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april 26, 2009...i've read your e-mails and here it is...the mp soap base recipes you asked me to add to my blog for all to see...i not only hope this helps...i hope y'all enjoy them :o)

hurry and e-mail those mp soap base recipes w/your name, address into me...we'll be drawin' soon for the free soap base...time is runnin' out!!!

here at microbiding, we try to be as informant as possible...even if it's not all about the products we sell...like our Melt & Pour soap bases, fragrance oils, essential oils, etc...be sure to read all the way to the end of this...very important

Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare but aggressive type of breast cancer that develops rapidly, making the affected breast red, swollen and tender. It's a locally advanced cancer, meaning it has spread from its point of origin to nearby tissue and possibly to nearby lymph nodes.

The early signs of more-common forms of breast cancer — a breast lump or suspicious area on a routine, screening mammogram — are often absent in inflammatory breast cancer. Instead, the breast may appear normal until tumor cells invade and block lymphatic vessels in the overlying skin. Fluid backs up, and the breast swells and becomes discolored.

Inflammatory breast cancer can easily be confused with a breast infection, but if it's cancer, symptoms won't go away with antibiotics. Seek medical attention promptly if you notice skin changes on your breast, to help distinguish a breast infection from other breast disorders.

Inflammatory breast cancer accounts for between 1 percent and 6 percent of all breast cancer cases in the United States. Survival rates are lower than those observed in other locally advanced breast cancers. But new treatment approaches offer greater odds for survival than ever before.

Despite its name, inflammatory breast cancer does not cause inflammation the way an infection does. Signs and symptoms include:

• Rapid change in the appearance of one breast, over the course of days or weeks
• Thickness, heaviness or visible enlargement of one breast
• Discoloration, giving the breast a red, purple, pink or bruised appearance
• Unusual warmth of the affected breast
• Dimpling or ridges on the skin of the affected breast, similar to an orange peel
• Itching
• Tenderness, pain or aching
• Enlarged lymph nodes under the arm, above the collarbone or below the collarbone
• Flattening or turning inward of the nipple
• Swollen or crusted skin on the nipple
• Change in color of the skin around the nipple (areola)

Other conditions have symptoms resembling those of inflammatory breast cancer. A breast infection (mastitis) also causes redness, swelling and pain, but breast infections usually develop during breast-feeding. With an infection, you're likely to have a fever, which is unusual (but not unheard of) in inflammatory breast cancer.

Breast surgery or radiation therapy may block the lymphatic vessels in breast skin, temporarily making the breast swell and become discolored. When caused by surgery or radiation treatments, however, these changes gradually subside.

As with other types of breast cancer, the exact cause of inflammatory breast cancer is unknown. All cancers are characterized by unregulated cell division, starting with one abnormal cell, in this case usually in one of the breast's ducts. In inflammatory breast cancer, the abnormal cells rapidly infiltrate and clog the lymphatic vessels in the skin over your breast. The blockage in the lymphatic vessels causes red, swollen and dimpled skin — a classic sign of inflammatory breast cancer.

Inflammatory breast cancer tends to affect women at an average age of 59 — about three to seven years younger than the average age at which other types of breast cancer are diagnosed. Men can develop the disease, but at an older age. Black women are slightly more likely than are white women to have inflammatory breast cancer.

If you have an apparent breast infection that fails to improve despite a week of treatment with antibiotics, ask your doctor to do a further breast evaluation. This may include imaging studies such as ultrasound, mammogram or MRI scan and a biopsy. If test results show no signs of cancer, but your signs and symptoms appear to be getting worse, talk with your doctor about performing another biopsy — especially one that includes a skin sample — or ask for a referral to a breast specialist.

A diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer is based on your medical history, your physical examination and an excisional biopsy — taking a small sample of skin and some of the underlying tissue to examine under a microscope. An excisional biopsy that includes the skin is helpful because a hallmark of inflammatory breast cancer is finding tightly packed clumps of cancer cells (tumor emboli) in the lymphatic vessels of the skin. Imaging tests — mammogram and breast ultrasound — also may be used to confirm the diagnosis by showing areas of skin thickening.

If the biopsy results confirm that you have inflammatory breast cancer, the next step is to determine how advanced your cancer is — its stage, or extent and severity. Your doctor may perform additional tests, such as a CT scan of your chest and abdomen, chest X-ray, and bone scan, to check for the presence of cancer cells in other parts of your body (metastases).

