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Taken from the SoapMakingFriend site concerning longevity: "It may not be what you add- it's the combination of ingredients. What I mean is, no matter what you add to an 80% olive oil soap, it just won't last that long in the shower compared to many other formulations. The short answer is to...

That's a new one.... usually it involves a new soapmaker asking a question and getting reprimanded for selling before they've had years under their belt. I would guess that the nastiness came from relatively new soap makers and I wonder if she would have gotten the same rebuke had she purchased...

ocean

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pool

Two of my best selling body butters were honey almond and pink sugar.

I like woodsy-type scents, ocean scents, clean scents and most essential oils. Some of my best selling soaps I couldn't stand to use but you'll never hear me telling my customers that!

assault

Like Zany, I would have to go with MMS. Most of my fragrance oils come from them - the quality, performance and staying power are top notch, they ship out fairly fast and if you spend something like $200 you get free shipping. Unlike so many other soapers, I don't get any FO's from WSP as I've...

I just saw that FO listed over at Nature's Fragrance. I ordered a few oils to try but have no experience with this supplier https://www.naturesfragrance.com/tabac-leather-type-fragrance-oil/

Thanks! I had not heard of them before. I ordered 5 or so, 1 oz. bottles to try.... including Tobacco & Bay Leaf and Sea Salt & Orchid. I recently got a bottle of the T&B Leaf from Bramble Berry and a sample bottle of the other from Candle Science so I will be curious to see how they compare...

garden

So true! People coming to my house always remark about how good it smells (my soap boxes are kept in my dining area) and I can't smell them at all!

troll

Yeah, I third what the other two said. Shop quality fragrance oils, read the reviews and test using a 1 lb. soap batch. Save your "faders" for other products (syndet shampoo bars, lotions, body butters).

I haven't used Crisco vegetable shortening in years. I buy my shortening from Soaper's Choice and it is one of my staples in my recipe. When I was first starting out I used the recipe from Sandy Maine's book "The Soap Book" and Crisco was a majority oil. I've been soaping since 2006 and can...

For straight up orange I incorporate about a teaspoon of orange wax in the pot with my oils and melt it with the rest of them. I have a gardener's bar that is five fold orange essential oil and orange wax and I can still smell orange after a year. Another option would be the orange/patchouli...

Years and years ago, back when I was younger and probably most of you weren't born yet there was Leslie @ Simple Soothings who would do fast buys for her fragrance oils. Eventually Kelly acquired the codes for the oils and had them for sale on her site but they were under SS Fragrance Oils (not...

harass

Since every soap supplier has different formulas for their fragrance oils, you would have to specify which supplier you purchased each from to get the feedback you're looking for.