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Easy Melt And Pour Soap Making Tips 3 |
Melt and pour soaps can be created and used in a day. Health and beauty benefits can also be quickly and easily added, making them more than sweet-scented body cleansers. The sky is the limit too, when it comes to combining ingredients, designing scents and mixing colors. There are various qualities of products at a wide range of price points. Pouring your first batch of melt and pour soap can be relatively inexpensive as well.
Once you decide on the melt and pour soap base and the color(s), if any, you can begin to think about what fragrance or scent you want for your handmade soaps. The fragrance will largely depend upon any recipe you may decide to use, or if you plan to design your own scent. You can use 1 fragrance or a mixture of 2 or more, and it can be mixed by you or bought premixed.
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Hobby Lobby Something Fabulous Soap Making Fragrances |
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Life Of The Party Soap Making Fragrances |
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Life Of The Party Lavender Essential Oil Blend |
You can choose a fragrance to coordinate with the soap color that you've chosen. I wanted a yellow-green color for the batch of soap below, so I designed a fragrance mixture that included lemon verbena.
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Artsy Craftery Studio Melt And Pour Soap With Lemon Verbena Fragrance |
Essential oil use is a broad subject and more knowledge is needed to effectively use them than with synthetic soap making scents. Search for info online or invest in a good essential oils book that explains the different types, their uses and warnings. If you are a beginning soap maker, it's best to start with cosmetic fragrance oils and blends.
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Bulk Apothecary Soap Making Fragrance |
Bulk Apothecary offers a good variety of essential oil formulations, including pure therapeutic grade, certified organic and standardized and commercial grade. They also have more than 15 pages of melt and pour soap base fragrance blends, including names such as cedar leather, champaca neroli twist, Adriatic fig, aspen grass, Bali mango, cottage lace, creamy nutmeg, Snickers coffee, south of France and authentic cocoa. They offer their versions of well-known and designer cologne and perfume scents, as well.
I like that in the Bulk Apothecary melt and pour fragrances descriptions they share a suggested usage rate chart for different products. Most recipes that you will find include the number of drops of fragrance to add. You will also learn through trial-and-error how many drops per batch to use to obtain the scent that you desire. Generally, depending on the recipe, it can take from 15-35 drops, give or take.
Soothing Soaps & Scrubs warns to not use any alcohol-based scents if you want rich fragrance. Examples are body sprays, perfumes and after shave lotions. They can evaporate easily from the high heat of the melted soap base, leaving very little scent. They could also cause unwelcome changes in the soap mixture. Keep in mind that some soap fragrance synthetic blends have alcohol bases. If you want to try using them, you may need to multiply the number of drops added.
Whatever fragrance mixtures, blends or oils that you decide to use, make your melt and pour soaps your own by trying unique combinations of scents, colors and bases.
Catch up with my other quick soap making tutorials:
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Easy Glycerin Pour Soap Making Tips 2 ~ Colorants |
Liz at The Cape Coop gives some great points on the pros of making melt and pour soaps versus the traditional cold-process soaps.
Information Sources:
Bulkapothecary.com
Hobbylobby.com
Soapplace.com (Life of the Party)
Soap Making Books That I Use:
Making Soaps & Scents, Catherine Bardey, ©1999 Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, ISBN 1-57912-059-8
Soothing Soaps & Scrubs, D Frantz, D Rodgers, ©2001 Design Originals by Suzanne McNeill, ISBN 157421190-0
The Essential Oils Book, Colleen K. Dodt, ©1996, ISBN 0-88266-913-3
The Herb & Spice Companion, Marcus A. Webb, Richard Craze, ©2000 Quantum Publishing, ISBN-13 978-0-7607-6655-2
2 comments:
I am really not picky about soaps as long as they are not overly scented (allergies). Your posts on soap making are making me curious though! I may have to give this a try at some point!
Such a quick and easy craft that is immediately satisfying, since the soaps can be used the same day. Of course, you can decide on how much fragrance to add, or none at all. You can include additives that have a natural clean, fresh scent, like aloe vera, shea butter, olive oil, etc. In fact, there are versions of soap bases with those additives already mixed in. Thanks for visiting!
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