Yikes! I am having browser probs today, big time! No, using an anchor means to use another scent (EO) to help keep the fleeting EO around longer. Patchouli and Litsea cubeba are anchors I have used with success, but also keep in mind that lavender used at 1oz. per pound of oils will have good scent for up to 1 year without an anchor. ; make soap to last you for a year at a time of usage (and friends) and the scent should not be a problem. :). Many soapers when starting out don't use nor know about anchors, I am sort of sorry that I have mentioned it in here, but now you are aware. Hope I didn't confuse you the situation much:( This is not needed for FOs, for FOs should be designed to having staying power incorporated. A FO without staying power has not been designed well and you should look elsewhere.

I made this soap the other day, LOVE it but I cheated (always have to) and put oatmeal in it as well, looks and smells awesome. I think I will display mine in a big clay gardening pot with a old looking wood sign that says "Grubby Gardners Soap". I also rec'd my FO for the coffee soap, I got Cappacino (ok, can I say it smells good enough to drink) I have gotten so much better at suspending my ingredients, my soaps look 100% now, before I was pouring to quick and getting settling, no settling now. I was thinking about getting this cool silicone mold for the coffee soap that has coffee beans on the top but I wonder if I should make in the loaf mold and cut or I wonder how real coffee beans would look in the soap? Got to play with it a little. Do any of you get Cicadas? We do, they will be here in May (just in time for my first huge outdoors show) I am just worried now about attendance. Cicadas are gross. Michelle

I'm looking for a recipe for gardener's soap. I've searched a little bit online, and found many recipes with pumice or coffee, but don't want to use them in mine. Are there any other "easy" recipes out there? I do like something with oatmeal, but wonder if there are any other sites with garden soap recipes to choose from.

Some blends some might find interesting: Berries &Cream - Strawberry, Blueberry, Raspberry, butterceam, Vanilla fos Cassada Cake VANILLA, 3 BUTTERCREAM, 12 WEDDING CAKE, 8 STRAWBERRIES, 5 CHERRIES, Eden - jasmine and rose, apples and plum spice, sugar plum berry fos. Angels. Baby Powder, Gardenia, Orange, Vanilla and Mango. fantasy Island: almond, coconut, vanilla and chocolate. ROSE WEDDING CAKE: lemon Âpie FO, LEMON ZEST, BROWN SUGAR, WEDDING CAKE, vanilla, buttercream rose fos Raspberry Chambord 7 blueberry, 5 grape, 6 peach 15 raspberry, 10 honey, 15 cake, 4 real orange rum liqueur, 2 orange, 2 lemon, 5 butter cream Lily & Mango - mango and lily of the valley. Mandarin & Mango - mango and orange. Orange and Cinnamon Orange Biscotti : orange, vanilla, and butterscotch. Orangesicle - orange cream, and vanilla. Pears and Apples Pineapple Sugar - pineapple and brown sugar fo Raspberry Ice - Raspberry and mints fruitCrush - apple, peach, plum, raspberry, and lemon. MAGIC PUNCH: MANGO, GUAVA, PAPAYA