Well, the first of the required materials has been gathered - I have sent off for my Iowa Sales Tax permit for The Candlelight Boutique. I am sincerely hoping that this doesn't nullify the Sales Tax permit for Eternal Stardust Designs, because it was not clear on the Iowa Department of Revenue website whether or not it would remove my Sales Tax permit for Eternal Stardust Designs.
I've also been gathering base recipes for the bath products I want to offer in the shop. By base recipes I mean recipes that people are offering for free that I can tweak to make my own. The biggest issue with these recipes is needing to find local suppliers for certain portions of the recipes. While I have no problem tweaking and seeing if other things will work, I do wish to actually be able to use the proper ingredients when possible. Such ask: finding citric acid for making bath fizzies.
I probably should make a list of "iffy" ingredients - meaning ingredients that may not be readily available locally - and do some store wandering. I have noticed that sometimes products I have seen at my local Walmart do not appear on the Walmart website. I have found a few of the "iffy" ingredients on Amazon.com, but I prefer to shop locally for these things if I can because I am finding that on Amazon I have to purchase a much larger quantity than I would like to.
However, I think the most obnoxious part of finding recipes to tweak and make my own is - well, writing them down. I'm using a spiral notebook in which I copy down the base recipe and then will write down the proper "formulas" for each product I make. Meaning my "secret recipes" for how I make all my yummy smelling stuff!
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