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Oooh! I like the idea of Jungle Gardenia. Nice marketing name. Catchy. I researched a LOT on FO and EO in soaps. EO is unregulated to the point where you don't know what is what. Many sellers of fragrance, especially on Amazon, are getting bad reviews since people are claiming it is not...

Yeah, that seems to be the general across the board rate for WSP. I like to hold it to 1 oz per ppo (assuming PPO means per POUND) as a max, which often will match the rate of 5 to 6% I typically see. I just don't want to sit there with a pipette to drop drop drop drop the scent in. If the...

...which makes total sense. In other words, base the usage rate upon what will be in the actual product. This means sans most of the water. Since water content can be rather difficult to estimate by the time the cure is done, and is environmentally dependent as well, it would be best to base...

Thank you! I am not selling, and this is just a hobby for me. I might give away some, but definitely not selling.

Yeah, BA did not score any points with me. I cannot speak for others, obviously. I am sure there are folks who are happy with them, otherwise they would not be in business. Good info on the Sandalwood EO. I will try so EO/FO blends in the future. Right now I am using the FO stuff, and...

Thanks! I appreciate this! I will definitely add the FO as the very last step, and whisk it in. This would be after achieving light trace. As for temps...I am using 15oz Olive, 11 oz palm, 8 oz coconut. Two of my oils are not exactly liquid at room temp. Figure maybe 110 deg? Thanks for...

Thank you. I did it right!

Well, I have a few things to say about BA: I ordered two metal 16 oz bottles of FO...Jasmine Fragnapani and Gardenia. I will let folks know how they turn out. As for dealing with them: 1. Their marketing smacks of a cult or something...just my take (they call their customer service reps...

When you get the recommended usage rate for a FO, say 3.6%, would that usage rate be on the total weight of the base oils or the total weight of the base oils including lye+water (initial batch weight). Common sense tells me to use the total weight of the OILS, which is what I did yesterday in...

Thank you! I now have a good resource for acronyms. I will have to check out WSP. Anything that I should know about them? Anyway, does anybody have a answer around the FO usage rates and if I should take the lye+water weight or not? Again, on certain websites they generically say to only...

I was using Suzie's (owner of Oregon Trail) Sophisticated Sandalwood just yesterday. Not the best behaving in CP...super accelerated trace. I mean...1/2 the time or less of their Lavender Fields FO I was using in another batch. I was soaping at 120 deg for oils and lye water. Oils are olive...