Soap Trialling

[greenstorm]

I got most of my smelly things to put in soap by post, since I don't really live near anywhere I care to buy fragrance oils and essential oils and whatnot. I ordered things that sounded nice, years back, or that I was curious about. When I made soaps I mostly sniffed the bottles, mixed a couple together, tried to remember which was which or noted it on a piece of paper, and then the paper got separated from the bars of soap after they'd aged.

I have a ton of small, half-full bottled of fragrance oils etc around and I like some of them, don't like others, and mostly don't know which I like. I step into the shower and think, "oh, I like this one!" but that's as far as it goes.

I have a ton of extra lard right now so I've started making sample batches for each scent. This looks like making one batch of soap and splitting it into 1-kilo portions, then adding fragrance to each seperately.

Today I did bergamot oil (not fragrance oil), carnation fragrance oil, "rain" (smells like "men's products" or ozone or something), butterfly orchid fragrance oil, frankincense fragrance oil, hawaiian plumeria fragrance oil, and hyacinth fragrance oil. We'll see how they turn out. I can give away anything I don't enjoy, both the soap and the oil.

Comments

[yarrowkat]

that's a lovely experiment. i mostly buy scents online, too, since they're less expensive that way. i ended up with a juniper essential oil that somehow does not smell like junipers and i haven't figured out what to do with it yet.

[greenstorm]

Luckily Fort has a great buy n swap fb group.

Yeah, some of these scents in not sure if they know what the original even smells like!

[yarrowkat]

hmm, i should look around and see if there's a swap group like that here.

[greenstorm]

Looks like there are tons for Albuquerque, might be worth it to hop on and choose the one you like best. They can have such different characters.

It looks like the "hell yeah (location)" groups are all northern, which is too bad.

[yarrowkat]

where are you looking at them? Facebook?

[greenstorm]

That's right