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Missed your question the first time around! Honestly, I cannot figure it out. Nevertheless, that is what happened. It might have had something to do with the Sodium Lactate I was using at the time as well. Just for continuity, I am keeping cure times at a steady 5 weeks regardless. I...

I will be checking out those two scents. Thanks for the heads up. Hey @cmzaha do you sell DB FO? Thanks.

Sounds like we prefer the same scents. I particularly love Sandalwood. I will look high and low for the perfect one. Not easy.

Thanks for the advice on the DB. I had no idea who to buy it from. Everybody has a different sense of smell, so it is tough. If there is the PERFECT DB out there, I am all ears. Coffee soap is probably the only kind I would intentionally avoid. Just like Frankincense--which I find...

On second thought...I frickin' love a lot of scents. All over the map. I.. cannot... stop... buying... them ...HELP....I need help! Ahhh! Intervention time.

Yup, that is me too.

Just ordered Ferocious Beast Fragrance Oil, Dragon's Blood Fragrance Oil, and NG Aqua di Gio Type Fragrance Oil. We will see how they go in a couple of weeks. First up I have to make the batches of Jasmine, True Lilac, and Gardenia Lily. I am pretty much done with floral selection, assuming...

I am ready to learn. What temps do you think ideal? If you are doing it, it must be for a reason. Probably the same reason as pointed out in here...trace acceleration or just flat out seizing. Oh, and about people questioning ingredients. I ENCOURAGE IT. People are getting smarter, and...

..and so goes the world. From clothing to cologne/perfume, that is the wave that is here and will continue to grow. I try and make it so that all scents are appealing to the people that want to buy the soap I am making. Not that I am making a lot, I am limited to 6 10" loaf molds production...

Don't blame you. I am rather partial to VENOMOUS RABBIT and KALASHNIKOV KITTEN.

Yup. Because I make a point of talking up natural ingredients (mostly) as opposed to the nasty body washes out there. So, they start reading the ingredients. Right away I get quizzical looks on the Sodium Lactate. Sounds artificial, but it is not, not really. That said, even natural...

INDEED! I love those suggestions. Coming up with cute names is half the fun of this stuff. Pretty relaxing hobby-ish type thing for me. I normally am knee deep in building high end gaming PCs, servers, constructing networks, installing Ethernet cable and am a ANSI/TIA Certifier by...

Re-read the post. I have some little old ladies (85 y/o) that already love the first batch that cured faster than the four week time frame due to being processed in individual cavity molds while also using Sodium Lactate. Five weeks will be the cure time now since I started loaf molding, and...

...and there you have it. Yup, @Millie just nailed it.

AHA! I will have to label the next scent ENRAGED BEAR. Thanks for that idea, if you don't mind if I use it! Other 18 to 25 y/o scent name ideas: PSYCHO BADGER (Deadly Weapon maybe...) SABRE TOOTH SQUIRREL (Black Ops maybe...) VENOMOUS RABBIT (Black Tuxedo perhaps...) ...and of course...

Interesting to know. My base (just starting up) is a mixture of young/old/male/female/all ethnicity and races you can think of. Everything from 18 y/0 Hispanic guys to 85 y/o little old ladies from India. Talk about a collection! Oh, and I just discovered NG. Oh man, I also found one of my...

That all said above, I have had some younger guys (the 19 y/o crowd) ask for something that smells like Old Spice body wash (the trash body wash that comes in the red bottle). Body wash = trash. Scent = good. I want to marry the scent with a decent bar of soap for guys who have actually never...

Being a guy, I have to agree with a lot of the sentiment above. Men cannot be lumped into a single classification that they are all Sandalwood, Cedar, or Leather scent lovers. I have found that most guys, when I corner them and get an honest answer, like the florals just as much as any woman...

Indeed. I am discovering that! I will be careful with the True Lilac. I try and soap at 110 deg F. THANK YOU FOR THAT! I had no idea I could re-use in this way. Yeah, it was a Ziploc. Ahhh! Florals definitely can seize fast, but I had the Oregon Trail Sophisticated Sandalwood rapid...

Well, I have been having fun. Since starting my CP adventure I have made about 9 batches. Three traced or seized so fast that they had to be tossed (if someone knows how to do this rebatch thing...I am all ears...) Anyway, here are my experiences so far with FOs. Each FO was used right at the...