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The Results Are In

In an effort to learn the types of fragrances you want to see, we asked, "what's your favorite type of fragrance?"

Expecting one type to a clear winner, I was surprised at the results. Floral, spicy, oriental, fruity, musk, food & drink, and clean & sporty ALL tied with with 15% of the vote. Woodsy came in second with 7% of the vote. The only fragrance type to garner zero votes was herbal.

Got a favorite fragrance? It can be something simple like grass, gingerbread cookies, or roses or more complex like a designer fragrance. Post your responses here.

We Won an Award!!

I’m so excited! This blog has won its first award! Soaping mentor Delores Harris who writes the blog Daisy Soap Girl, bestowed upon me the Honest Scrap Award. I know what you’re thinking, “What’s an Honest Scrap Award?”

“This award is bestowed upon a fellow blogger whose blog’s content or design is, in the giver’s opinion, brilliant.”

There are some rules to winning this award

I. “When accepting this auspicious award, you must write a post bragging about it, including the name of the misguided soul who thinks you deserve such acclaim, and link back to the said person so everyone knows she/he is real.”

Between Facebook, MySpace and Twitter, there will be lots of bragging in Social Medialand.

II. List 10 honest things about yourself (and make them interesting).

1) I could read when I was four years old.
2) I wasn’t asked out on a date until my second year of college.
3) I am the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
4) I have a wonderful, supportive husband.
5) Said supportive husband knows I’d dump him in a heartbeat for Paul McCartney.
6) I hate vegetables (guess I can forget about Paul McCartney asking me to dinner time soon since he’s a vegetarian).
7) A few people have told me I should be a comedian.
8) I can’t swim.
9) I have never been arrested.
10) Unless you’re talking footwear, I will never fit into a size 7 again.


III. Choose a minimum of seven (7) blogs that you find brilliant in content or design. Or improvise by including bloggers who have no idea who you are because you don’t have seven friends. Show the seven random victims’ names and links and leave a harassing comment informing them that they were prized with Honest Weblog. Well, there’s no prize, but they can keep the nifty icon.

http://www.beautyreviewjunkie.com/
http://soap-queen.blogspot.com/
http://rachelgooseberry.blogspot.com/
http://www.indiebusinessblog.com/
http://www.nstperfume.com/
http://www.chypre-perfume.blogspot.com/
http://www.thefragrancefanatic.com/

Tired of the Same Old Beauty Products?

Donna Maria Coles Johnson, President and Founder of the Indie Beauty Network, gives her Top 10 Reasons to choose indie beauty products.

Online Soapmaking Classes Update

To work around her travel dates and holidays, Kelly from Southern Soapers has realigned the online soapmaking class schedule.

Here is the sign up poll:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SouthernSoapers/surveys?id=2834495

Adjusting the poll clears the votes/sign ups so you will need to re sign up. Here is an overview of the class dates and subject matter:

* May 23/24 - Basic Cold Process 101 - covers safety, manufacturing basics, how to manually calculate lye as well as use a calculator, creating your formula, troubleshooting, FDA definition of "True Soap"

* June 6/7 - Rebatch Basics - The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (three methods of rebatching your soap)

* June 20/21 - Easy Transparent Soap - make your own 'glycerin soap' using old CP scraps. Includes discussion on safety.

* July 11/12 - Advanced Cold Process - Low Temp Soaping, making ungelled soap - the why's and how's answered.

* July 25/26 - Hot Process Methods (crockpot, double boiler, & hybrid Cold process/oven process)

* Aug 8/9 - Advanced Cold Process - Discounted Water Cold Process - includes Safety notes for working with concentrated lye solutions.

* Aug 22/23 - Advanced Cold Process - Milk Soapmaking (goat milk, soy milk, coconut milk, and even cream)

* Sept 5/6 - Advanced Cold Process - Making old fashioned Pine Tar soap easily.

Kelly is REALLY looking forward to having these classes for you!

Explanation of Fragrance Categories

As a nice companion piece to our fragrance poll, here are some great articles on fragrance categories.

http://www.fabulousfragrances.com/perfume_101.html

http://ezinearticles.com/?Why-You-Should-Know-What-Fragrance-Category-Your-Perfume-Is-From&id=265801