Happy Fall Y'all!
September 29, 2015
Silver Bottles
A Welcome to Autumn
There's just something about this time of year - the kids heading back to school, the fading heat, watching the juvenile Hummingbirds fatten up for their first migration, and the return of Pumpkin Spice Lattes that just keeps us excited. Kids across the country have headed back to school after their summer break.  Many parents are happy to get back to a regular routine and other parents have empty nests for the first time - such milestones!  Back to school means Fall is quickly on its way along with football, fun holidays, cooler temperatures, and pumpkin flavored (and scented) EVERYTHING!  (Can you tell we love pumpkins?) Fall also signals busy craft fairs & fundraisers in addition to dry skin, smelly lockers, and an increase in indoor viral germs.  Let's get ready for Fall!  
Mini Pour Pitcher
A miniature version of our original metal pouring pot! This is great for smaller jobs when you need to melt only a little candle wax or soap base. 1.25 lb. capacity. This small wax melting pot features a plastic handle that stays cool for easy handling, and a tapered spout for precise pouring. 4.75" tall x 4.5" diameter. Made in the USA. 

 

Goat's Milk Liquid Soap Base
Goat's Milk Liquid Soap Base
Our sulfate-free Goat's Milk Liquid Soap Base intertwines the cleansing properties of regular hand soap with the wonderful restorative benefits of creamy goat's milk. Providing immense benefits to skin's health, goat's milk is a true luxury for the skin as well as helping to provide a thick, luscious lather. Maybe the quest for smooth, healthy skin ends at goat's milk!

Goat's milk contains many different vitamins: A, B, C, and D. It is particularly high in Vitamin A which is required to repair damaged skin tissue. The removal of dead skin cells and aiding in helping the skin appear youthful can be attributed to alpha hydroxy acids, calcium, potassium, magnesium, and selenium found in goat's milk. You'll also find a wide variety of organic extracts in this base's formulation: sage leaf, calendula, chamomile, ginseng, oat kernel, lemon peel, and aloe vera.   Our Goat's Milk Liquid Soap Base has been carefully formulated using green chemistry surfactants which are mild for sensitive skin.  

Our Goat's Milk Liquid Soap Base can be turned into a luxury foaming shower gel or bubble bath by including up to 10%  Foam Booster .  
Are You Ready for Back to School?
 Hand Sanitizer
Be prepared for back-to-school germs with Hand Sanitizer Gel Base. According to the CDC it is estimated that 80% of all infections are spread by hands.  The hands are one of the most frequent transmission routes for many types of infections. Therefore, practicing proper hand hygiene is the easiest way to help reduce infections and the spread of germs that can cause illness.
Our Hand Sanitizing Gel Base kills 99.99% of many common germs and bacteria in as little as 15 seconds while gently moisturizing skin to keep hands soft and smooth, even with frequent use.  The formula includes Glycerin, Aloe Vera, Pro Vitamin B-5 and Vitamin E to help contribute to healthy looking and great feeling skin. Our Hand Sanitizing Gel Base is easy to work with and allows you to be creative and customize it by adding fragrance and color to match your current product lines.
Bath & Shower Gel Base, paraben-free
Bath & Shower Gel BaseOur Bath & Shower Gel Base is unscented, clear and provides fabulous, lush foamy lather. Manufactured using 99.7% Pure Certified Kosher vegetable glycerin, the Bath & Shower Gel Base can be colored (if desired) using our  Gel Soap Colors and scented at 0.5% - 3% by weight. Usually a 1/2 oz. of body safe fragrance oil per gallon is sufficient, but up to 1 ounce can be used depending upon the strength of the fragrance oil. The base is a cold mix base, so no heating is necessary. It doesn't get any easier! 
FIZZ Shower Steamer/Bath Bomb Mold
Shower Steamer mold Our exclusive mold for bath bombs and shower steamers features the word FIZZ and lots of fun bubbles! This is a heavy duty bath bomb mold and can be used over and over again - tough and made to last! Made with strong, transparent plastic and can handle molding CP soaps and melt and pour soap bases as well as bath bombs (also known as bath fizzies and bath snowballs) and shower steamers.  The FIZZ Bath Bomb Mold works well with our Bath Fizzy Base.  New to making bath bombs and shower steamers? Check out these tutorials in our Crafting Library:   How to Make Bath Bombs with Bath Fizzy Base,  How to Make Shower Steamers
Soap Challenge Club

Rustic Escentuals is sponsoring the October Soap Challenge Club!  Learn to make soap with alternative liquids and enter to win gift certificates and prizes from us.  We can't wait to see what you're going to make!  Come join the fun.  Registration closes Monday, October 2nd, so don't miss out!

