hearts are in the air

so I have been busy cranking out pink sugar scented heart candles. Here is a picture of 2 of the 10 or so I will be making before valentines day gets here.

I will post a picture of more of them once I get them done.

One of my clients had a wonderful idea. This year instead of sending out holiday cards, she is sending out valentines day cards to all her friends and family. She added a heart air freshener(cherry kiss, cinnamon and love spell scented) to each of the cards.

Put up about 4 new soaps on my website. I have to say the new Island Kola Nut one has been making my house smell wonderful!

Things for a new year

Well off to the start of a new year. I have many goals for the year. This year I am going to work on adding more new products, going into testing phase soon. Some of things I want to add will be body sprays which will be available in your favorite scents, so now you can have pink sugar candles, soap and body spray if you want. I am thinking of adding bath bombs, and maybe reed diffusers.

I am also going to work towards doing craft shows, which will mean making lots of candles to build up my stock. Since I usually do custom work I haven’t really kept many candles on hand so this will be a big project for me. That also means I will have more ready made one of a kind candles up for sale on my website as I start making these.

New for this year is that I joined the Soap Makers Guild (soapguild.org)!

I had a big picture taking weekend planned so I could work on finally getting all my new stuff up on the website. But with all the rain we got here in Los Angeles my place has a small flood so that stopped that plan for a little while. Once everything is back to normal I will update things.

I have some new scents coming for soap. Already made and in the curing process is called Mud Bath which has Moroccan red clay in it. I will be doing a special feature on my website which will explain all the wonderful benefits of this bar of soap. News scents on the horizon will be
Beneath the Stars which is described as Grape, Peach, Citrus, Plum, Rose and Musk.

Sex in the Shower (may rename) described as Orange, Cherry, Peach, Pineapple and Vanilla.

Island Kola Nut this is an exotic creation consists of tropical coconut and African Kola Nut blended with fresh Island fruits.

So as you can see lots of great spring and summer type soap scents are on the way!

Electric Sugar

here is the new non brown version of pink sugar! To the left and behind it is the newest batch of Black Raspberry Vanilla.

Happy Holidays from Burnt Mill Candles & Soap

long time no post

It is the busy time of the year and I have been busy pouring candles. So I haven't had a chance to keep everyone up to date in the blog.

As soon as the rush passes I will be back to my normal blogging.

I did happend to make a really cool looking batch of Black Raspberry Vanilla soap over the weekend. I will do my best to get a picture up soon so you can all get a peek of it before everyone else does.

ok back to pouring holiday orders I go!

Blue Sugar

Sorry for the delay in getting a picture of the green apple soap up for you all to see. I can’t seem to get a picture of it that I am happy with. The soap is white with light green swirls and I just can’t get the swirls to show up in the picture just yet. I am going to have to break out the photo lights I think to get a decent picture.

This weekend was a busy one; I made a batch of oatmeal milk & honey soap. I had some time in between candle orders so I played around making some candles. I dug out my pyramid mold and made 2 pretty cool looking ones. The first one is scented Blue Sugar, this is a scent I am testing.

Blue Sugar is a blend of caramelized sugar and vanilla topped with heady notes of cedar and Tonka bean. The soul of the fragrance combines rich notes of licorice, patchouli, lavender, heliotrope, and coriander, freshened with crisp bergamot and mandarin, then finished with soothing notes of star anise and ginger.

The Blue sugar is one at first smell I didn’t like too much, but it is one that I ended up setting next to my computer and every time I turned around I was sniffing it. It has really grown on me I think it is cause it is one of the more complex scents so every time you smell it you get a different scent.

I also made candles in the following scents: spiced cranberry, patchouli, lemon bundt cake, cupcakes, apricot, pumpkin pie, and 1-mystery layers candle. See the above picture!

Still cranking out the website changes, should have the new shopping cart system including the air fresheners up soon!

dirt soap?!?!?!

On Sunday night I made a batch of green apple soap. I decided the green apple would be a nice apple yet not your standard apple scent. This one smells pretty good so far, I get to cut it tonight and I will work on posting a picture.

I got the pumpkin cheesecake scent in and this really is one of the best pumpkin scents. A few of my normal testers were defiantly digging it and I am expecting a number of them to order candles for the holidays with it. The other scent also came in that was going to be like cupcakes. I have to say I am unsure on this one. Some scents don’t always smell that great in the bottle but when they get put into something they really shine. I am hoping that is the case with this one, if not the search for the best cupcake scent will go on! Now I just need to get in there and get a candle made with it so I will know for sure how it smells.

Still on the search for more scents that would really rock in soap. I am tossing around a few ideas at the moment. I am planning to maybe do a chocolate scent, but I am thinking about mixing some other scent in as well. Now to decide what to put with it, I was leaning towards coconut. But considering how much I love coconut I might be biased towards that one. I decided to ask others what they thought some mentioned doing Strawberry, Cherry and I am even looking into a raspberry to mix in.

Anyone have any thoughts on scents you would put with chocolate?

One more on my future to do list is one I want to call Vanilla Doom, the plan is to use a nice vanilla scent and I would put in sand I got from the point dume beach(famous Malibu beach where lots of movies are filmed at). The sand would be a nice exfoliation feature in it. I am also testing a few “ocean” type scents that I may end up liking more then the vanilla, time will tell.

The last one on the experimental list would be one made with a dirt scent. I know you are going DIRT?!?!?!? But come on think back to how much fun it was to play in the dirt when you were a kid. This scent is also a great guys scent, nothing more manly then smelling like the good old outdoors right? Hunters are also said to like this scent as it can help mask the human scent some. I mentioned this scent to my dad and he said nothing does beat the smell of fresh turned dirt. heck maybe I can put the beach sand in that one instead?

So am I nuts for wanting dirt soap?

This weeks goals are to get the website updated with a new shopping cart, add the air freshener’s, and the love spell, wildberry zinger tea, peppercorn soap. The computer being down for 2 weeks really put me behind. But I am working on getting my to do list caught back up.

gift baskets

I tried to put off the need to get new scents and it worked for a while. But I couldn’t take it anymore so I ordered Pumpkin Cheesecake scent, which is
Sweet, creamy pumpkin with a warm touch of nutmeg, blended with rich delicious cheesecake!

Many other candle and soap makers rave about this scent and say they can’t keep it from flying off the shelves. So I decided I had to see what it was like for myself, I also ordered a sample of the one that is said to smell like vanilla cupcakes.

Another new thing that happened over the weekend was that I took a gift basket making class. I have wanted to add those to my site for a while now but I wanted them to look really nice so I knew I needed to learn more skills in that area. I am attaching a picture so you can see what I made. I am not one to like the traditional wood looking basket so I opted for this silver one with glitter on it. I am thinking in the future I will be carrying my “baskets” in more of an old farmers pail type thing instead.

I also finished up the first big holiday order to come in here is a picture of those candles.