I get the BRC from Scent Works. It was my best seller this weekend. I haven't tried any others suppliers.
For rosemary and mint I do 1.5 oz rosemary and .5 oz peppermint for 4 #'s soap. I haven't used a fragrance for that one since the eo's are not super expensive and you can use a lot less and still get a really good strong scent.
A lot of people would pick up the CLV, smell it, and say it smelled good, but never bought it. It is very limey, but I have heard that coconut is hard to get to through in CP soap.
Your sandalwood sounds really pretty! I can't wait to see that. I'll have to take some pictures of the watermelon soap. Turned out good, but for some reason there were a lot of those tiny aire bubbles in it. I think I used a pot that was too big, so the stick blender wasn't submerged as much as it should have been.
I made dh a mechanics soaps. I put it to bed at 12 last night, got up at 5 this morning and omg that thing was already as hard as rock. I had to hand cut it because I didn't want to bust a wire on the tank. It was a 100% coconut with 20% superfat. I used a 38% solution, so it was discounted, but not too severly. I also used 4 tablespoons pumice. This stuff is so hard that I cannot dent it by pushing with my thumb at all, no matter how hard I try. Yeah it's that hard. I scented with the left ove energy mix and colored it green.
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I've been meaning to ask you . . . Where did you get your Black Raspberry Cream scent? What about the rosemary & mint proportions? I assume you mixed that one yourself. I'm also surprised that your coconut/lime/verbena wasn't a big seller. I still have that sniffy at my desk and love it! Did people pick it up and sniff it or were they simply put off by the coconut name? I don't smell the coconut in it at all.
I wasn't as thrilled with the sandalwood OOB, but so far it's smelling a little sweeter and less woody than OOB. I haven't cut it yet, so we shall see. Did you mean what did I color it with?
Hee hee. OK, we'll see if this worked once I cut it since I was experimenting. I used 39 oz of liquids with 14 of that being milk. I let the lye/water cool to 105, then added the milk so that it would turn just a little bit of a color - slightly yellowish. Then, after coming to very light trace, I added in the scent, pulled a bit more than 1/3 of the soap to a container that contained 2 T cocoa powder mixed with a little bit of almond oil. To the remaining in the pot, I added 2 T of the French Red Clay along with some more almond oil. I insulated lightly to make sure that it gelled, then pulled the cover once it had reached the edges. If it works, I was aiming for inthe main color to be a reddish tan with a swirl of dark brown. I've turned it out of the mold and think it may have worked. I'll cut it in a few hours and know for sure.
Yes, I'm finally getting started on that festival. With my trip to Hawaii in August, I'm going to have to work pretty steadily between now and early September, especially since I didn't get anything done last week with company in town. I looked over my scents and will probably need to add a few to my shopping list. I love EO/FO shopping!
Now that company has gone home and the 4th is over, I'll be making soap a little more often.
