Cold
Process
Recipes
Cold process soaps, even milk-based soaps, are not as difficult to craft as you might think. View our instructions page and see for yourself.
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Anatolian
Treasures, Friendsville, MD
Appalachian
Natural Products offers essential and carrier oils, distillation kits and more.
If you are curious as to what a home distiller looks like, visit this site. They
have some interesting pictures from trips to Turkey related to anatolian
rose production.
Aroma Pure, Northern UT
Aroma Pure offers aromatherapy Essentials including
Pure Essential Oils, Carrier Oils, Essential Oil Synergy Blends, Oil
Diffusers, and Books on Aromatherapy. They also offer a free software download
called Aromapedia. You can find the link at the bottom of the home page.
Aroma-Pure Essential
Oils are true, undiluted essences extracted directly from a variety of flowers,
fruits, leaves, barks, roots, herbs and spices. They are complex mixtures of
individual chemical constituents, the precise nature and proportions of which
determine it’s therapeutic and fragrant properties.
AuqaSapone, Armidale Australia
Blue Aspen Originals
This site offers recipes, soap-swirling techniques, how to
infuse herbs, rebatching soap, and step by step cold process instructions. This
site is no longer updated, but the information is still available. There are
some great photos on this site.
Bottles and More, Sacramento, CA
Quality products and excellent service. Great EO Prices.
Offers Pure Essential Oils, Carrier Oils, Fragrance Oils, Soap Making Supplies
and of course Bottles and Containers in several shapes and sizes. Rock bottom
wholesale pricing.
Brambleberry, Port Townsend, WA
This is a soapmaking supplier located
in the state of Washington with a large variety of options for ingredients,
molds, fragrances and equipment.
Creation Herbal, Frankfort,
MI
Soap Making Supplies and Essential Oil Store from
Creation offers natural soapmaking oils, supplies and aromatherapy ingredients
at wholesale pricing in all quantities to the public. Featuring an extensive
selection of steam distilled essential oils and specialty herbal products for
everyone including weekend hobby soap making and high-volume professional
soapmakers, their entire line of soapmaking ingredients and soap making kits are
hand-picked for quality and value. Their essential oils, soap bases and base
oils are tested in both cold process and melt and pour recipes before they
receive a Creation label.
Cotton Blossom Crafts, Warner Robins, GA
Features hand crafted wooden soap dishes, mesh bag sponges,
wooden bath scoops, loofahs, bath brushes, mesh soap sacks and metal yard
art.
Cranberry Lane - Canada
This is the home of our favorite online lye calculator. They
also carry soapmaking supplies, soap bars, essential oils, herbs, floral waters,
massage oils, bath salts, molds, containers, and a ton of information and
instructions.
Essential Supplies, Signal Hill, CA
For those of you who are interested in packaging your
products, this site features glass, plastic, and pharmaceutical packaging for
sale.
Camden Grey Essential Oils -
Descriptions, South FL
Camden Grey offers
a variety of soapmaking and other products. Visit this site for detailed
descriptions of Essential Oils. Now offers fixed oil products and lye.
Glenbrook Farms, Live Oak,
FL
Don't let the home page of this site
fool you. Not only do they offer bulk herbs and spices, herb capsules,
tinctures, gourmet teas, essential oils, soaps, butters and fixed oils, but they
also provide a variety of recipes and instructions for making natural gifts,
including food and drink. They also have specials on shipping.
Glory Bee Foods, Eugene, OR
As a leader in the Natural Crafts & Soap Making
Supplies, Glory Bee Foods offers a huge supply of all natural ingredients to
make any type of soap, lotion or lip balm. From soap molds, natural scents and
all natural additives and ingredients, they are a one stop shop for all your
soap making needs.
Go Planet Earth
Go Planet Earth stocks a
comprehensive selection of molds, including the full line of Mold Market soap molds, melt and pour soap base, pigments and dyes,
fragrance oils, soap inserts, clear gift boxes (just for soap), lotion &
shower gel base, PLUS soap making articles, projects and tips!
