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For those of you trying to make sense of soap making regulations, I thought it might be an idea to post some useful links here to help you along your journey as I know myself how hard it is to get to grips with it all.

What is a product information file?

http://www.soapbasics.com/contents/en-uk/d26.html

Cosmetic Labelling Legislation

http://www.soapbasics.com/contents/en-uk/d27.html

What are INCI Names?

http://www.soapbasics.com/contents/en-uk/d28.html

Allergens

http://www.soapbasics.com/contents/en-uk/d30.html

About Cosmetic and Soap Assessments

http://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk/safety_assessment_advice.htm

Simplified Labelling Guide

http://www.thesoapkitchen.co.uk/images/Others/guide_to_cosmetic_labelling_regulations.pdf

Plush Folly also has a mine of information including lye calculators, training documents free to view and also correspondence courses at £25 each or thereabouts where you can learn all you need to know in one place. http://www.plushfolly.com/

I personally would recommend you read up on aromatherapy oils if using these to scent your products. Learn what oils go together and what don't, which ones have contra-indications, what notes they are etc - top notes, base notes, middle notes and what this means. Unfortunatly I don't recommend any particular site for this as there are many and not many that cover all or a wide range. I suppose a good beginners site might be http://www.aworldofaromatherapy.com/.

There are many soap and cosmetic recipes on google and many tutorials available covering all sorts of topics to do with soap making, and how to do the special effects such as marbling, whipping, curls and much much more.

I hope this helps.

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i've made this a sticky Karen...very very useful, thanks!

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