HERB - Herbal Soap Scents

[Katherine Blackthorne]

Well, one of the problems with "fragrance oil" is you never know what's IN it!
It's regulated like perfume, so "Rose fragrance oil" doesn't have to contain
any actual rose extracts at all, but can be cooked up in a chem lab.  With
essential oils, you have a pretty good idea what's in the little bottle (by
law, herbal extracts in a carrier oil).

Fragrance oils, too, are more likely to cause allergic reactions in sensitive
people -- who may or may not be allergic to the herb being simulated.

-- Katherine Blackthorne, who has only made soap once, but likes to play with
fragrances.

Mary Temple wrote:

> 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





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