Inventory & Ingredients // Stuff I Wish I'd Known
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Related to "don't buy all the things"..........don't start by USING all the things. I jumped right in and started making complicated recipes and then when I had a reaction I didn't like, had absolutely NO idea what ingredient caused the problem. I've wasted a lot of money and product by starting too big. Start with very basic recipes, see how it works. Then add one or two things to the next batch, see how it works. And so on. This is just as true for bar soap as it is for syndet bars or cosmetics.
i started making cosmetics 5 years ago and i made every single one of those mistakes about BUYING ALL OF IT in the beginning :)
i have a tip: if you can, have a separate fridge for your raw materials if you are doing this for more than a hobby. i am have a spare fridge that i keep all the oils, EOs, butters and extracts in so they last longer.
Oh all oil ingredients need to put in fridge?
@@MeyTaste not necessary if u can manage to make them last long.. i also put oils in the fridge in dark containers
Great tip 👏
I second the spreadsheet idea for keeping track of your ingredients arsenal!
I would, however, add another section that tells you the price!
I am curious as to where my products will fall in the price range, and having to go back to the website to check the prices is tedious and learning the prices by heart is pretty boring and almost impossible 😂
But I really like knowing how much I've saved by DIYing a product!! 😂
This way I can say e.g. the solid shampoo I make is about 2,86€/100g (excluding shipping), whereas LUSH sells shampoo bars for 20€/100g. It fills me with immense joy and satisfaction knowing that my shampoo is the same, if not better quality at a fraction of the price 🙈😂
Love it! I advice my students from workshops to select a few projects first and start with minimum amounts needed
I Marie Kondo my soaping room every 3 months and learnt what to buy and what not to ... And Boy my wastages we so damn less by the third quarter .... I always ask for samplers when I buy things which I want to make. I think this is super helpful when trying new things.
I learned all of this the hard way 😂 thank you for sharing, hopefully others will learn from this!
Me: **watches this**
Also me: **shamefully removes 90% of the products in my shopping cart 🙄**
I know the feeling... and also really wish I could go back in time and tell past me and save a ton of money lol.
Lmbo! Same
Starting out I gave myself a budget. I never bought more than three months worth of supplies. When deciding to branch out from soap, I looked at products that used the ingredients I was already buying.
ok, I admit as a newbie, I have overindulged in a massive quantity of oil fragrances. I love them... However, now that I have watched this video, I am planning on using my 16oz (yes, I know, yikes) in soap and making copycat hydrosols. I will say that this gives me permission to play more with ideas and use it all up. Thank you for your great advice and I look forward to getting your book. Thanks for your channel, I am learning a lot and this is so much fun! PS, If something with soap doesn't work, throw it in the laundry soap. Ha😂
I make a spread sheet with the dates I purchased the products, description with quantity in oz and grams, where I got them from and how much they costed including shipping and taxes (I divide the shipping and taxes cost by the amount of item I got in the purchase) and the cost per oz and per gram. That way I will know where I got the ingredients from and when I calculate the cost of a production it’s much easier to just look at my notes. I was pricing my products wrongly because I didn’t know how much the ingredients costed by gram and oz. Now I know how to calculate and make profit for wholesale and retail 🎉
Thanks for the tips!
Ahhhh, a Sister-Albertan! Wonderful. I love you already, Sis! Thanks for your excellent Videos!
You are so welcome! ❤️ Thanks for watching!
Don't forget to check out my blog (humblebeeandme.com) as well-I've been blogging since 2011 while I’ve only been on RUclips since about 2016, so there are a lot more formulations on the blog. The blog is also where my ingredient encyclopedia and FAQ live, and they're both packed with tons of super-helpful information ❤️ Happy making!
A Must-Watch for any soaper! 🤓
Thank you so much!
You are one of my best youtubers.Thank you so much for all the information
Thank you so much! ❤️
I decided to start making things shortly before a major move. I didn't place any ingredient orders until after the move, so I had plenty of time to do research, plan my orders, etc.
One of my tips is to choose recipes first, then buy for them. Find a few recipes that sound interesting. list their ingredients, see if you can substitute things so you can use the same ingredients in more than one recipe. For example, the creams, lotions, after shower oils that I wanted to make could all use the same carrier oils. After looking at oil properties, I chose apricot kernel and meadowfoam ... and I'm happy with them.
An expensive oil you will use (meadowfoam, for me) is cheaper than buying 2-3 low cost oils you don't like and won't use. And it's all cheaper than luxury commercial products!
Thank you so much, Marie, for generously sharing your wisdom, expertise, professional tips and tricks, and incredible enthusiasm for diy skin care product making/experimentation. You are definitely making the world a better place by helping all of us wanna be diy wholistic skin care developers/experimenters. Cannot express enough appreciation for all your incredible knowledge, video, speaking and writing educational, inspirational information. So proud of you. You Go Girl. Thank you for your life message example. Mucho Gracias.
I'm lovinggg your hair color!! 😍🙌🏼❤
Thank you so much!
This was a great video thanks everyone!