Herbal Accents, Alpine,
CA
Herbal Accents is a woman-owned business dedicated to bringing
you the finest supplies for all your soapmaking and handmade toiletries
needs. Their goal is to offer you the lowest prices possible and to ship
your order out promptly. Herbal Accents now has a $35.00
minimum
Herbal Soaps by RJ, Aragon, GA
This site offers a variety of soaping supplies, as well as
supplies to create other natural products. You can join RJs soaping list at
Yahoo Groups to keep in touch with other soapmakers.
The Herbarie at Stony Hill Farm,
Prosperity, SC
The Herbarie offers a full
selection of ingredients for making cosmetics and toiletries. Most of their
products are based on natural ingredients, such as shea butter, jojoba oil,
sunflower seed extract, rose water, herbs and other botanicals. They are pleased
to offer a selection of naturally derived bulk ingredients from which you can
create your own personal care products.
Just Soaps
This site offers natural skin repair products, blending in herbs, and pure
essential oils into saponified Olive Oil (largest bulk of soaps), Coconut, and
Palm Oil to create our natural remedy products and improve lather. We may add a
small amount of Soy Bean vegetable oil in some soaps. We use Caustic Soda
(another name for lye) with 6% excess of oils. Under $5.00.
Kelsei's Creations, Lamesa,
TX
Features essential oils, fragrance molds, molds, and soaps.
You can order pre-design molds or custom made to fit your needs.
The Lebermuth Company, Mishawaka, IN
This is a wholesale, direct source for fragrances,
essential oils and botanicals. They also offer crystals, chemicals and
accessories.
Liberty Natural -
Oregon
Liberty is an grower, importer and
distributor offering the lowest prices for vial to drum sizes on over 1,000
quality botanical ingredients Liberty also offers a wide line of wholesale
packaging components (1-800-289-8427)
Lovena Online - Soapmaking Website, Haverhill,
MA
Features hot process (oven style)
techniques for swirling and layering soap.
Majestic Mountain Sage, Logan, UT
This supplier offers equipment, fixed oils, flavor oils,
fragrance oils, glitter, kits, labels, lotion making suppiles, molds, scales,
and much more. They also have a popular on-line lye calculator, recipes and
techniques.
Mission Peak Soap, Fremont/San Francisco, CA
This site not only offers cold process soap for sale,
but also carries Coconut Oil, Pomace Olive Oil, Palm Oil, Beef
Tallow and locally produced Honey/Pollen. They also carry lotion-making
supplies including emulsifying wax, Glydant (alternative preservative to
paraben family) and Germaben II. Offers USPS Delivery when necessary.
Mountain Rose Herbs, Eugene
OR
Since 1987 Mountain Rose Herbs has
become the Leading Organic Supplier in not only the finest organic botanical
products, but the freshest as well. From our bulk organic herbs and spices, to
our essential oils and herbal teas, the quality and integrity of what we offer
is unparalleled and we guarantee you a smile. In fact, we firmly believe nobody
can deliver a better product.
Natural Family Botanicals
This is where I go when I can't make my own soap for one
reason or another. Natural Family Botanicals offers natural hand-crafted soaps,
lotions, hydrosols, bath salts, body oils, and more. Excellent customer
service.
Natural Soap Supplies
Sensible Soaps and Toiletries - soapmaking search
engine.
Olive Tree Soaps, Finger Lakes Region, NY
Features soaps, supplies, scales, gift baskets, molds, and
more.
Oregon Trails Soaps and Soaper's Supply - Rogue River,
Oregon
Features clays, seeds and other
exfoliants, colorants, fixed butters, gels and waxes, fixed oils and glycerin,
fragrance oils, melt and pour bases, recipes, tutorials, and more.
Pine Meadows, W Orem, UT
This is one of my favorite sources for fragrance oils. We
also purchased most of our safety supplies here including Nitrile Gloves, pH
Testing Strips, Safety Soaper Glasses and a Soapmaking Thermometer. They also
have a wide selection of fixed oils and additives.