For more info and to register:  Soap Challenge Club  

Featured Autumn Scent:  Corn Husk
Corn Husk fragrance oil
Our 5-star customer rated Corn Husk fragrance oil is a perfect choice for late summer and autumn products.  It's bath & body safe, so you can make a full line of candles, soaps and toiletries.  This is a warm, crisp, sundried corn husk with a gentle top note of citrus and apricot, a dried spicy/floral middle note of rose, wild orchid, fresh herbs, radish leaf, and an amber, earthy, oak wood base.

 

Changes Are Coming!   
Since April we've been busy working behind the scenes building a new website!  It should be ready very soon.  But don't worry - you won't lose any of the features you've grown to love. In fact, there will be more to enjoy.  We'll also be adding detailed info on every fragrance oil to include information on IFRA percentages, vanillin content, phthalates, and more.  We're looking forward to the face-lift! 
 
More Soap Making Classes Coming Soon!
Carol Isler, certified soap maker with the HSCG, will be returning for more soap making classes!  We're also happy to welcome Suzi Duckett who will be teaching some advanced classes.  Please watch our classes page for registration to open soon.  Tentative dates are October 24th, November 14th, and January 9th.  We're also hoping to offer a few more candle making classes as well.  Come join the fun! 

 

It's Time for Sachets!
Scented Sachet
Scented Sachets are a popular & perfect accessory item to pair with toiletries, soaps, reed diffusers, scent tarts and handmade candles in matching scents. Sachets can be used as air fresheners in closets, drawers, vacuum cleaners, cars, school lockers, bathrooms, near kitty litter boxes, etc!  
 
How to Make Scented Sachets:
Add 2 cups of Sachet Base to a glass jar w/lid with 1 oz. of fragrance oil. Cover jar and shake frequently over a couple of days to allow Sachet Base to fully absorb FO. Add scented Sachet Base to muslin bags or organza bags.   Use Refresher Oil Base mixed with FO to freshen sachets & potpourri.  
Featured Autumn Scent:  Bonfire Bliss
Bonfire Bliss fragrance oil
This multiple 5-star customer rated fragrance oil is a proven winner in candles and soaps for autumn!  Bonfire Bliss is reminiscent of gentle, dusky breezes and bonfires, with notes of dried, wind-blown leaves, heliotrope, charred woods of pine and cedar, amber, smoky sandalwood, and musk with a background containing hints of roasted marshmallows, brown sugar, coconut and soft vanilla. This is a fascinating, complex, unique and appealing scent.  Vanillin content is < 1%.   Here is what some of our customers have to say:
 
"This is one of the scents that RE has me coming back for again and again. It is absolutely fantastic. Perfect scent for Fall - and works great in both wax and body products. This is a permanent part of my line up. Love it!
 
" Adore this scent in soap!!! A beautiful fusion of wood smoke, crunchy leaves, and sweet wafts of marshmallows or s'mores. Not a chocolate sweet - just a light sugar drizzle with a clean note. Completely unique. LOVE!!!  
Advantages: Beautiful, unique scent that sticks well in cp soap. Customers adore it.  
Disadvantages: Accelerates in cp soap - don't water discount.

 

NEW!  Autumn & Holiday Fragrance Oils Are Here
The testing has been completed and our fall line-up of new fragrance oils are ready for your candle making and soap making!   Currants & Dry Cassis, Teakwood & Fern, Spiced Coquito, Spiced Pumpkin Latte, Bayberry Black Forest, Merry Manhattan, White Pumpkin & Lilac, Gingerleaf Plum, Salted Caramel & Ginger, Pumpkin Cupcake, Candy Cane Cupcake, Cornucopias & Gourds, Main Street Christmas, Juniper Berry & Cedar, Candy Apple Sleigh Ride, and Butterscotch Marshmallow. 
 