Your cancer will also be tested for the presence or absence of receptors for the hormones estrogen and progesterone, and to see if the cancer produces too much of a protein called HER2. Inflammatory breast cancers are often hormone receptor negative and HER2-positive.

Inflammatory breast cancer is classified as stage IIIB or stage IV breast cancer. Stage IIIB is locally advanced cancer — meaning it has spread to nearby lymph nodes and to the fibrous connective tissue inside the breast. Stage IV cancer has spread to other parts of your body, such as bones or liver. About one-third of newly diagnosed inflammatory breast cancers are stage IV.

i received an e-mail with a video attachment the other day about IBC...since i have sooo many e-bay friends and family i decided to do a search and place the info i found at mayoclinic.com to this blog for y'all to read :) ...this is very important...please pass this one to everyone you know :) ...crystal...to watch the video go to...komo2.wmv

say you're looking for SLS free melt & pour soap bases?...then no worries...microbiding's got you covered

    due to high coconut oil content, soap base has a slight amber color and will attract moisture in humid conditions...it's considered slightly more difficult to unmold...has no offensive chemical odors...hypo-allergenic...coconut oil base.

Sodium Cocoate (coconut oil), Sodium Palmate (palm oil), Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Glycerin, Purified Water, Sorbitol (moisturizer), Sorbitan Oleate (emulsifier), Glycine Soja (Soybean) Protein (conditioner).

 contains real goats milk...due to high coconut oil content, soap base has a slight amber color and will attract moisture in humid conditions...it's considered slightly more difficult to unmold...has no offensive chemical odors...hypo-allergenic...coconut oil base.

Sodium Cocoate (coconut oil), Sodium Palmate (palm oil), Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Glycerin, Purified Water, Goat Milk, Sorbitol (moisturizer), Sorbitan Oleate (emulsifier), Glycine Soja (Soybean) Protein (conditioner), Titanium Dioxide (mineral whitener used in opaque soaps).

 contains real shea butter...due to high coconut oil content, soap base has a slight amber color and will attract moisture in humid conditions...it's considered slightly more difficult to unmold...has no offensive chemical odors...hypo-allergenic...coconut oil base.

Sodium Cocoate (coconut oil), Sodium Palmate (palm oil), Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Glycerin, Purified Water, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea butter), Sorbitol (moisturier), Sorbitan Oleate (emulsifier), Glycine Soja (Soybean) Protein (conditioner), Titanium Dioxide (mineral whitener used in opaque soaps).

 due to high coconut oil content, soap base has a slight amber color and will attract moisture in humid conditions...it's considered slightly more difficult to unmold...has no offensive chemical odors...hypo-allergenic...coconut oil base.

Sodium Cocoate (coconut oil), Sodium Palmate (palm oil), Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed Oil, Carthamus Tinctorius (Safflower) Seed Oil, Glycerin, Purified Water, Sorbitol (moisturier), Sorbitan Oleate (emulsifier), Glycine Soja (Soybean) Protein (conditioner), Titanium Dioxide (mineral whitener used in opaque soaps).

Hand made soap retains extra glycerin, known to soften the skin naturally. Glycerin is one of the best known humecants (attracts moisture to the skin). It is often extracted during the process of manufacturing commercially made soap, then sold as a valuable by-product. Natural ingredients are rarely used in commercially manufactured soap. If used at all, it is sparingly. One of the best advantages of using natural and hand made soap bars is that the quality is consistent as a result of the smaller batch sizes.

how would you like to get 4~lbs of mp soap base free?

at time of check~out simply buy (2) 7~lb combos and i'll give you 4~lbs free...making a total of 18~lbs :p

my 7~lb variety combo of luxurious melt & pour soap base is a combination of the following:

   *1 1/2~lbs of extra clear glycerin...it's a low sweat base...easy to unmold...has no offensive chemical odors...it's hypo-allergenic...coconut oil base.

Propylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Glycerin, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Triethanolamine, Water

 1 1/2~lbs of creamy goats milk contains vitamin rich goats milk, which is considered to be a natural moisturizer...low sweat...easy to unmold...has no offensive chemical odors...hypo-allergenic...coconut oil base.

Propylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Glycerin, Goat Milk, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Triethanolamine, Water, Titanium Dioxide.

  1 1/2~lbs silk & shea butter contains shea butter, which is thought to protect skin against weather & aging...also contains silk amino acids...low sweat...easy to unmold...has no offensive chemical odors...hypo-allergenic...coconut oil base.

Propylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Glycerin, Butyrospermum Parkii (Shea butter), Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Triethanolamine, Water, Silk Amino Acids, Titanium Dixoide

 1 1/2~lbs ultra white...glycerin opaque solid...low sweat base...easy to unmold...has no offensive chemical odors...it's hypo-allergenic...coconut oil base.

Propylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Glycerin, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Triethanolamine, Water, Titanium Dioxide

 1~lb oatmeal...contains real oatmeal, which is though to moisturize the skin and relieve itching...low sweat base...easy to unmold...has no offensive chemical odors...it's hypo-allergenic...coconut oil base.

Propylene Glycol, Sorbitol, Glycerin, Sodium Laureth Sulfate, Sodium Stearate, Sodium Myristate, Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate, Avena Sativa (Oat) Kernel Meal, Triethanolamine, Water, Fragrance, Titanum Dioxide

microbiding tries to be as helpful as possible...we get tones of questions about our fragrance oils...sooo...i thought i'd do some foot work and place several of the most frequent asked questions together...as well as an updated list of my premium fragrance oils...after reading over the list and you still can't find what you're looking for feel free to leave a comment or send me an e-mail and i'll try my very best to get it :)...remember to visit us often and check out our ebay listings...more awesome stuff on the way ;)...crystal...remember to always smile, have fun, and say something nice to a loved one

newly added premium fragrance oils

*rain flowers*butterfly meadows*beach daisies*sea breeze*lemon poppyseed cake*winter pagoda*cassia root & cranberry*strawberry musk *oatmeal,milk,&honey*tea leaf & jasmine*summer nights*peace & love*no more tears*remember me*frank & myrrh*aquolina pink sugar type*awapuhi seaberry*angel's trumpet*vanilla noir**jasmine cassis*anxiety buster*be confident*stress less*strawberry kiwi sorbet*hawaiian rain*pineapple tangerine*dragon's breath*dragon's blood*bayberry*cedarwood amber*rapture vs type*peaches 'n cream*bergamot*honey*

what are premium fragrance oils?

The Premium Grade fragrance oils are primarily used by customers to scent products such as melt and pour soap, cold processed soaps, candle waxes, incense sticks and cones and toiletry bases. Premium grade oils can be used in aroma burners. The premium grade of fragrance is an enhanced formula to provide additional concentration of the top note while sustaining the middle and base notes in fragrance oils. We have received numerous compliments from customers who have experienced superior results when using the premium grade. This premium grade requires less oil to be used when scenting soaps, waxes and lotions while providing superior aroma qualities.  Premium grade oils are suggested for use with Soy wax as the cold and hot throw are superior. 

what's the difference between candle oil and fragrance oils?

When you buy a fragrance for use in candles, that fragrance doesn't have to fall under RIFM (Research Institute for Fragrance Material) guidelines for safe ingredient usage. Basically, there are about 3500 RIFM approved ingredients that can be put in a fragrance oil blend. RIFM evaluates individual components for safety (checking for things as obvious as irritation to other issues, like birth defects and possibility of cancer causing ingredients). Candle fragrances do not have to be approved for use on skin - thus, they may (but do not necessarily) contain non-skin safe ingredients. Also, candle fragrances do not have to be manufacturered with such stringent guidelines and conditions, so that's another thing to keep in mind.

Fragrance oils for soap need to be considered safe for use in all toiletry products, not just soap. They may work in candles, but may not so always double check with your supplier before trying them out in your candle. It could be something as innocuous as bad throw but it's always a good idea to double check. Fragrance oils for soap fall under serious guidelines, both for ingredient purity and manufacturing. They should all be RIFM approved for use in skin products

April 10, 2009 while working in our workshop today filling orders, packing up all the awesome soap base and fragrance oils we heard a weather alert about severe weather headed our way...we hurried to finish as the black clouds covered the sky causing the room to turn night time dark...the wind picked up...the rain came down so hard we couldn't see the house across the street...all the while the large sized hail was bouncing on the sidewalk...I told Michael to get off the phone with Gerdie Baby, as I hurriedly ran to get the camera to take pictures...all turned out fine here...however, while watching news channel 5 (my absolute favorite) the stories about the deadly tornado and mass destruction broke my heart...We just want to let our Tennessee neighbors know that they're in our thoughts and prayers...one just doesn't realize just how blessed they are until something like this happens.