HERB - Herbal Soap Scents

[Mary Temple]

The longer the soap sits in the mold, the more we also think it's the canola 
oil and not the lavender EO. We've been pouring off the oil that's coming up 
to the top of the mold, and it's easily been three times as much oil as the 
lavender oil we added. We went back and checked, and it was the first mold 
poured after we tried to remove some of the oil from the batch. Can you say 
"SUPER fatted"?

The places we checked all mentioned fragrance oils being being much more 
likely to seize a batch of soap than essential oils, and so they recommended 
not using frangrance oils. I think I can get the web site address of one of 
them when I get home.

Lady Katerine Rowley
Bryn Gwlad, Ansteorra
mka
Mary K. Temple
Austin, Texas

>Lady Katerine wrote:
>>From what we (my new husband and I) read during our soap research,
>>one shouldn't use the Fragrance Oils in soap.
>
>I'd be curious to see the research you have on this topic. I've
>never encountered it ever and I'd be interested in hearing what
>the research has to say on the reasoning behind not using it.
>
>>the cinnamon soap is pretty much solid, the lavender is still
>>liquid! We also goofed and measured the canola oil by volume, not by
>>weight. :)
>
>Then I am confident the canola oil is the problem in the lavender soap.
>Unless you used TONS of lavender oil, the mistake of measurements
>is most certainly the problem. I made this same mistake not too long
>ago with a batch of soap using canola and corn oil. Goodness knows
>why I wasn't thinking, but I read the label on the bottle completely
>wrong. Ah well, live and learn. Even after years of soap making, you
>can still make this mistake. :)
>
>Lady Diana wrote:
>>While, from what I've read, both fragrance and essential oils *can* have
>>an effect on soap and can cause problems, I think in this case you may be
>>seeing the effects of the canola oil measurement instead.
>
>As mentioned earlier, I agree with lady Diana's assessment. Typically in
>soap making the essential or fragrance oil you use will on effect the soap 
>in
>one of two ways. The soap will have too much oil in it is you use a LOT
>of the oil for fragrance. By a lot, I mean, more than a small bottle or
>so typically used in soap making. The second way soap is affected by the
>addition of essential or fragrance oils is the experience of having your
>soap "sieze" as you add the scent. That is, you're moving right along,
>making your soap, it's nearing trace (in cold process soap making) and
>you add your scent. Suddenly you have a mass of hard goop in your pan
>and no way to really effectively get it into your molds.
>

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