Golden Roses Soap

I am in a quest to use up the discoloring fragrances I have been avoiding.  The one I used for this soap was Relaxing by Brambleberry.  The listed vanillin content is 9%, so I thought this would get really dark.  However, it seems I may not have used enough.

Here is Brambleberry’s fragrance calculation for the amount of soap I made:

I used 1.75 oz (the entire bottle I had), which I guess would be in between light and medium and only got a dark beige at the end.  Ideally, if it would have gotten darker, the gold mica line and gold roses would have made more contrast against the soap.  The very top lines got dark, but not so much in the body of the soap.

Perhaps I should have made a smaller batch of soap to get a true sense of the fragrance.

I posted the video on the making of the roses and the making of the soap recently.  I will put links below.  In the meantime, here is the recipe:

Ingredient	Gram(s)	Ounce(s)	Pounds(s)	Oil %
Coconut Oil, 76 deg	248.06	8.75	0.55	25%
Rice Bran Oil	317.51	11.20	0.70	32%
Ricinus Oil (Castor Oil)	69.46	2.45	0.15	7%
Tallow, Beef	248.06	8.75	0.55	25%
Karite Butter (Shea)	109.15	3.85	0.24	11%
Ingredient	Gram(s)	Ounce(s)	Pounds(s)	Batch %
Lye – NaOH 100% Purity (5% Superfat)	136.77	4.82	0.30	9.71%
Water (34% Lye + 66% Water Solution)	265.50	9.37	0.59	18.85%
Total Oils	992.23	35	2.19	70.45%
Soap Weight (Pre-Cook)	1,408.48	49.68	3.11	100%

If you would like to see the step by step instructions, please leave a comment below and I will be happy to include them!

Here is a list of the equipment used

plus:

• Silicone Brush
• Nasal Aspirator