Foam Booster
Our liquid Foam Booster has the ability to transform any ordinary liquid soap into a luscious bubble bath or shower gel! It's an ideal surfactant for a variety of detergent and personal care applications including hand soaps, shampoos, and bath products. It offers the formulator excellent viscosity and foaming characteristics, as well as mildness.  Perfect for use with our Goat's Milk Liquid Soap Base, Liquid Glycerin Soap Base, and Bath & Shower Gel Base.    
Uses: shower gel, bubble bath, hand soap, shampoo.
Recommended usage: 5%-10%.
Country of origin: USA  
Time to Freshen Up the Indoors!
Air Freshener for bad odors
Now that cool weather is on the way and folks are spending more time indoors, it's time to get creative with your room freshening ideas.  
 
Linen & Air Freshener Spray Base:
Our Linen and Air Freshener Spray Base is very easy to use! Just measure the number of ounces you need, add 2% fragrance oil and mix, then simply pour into your spritz containers. You do not need water based fragrance oils - no additional surfactants or preservatives are needed. Biodegradable, environmentally safe & vegan friendly.  Only $15.95/gallon.  
 
Fragrant Room & Body Spray Base:
Our Fragrant Room & Body Spray Base holds up to 9% of most fragrance oils without clouding. Excellent air dispersal when sprayed as an air freshener.  Easily colored with our Gel Colorants. This product is alcohol based and was previously sold by Ky Candle Wax Supplies.   
Only $19.95/gallon.  
Crafting Library Tutorial:  Dipped Silk Leaves

Silk Soap Leaves are an easy, beautiful autumn craft tutorial. These are so fun to make, you won't be able to stop!

"Use like a bar of soap. Lather, rinse, toss and go!" - unknown
Thinking Ahead:  Gingerbread House Lip Balm Flavor Oil 
Gingerbread House lip balm flavoring oil
 
A freshly baked gingerbread with nutmeg, cinnamon and freshly grated ginger topped with creamy vanilla icing.  Gingerbread House flavor oil is perfect for Fall and the holidays!

 

NEW!  Triple Butter Melt & Pour Soap Base
Triple Butter is a vegetable based melt and pour soap base made using a blend of premium, luxurious butters: Shea Butter, Cocoa Butter, and Mango Butter. These natural butters help nourish and cleanse the skin to soften and restore skin to its natural health. This creates a magnificently creamy, soothing lather which helps make your skin soft and moisturized. This Triple Butter soap base contains glycerin which naturally draws moisture from the air to your skin and is created using only the highest quality ingredients. Paraben free and sulfate free!
Lotion Bar Tubes
We offer two styles of tubes for solid lotions, perfumes, and deodorants.  The 2 oz. Natural Twist Up Tube (shown in photo) has a natural frosted finish and is manufactured from BPA-free polypropylene.  It's stylish, easy to use, and easy to fill.  We also have custom-size shrink bands for these soon to be listed on the website.  The 1 oz. Clear Tubes are a push-up style, crystal clear, and are made from SAN plastic.  These are always popular due to their clarity and being small enough to fit in a make-up bag.  Prepare your skin for winter with some moisturizing solid lotions!    

 

NEW!  Lovin' Soap Project News
We love supporting the Lovin' Soap Project! Their mission is to ensure that women and girls around the world have the means to overcome inequality and benefit from economic development. The way they accomplish this is by organizing simple soap making workshops for women in developing countries. The micro-business empowers women, helps families send their daughters to school, and saves lives through access to hygiene.

You can help support them by making a purchase of back issues of their fabulous, inspiring, and information-packed Soap Collaborative Magazine!  
 

A NEW Web Page for You!  
We want to keep you updated on all things Rustic....and that includes what goes on in our warehouse.  All spring and summer we were taking photos and making videos, especially during the Scent Event and our recent Happy Fall Y'All Open House.  Many things for you to see - and we're beginning to get them uploaded onto a single page.  Take a look at the new page as it's being built:  Slideshows, Videos, & Photos.  Enjoy!  

 

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Offer Expires: 11:59 pm (Eastern) Tuesday, October 6, 2015