Tuesday, a "getting organized" kind of day

Tuesday May 13, 2014

Today was supposed to be pricing and labeling all day, but of course it didn't work out that way.  

We had to fix some weird whiteness on our BBG candles. "Weird whiteness" really isn't the way to describe it.  Probably, the clearer picture would be to say that after the candle cooled and solidified, a "bubble" appeared on one side of the candle, down in the jar.  It is not something we can explain.  The jars were not moved after we poured the wax, the liquid wax looked perfectly correct as we poured it in the jars and as it cooled.  It was only after the candles were completely cooled that we noticed the bubbles.  So, we re-melted them (taking care not to get the temperature above the fragrance's flash point) and sat them on a level surface to re-harden.

Once we were satisfied with the BBG candles, we moved on.

Kathy began by whipping up several batches of bath salts, and in the mean time Alison was cutting and pasting coordinating fabric to the lids of the jars the bath salts were to go in.  The scents used in the bath salts are Pink Grapefruit, Lavender and Orange Valencia, all from Lebermuth 

( +Lebermuth Co ).  

We used Avocado oil in the salts because of its moisturizing properties and vitamin E as a preservative.  In the orange and lavender batch we added (respectively) ground orange peel and ground up lavender buds, the grapefruit simply didn't need anything added to it.  What a clean and energizing smell!

Once the bath salts were finished and lids had dried they looked like this:

The individual salts, up close, look like this, first the orange complete with ground orange peel bits.

Next the pink grapefruit, we love the pink color.

And last, the lavender, if you look closely you can see the bits of ground up lavender buds.

We spent the rest of the day counting and labeling, figuring out our cost, and completing other non-creative but very necessary aspects of our festival preparation .   Below is an example of the wrapped and labeled Kudzu soap.  We are actually pretty tickled about how good our soaps look (as well as how they smell!).