I would like to see a video on how to make more money than you spend on overhead. I made $2000 before expenses this past year :/ if you make it they don’t necessarily come :(
Super video Marie! Thank you. I am guilty of not having a clear inventory routine from my hobby days. Now I am having to play catchup and keep on track this year. Self-control is hard, but asking these 'why' and 'how to use' questions really helps.
Oh gosh, I feel ya! I should get better, too :)
"Don't buy so many essential oils and fragrance oils" Guilty here ✋🏽
I am looking at my stock and wondering why I purchased this particular ingredient. I wish I have known that one ingredient can be used in multiple ways.
Tessie Been there done that girlfriend!
Hi Marie, thanks everyone for that advice. I am new to diy and I have found adding the price to your spreadsheet is also a good idea, for budgeting and repurchasing.
This is helpful. I've made some of these mistakes especially with herbs and carrier oils 🙄🤦 I remember buying an oil for a cheaper price and didn't check the expiry date which was months away, It didn't feel good at all.
I've been making cosmetic for 5 yrs and I too have made most of the mistakes you've mentioned. The biggest one is over purchasing containers. I have been smart however when purchasing EO and fragrance oils; only purchasing them in 2oz quantity or less. That way, I'm not stuck with fragrances I don't like. Thanks for making this video. I will certainly consider some of your suggestions.
Very helpful video...looking forward to more such videos. Thanks!
Thank you for this! Just really getting started I definitely need some organizational tips!
Thanks for watching! I hope you manage to incorporate some of these tips right from the start-it should save you some heartache :) Happy making!
I made my first visit to Windy Point today, and the lovely staff directed me to you! I’ll just be spending my Saturday evening on RUclips now ... 😆
Aww yay! I was just in a day before you and had the nicest chat with the lady who was working 😄 Happy making!
I just purchased your book. I can't wait for it to arrive.
Hope you enjoy it & thank you so much!
Happy New Year dear, love your hair! thanks for all the free formulas and the enthusiasm for creating stuff :))
Thank you so much! 😄
Always very pleasant to hear what you have to share. These are great tips to know.
Thanks for watching!
I make a wish list with everyhting I want and just buy a few things as at time for what I know I'm going to make! That works for me lol.
Everyone's tips were so helpful! Saving this video to refer back to, to check myself every now and then. Looking forward to more of this series! 😎
I'm very happy if my Ingredient Amnesia can be a warning to others, lol! I hate wasting products but waiting to buy them, buying them all at once, and having to try to remember why I wanted them, wasted soooo much in the beginning! I'm a much happier camper with my Trello cards full of lists and links! 😉👍🏻
Do you mind me asking what a Trello card is Cheyenne?
@@cherishedhomestead710 Trello is a website and app that helps you stay organized- have you ever taken lists and ideas and pinned them to a cork board? They wanted it to be easily usable like that. I've probably described it really badly, lol, so be sure to check out trello.com- about halfway down the page there's a helpful box labelled "See How it Works". :-)
Yep i have over a pint of Avocado oil and .07oz of rosehip oil 🤷♀️🤣🤣
Thanks 🙏🏽,, Happy New Year 🎊🎆🎈
The comment on old EO is very interesting. You say about not using some old lavender EO because you are afraid of the sensitization from them. What do you mean by this?
I have not heard this before, but I have been having problems using the lip balms I use to use and make. I believe I am making it with all fresh stuff, but I will have to pay attention to this. It is causing my lips a skin around my lips to turn red and even peel. I am having some reaction to it. I was thinking it could be the peppermint or rose wax I use, but I am not sure. I am pretty much just using Vaseline at night which I am not a fan of but it works. I would love to know what you think.
This should be a good starting point to learn more: tisserandinstitute.org/safety/irritation-allergic-reactions/ . You can google "essential oil sensitization tisserand" for more.
Also, please don't re-post questions again and again until you get an answer-it's really frustrating for me and clogs up the queue of questions I need to answer. It also means you're less likely to find an answer when I do give one. Happy making!
Humblebee & Me Thanks so much for your response. Sorry about asking multiple times. Won’t do it again. Figured one would be answered. I did it here but then thought the blog would be better. Article was very helpful. I definitely developed some kind of allergy. I am assuming peppermint on lips. Body seems fine. Article never really did say wether the age of the oil could cause more chance of sensitivity or not though. Thanks again.
I was thinking about how to get a small loan to start making soap lol i watched this just in time
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if something is about to expire, but i make a product with it (so i add a preservative and anti-oxidant), is the product gonna expire as well?
I'm guilty of a few of these things. Now I will be sorting through ingredients and tossing out the old.
HAHA...you've nailed every point!!
Thank you so much! ❤️
Good information. I bought 5 plant extracts(licorice, burdock, green tea, calendula, sandalwood) all are glycerin based, I have extremely oily acne prone with melasma. I want to use these extracts in face mist with kojic acid and niacinamide how I can reduce tackiness of glycerine?
Dimethicone? 🤷♀️ it provides slip
@@Adrian-animations dimethicone reduce tackiness of glycerine?
Me buying oil for soap: 50lb cubes
Me buying oil for my face: hey look, I can buy 1/2oz of that!
LOL YUP 😂
Don’t buy everything… famous last words!