oils of other kinds and shall meet the minimum requirements of Table I, found in §52.1539 of these grade standards." </div>
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"<b>Virgin olive oils</b> are the oils obtained from the fruit of the olive tree solely by mechanical or other physical means under conditions, including thermal conditions, that do not lead to<br />
alterations in the oil, and which have not undergone any treatment<br />
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"<b>Olive-pomace oil</b> is the oil obtained by treating olive pomace (the<br />
product remaining after the mechanical extraction of olive oil) with<br />
solvents or other physical treatments, to the exclusion of oils<br />
obtained by synthetic processes and mixture with oils of other<br />
kinds and shall meet the minimum requirements of Table I, found in<br />
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to restore natural tocopherol lost in the refining process for refined<br />
olive pomace and olive-pomace oil. Maximum level: 200 mg/kg of<br />
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The New Yorker posted about "The Olive Oil's Darker Side" In Feb 2012 <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/02/the-exchange-tom-mueller.html">http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/02/the-exchange-tom-mueller.html</a><br />
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Tom Mueller has done some extensive research on how corrupt this industry really is in his book called "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Extra-Virginity-Sublime-Scandalous-World/dp/0393070212/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1348581007&sr=1-1&keywords=olive+oil+story+by+muller" target="_blank">Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil</a>"<br />
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The Truth In Olive Oil Website: <a href="http://www.truthinoliveoil.com/">http://www.truthinoliveoil.com/</a><br />
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A Buyers Guide in the US for Olive Oil <a href="http://www.truthinoliveoil.com/great-oil/how-to-buy-great-olive-oil/">http://www.truthinoliveoil.com/great-oil/how-to-buy-great-olive-oil/</a><br />
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What's your take on it? What do you think of grocery store olive oil/no brand name? Is it really olive oil at all?<br />
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<br />Mossy Creek Soaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14215755521070866121noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060440640810064611.post-90398242886997994892012-09-17T13:22:00.002-04:002013-07-11T07:03:39.163-04:00Color BrandingColor Branding? Sounds pretty good hmmm.. I came across this very cool graphic and since I am designing new website this should really come into play. My new website should be up and running before Oct 1. We'll be expecting some down time and I will announce it before we switch over. So look for it: <a href="http://mossycreeksoap.com/">http://mossycreeksoap.com/</a> It will be very user friendly with some very cool new features-<br />
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Anyway- this graphic... It discusses color and why it's so important in branding your product. I thought I would share this with you guys--<br />
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I love this company: <a href="http://dailyinfographic.com/the-illusion-of-choice-infographic">http://dailyinfographic.com/the-illusion-of-choice-infographic</a> . I think it's important to say that most people love pictures.. so here you go!<br />
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In my quest for receiving the ultimate benefit from herbs in soap, I began researching how to get the homeopathic benefit from these delicate herbs without losing out to the harsh realities of using lye to make soap. Because Lye is sodium hydroxide (a caustic salt), it can be too harsh and destroy many of the good properties of the herbs. One way to retain them is to infuse them into an oil.<br />
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Step 1- I use regular pint sized wide mouth canning jars with the lids.<br />
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Step 2- Gather your dried herbs and place them into <a href="http://www.atlanticspice.com/store/herbs-and-spices-miscellaneous,category.asp" target="_blank">sealable tea bags</a>. </div>
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A gorgeous herbal infused oil that you can use in your soap, herbal salves and balms.</div>
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Not much is known about the Cambrian Blue Clay which has an INCI name of Lilite. Right now you can purchase this wonderful blue clay from <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/AltaiBotanicals"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.etsy.com/shop/AltaiBotanicals</span></a><span style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 13.600000381469727px;"> </span></span></div>
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I added this <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/AltaiBotanicals" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Cambrian Blue Clay</span></a> along with <a href="http://www.soap-making-resource.com/natural-soap-colorants.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Indigo Root Powder</span></a> directly to my <a href="http://www.essentialdepot.com/servlet/the-Sodium-dsh-Hydroxide-dsh-Lye-dsh-Food-dsh-Grade/Categories" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">LYE </span></a>solution to release all the good properties of both the clay and Indigo Root. </div>
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We are so delighted to be apart of the huge event in which one lucky military couple will be awarded the wedding of their dreams! They had to submit a 2 minute video via youtube or write an essay explaining why they are the perfect couple to win " A Complete Wedding Giveaway".<br />
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Out of all the videos and essays, Megan Weekley and Marshall Glass are the WINNERS! <br />
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CONGRATULATIONS Megan and Marshall you will be receiving our wedding favor soaps for your wedding reception!<br />
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<br />Mossy Creek Soaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14215755521070866121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060440640810064611.post-18498788696190375442012-06-29T20:55:00.000-04:002013-07-11T07:16:37.096-04:00Helping Colorado One Bar At A Time<span style="background-color: white;">I have to say watching Colorado Springs Burn was the hardest thing I have endured in a long time. My husband and I were stationed there in 2001-03, my daughter was born there and I worked for a Realtor while we made Colorado a home for us. It was so devastating to see all those lives changed forever. I cannot begin to imagine how devastating it is to loose everything and I mean EVERYTHING in a fire. </span><span style="background-color: white;">So today we made a soap donation to the Care and Share Food bank in hope that someone who may need to clean their hands of smoke and soot will find comfort in our bar of Coffee Soap. </span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Although we are now back in Georgia and comfortable, there will always be a part of me back in Colorado. Just wanted to share this in hope that you can make a donation and help the people of Colorado Springs until they can get back on their feet. </span><br />
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<strong>Help Colorado Now<br /><a href="http://www.helpcoloradonow.org/" style="color: #003366; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">www.helpcoloradonow.org</a></strong></div>
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<a href="http://www.pparc.org/" style="color: #003366;">www.pparc.org</a><br />
Money only; will also register volunteers<br />
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2605 Preamble Point<br />
Food and non-perishables<br />
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<a href="http://www.discovermygoodwill.org/" style="color: #003366;">www.discovermygoodwill.org</a><br />
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<strong style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">The Pikes Peak Community Foundation has established the Waldo Canyon Firefighters Fund </strong><a href="http://www.ppcf.org/" style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: -webkit-left;">http://www.ppcf.org/</a><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>Mossy Creek Soaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14215755521070866121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3060440640810064611.post-63127082120965625102012-06-14T11:36:00.001-04:002012-06-14T11:39:04.272-04:00Wedding FavorsSee our new line up of Wedding Favor Soaps!<br />
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We used only Sustainable Organic Palm Oil, Organic Sunflower and Organic Coconut Oil in these fabulous good for you soaps!<br />
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Our Shop is named after this beautiful Creek that runs through Houston County Georgia. We wanted something to reflect the natural nature of this very private area of middle Georgia. Please enjoy a little visual therapy and know that when you use our soaps you are truly using something made from Nature<br />
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