River Girls Silky Soap & Bath, Washington,
DC
For 2007-8, promise
yourself gorgeous fat bubbles and a neckline of head turning scents. Take a
quenching dip with the newest soaps of River Girls Silky Soap & Bath, rich
in luxury oils and unforgettable fragrances...
Saratoga
Scents
Saratoga Scents soap making supplies
provides a wide variety of supplies and products for making soap. Soap making
directions are also included here. Our line of soap making supplies are the
highest quality natural soap supplies and are the same soap making supplies we
use in making our own soap which include plastic soap molds, waxes, fixed oils,
wooden soap molds and soap making bases.
SKS
Bottle and Packaging, Mechanicville, NY
Here is a supplier, consultant and designer of plastic
bottles, glass bottles, plastic jars, glass jars, metal containers and closures
for your packaging needs. Their online selections of containers and closures is
extensive and priced right so that you are getting the best selection of
products at the best prices.
Scent Sanctuary, Ontario, Canada
The one stop shopping site for exotic butters, base oils,
fragrance oils, packaging and so much more. From the hobby soap maker to
professional soap maker, the Scent Sanctuary has high quality ingredients to
make your products stand out.
Shay & Company, Inc., Portland, OR
Shay and Company is a distributor soap making products and
soap making supplies. We carry a full line of liquid soaps, Glycerine Soap Base
and Exotic Butters which may be used in all types of soaps, toiletries and skin
care products.
Snowdrift Farm, South Tucson, AZ
This is another one of my favorite
soapmaking suppliers. They offer a huge selection of products and a
wide variety of information, including recipes.
Soap and More, Calgary, Alberta
A large variety of soaping supplies and a Soapers
Calculator.
Soap
Nuts
Features a barrage of information
for soapmakers. You can also place an ad for $20.
Starrville Soapmaking Supplies, Texas
Based in Texas, Starrville offers
Tallow and Dried Goat Milk among their variety of soapmaking supplies.
Update: This site is temporarily off-line. They are
changing ownership and may change their name.
The Soap Goat, Abbotsford, BC Canada and Sumas,
WA
A large selection
of Soapmaking Supplies is offered here, along with a photo gallery and recipes.
The Scent Works, Durham, NC
This site offers butters, oils, and waxes; fragrance and
essential oils; botanicals, herbs, and spices, as well as packaging supplies.
You can also join their mailing list.
Suds and Scents, North Vancouver, BC Canada
Complete Soap Making Supplies,
melt and pour soap, kits, molds, essential oils, fragrance oils and colors -
Wholesale and Retail. If you are in the area, you can sign up for
soapmaking classes.
Ye Olde Soap Shoppe,
San Diego, CA
This site offers
soapmaking information as well as the best in ingredients, which together will
enable you to make your own high quality Natural Herbal Soaps. Or, purchase
their original cold process herbal soapmaking kit
complete with instructional video. The beginner to advanced soap maker can also
find answers to virtually any question by searching their Soapmaking Exchange
Archives.
Zenda's Homemade Soap and Beauty Recipes, Burlington,
VT
Recipe Reference cold process soapmaking.
Lifestyle and Health Related Links
Vitamins Online
At
Vitamins-online.co.uk, we provide you with a complete, up-dated and relevant
website containing all the vitamin information you need; as well as a fully
comprehensive website containing the lowest prices of Vitamins that can be
currently found and purchased anywhere on any website.
Mother Earth News
The
original guide to living wisely
The Path to Freedom
strives to inspire individuals to "think globally, act
locally" by motivating them to live a simpler and more fulfilling life.
The
Old Farmer's Almanac
The original Old Farmer's Almanac site. All kinds
of information can be found here.
Organic Gardening
Links
Growing for Market
Growing for Market is Americas's most respected source of
information about growing and marketing produce, herbs and cut flowers.
Herb World
The Herb
Growing & Marketing Network is the largest trade association for the herb
industry with around 2000 members in business since 1990.
You Grow Girl!
You
Grow Girl started as a vague idea. Commenting on my obsession with plants, a
friend made a joke that I should have a gardening TV show and it should be
called "You Grow Girl".......read more.
Miscellaneous
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