Fresholi | Melting Pot Café

Hello everyone! This is my second go at this so sorry if you get two from me.
My name is Kat and Im a secondary school teacher in Hertfordshire. I recently got bit by the natural cosmetics bug when recovering from yet another bout of surgery. Im completely in love with making my own remedies now and it has given me a really positive and de-stressing project away from work work work!

Now, Im a total beginner so please bare with me if I ask lots of stupid questions :-[ I do aim to sell my products online in the future (eek!) and am currently wrestling with the whole safety assessment saga...eg how many do I really need and just how comprehensive should they be and, oh yeh, can I afford any on my teacher's salery! Any advice about the whole assessment, public liability, PIF, lablelling nightmare would be VERY much appreciated.

I look forward to sharing chat and pics with you alll
Kat

Hi Kat, nice to have you onboard. Firstly and most importantly, we need pics, doesn't matter how new you are, no excuses. ;D Honey loves pics, so you need to feed that.
Sorry to hear about your surgery, hope you are on the mend.
Safety assessment is complex, but there is loads of info on the forum if you search.
Also, spend sometime on resources, there is a wealth of info there.
Finally, a question is only stupid if you don't know the answer and won't ask, how else do we learn. You won't be putting anything out there that we all haven't asked at some point, we all start somewhere, usually at the beginning. If you can't find the info you need, please do ask.
I hope you enjoy it here, it's a friendly forum and has a good bunch of helpful people.

Eire

Hello Kat, welcome aboard.

Get yourself up to 50 posts and there'll be more useful boards for you to read.

HI Kat, welcome  :buttrf:

Hello Kat and welcome!  :hi:
You'll love it here. It's filled with lovely, helpful and crazy people. With other words - a perfect place!  :buttrf:

Welcome Kat!

I am the "we need pics" Queen (apparently, I don't remember the crowning though) - so remember if you make anything, we need to see it.  And that includes what you might think ugly too (even ugly products have a place in this world!).   :mwaha:

Whereabouts in Herts are you? My hubs is from there, Barnet way. 

im in Hemel Hempstead.
So next week is half term and Im planning a big naking week! Don't worry Honey, you will be first to see the pics (even if they are tragic). Look out Helen, I feel a big order coming on ! x

Do you like the word 'naking'? Sounds like naked making! Best not as a beginner using caustic soad. Speaking of which...I cant find it on Fresholi, and I refuse to buy from some of the less lovely supliers x

Helen doesn't sell lye, Kat. But you can get it in hardware places and some supermarkets if you want to buy a small qty before ordering from a supplier.
Naking - you are going to fit in so well.
What subjects do you teach?

Eire

I teach drama 11-18 yr olds. Obviously Im not at school today as Im recouperating. As much as Id love to sit in class on the laptop, my kids would get bored...

Welcome aboard Kat! You'll soon feel at home  :buttrf:

hello and welcome


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I love that place! We (me, hubby and ILs) were there a couple of years back and stayed at the Watermill hotel.

Hello Kat :buttrf:

Hello, Kat - Welcome! Honey is serious about the pictures - she's only asking where you live so she can hunt you down if you don't post any.  :mwaha: You'll have  a great time here!

HBOP's onto Honey  :mwaha:

Hi Kat, great to have you here.  Oh I do hope you get fit and well really soon.  Teaching drama must (when you have trawled through all the bureaucracy) be fun and be very rewarding.

I can't wait to hear about (and of course look at the pics) of the things you are naking  ;D

I look forward to chatting more around the boards  :buttrf: :buttrf:

Hey Kat.

Hello Kat and welcome. You've come to the right place  :buttrf:

Hello  ;D

I picked up caustic soda from a local corner shop

Welcome to the forum, and your new addiction  ;D

Hello Kat, I'm new too so we'll be learning together  :buttrf:

Hello & welcome, am not too far up the road from you in Northampton :D Can get caustic in Wilkinsons too

Jaq - heard you are the soap stamping queen! If you could explain the whole thing to me I will love you forever! at what point do stamp HP soap? How long do you need to hold the stamp on for etc?

Hello Kat, I  too started making things when I was poorly be warned it will turn into an addiction, but don t worry its a very satisfying and beneficial one.

Enjoy and let your creative juices run. Welcome aboard. :buttrf:

Thanks Michelle  ;D

Jaq you are a legend - made it through the rain to Wilko#s today and got very cheap caustic soda! Hurrah! Have just place two out of my 4 orders... damn the bank holiday! >:(

Welcome Cat.  There's great people here, I hope to see some of your pictures soon. :buttrf:

Hello - and you are so brave, going into commercial production from the start - do let us know how you get on!

Im not going commercial at the mo! Just trying to get a long term plan together. And I would call me stupid rather than brave!  ;D

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