Re: quick question & I am coming out

[Guest guest]

I have no answers, but I do have a warm welcome!!

Nice to see you unlurk.

We arent so bad!!

Sandy

quick question & I am coming out

I have been here for a while now, and fear and inequality have kept

me in hiding, I have joined several groups but never say much, I live

in Ohio I am a 29yr old stay @ hm mother to 6(3 boys 3 girls), wife

to one and an Avon rep but I have a passion for crafts, an obsession

actually, I made my first M & P soap over a year ago,but I grew up with

lye soap the ugly brown kind with no shape My Mother use to say the

burning meant it was clening:( she only made lye soap,I did not know

that you could buy soap in the store untill I was older, nor did I

know that it did not have to burn; LOL I can laugh now, anywho, I

have a ? I have looked into insurance(this is not my first journey

into business) so that was my second necessity. I want to do this one

right,I need to know if EVERY PRODUCT that you sell has to be tested

in a lab, I would welcome any other input as I am new but that is a

major concern,I have done my research and even gotten in touch with a

SCORE rep. but still I want to hear what the learned hands have to

say, well thank you for listening to me, I hope to come out of the

closet and perhaps even lend some advice,

[Guest guest]

Hello!

Thanks for coming out of Lurkdom! This is a really wonderful list, so there's

no need for a question to ever go unanswered. Unfortunately, I don't know about

testing every product prior to selling it. It's my understanding that unless

you're making a medical claim (reduces cellulite, softens skin, etc), you are

not subject to scrutiny by the FDA. I am on a list with a chemist & will be

happy to give you the name of the group if you want to email me privately tammy@

elementsbathandbody.com (not sure if I can post that here). I would think that

the SCORE rep is going to be a tremendous asset to you! There is a member on

another group I'm on that sells insurance through RLI, so email me privately

about that, too & I'll try & get that info in the meantime.

Remember, the only dumb questions are the ones that go unasked. ) Thanks for

sharing! BTW, I'm in KY near Louisville, so maybe not far from you!

Bright Blessings,

Tammy Tivis

http://www.ElementsBathandBody.com

quick question & I am coming out

I have been here for a while now, and fear and inequality have kept

me in hiding, I have joined several groups but never say much, I live

in Ohio I am a 29yr old stay @ hm mother to 6(3 boys 3 girls), wife

to one and an Avon rep but I have a passion for crafts, an obsession

actually, I made my first M & P soap over a year ago,but I grew up with

lye soap the ugly brown kind with no shape My Mother use to say the

burning meant it was clening:( she only made lye soap,I did not know

that you could buy soap in the store untill I was older, nor did I

know that it did not have to burn; LOL I can laugh now, anywho, I

have a ? I have looked into insurance(this is not my first journey

into business) so that was my second necessity. I want to do this one

right,I need to know if EVERY PRODUCT that you sell has to be tested

in a lab, I would welcome any other input as I am new but that is a

major concern,I have done my research and even gotten in touch with a

SCORE rep. but still I want to hear what the learned hands have to

say, well thank you for listening to me, I hope to come out of the

closet and perhaps even lend some advice,

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 9/11/2004 7:18:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

elements1@... writes:

There is a member on another group I'm on that sells insurance through RLI,

so email me privately about that, too & I'll try & get that info in the

meantime.

I use RLI insurance, I have to have insurance to do the farmers market.

Very reasonable home crafters insurance. Although my premium went up a dollar

this year for Terrorist Insurance.

in Cambridge

~~Madness takes its toll, please have the exact change~~

[Guest guest]

Hi Tammy, welcome! My thought is that aside from FDA stuff, you want to have

tested those products that are formulated with water in them such as lotions

and such because you want to be sure you are blending and selling healthy

products. Although not to be taken lightly and we fall under the same category

of anyone else who makes or sells " cosmeceuticals " , the likelyhood of the FDA

tracking down one of we little fish in such a huge pond is about as likely as

being struck by lightening twice in one lifetime, only because they lack the

manpower to do so and have a hard time keeping up with the even large

manufacturers . Your concern should focus on the high water content products

which are the most suseptable to molds and other cooties. on this group

is who I would recommend, from Sagescript Institute who does microbioligical

tests on products for a very reasonable fee. When you make the claim that your

soap as an example says " Healing Emu " it now becomes a cosmeceutical under the

FDA guidelines instead of just soap because you called it healing. If you put

" Hand-crafted soap with the healing properties of Emu " , it doesn't. I have to

say that there are many interpretations to the guidelines and it is important to

know and based on that I cannot recommend highly enough that you go to the FDA

website and read all the information you can find....it's just too easy to

overlook a detail and you don't want to make serious decisions on my opinion or

anyone elses....that's just my humble opinion. You can also go to the Bomba

Insurance web site, he has insurance for soapers and home blenders for $200 a

year.

Alice ~

MooseCreekBathandBody.com

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Re: quick question & I am coming out