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I recently made some CP soap using peppermint oil, and while it is minty and refreshing, I can't shake the association with confectionery. The straight peppermint has a thin, high, almost cloying aroma, whereas what I'm looking for is something fresher, richer and rounder, more leafy, more...

I'm trying to work out the same thing. Any guesses on how far you could go before it becomes...uncomfortable, based on how it feels at the moment?

I should add here that the green I thought I'd managed to preserve is slowly fading to light brown (or very quickly, in the case of one bar that sat in a sunny windowsill for a day). I've given up on the fresh mint for colour and gone ahead with my peppermint EO batch without any colouring...

All seems to have gone well. It's a uniform mid-light olive green with tiny flecks of deep green mint-leaf, except for a lighter and more opaque layer at the bottom, where the mould was in direct contact with the pot it was sitting in, so it probably stayed too cool to gel. It looks like...

The one ingredient I had to order online (peppermint EO) hasn't arrived so I just took the plunge making a plain soap and testing fresh spearmint for colour. I blended the leaves with the water then added the caustic soda, at which point the whole thing turned an ugly brown. After a minute or...

Thanks - that's probably the part of the recipe I was most worried about. Tingly is good, very tingly is better, burning is probably too far :)

Just to clarify, are you talking about 1/3 OO, or 2/3 OO? Thanks :)

Yes, from what I've read chlorophyll reacts with alkali and can be decomposed by heat, with either reaction turning it brown. Given that soap-making tends to involve both heat and alkali it's probably not the ideal pigment :) I've also read that if it is treated with strong alkali for long...

I'm worried about slime from too much OO - not sure if that would be an issue with 2/3 OO (or even if using the RBO would help anyway). In terms of what else I've got, there's macadamia, sweet almond, virgin coconut, carnauba and beeswax in the house, plus whatever I can find at the...

Hi, I've never made soap before, and I'm trying for a simple soap with a serious peppermint kick. The basic recipe I'm looking at is: Fat 1/3 Olive oil 1/3 Hydrogenated coconut oil ("Copha", I gather this is "Coconut Oil, 92 deg" in SoapCalc?) 1/3 Rice bran oil Additives 50g of...