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Willowpop wrote: »

Soap and bath bombs etc are expensive as gifts as legally you have to be assessed before you give/sell anything like this and it's not cheap!
http://www.cosmeticsafetyassessment.com/index.php?p=1_50

I emailed them to check and they advised me that legally I would need to do this even to give stuff away!

Thanks Willowpop I will look into this a bit more. This looks like a private company (?) and to be honest I would expect that if I wanted to sell soaps (I don't sell them at the moment) there would have to be checks made, for example on the equipment being used and the ingredients.

All this company seem to offer is to 'certify' your recipe as safe. In many cases the soap-maker would have got their recipe from a book, in which case it would already have been checked and passed as safe, as the publishers would obviously want to cover their backs.

I don't know exactly how it works, but if I wanted to sell my soaps I would expect to have to apply for something like a safety certificate, showing that your scales are accurate, your ingredients are ok, and you are competent at making the soap, etc.

pateroo

I can't claim this to be entirely my own.... A lot of the hard craft and design work was by my 6 year old niece a free standing chalkboard for her desk. She left aunty nats' a very happy little girl this afternoon bless her

moments_of_sanity

We had our Santa Stop Here sign stolen from outside last year so thought I would make this to hang in the window, my DD's are 17 & 16 so I thought they might be too 'grown up'......obviously not! :rotfl:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/91707691@N04/9882889625/

mrs-moneypenny

pateroo your niece has mad a lovely job of the chalk board

MoS, i love your santa stop stitch.

spent weekend finishing off some knitted brooches im doing for a fundraiser. 13 done 12 more to go.

have been asked for 2 'quick' cross stitches and still have lots to make for a charity craft stall and 2 christmas perssies to make

need more hours in my days

jedsonack2

Great Composition.......

Carriannelouise wrote: »

This gorgeous sleeve bolero from icelandic lopi http://istex.is/Files/Skra_0037108.PDF
some lovely legwarmers i found a pattern for online
and finally im planning on making my daughter a little knitted dress i saw online.

i've made all kinds of bits and pieces recently but i'm most proud of this dress i made! i made the pattern myself too! and the fabric is 100% cotton and was a bargain £1/meter in the off cuts bin at the local fabric shop!

mrs-moneypenny

lovely dress!

pateroo

Here is one of my modge podge / decopatch efforts:

mrs-moneypenny

made a few of these little clutchbags for charity, this is the only one ive actually done the handsewing on the sides so i have 6 more to stitch. ive done them all different colours and fabrics, ive put silky linings in them all



another bit of recycling, i stitched this panel on the back of a biba shirt about 30 years ago when the shirt wore out id hadnt the heart to bin the panel so hung on to it hoping it would come in useful. decided the other day to stick it on a cushion and see if its any use as a fundraiser

pateroo

My little boys birthday card for his dog loving uncle

mrs-moneypenny

cute little card pateroo, bet he will love it.







got asked to make a couple of door signs and needed to do one for my nieces birthday, 2 down one to go. i still need to finish the backs off.