Gingerbread house soap Seashells on the beach Soap bars with sea shell decorations Golden rose Golden rose embed soap Creamsickle soap Creamsickle soap A discoloring soap fragrance is one that will cause the soap to darken or discolor. Commonly this is due to the vanilla (or vanillin, or ethyl vanillin) in it. Sometimes though, the… Continue reading Working with a discoloring soap fragrance
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… Continue reading Golden Roses Soap
You may have seen a previous post of the making of lapis lazuli out of soap dough. If you have not, here is a link. I got to use those embeds in this soap, which I did not color except for a small portion. The recipe got thick fast (a combination of hard oils and… Continue reading Lapis Lazuli Soap
Orange and vanilla happen to be one of my favorite fragrances and flavors. I bought this fragrance from Lone Star Candle Supply and I had yet to try it. It is on the subtle spectrum, but it does smell very nice. It does discolor a lot, so I did not make any big plans for… Continue reading Dreamsickle Soap
You may think that it is too late to make a Christmas soap, but perhaps it is not. When I started making soap about a year ago, I read multiple times about curing times. I read that it was not about just water evaporation, but about certain crystallization that needs to happen in the soap. … Continue reading Soap curing time and Hansel and Gretel Soap
This was supposed to be a soap where I got to try my alkanet oil infusion as a colorant. However, my fragrance oil had different plans. I used Merlot Wine from Bulk Apothecary and I got the darkest brown discoloration to date, which tells me it must have a vanilla content of at least 9%,… Continue reading Wine Fragrance Soap
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