How Do You Make Soap With A Great Scent?
Learning how to make soap quickly leads to the art of perfumery. Making soap that smells good is just a major part of the whole soap making experience. Here are a few tips for scenting soap based on my experiences after making and selling thousands of bars of soap. Cold process soap making presents real challenges for scenting. That’s because the soap making process, especially the lye components, just eats up soap fragrances. Many scents just fade right away and disappear almost immediately. Favorite fragrances like the citrus oils don’t stand a chance. No way can an orange oil stand up to the process. You may want orange scented soap, but it won’t happen with cold process soap making, no matter how much essential oil you include. That means with citrus scents you either settle for fragrance oils, synthetics, or use some other oils that aren’t really citrus, but have citrus notes. That would include lemongrass, for example. On the other hand, some oils survive the soap process quite w
